The Sun.
London, England, 1846-07-20 00:00:00

MARYLEBONE VESTRY

On Saturday, at the meeting of the Marylebone Vestry,
Mr. John Williams, of the Regent-circus, in the chair,
Mr. NICTIOLAY gave notice that on Saturday next he
should bring be-or the vestry a resolution To discuss
the propriety of petitioning the House of Commons to
take such measures as they may deem fit and expedient
to dispense with and relieve the country from the ser-
vices of the Poor-law Commissioners, whose arbitrary
conduct and haughty behaviour, and irregular and un-
business-like acts, render theta totally unfit for the office
they now hold ; while the cruel aid oppressive mandates
emanating from them, independently of their being an
irnaponsib's body, have at length called the attention
and aroused the indignation of as) coln try against them."
Mr. G. DANIELL said the subject of the conduct of
the Poor-law Commissioners having been mooted, he
begged to ask the Hon. Representative for the borough,
Sir Benjamin Hall, whether any, and what. steps had
been taken by tho Committee of the House of Commons
to report to the House with respect to the district
asylums. It would be remembered that a committee of
that vestry had been appointed, of which he (Mr.
Daniell) had the honour to be chairman, to wa'ch the
proceedings of the Parliamentary Committee, but they
were unable to report upon the matter, as they could not
ascertain what the Parliamentary Committee had dote,t.
He wisged to know, therefore, of the Hon. Baronet, it
the report was printed, and what had been done?
Sir B. HALL said that the fact was, that the corn inittee
had not yet made their report to the House, atr3 it was
not printed. He had consulted wish his Col-
league (Sir Charles Napier) on the subject, an-d he had
agreed to call the Committee together at rot, early day,
for the purpose of reporting, and he (Sir B, YJall) should
take the opportunity of laying the whole 'matter before
the new Home Secretary (Sir George Grey ), with a view
to stop the pror!eedings of tne commissioriers in reference
to those district poor-law asylums.—(;ear, hear.)
Mr. WILSON hoped that, pending the proceedings with
regard to the district asylums, Nicholay would nct
persevere in placing on the paper such a motion as he
had given notice of. He quite agreed with that gen-
tleman as to the distaste into which the Poor-law
Commi,sion had fallen with the public, but he thought
the present was not the time to bring such a
wholesale condemnation of their conduct forward.
Mr. JOSEPH thought it would not be wise to pledge
the vestry at that moment to such a resolution. The
Andover Committee were pursuing their inquiry into the
conduct of the Poor-law Commissioners steadily and
faithfully, and that, coupled with what had been elicited,
in the district Asylum Committee, would, he had an
doubt, be sufficient to dismiss them from office.—(l7.tear.)
Mr. G. DANIELS said, he had been favourer: by the
RiAt Hon. Baronet, Sir B. Hall, with nearly all the
evidence. He had carefully analysed it an'a he found it,
proved, that although at first all the opposition to these
district asylums was confined to Mary'iebone and another
parish, they had now increased to such an extent, that
the opposition to this asylum scheme of the Commis-
sioners amounted in number to no less thy n 1,254,000
persons, assessed upon a rental nearly five millions of
money.
Mr. NICUOLAY observed that, in giving notice of this
motion, he felt that the tims had are.ved when a step
should be taken by the country to rid -themselves of that
irresponsible body, the Poor-taw Co famnissioners.
Several vestrymen suggested thr A the motion should
be withdrawn until the report o- a the asylum districts
should be brought up ; and ott
,ors that that day fort-
night would be a sood day fr re the discussion of the
question. The majority were however. of opinion that
such a resolution should be Pe assed as soon as possible ;
and ultimately Mr. Nicho'ray persisted in his original
resolution of bringing on the motion on Saturday next.
The vestry after some r,,,utine business adjourned.

NAVAL -INTELLIGENCE.
The statement CA* our Cork correspondent, that Vice-
Admiral Sir Wirliam Parker, Bart., had declined the
offer of the Gco ernment, of the post of first naval lord
of the new Beard of Admiralty, is correct. We are
sorry to hear of this decision of Sir William, for we
think the cotratry will be the loser by it. At the same
time, no one, can blame the Gallant Admiral for pre-
ferring the comparatively smooth and quiet employment
as Comma nder-in-Chief of the Mediterranean to the ex-
tremely eesponsible, laborious, harassing, and, in many
respects, most unsatisfactory duties, as First Naval Lord
of the Admiralty. As Commander-in-Chief of a sta-
tion his income is above 1,0004 a year; more, strange
to sty, than he woun,l receive at the Admiralty, as
Commander-in-Chief, not only of all the naval stations,
but of all the dockyeeels, too, under the Crown. In the
former position, important and responsible as it is, some
relaxation can b,e enjoyed at times by delegating the chief
authority to '.he flog captain and the indefatigable
and always sable secretary ; but at the Admiralty
there can be no cessation from continuous lab. ur—even
Sunday brings no relief. Our correspondent added—
" The genera admiral arrived on Monday in his flag-
ship, the Hibernia, 104, commanded by Captain Peter
Richarde, C.B. He received his orders for coming to
Cork From the Trafalgar, 120, Captain Nntt, which ship,
from Plymouth, fell in with him on the 9th instant, and
accorepunied the Hibernia to this port. Sir William
Parker will wait further din patches from, the Govern-
ment, and will then proven?. to sea in command of the
Channel fleet." It ie 'probable that when Sir William
Parker communicator his decision to the Admiralty he
had notthe receiv,d tljeese pressing invitatious to accept a
seat at Adnc.tralty, which is said to have been writ-
ten him by inoeu than one Cabinet Minister; and it is
not improbal-Ate that, upon second consideration; the gal-
lant officer wal be induced to alter his mind. Be this
as it may., however, dispatches have been sent off to
Vice-Aesrairal Sir Charles Adam, in Scotland, offering
him the vacant seat in the event of Sir William's ulti-
mate rilusal.
• Captain Houston Stewart, C.B. (1817), has been ap-
point/A acting superintendent pro tem. of Woolwich
ockyard, vice Captain Lord John flay, appointed
a Lord of the Admiralty, vice Commodore Sir F. A.
Collier, K.C.H., Commander in Chief pro tern, of the
Channel fleet. Captain Houston Stewart was made 11 Lieutenant in 1811, and Commander in 1814. He was
midshipman of the Iniperieuse, and served in her boats
in many of the gallant and daring exploit's of Lord
Cochrane on the southern coast of France, and at Roses
in 1807-3. Daring the operations on, th.e coast of Syria,
and at the capture of Acre in 1840,1%e commanded the
Benbow, 72. The gallant Capttain arrived at Woolwich
on Friday afternoon.
Commodore Sir James S, Gordon Bremer, K.C.8.,
011 leave of absence from. the Channel fleet, bas left
town fur Cork, to re-boist his pendant on board the
Queen. He left Port ;mouth for Plymouth en route on
Friday evening.
Captain Sir W•atkin Owen Pell, Knight (1813), who
lost his leg white midshipman of La Loire, at the cap-
ture of the French frigate Pallas, in 1800, who was ap-
pointed, in February, 184.5, from the superintendentship
of Pembroke dockyard to Greenwich Hospital, will have
the varant Commissionership. Sir Witkin's brother,
the late Lord Pell, Esq., who inherited the fortune of the
late Sergeant Pell, brought into Parliament the late
Lord Althorpfor Northampton, The pay of a Commis-
sioner is 6001, per annum, exclnsive of perquisites. Copt.
W. B. bashwaal (1818), who was senirf lieutenant of
the Active, and lost his arra at the capture of the French
frigate Pornone, in 1811, commanded the Snap brig, and
fought a gallant action with five loggers, capturing one,
off St. Valery ; eurrolMPaed the Prometheus at Algiers ;
and Capt. F. Barge.,--ne (1S15),: have been nauied a§
likely to succeed B".t. W. 0. Pell.
THE PROM(TION AND RF.TIREMENT.--VatioO3 ru-
mours have been circulated with respect to the consum-
mation of tMs much-to-be-desired measure of promotion
and retirement, and anxious have been the hopes of the
old ~,fficen.s that they will speedily receive that justice
from the present Government so cruelly denied them by
the lute Administration, but to which ,refuss% however,
We are assured their Board of Adiniralt:7 was no party.
It has been extensively reported tb.:4,t the scheme is to
be promulgated on Monday next, but there cannot be
any grounds for expecting stiC:i an event so soon to take
place. As a matter of course, the Admiralty mast
revise the proposed measure of their predecessors, and
we believe in this . work they are now sedulon‘iy
engaged ; but as yet there is no senior naval Lord at
the board, sad whether it be Sir William Parker or Sir
Chas. A.siam who accepts the office, it must undergo his
leviaiun and have his sanction. It cannot, therefore,
promulpted on Monday but e have faith in
the good intentions of 111;5' presentw
board with re-
spect
sec to the measure, and in the weieht of their
emmendation to the Treasury, that it will be com-
pleted as soon as possible, and will not fall below that of
Oa late board in liberality and extent. We have heard
that Sir Chrles Napier has recovere 1 from his
lethargy, and latterly has been most industriously
employed in pushing on the adoption of some
scheme of retirement and promotion in fact, that
he will, on the naval estimates being brought for-
ward, raise a discussion on every vote, and divide
the house on every item. We confidently believe that
there will be no necessity for the execution of this
threat, wilieh, under the circumstances, may be deemed
leanewhat gratuitous.
&MAXIMS' BOATS.—The recent wreck of the Maiden
City, near the Mull of Galloway, from which 110 per-
sons were providentially saved by the captain being
enabled to run the ship on shore after she had struck on
a rock, aff irds another proof of the necessity of adopting
the recommendation of the committee on shipwrecks,
that ell sea-going steamers should be provided with
.saddle-box safety-boats." To the fineness of the
reather, and the assistance front the shore (which the
teamer was fortunately enabled to reach in her sinking
tats), the passengers and crew, more then 100, owe
heir lives. In the Steam Navigation Bill now before
'arliament, the boats to be carried by steamers are par-
icularly alluded to,
CIIHRCH FOR THE SEAMEN AT THE ISLE Op MAN,—
'he authorities having deter Mined to erect a place of
orship on shore for the seamen belonging to and fre-
the Admiralty, who some
tenting the Isle of Pitan
oars since lent an old ship, called the Industry, for a
main chapel there, have most liberally given the
issel to them. The Industry will now be broken up,
id the materials will be converted towards the con-
fliction of the new church.
THE Mmo's's SPARS AGAIN.—On the night of the
it ()lime., ,after leaving Cork for Lisbon, the Albion,
), Captain Lockyer, C. 8., from a shift of wind, was
when she pitched so
.liged biw a head-yea,
emendonsly heavy (hoe sprit completely under), that
te sprung her maintopmast. which, however, she did
it dare 10 shift until she arrived at Lisben. Aittiotnh
e rent is from the trussel trees :o the cap. they have
nand it together with iron hoops, and have thus made
defective spar to serve. We shall have some little
ore to say about this ship shortly, and the manoeuvres
board.—Herald.

Mr. South Cave, surgeon, agreed in the views ex-
pressed by Mr. Raines. The prisoner had been examined by
the latter gentleman, on the 15th of April, when he ascer.;
tained that she had had a child within a month or six weeks.
She told him that it was a still -born child, but she did not
know when, and had thrown it into the pond naked. and
with nothing attached to it. She then mentioned no per-
son'.: name to him.

THE SCARCITY OF FIWIT.—Thi9 has boen the wont
lit season 'h.t hag been known fin. >everal years past. All
growers in Kent have bad their crops bliglaied. The
srcity is general.

Matthew Maguire, superintendent of police, stated that
be took the prison.-T on the 15th. He found her in an un-
occupied house at Eaqrington, along with two other women

THE WATERMAN AND IRON STEAM-BOAT COMPANIES.
It will be recollected that several convictions have
taken place at the Mansion House, of persons in com-
mand of the boats belonging to the above companies, for
an infringement of the fifth bye-law made by the Court
of Aldermen. In all of the cases the parties were eon-
victed on the evidence of Mr. Fellows, law student, and
notice of appeal was given. The cases were fourteen in
number. The various defendants were now represented
by Mr. Pashley, Mr. Bramwell, and Mr. Maynard. To
the first appeal an objection was taken, to the effect that
the Mayor, after conviction, had ordered that in default
of payment the defendant should be impriscned for
seven days, and thereby foregoing the intermediate
course of ascertaining whether the defendant had any
goods which could be taken in execution. Although
Sir Peter Laurie, Sir George Carroll, and Mr. Alder-
man Challis considered the objection to be bad, the
Recorder held the reverse, on the ground that the
liberty of the subject was not to be played with, and
the whole convictions on this point were in consequence
quashed.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MAIVSION-HO USE.
On Saturday, Mr. Moses Abitbol appeared before the
Lord Ma} or. "to show cause," as the summons ex-
pressed it, " why he misapplied certain shares, and also
certain moneys, belonging to Francis Uncilla, entrusted
to him for a specific purpose.
Mr Cope, solicitor, appeared for the complainant, and
Mr. Humphreys appeared for the defence.
The case drew together a number of persons to whom
the defendant, who is a very public City man, appeared
to be known.
Mr. Uncilla, whose counting-house is at 20, Cullum-
street, stated that he was a merchant, and had been in
London about eight months. He knew Mr. Abitbol,
having become acquainted with him about two months
ago, at a restaurateur's. Witness and his wife were
there together, and Mr. Abitbol pressed them very much
to accompany him to places of amusement, and an inti-
macy grew up between them, which appeared to be
urgently desired by the gentleman. Witness, upon one
of the visits of Mr. Abitbol to his counting-house, asked
whether any Madrid and Valencia shares could be sold
in London, to which Mr. Abitbol replied, " Yes, I am
a broker, and do a great deal of business in them."
"He then," continued the witness, " quoted a price,
and advised me to write to Barcelona for some shares,
and he would undertake to sell them for me, at th•
price he quoted, or thereabouts. I wrote accordingly,
and I received ten shares, and entrusted them to him to
sell for me on the 21st of May.
Mr. Humphreys—Did you give them to him? Mr.
Uncilla—l left them with his clerk, at his counting-
house, No. 35, Abehurch-lane, with instructions to sell
them.

' Mr. Humphreys—Were they written instructions ?
Mr. Uncilla—No; they were verbal instructions.
The LORD MA.YOR—Had you previously made any
narrlyanagrermanegnetmwelitthl
made
eAwbitih him
Abitbol Mr.
? ncillaw—The
n
was,. that
send for the shares, and he was to sell them for me.
The next communication I had from him was a letter
stating that he had sold a parcel of 200 Madrid and
Valencia shares at Liverpool, for 20s. 6d. per share, in
which parcel my ten shares were included, and that on
the settlement he would send me a draft as usual. (Here
the complainant produced the letter, at the conclusion of
which was a very warm invitation to him and his wife to
dinner.)
The LORD MAYOR—I suppose you went to dinner ?
Mr. Uncilla—Yes, we went to dine with him.—(A laugh.)
The LORD MAYOR—I dare say you said nothing
about the shares at the dinner? Mr. Uncilla—We had
no conversation about them then. I afterwards called
upon him, and he gave me a contract in his own hand-
writing to the effect that be had sold ten Madrid and
Valencia shares for me at 20s. 6d., the commission being
ls., stating a balance due to me of 9/. 15s. (The
witness here produced the contract, which was
dated May 29, 1846, and was signed "M. Abitbol.) I
wrote for some more shares in consequence of his advice.
Mr. Humphreys submitted that there was nothing in
the statement of Mr. Uncilla which called for an answer
on the part of his client..
Mr. Cope—I shall prove in the first place that Mr,
Abitbol is not a broker.
The LORD MAYOR—That may be the subject of in.
quiry in another place. 1 c tonot entertain it hire.
Mr. Cope.--I esti sh,w it as a parr of the c)thAitution
client. tho fraud which I say has been pra,:riscd uport my

Mr. Goodman (the chief clerk)—The question then
would be whether a bare lie told by a man that he was
a broker conatituted a fraud. Is it not plain that ordi-
nary prudence has not been used. Before Mr. Uncilla
employed the defendant be ought to have inquired
whether he wai a broker.

Mr.
c„pe___./ do not c,msider such s course is practised
or necessary. If a man wants to employ an attorney he
will net go to the Stamp-frce to ascertain the fact. He
will take the word of ,0 puty that be is 64 attorney,

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY MORNING,JCLY 20, 184

(Ann Norwood and Mrs. Iluddlestone) whit Slie was at
work, assisting the other two to tleah the house. When he
told her he wanted her, she ran to the front door and pulled
two cloths from her breast, and threw them down. Being
told the charge, she first said _that she had had no child,
and afterwards that the child was still-born, and that she
bad had it by .the pond in Sam Hill's close_ The body
she had put into the pond she said. Witness found in the
house a piece of blanket, which appeared to be a part of that
found with the child's body. Took the prisoner to the
Howden-station, and there cautioned her that she had
better not say any more to him about the mattet;
but she would speak, observing to him that she
in the habit of talking, even to herielt, hod
could not help it. She then went oh it tontradict he
first statement, saying that her reason for having made it
was, that the child being John Norwoe,',!s stm tiltt hot
want to bring him into trouble; as
en added, was born in
she Itn,4 rilin
as
well
t
ahserh
father's
hheurs,sbahioidu.se Tc,nhetheol.94l o
shp,h
May, and John Norwood
came to the 'tiotas and into the room soon afterwards. He
took .ale child to the window to look at it, and then told her
it was dead, and that he would take it away, and asked
her If she had anything in the drawer to lay it in. She told
him there was some in the drawer. He then wrapped the
child up and took it away under his coat, saying that she
might trust to him; that he would have it buried, and that it
was all right.
The man John Norwood bad afterwards been apprehended,
but was discharged.
Ann Norwood, sister of the man abovementioned, con-
firmed the constable's evidence as to the conduct of the pri-
soner at the house where she was apprehended. The piece
of blanket found at that house had been brought there by
the prisoner. The witness lives with her brothers, John
and William Norwood. John was at home on the 3d of
May. He went to bed at ten o'clock that night, and did not
again go out.

-11.1sig.aret Ward, dressmaker, of Eashington, stated that
she lives in a house near that of prisoner's father. On the
3d of May, between six and seven o'clock in the evening,
saw the prisoner pass by her house, which is on the road
from Eastiington to Sandholme, wearing a silk cloak, and
carrying a basket. She went in the direction of the pond in
question, which is but a short distance out of the road.
The defence offered by Mr. BLlss upon these facts was
fuundad on the supposition that all the prisoner had said in
her second statement might really have been the truth, and
if sn, the Learned Gentleman untended there was no evi-
dence in the rest of the case to convict her.
The prisoner was 'convicted.—Sentence deferred.
The causes tried on the civil side have hi,herto been of
little public interest, but there are more than the usual num-
ber of special juries to come. Many of the common jury
cases have been struck out of the list, owing to the absence
of attorneys nr witnesses.
Mr. Justice Wightman, in the absence of other business to
go on with, was engaged this afternoon in trying prisoners.

' and I contend that it is an act of fraud in a person to
personate either.
The Loup MAtdt —lf I were In wAt of au attorney
I should certainly 14,0 k at tie La* ]Lit.
Mr. Cope—l assure your Lordship that-sneh A tliir*
is never done. ttpoti the faith o!' being d nrolter. At.
Abitb..,l wag. otitruged with these shares.
lir numphreys.L=lt Os quite evident; my tiotd; that
tvery man is abriiker *hd d'eals in shares cif anything
delfstuandltr
although
hhhis ecthas? hot be a sworn broker of the city
must, therefore, tall to the ground
tis to that argument. Suppose he did say he was a
broker, and that the shares were intrusted to him, they
were intrusted without any specific direction, but were
merely left with 11;s clerk.
The case is subject to another sort of proceeding than
this before the Lord Mayor. It is not recognisable in
this Court
Mr. Cope—There is no doubt that a moral fraud has
been committed, and the presumption is that an actual
fraud has neen committed. lie pretends that he is a
broker, and upon that false pretence he gets shares to
dispose of.
The Loan MAYOR—There is no proof before me that
the account has not been carried over to another day.
There is no proof that the money has been received or
that the shares have been sold.
would Mr. make it noreYs And
if such things were proved it
more than a debt, on which an action
might be brought.
The LORD MAYOR—There is nothing to show that
the defendant sold the shares. If he have sold them and
he refused to pay, be is liable to the consequences of an
action.

ACCIDENT Ott Tilt EASTERN

On Saturday -"eit:o a sSollision of a most alarming
bhafacter took place at Strat.iofei, tteesseen the Ipswich no-
teethe vehielt was due at about four o'clock, but *birth was
twenty iiiithitei4 ht,hitid its tune, and a train of trucks
from h mford. The rpeel_eft train had hardly been a
minute alongside the platform, prefifitmory to the pas-
setigerS leaving the carriages, when OnS driver of the
Roinford train Crime 'Ton the same line of re-jit, and,
regardless of the signal Made tee • him not to advance,
drove his engine, ite it is asserted, with eneheeked speed
against the hifidteest carriage of the Ipswich Ifelte The
total destruction of the edtfirme first struck was tho
work of a moment, and then erietted a scene that
baffles description, and would, indeed, be but tee, painful
if we attempted to depict it. In the words. of one Of the
witnesses, n Bodies were lyit g in all directions, setup
with legs broken, others with ribs fractured, faces
horribly cut and disfigured, feet crushed, and
in some instances half cut off, and others
apparently dead." As sOO/1 as the servants
of the company could collect then'sselere they ren-
dered the utmost assistance to the unfortunee neesen-
eerie Mr. Richardson, the station clerk, being particu-
larly active. It was found that between thirty and forty
persons had been injured, and an eneine was Irtim,,diately
sent off to the terminus at Shoreditch for carriagee to
remove the sufferers to the London Hospital. The cer-
riages arrived in a few minutes, and a eureeon with them.
who proceeded to render his professional useletence with
the greatest zeal. In a very short time all that were in
any way injured were taken to the London Hospital,
with the exception of some who preferred to be sent
home. When the alarm had somewhat subsided, it was
found that the engine bringing the trucks bad rite into
the last carriage in the passenger train, which was a
second-class carriage, and completely elootered it, and
the buffers of a first-class carriage had forged them-
selves into a second-class carriage, in which several
persons had their legs fractured. The concussion was
so great as to do considerable damage to every
carriage, and scarcely a passenger escaped without
some injury. Providentially, no lives were lest
but we cannot under take to say that several of the
accidents may not yet have a fatal termination. As
soon as the distressing calamity occurred, information
was sent to Mr. Roney, the secretary, who was at ntms
bridge, by means of the electric telegraph, and that
gentleman, immediately on receiving the melancholy in-
telligence, started for Stratford in a special train, Mr.
Mosely, the manager of the truffle, and Mr. Samuel, the
resident engineer, in the meantime rendered every
assistance.
Our reporter waited upon Mr. Roney, togettrpr with
the representatives of other journals, and was received
by that gentleman with the greatest courtesy, Linn,: the
generality of the head officials at railways. He ex-
pressed himself desirous of affording the press every in-
formation, and fur that purpose he called all the wit-
nesses of the accident together. and permitted them to
give, in detail, what they individually knew of the un-
fortunate transaction.
As the thetettenti made by the witnesses furnish the
only authentic account of the affair, we will proceed at
once to give them in their own
tittrde -
Mr, Richardson was the first person &led and ques-
tioned. Ile said— lam the station clerk at Stratford.
The up train, which leateB Ipswich at one o'clock. Wtl.3
due a few minutes heltree ileloek, but it Aid not
arrive until twenty minutes alter its tithe. We had had
a cattle train up from Colchester, wiiieh was just eleeeed
off into the sidings, when the passenger train came up.
The bell was rung, as is usual, on the arrival or de-
parture of a train, and I eattie out of the office on to the
platform, and saw the passengers getting in and out of
the cerriages. The train was about to stutt for London,
and I had fel do—n the train to find the gueeds when.
on looking round. the engine of a train ef Weeks
coning towards the passeeget train. I then shouted
out to the eneine driver of the pas4engef twain to gee on.
and ran tewerd, him. As I came up 15>l!, the
fireman of the engine falling to the ground. I then rah
to the carriages to see what had happened. There
was a vacancy between the engine of the troche train
and the pioseuger train. One seterel-cless carries!,
was lying in ruins on the line. I then, stommenced
picking up those who were injuted. I -aw a :rein lying
on the platform with his leg nearly cut off ; he was One
of our men. aed there was another of our men with his
toe cut off. There were many others lying shout, all
more or less injured. There were in all between SO and
40. I should think the greater number injured were
these in the last carriage, which had been pet on at
Romford. The train was composed ef an engine and
tender, two horse-boxes, a coach truck, a first-class car-
riage, several second and third class carriages, and an-
other horse-box. a luggage van, and the second•clees
carriage I hate spoken of as being destroyed. I after-
words went with the engine to the terminus to obtain
some carriages to teke the injured parties to the hospi-
tal and obtain medical aid. The regular signal that a
train was then at the station, and any other coming up
was to stop, was given. The signal is 300 yards from
the station ; it can be seen the same distance on the
other side, and, therefore, if the driver of the engine at-
tended to it, there was time to stop before he got to the
station. The signal known as Halle's, or the fan-signal,
was down, denoting that there was a train then at the
station. Had no obetruetion existed the fan would have been
up. At that station there is a foreman, porter, a goods
man, a signal and point man, an under locomotive fore-
man, and a lad about eighteen years old, who does
errands and other work. At the time the collision took
place the signal man was attending to the cattle-train,
and the lad, Unwin. had been appointed to watch the
signal. I had told the signal man to attend to the cat-
tle-train, and had sent the lad in his place ; I saw him
there, and he never left it till the train from Ipswich
arrived, and then he pulled down the fan, the signal for
no other train to approach, and left it to attend to the
train. The signal is raised by windlass, and therefore
could not act of itself.
Mr. Kitson, the foreman of the locomotive de-
partment, said : In consequence of a communication I
received, I came on to the platform immediately after
the accident, and saw a lady, who was being led
away. I found the engine of the passenger train
forced ten or fifteen yards from the carriages. As I
ran along I saw two persons severely injured : one
said his leg was broken. The hindmost second-class
carriage was broken all to pieces. After sending to
London for carriages, we got the injured passengers into
this room as quickly as possible. There were five horses
in the boxes, and none of them were injured. A great
number of the passengers were very slightly injured, and
were enabled to proceed to London. None of these
were taken to the hospital. Neither of the engines got
off the line. The delay in the arrival of the train was
occasioned by its being heavily laden. It was only about
seven minutes behind its time. The driver who drove
the engine of the train from Remford is now in custody.
He says he shut off the steam, and that. the signal was
wrong,, that it was up instead of down. His name is
William Clare ; the engine he drove was numbered 34,
and he had been about twelve months in the company's
service. The signal was down after the accident. All
the fans were opened. The signal consists of four pieces
of wood fan-shaped and of cliff:rent colours ; when it is
intended for a train to stop, all the fans are down or
opened, and are so large that they are very easily dis-
cerned.
By the desire of the secretary we visited the signal
and saw it werked, and we must state that if' the fans
were down when the accident happened, the driver of
No. 34 engine is in our opinion criminally responsible
for any lives that may be sacrificed by this untoward
event. On our retnrn, Edward Unwin, a most important
witness, was called in, and he stated as follows: I am a
messenger at this station, and am eighteen years of age.
I was at the signal post when the passenger train came
up, and I put down the signal to give notice that a train
had arrived. I do riot know what time it was, as I
could not see the clock, but the train was twenty minutes
behind its time. I was at the signal post to pull up the
signal for the passenger train when the cattle train was
cleared. When I left the signal to go to the station
I left three fans down ; at that time the road was
clear. I did not see anything coming up.
I could state on my oath the fans were down
when I left the signal to come to the station. On my
arrival at the station I locked the doors, and then came
nut on the platform, when I heard Mr. Richardson hal-
lowing out. I looked down the line, and saw a train
coming in. He shouted for the passenger train to go
on, and ran up, and then ran back, and called " Stop !"
to the other party. Mr. Richardson set the to stop at
the signal, and told me to turn round and look towards
the train coming dove the line, and I did so.
Mr. Roney, the secretary, here informed our re-
porter that the following persons were in custody :
William Clare, the driver of engine 34 ; William Quen-
lin, the stoker ; Thomas Green the signal-man ; and an
under foreman, named Nicholson. Mr. Samuel, the re-
sident engineer, gave them into custody, as they ap-
peared to be the four persons through whose negligence
the accident had taken place. The secretary subse-
quently stated that he should release Green, the signal-
man, as it appeared he had been employed by the station-
clerk to attend to the cattle train. The men are now
locked up at the Bow station.
Mr. George Burford, a linen-draper, residing at Strat-
ford, attended by request of the secretary, and made a
statement that becomes of vital importance, in the event
of any of the sufferers dying, inasmuch as it confirms
the more material portion of the lad Unwin's statement,
and tends to strengthen the charge of culpability against
the driver of No. 34 engine. He said—l was coming
over the railway bridge at the Point, when I saw a pas-
senger train coming up, and directly it am
the
signal was let down. I had not left the bridge up
ehitirty
yards before tip came another train. I took no no .ee
then of the signal, and went straight home,
I heard of
the accident afterwards. I am aware how important
what I have stated is; but it is the truth. When I heard
the other train I thought it was one coming down. I
could not have imagined that one would be coming up so
quickly after the other. I heard the man Clare say to
Mr. Kitson that the signal was up, and when they saw
the danger they were getting in, then he shut off the
steam, and the stoker put on the breaks.
Mr. Kitson said when he was taking the engine driver
to Bow station, he said to him. " What have you bee ti
doing," and he said the signal was up.
Mr. Rote.y observed that the above w,es all the infor-
mvion he could give the press relative tai the cause or
the eccident at present. He had a list of persoqs
who had been seriously irjureil, and Mr. Mosely. the
superintendent of the traffic departm-nt, wcold read it.
LIST OF THE WOUNDED TAKEN TO LONDON HOSPITAL.
Willi on Millward, bandbox msker, Bethnall-green,
the large tee of the left footeut off in the collision.
Henry Olive, one of the Company's porters, a frac-
ture it& the right leg.
John Smith, one of the Company's men, chest and
back much injured.
William Prentice, porter, a very bad fracture of the
le°' • amputation Mint "Dow.
Moiris, Hoop Inn, Deptford, the left_foot partly
cut off', the right leg much Winced, This unfortunate

COUNTIES 11.1.ILWAY.

Mr. Cope—Some money transactions took place, after
the share business, in which Mr. Abitbol received 50/,
from my client, and neither in that nor in the share
transaction just described did he ever receive one farthing
from Mr. Abitbol.
Mr. Humphries submitted that it would be useless to
go into any other case.
Mr. Goodman (to Mr. Uncilla)—Did Mr. Abitbol
tell you that he was a member '.)f the Stock Exchange ?
Mr. Uncilla—l do not :know anything as to that, but
he told me he was a broker, and I was not aware that
he was not a broker, until I had intrusted him with
my money and my shares.
The LORD MATon—With what money did you in-
trust him ?
Mr. Uneilla—l intrusted him with 501. to buy stock
with, and I accuse him of having misappropriated that
sum,

The temp Melton (having consulted with Mr. Good-
man) said it was evident that this 'case, as well as the
former, must be decided elsewhere. They both con•
tained matter for actions.
Mr. Goodman said, the case could never bear an in-
dictment, and if it were not Indictable, it could not come
under the notice of the Lord Mayor. If Mr. Abitbol
had said that he was a member of the Stock-Exchange,
the responsibility would be different.
Mr. Uncilla—He said he was a member of the Hall of
Commerce.
Mr. Humphreys here produced a letter, dated the Ist
of June, from the complainant to the defendant, in
which the former requested the latter to be kind enough
to employ 501. for him in any operation for his interest.
Mr. Humphreys—That letter puts an end to the
business at one.
Mr. Uncilla—l wrote that letter before I had any idea
that I should be treated unfairly. Mr. Abitbol was
giving constant invitations to amusements, and I had no
idea what would have happened. I was convinced that
everything honourable would have taken plaCe.
Mr. Goodman—You may indict if you please, but the
Lard Mayor cannot adjudicate in the matter.
GUILDHALL.
On Ssturday two knowing-looking characters, named
Henry Moore and Henry Jones, were charged with de-
frauding Mr. Farrier, the landlord of the Angel Inn,
Farringdon-street, of sundry p rk pies and pints of half-
and-half.
The complainant stated that he opened his house at
four o'clock in the morning, to accommodate the market
people and those arriving by the waggons. That morn-
ing, shortly after he had opened his house. the prisoners
came in, and in a very commanding manner asked him
if he had any cold mon. He reelied that he had not,
but that he had some pork pies, which no doubt they
would find equally agreeable. They answered, the pies
would do as well, and were served with some, which they
speedily, with several pints of potter, halt-and-hale &c_,
put out of sight. On leaving, complainant asked them
for payment of the refreehments, upon which they
answered, " Money, eh ! we will pay you with a cut
over the eye, and that is all the payment you will get
from us." Jones made use of that expression, and, en•
deavouring with his companion to escape, a policeman
was called, and they were given isle custody.
The prisoners in answer to the charge, said if the land-
lord had allowed them to have gone home, they would
have got the money and paid the landlord.
Roe, the officer of the Court, remarked that these
serious frauds on publicans were daily increasing. The
metropolis abounded with such offenders as the prisoners,
and the licensed victuallers were sad sufferers by their
visitations.
Mr. Alderman &wrist regretted the law did not
afford him an apportunity of punishing such characters
as the prisoners in the way they so richly met ited.
There could be no doubt that such frauds going un-
punished was a great hardship on licensed victuallers ;
such, however, was the ineffieiency of the law, and he
lamented it. Jones by his threat, however, had placed
himself in his power, and he should call upon him to
find two sureties of 201. each, to keep the peace for the
next twele months.
Moore was discharged.
BO W-S TREE T.
INSANITY.—Mr. James R. Smith, a surgeon, of 43,
Sackville-street, was charged with wandering in the
neighbourhood of Charing cross in a state of insanity,
and annoying several persons
Mr. JARDINE said a general order had been issued to
the effect, that persons found wandering in the public
thoroughfares in a state of insanity, should he in the
first instance conveyed to the workhouse, in order that
the case might be submitted to the medical attendant.
Inspector Stevens said that the order would have been
complied with had not the prisoner been annoying per-
sona passing, which constituted a distinct charge.
Constable A 83, proved that he saw the prisoner about
half-past one in Cockspur-street, Whitehall, &c.,
annoying ladies and gentlemen by laying hold of them.
He also paid a visitito the Home-office, where he applied
to be appointed to a recordership, in consequence of
which the doorkeeper received orders to refuse him ad-
mission in future. Witness followed him for some time,
during which he entered numerous shops without any
apparent object. He had behaved in the same extraor-
dinary manner on former days, on one occasion seizing
the finger of a child and twisting it nearly out of jcint.
The prisoner, in his defence, observed in a quiet and
calm manner, that he had not annoyed any one inten-
tionally, and when he was alleged to have twisted the
child's finger, he was merely inquiring as to its health.
As to the Home-office, he admitted haying been there
for redress, as a lady of title at the West-end had bribed
all the cab and omnibus drivers to hoot him and call
after him as he walked, and their persecutions had caused
him to lose almost all his practice. The annoyance from
omnibus men had nearly ceased, but still two of the
Marylebone police were constantly using offensive epi-
thets to him, and saying " Fie, fie !"
Inspector Stevens informed the magistrate that the
defendant had been fined Si. at Marlborough-street for
annoying a lady.
In answer to the Court. the prisoner said he had
given his right name and address; but he was now only
" consulted" by the faculty, his regular patients having
left him, in consequence of the persecutions to which he
was exposed.
Mr. JARDINE ordered him to be taken care of, and
desired the police-constable to confer with the parish
authorities as to the best course to be pursued with him.
LAMBETH.
On Saturday, two notorious smashers and utterers of
gilt counterfeit half-sovereigns, were brought up for
final examination, and though the witnesses had been
in attendance for some hours, and that one of the pri-
soners had been remanded at the express desire of Mr.
Powell, the assistant-solicitor to the Mint, in order that
he might establish other charges against him, neither
Mr. Powell, nor any person from him, had thought
proper to attend. The tradesmen in the district of this
Court complain bitterly of the gross negligence and
apathy on the part ofthe Mint solicitor and his assistants
to this part of their duty.
It would appear that Mr. Powell is the only individual
to attend to this class of cases throughout the whole
country, as his principal, Mr. Blunt (solicitor to the
Norton has very free
system of Mint Fro-
Mint) has never thought proper to appear at any of the
metropolitan police-courts. Mr.
quently complained of the present
soli-
citors, and it is much to be hoped Mr. Shell, the
that.
will turn his at
secutions, and the laxity on the part of the Mint
newly-appointed Master of the
tention to the matter.

1 LONDON SESSIONS.
THE RATING OF THE DLACKFRIARS STEAM-BOAT PIER.
This case, brought forward on Satnrday, was an appeal
against the parish of St. Anne, Blackfriars, on the part
of the corporation of the city of London, in respect to an
assessment made for the relief of the poor of the said
parish, as regards the rating of the pier at Blackfriars-
b ridge.
Mr. Maynard, who appeared on the part of the re-
spondents, said that, as the pier was built upon, and
within the parish of St. Anne, Blackfriars, and from
which the corporation of the city of London obtained a
beneficial occupation, the palish authorities had, in ac-
cordance with the common and statute law, rated the
'aid pier towards the relief of the poor. The amount at
which the rental was fixed was tool. per annum. lie,
however, should be prepared to show that although the
pier had only been erected nine months, that no less than
2,000/. had been received as pier dues, and that the pro-
fits were at least 1,000/. a year. From the case pre-
sented by the appellants, they had preferred no fewer
than five objections, and which were as follows:---First,
that the pier was not situate within the parish ; second,
that there was no beneficial occupation ; third, that it
was not property liable to he rated ; fourth, it was as-
essed beyind its rental ; and lastly, that the case we. oppressive, illeg4l, send unjust. All these objections were
bad.

Mr. May. the tufistant overseer, and Mr. Spilling,
formerly one of the churchwardens, were called, whose
vi+ nce went to show that the hou-:es from N,N 1 to
No. 4, Chatham-place, were ex,mpred from thi, pay-
ment of rates by Act of Parliament, the rents being ap-
propriated toward, the repairs of Bluelcfriars-bridge, but
the houses were, nevi-rthdess, in the parish, the boun-
dari,,s bring fixed under the second arch, beyond the
distance unto which the pier extended,
Mr. Woodruffe, from the Town-ekk's office, deposed
that Blackfriar's-nier was opened on the 24th October,
1845. and that the charges made were (Id: clith tall by
the steam-boats—that up to lath ot 3.ttn, tlat Ills. 6d.
had be,n received—that-: there was owing to the
Navigation Cotntuittc.:e g gF Odl,--thAt the expenses for
pierrawn, watelaseh, was 602/. 3a. 3.1., and that the
building the cost the city 3 0001.—that when the
F 0.
pier ""as opened it was estimated that the annual ex-
pellee for maintaining it would be 1,0891. 4s.
Mr. Lewis contended that there was no evidence to
show that the pier was in a rateable position, so that the
corporation was liable to be rated. The city had built
it for the accommodation of the public, and had been in-
duced to do so from the loss of life which had there
taken place. That by an Act of Parliament the soil of
the river was placed under the control of the city, and
not under that of the parish.
Richard Ware, the piermaster, was then Balled, who
proved that when the pariah officers perambulated the
parish, they went down the steps next to the bridge, but
never came on the pletk.
The Rxvortaige at Very considerable length, then pro-
ceeded to giaalintigment, in the course of which he ob-
Fierved that although the evidence, as to the boundary of
the parish was not so clear as he cculd wish, yet there
could be no doubt that the structure was within the pa-
rish, and that at present it was, to all intents and pur-
wst a beneficial occupation. The rate would, there-
fore, be affirmed. The Corporation had the power to
put an end to the rate at any time it thought proper to
let the stea,m.boats take passengers away without charge.
In the course of the proceedings he had heard the pier
bet fined a nuisance, instead of which it appeared to him
to be a great public convenience and benetit.—The rate
was then affirmed, with the usual costs.

HWARK.
Thomas WashingtonSOUT , police-constable of the M divi-
sion, was charged by Emery and Russell, two men, with
a violent assault.
The case was investigated by order of the Police
Commissioners.
Russell was shooting birds on the grounds of a mar-
ket gardener, whom the policeman informed of the fact.
The former, hearing of the circumstance, felt aggrieved,
and uttered invectives against the policeman, who again
made his appearance in the room of a tavern in the
evening, where Russell and Emery passed their time.
ljussell said he would match the policeman before night.
On leaving the tavern, the
although again met, some argry
words ensued, and Washington,drew his staff, and struck Emery to the ground by a
bl
ow inflicted
by the prisoner until other inflicted with it on his head. Russell also was
b
officers arrived.
The defendant said the complainants were the aggres-
sors ; he used his staff in self protection.
The Magistrate
said his exercise of violence could
not be justified ' • but for the irritating language of the
complainants, he should have dealt differently with the
case. He should fine the defendant 10s. for each of the
assaults, which rendered him
-incapable of future service
in the police force.

PARISH OF KENSINGTON. Ou Friday IL crowded
receive a report from the committee a
meeting of the inhabitant ratepayers of the parish of Ken-
sington, was held in the vemtrsi,-Zom of the oil church, to
parsm on the 19th June last, to draw up a latter to he sent
to the guardians, and to the Poor-law Commis%ioners, to stay
proceedings, and to take such measures as may be advisable
to prevent the building the workhouses. Mr. Churchwarden
Sheppard having been called to the c.hair,
mittee had been futile. There port haying the report was
ppointed by the rate.
brought up and read. It stated that the efforts of the corn-
ordered to be entered on the minutes,
been received, and
a petition to both
/louses of Parliament, praying for their interference to pre.
vent the order of the Poor-law commi,ssioners respecting the
building of a new workhouse being
fu,rt he r proceeded with,
was moved,
and unanimously adopted. Thanks having bees i
moved to the committee, the meeting Aurateci'
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