The Sun.
London, England, 1848-11-06 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON,

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

Windiscbgratz from the kingdom of Wurtemberg, can
bear no hatred to that Germav race with which he is so
intimately connected both on his father's and his mother's
side. He himself, as well as his consort, the daughter of
Prince Schwartzenberg, whom he lost by a random shot
at Pragee a few weeks ago, were both born within the
walla of the town which he has been so recently invest-
ing, so that all his habits and previous history would
prove that his earliest and his fondest recollections must
be intimately intertwined with Vienna. But Windisch-
gratz is above all and before all a soldier, and though he
may entertain widely different notions from some of the
courtiers and flatterers who surround the Emperor at
011mutz, yet he feels his first duty as an officer to be
obedience, while as a man and as a citizen, also, he
must see that any authority, however arbitrary, is
preferable to the wild license which is alleged to pre-
vail. It is plain, however, that it was not without many
a pang that Windischgratz commenced operations
against the capital of the monarchy. His attack
was deferred. not merely after his forces had been at-
tacked, but for more than forty-eight hours after the
period indicated in his proclamations; and though we
cannot think that all the conditions for which be con-
tended in these state documents were necessary or equit-
able, still, the demands, however exigent, were made in
terms moderate and dignified. No harsh or injurious
language was used, at least in state documents, not-
withstanding the exacerbation of feeling both on the
one side and on the other. As the city would not con-
sent to deliver up some of the leaders of the insurrection
—the arms of the inhabitants—or pledge itself to abstain
from publishing none but public documents in the jour-
nals—as the Austrian commander refused to enter the
city to carry on the disarming by his own agents—the
bombardment commenced on the 27th, and the event has
been the capitulation of Vienna. The inhabitants and
working men of the capital fought with the greatest
bravery, and every success of the Imperial troops
was gained with the greatest slaughter. But
desolation and solitude, whatever Austrian field-
marshals may think, are not peace, still less
prosperity, and when the work of organisation
and reconstruction devolves on the civil servants of Go-
vernment, it is then that the Austrian functionaries will
poignantly feel how dificult—if not impossible—it will
be even to replace things on their former footing. The
destruction of the fairest portion of a city by cannonade
or by bombardment, or the siege of a capital by invest-
ment, must ever leave rankling recollections, even in re-
ference to an alien enemy, which has conquered by the
fairest fortune of war. But how much more embittered
—how much more festering must IA the recollections—
of an internecine civil war, in which subjects of the same
empire have been arrayed against each other. It may
be that Vienna contained a "heap of people"—to use
the happy epithet of Bacon—altogether unable or un-
worthy to govern ; but the shoals of seditious
students and workmen within the gates of that
city will not be rendered less savage and ferocious,
or the better and more obedient subjects, by the destrue-
tion of their homes, the burning of their property—
and the death and massacre of their parents, kindred,
and friends. No—shadows, clouds, and darkness rest
on the future of the Austrian empire, and the success
of the Imperial armies before Vienna may be the doom
and the destruction of Austria as a German power.
The discontented burghers of the capital which was
once Vienna can now only be retained in subjection by
the sharp power of the sword, and it will not require
less than a garrison of 50,000 men to keep in check a
people subdued, but not exterminated—exacerbated,
but not crushed or extinguished. The Tyroleans,
seeing the manner in which their German brethren
have been made to succumb to Selavonian preponder-
ance, are already exhibiting symptoms of discontent.
Italy, too, and Hungary are restless and disturbed, and
even the Ban Jellachich appears i❑ the moment of vic-
tory to be rather the servant of Sclayonism than of the
Kaiser. Under these circumstances, it seems probable
that what was once Austria will soon cease to be a Ger-
man and Italian, and transmute itself into a pure, un.
defecated Sclavonian power. If such a power were cal-
culated to strengthen Turkey, and oppose, with the
Ottoman empire, a barrier to Russian encroachment—
(a Russian army is now at Bucharest)—we might see
" some soul of goodness arising out of things " evil.
But to hope anything from a kingdom so rent and torn,
or an Emperor so weak as the Emperor of Austria,
were to be credulous over much. It is possible that
Ferdinand may, in a given time, enter within the walls
of his ruined capital, but never again to reign there or
elsewhere over th• hearts of his German subjects.

TIMES.—The enormous difficulties which have beset
our railway system from its birth, and which threaten
rather to increase than to give way, have prepared the
public for the important proposition about to be sub-
mitted to the Legislature. The three great companies
entrusted with our internal communications westward of
the metropolis, after a protracted and ruinous struggle
for territory, and after many fruitless attempts at truces
and compromises, are about to try an actual amalgama-
tion. The three chiefs, it is said, have decided upon
taking the sense of their several shareholders on a Bill
to this effect. What the judgment of shareholders will
and ought to be on the pecuniary question there can be
little doubt. A monopoly commanding the traffic of at
least half this island is a property of indefinite and al-
most optional value; for it is worth, in fact, as much as
the fortunate owners may choose to extract out of it. But
to treat this as a private or purely mercantile affair would
argue either ignorance or cunning. It is a great poli-
tical question. It has long been perceived by the more
discerning portion of the public, such at least as were
not themselves absorbed and blinded by railway specu-
lation, that it must come to this in the end. There was
no escaping a choice between a competition ruinous to
the shareholders, or an amalgamation dangerous to the
public. The one is the stormy Scylla, the other the de-
vouring Charybdis of the question. The nation at large
is vastly, we may almost say equally, interested to
avoid either extreme; for it suffers not less by the
ruin of too adventurous undertakers than by contribut-
ing to their success at too high a cost. Unfortunately,
the Legislature was seduced by the promises of compe-
tition. Private wealth and enterprise, the opinion of
shareholders, the good sense of Englishmen, the cautious
habits of trade, and, above all, the old-fashioned system
of the country, were the ideas adopted by our rulers, and
allowed to prevail against comprehensive and national
plans. A new emergency:was met on antiquated prin-
ciples, and modes of action which it had been found ne-
cessary to supersede, to simplify, and to generalize in
every department of the public service, were gratuitously
adopted in an entirely new field of legislation. Rail-
ways were treated simply as private speculations; and
only five years since there was passed an Act which took
for granted that every railway would remain to the end
of time in its original and separate form, such as it was
when it received the royal assent. A change has come
over the scene. Amalgamation has become a necessity
and a law of railway progress. There was no help for
it, and it was evidently useless to contend against a
practice so deeply founded in utility and profit.
The great trunk lines soon affiliated and an-
nexed all their feeders and tributaries, whether
existing or intended. So rapid has been this process
that at the present moment nearly all the traffic of
England and Wales, including the metropolis, and the
southern, western, eastern, and midland counties, is in
the hands of seven or eight hostile companies. No one
who reflected on tbis state of things, and who saw the
gigantic ruin certain to attend such gigantic competition,
could doubt the next step. It is now proposed to amal-
gamete three of these great companies. When the rest
of the heptarchy will follow is only a question of time.
Such a consummation was the very farthest from the
thoughts of our statesmen and legislators only three
years since. They no more dreamt of one monster
company than they did of a democratic revolution. They
saw only a crowd of competitors and a Babel of dis-
cordant interests and opinions. Could they have fore-
seen whal was so shortly to take place, it is probable
they would have spared themselves some of the over-
powering labours of inquiry and selection, and spared
the promoters also some of their ruinous expenses. Nor
can we doubt that a much simpler, more effective, and
more economical arrangement of lines would have been
adopted. But the old question now returns to Parlia-
ment in a new form. Simplification of railway manage-
ment and unity of direction is no longer a problematical
advantage, but an ascertained necessity; and Par-
liament will now have the difficult task of allowing a
colossal monopoly, but keeping it within proper bounds.
But the triumvirs who have partitioned so large a por-
tion of this island, and why are now about to ask Go-
vernment to consolidate their rule, may spare themselves
all further trouble in the affair, unless they are prepared
to submit to a regular national control. Without this
condition their demand is extravagant indeed. The
carriage of passengers is a traffic not very different from
the carriage of letters. The difference is more in a few
practical difficulties than in principle; and these practi-
cal difficulties have been vastly reduced by the invention
of the railroad. A monopoly of letters in the hands of
Government, and a monopoly of passengers in the hands
of a private company, would inevitably suggest that
either the one or the other must be wrong. Railways
are now the highways of England, and therefore of
public right. If we are consigned to one vast manage-
ment, we must at least he assured that the convenience
of all shall not be sacrificed to the profit of some. The
management of the Pest-office itself will suggest a model.
Itsnet revenue to the State might have been made
three or four times what it is now, but advantage
has been teken of its wealth to cheapen postage, to
multiply communications and deliveries, and in
every way to consult the general convenience. By the
same rule the State will be bound to claim a power of
dictating new branches, new trains, new accommodations,
and lower fa-es. It is not likely that much dictation will
be necessarry, but the State must reserve to itself the
right before it constitutes so vast a monopoly. We have
just had some small indication of what a monster union
will be likely to a' tempt, in the recent alterations of the
Great Western Company. Besidrs withdrawing two
trains, it has suddenly suspended the practice of return-
tickets, on the faith of which many persons have settled
necr the stations down the line—some at a considerable
distance. The directors will hardly allow this to be
stiematised as a breach of faith, but it will operate as
such on those who have trusted to the permanency of the
company's rules, and to the inherent reasonableness of
thi: particular provision. Certainly the unfortunate
dupes will feel themselves betrayed. They deem, not
without some reason, that they have a vested interest in
a practice which induced them to settle where they are,
to rent or buy a house, to form connexions, and to adopt
a certaie scale of expenditure. All their calculations are
put out by a change which, in some cases, will make a
diff rence of 201. or 301. a year—no trifle to a man of
limit, d income. The fact shows most opportunely how
completely- the whole country would be at the mercy of
a private sp culation, if the State should abdicate its
right of interfering for the common weal.
HERALD.—The news which we publish to-day in
another column states that the fate of Vienna has been
decided. Supposing the Imperial army wholly suc-
cessful, the difficulties of the Imperial Government are
but beginning with this unhappy victory—f it every vic-
tory must be considered unfortunate which a monarch,
however just his cause, or however unexceptionable his
character or government, gains over the most intelligent
and instructed—and hitherto the most faithful and obe-
dient portion of his subjects. But though an amiable
and well-meaning man, the Government of the Emperor
of Austria 43 never been unexceptionable, and Ferdi
nand himself, weak, wavering, almost idiotic, is now, and
ever has been, a mere puppet and plaything in the hands
of others. As the Emperor's directors and counsellors
have always had their own personal objects to serve,
and have occasionally neither been distinguished by in-
telligence, by honesty, by patriotism, nor by any of the
finer valities of the human mind—as, in fact, this
Imperial and Royal personage has been too often
the victim and the dupe of an interested knot of
intrieuers, it is no marvel to those who had observed
his previous career, and the persons by whom he
was surrounded, that he was first moved from Vienna to
Inns rruck—then hack again to Vienna—that he was
then invited to Prague, and that, lastly, he left his ea-
p •
ital a second time to find refuge in the capital of Mo-
ravia, in the city of eighty miles north-east of
Vienna. No &elk the seeds of discontent and revolution
were sown long before the time of the present Emperor.
Both the di,content and the revolution are mainly trace •
able to the .stand-still, impassive system of the late
Emperor, and the corrupt arid material means by which
Metternich carried that system into c ff-ct. But allowing
that the present Emperor is not personally to blame for
the meth of a system which existed from the period of
his birth, .and giving every full effect to these candid
considerations, we cannot, in many instances, regard
the conduct or the measures of Ferdinand as wise or
discreet, since the flight of his late Arch-Chancellor,
months
Metternich, to England, in the month of March last.
From that
period, now scarcely more than six
e
ago, Ferdinand has confided the interests
of his empire to six or seven Ministers, and from
the weakness and indecision of the men, or from the arts
of the Camarilla by which he has been
surrounded, each
of these Ministers has retired or been dismissed, after a
To
few weeks' service. Metternich succeeded Kolou-
rath—to Kolourath piner
*dllroffb—blrff—Ptihi el el.: s dioirrffa,u
sWaeps:
senberg—to Wessenber
peered on the scene; then,g a Wessenberg, who is
now with the Emperor at OFlam'aulz;ilnd whom all must
be admitted,
Such
admit to be an experienced and ea
denote
frequent changes, however, it will
of a fixed
vacillation and irresolution, and the abse
and consistent system of policy—whether teherset
system
be
one of concession or of resistance. Far areeesfrow'
'
saying that there have not been great faults on the part
of the people and democratic party assuming the lead at
Vienna. The riots in reference to paper money, at the
end of September, encouraged by Swowara, were in no
degree defensible; and no misconduct or duplicity of the
Court can excuse the barbarous murders of Lemberg and
Latour. The setting of races and nationalities against
each other in such an empire as Austria is,
however, a dangerous and a desperate game
for a Government to play against discontent, whe-
ther well or ill-founded—for it, is sure to evoke
the wildest and most untameable passions that burn
in the human breast. The elements thus set loose are
now waging a war of externination against each other,
and how or where the conflict is to end, the wisest of men
cannot foreshadow or tell with anything even approach-
ing even to probability. This alone is certain, that the
Emperor has confided his Imperial Crown to the keeping
of his Field Marshals, and no doubt those brave and
distinguished Generals will do all that in them lies to
re-irregrate and re-establish the empire, if it can be
eat rbiisheil by the power of the sword. Whatever may
be the results of the struggle between the Emperor and
his selijects, the Commander-in-Chief of the Imperial
army, Prince. Windischgratz, cannot be blamed either
by the Viennese or the public opinion of Europe. There
is not a braver, a more clement,
o whom the expression
•' amoreabelepssgreeneiroanl
in the Imperial service, or one
un setavonian," used in reference to him by a morning
paper of Ssturday, less applies. For nearly five and
forty years Windischgratz, now in his sixty-first year,
has been in the Imperial service, and has ever been
known as a resolute but humane officer. The large pos-
sessions which this able commander inherits in Bohe-
mia, Austria, Hungary, Styria, and Suabia, forbid the
notion that he is personally influenced by those
jealousies of race which exercise se much influence over
the mind of the Croatian Ban, Jellachich. The noble-
man who possesses sixteen large estates within the Arch-
duchy of Austria, one of them, so close to Vienna as
bchuenbrunn, the commander who takes his title of

RIOT IN ST. SID WELL'S CHURCH,

EXETER.

St. Sidwell's Church, Exeter, was on Sunday
evening last the scene of one of the most disgraceful
riots, occasioned primarily by the obstinate folly
and morbid ]love of notoriety of a young clergy-
man named Ingle. Our readers doubtless remem-
ber " the surplice controversy," which created
such feelings of animosity in Exeter some two
years since, and which was happily put an end to by
the bishop rescinding (in accordance with the wishes
of the Archbishop of Canterbury) his order to the
clergyman of his diocese to preach in their surplices.
The parishioners of St. Sidwell's were foremost
amongst the anti-surplicites, and knowing this Mr.
Ingle, who is, it appears, a mere boy, not having been
ordained more than two Tears, and who is not the
incumbent of St. Sidwell a, deemed it proper to wan-
tonly shock the prejudices of the congregation of St.
Sidwell's by appearing on Sunday evening
last in the pulpit of that church in his
surplice. We extract from Woolmer's Exeter Gazette
a description of the row which ensued. Without
taking any notice of a visible agitation which was
going on in the church below, he used—not a collect,
as is the accustomed preliminary to the sermon, but
the " bidding prayer," which is used in the morning
service at the cathedral. This novelty was by no
meats calculated to allay the ferment which was
rapidly increasing; and on his giving out the text,
which he did from Judges ix., 7-15, the brewing
elements of discord burst forth in a terrific storm.

The uproar commenced with a general " coughing
down," such as t.kes place in popular assemblies
when an obnoxious speaker rises to deliver sentiments
which are hateful to the discordant majority. Several
persons then moved towards the door, making a great
uproar in their progress. The excitement was still
further increased by a young woman going off in a
fit of hysterics, uttering heartrending shrieks. At
this juncture, a mob, who had either collected or
been attracted together in the churchyard, be-
sieged the doors of the building. A cry of " Fire 1"
was raised, followed by an announcement that the
church doors were closed. The effect may be more
readily conceived than described. A rush immedi-
ately took place to burst the gates open. Many
females fainted, and others went off into hysterics.
The persons nearest the gates cried out—in allusion
to the clergyman—" Turn him out ; put out his
lights." During this alarming interval the galleries
were the scenes of fearful uproar—of whistling, cat-
calls, and all the disgraceful outcry which is common
in the gallery- of the theatres—persons in the gallery-
stairs were even hurraing, and inciting the mob to
still further outrages.
It was now become apparent that there was no
hope of the service being allowed to proceed unless
the arm of authority was interposed. It appeared
useless to expect conciliatory measures on the part of
the clergyman, for he was strongly advised by many
to take off his surplice, or to dismiss the people, but
he treated these suggestions of prudence with neg-
lect. He attempted three times to read his text and
commence his sermon, but on every occasion he
was obliged to desist, in consequence of the stunning
clamour which was raised, and which his repeated
exhortations failed to allay. The Church is repre-
sented as resembling a Chartist assembly more than
a place of worship. The decent respect to the house
of prayer, which at other times induces those who
enter to uncover their heads in reverential obedience,
seemed now to be forgotten. Men in the lower part
of the church put on their hats—others waved them
about—others stood up on the seats—jumped over
the pews—chattered, bawled, raved, and gesticulated
—and the scene could not be equalled in violence in
the Guildhall of Exeter on a Parliamentary election.
The churchwarden (Mr. Hayman) who had bone
sent for by a gentleman present, speedily arrived.
The minister had, at this Ltime, also beckoned to
a personal friend of his among the congrega-
tion to come up to the pulpit to him. He did
so, and was desired by ;Mr. Ingle to acquaint
the Mayor of Exeter with his situation, and to re-
quest his immediate interference for the preservation
of the peace. Whilst this gentleman was engaged
on this errand the churchwarden addressed the people.
He informed them that his authority—(which was
magisterial in that building)—would be exerted if the
uproar continued, and he entreated them to resume
order. At the same time he expressed his hope that
the
clergyman in the pulpit—seeing the excitement
which had been occasioned—would at once remove
the cause of the ill-feeling manifested towards him.
Mr. Ingle treated thisw i
.relmenstrance also with indif-
ference, when Mr.lllll, a parishioner, adressed
him, and using very
ivigorousmc.oinlanguage, insisted, in no
measured terms, on h
out of the pulpit di-
rectly. It is needless to say that this
ol
ie afterwards
made "confusion worse confounded:' About
only
this
time t
time the Mayor arrived, and shortlyp
Mr. Steele, the superintendent of
several of the constabulary force, wh'o withhaads
been hastily summoned fronn the nearest beats
The Rev. Chancellor llarington and the Ven. Aescth...
deacon Bartholomew, members of the chapter, who
too had been sent for, also came. They found the
street in the neighbourhood of the church thronged,
the churchyard crowded with people, and the church
continuing the scene of uproar. The mayor en-
forced silence, and after admonishing the people, sent
up a request to the clergyman to leave the pulpit for
a few moments and to speak to him in the vestry. It
is with extreme regret we state that Mr. Ingle
treated the mayor's request with the same disrespect
that he had all the other remonstrances addressed to
him. He refined to comply, and took advantage of
the lull which the mayor and the police had produced
to begin his sermon, by again giving out his text, at
about half-past eight o clock, being half an hour after
the time when the service usually concludes.
The text was most remarkable. The sermon, which
was of an entirely political character, and which
treated of the French Revolution, and Chartism, and ,
the Repeal of the Union with Ireland, lasted twenty

minutes, and concluded about ten minutes to nine,
when the congregation were dismissed with the bene-
diction.

But the mob had not dispersed from the streets and
the churchyard, and the police were directed by the
mayor to disperse them. Mr. Ingle, who disrobed
himself of his surplice in the vestry, and came out in
his gown, proposed to go into the main street and to
proceed home in his academical vestment. The mayor
requested him to retire by a private way into Long-
brook-street, when he would be safe. We regret to
have to add that Mr. Ingle refused to take this kind
suggestion, and an altercation, attributable to this
cause, between himself and the mayor, was threatened,
which was one of the most unhappy results of the
night's disaster, and must have been most irritating
to his worship, who considered himself obstructed by
the individual who must be looked upon as the
origin of the uproar, and whose person he was then
endeavouring to save from violence. Further evils,
however, were averted by the friends of Mr. Ingle
carrying him off by the way the mayor proposed, and
he was not further molested.

In passing sentence on one of the rioters on Tues-
day, the Mayor of Exeter thus commented on the
conduct of the " clerical stirrer up of strife," whose
" priestly pride " bad occasioned the disturbance :
"Now, it is intolerable, whatever may be the mo- '
tive, that the peace of a large city like this should
be thus idly outraged—and it is still more intoler
able, that any church of this city should be thus
rendered the arena for scenes of this unholy and most
distressing nature; and I regret, most deeply regret,
that its origin should be found in the conduct and
proceedings of one, from whom, considering his pro•
fessional calling, better things might have been ex-
pected. The conduct of this gentleman has, upon
this occasion, been characterized by a most unbe-
coming levity, inasmuch as it was entirely gratui-
tous, and, by an indecent and reckless carelessness of
consequences, inasmuch as indications of what has
taken place had, on his pursuing a similar course on a
former occasion, been evinced.
"During the course of the last Sunday evening, I
was waited upon with a request—to do what ?—to
protect a person who was voluntarily doing that which
was creating a disturbance; to do any such thing I
did not conceive it to be my duty. Forsooth—are
the magistrates of this city to be called on to re-
move the houses, that an incendiary, with his blazing
torch, may rush through the streets? Are they to
protect every fool-hardy seeker of notoriety and causer
of brawls ? No—their duty is a wider one—to protect
the peace of the city generally. In accordance with
this feeling, I, therefore, immediately repaired to the
scene of riot and disturbance, in order to render such
assistance as was in my power, to stay and quell it ;
and, I am happy to say, I found no great difficulty in
so doing; for, to the credit of the large mass of people
whom I found collected, excited as they were, the
most implicit obedience to my wishes was immedi-
ately rendered, save in one instauce, and that was in
the person of the prime cause of the whole disturb-
ance. The merits of his previous conduct, I shall not
consider it my business further to canvass or refer to,
but, as regards his resistance to my frequently, and,
at length, somewhat authoritatively, expressed re-
quest, as regards the route he should pursue on leav-
ing the church, I have this strong and advised remark
to make, that he neither proved himself a good citizen,
nor evinced a seemly or proper respect for the office
which it is my lot, at this moment, to hold; and it is
rather due to my own forbearance, than to his own
discretion, that I did not at that time take him into
custody, and that he is not standing with you at that
bar, answering to the very serious charge of obstruct-
ing me in my duty, while quelling that riot, of which
he himself had been the chief cause and instigator.
" I know not if I should again recognise this gentle-
man, but the hurried view I then had of him led me
to conclude him to be very young. I trust, therefore
the whole of his conduct on that evening is attribu-
table, as in your case, to youthful indiscretion, rather
than to any vicious and determined intention of
creating disturbance, animosities, and ill-feeling; I
would fain trust that such is the case. It is, however,
a serious matter for bim on the one hand, to frighten a
whole city from its propriety, and on the other, to in-
trude himself into a parish to which he is not in any
way attached, and there stir up strifes and contentions
which, by their recurrence cannot fail to reanimate
enmities between the flock and their pastor.
"Nor:would I altogether acquit the incumbent of the
parish himself from some slight share of blame; for I
deem it to be his duty as a good citizen, after what
had occurred, some three or four years ago, to take
every precaution that the frightful scenes of those
days should not be repeated. It cannot but be re-
collected that something like a promise of this kind
was made, and any speeious excuses or reasonings
whereby this promise is avoided, are not compre-
hended by the multitude, who look solely to the
broad and easily appreciable facts. The peace of a
large parish, and the good will and respect of its
parishioners, are well worthy the consideration of its
pastor."

The Bishop held a public investigation into the
circumstances of the case yesterday, nominally to
inquire into the conduct of Mr. Ingle, but really to
afford the Right Rev. Bishop Phillpotts an opportu-
nity of abusing the Mayor and magistrates, of de-
claiming priestly authority superior to all secular
rule, and of launching his episcopal thunders at the
heads of " the Puritans" of St. Sidwill's, and to ad-
vise priests never to yield to the dictation of a
Puritan mob. We quote from the report of these
proceedings, given in a second edition of the Western
Times, the following account of the Puseyite incum-
bent of St. Sidwill's of the manners and moral state
cf his congregation, reminding the reverend gentle-
man, at the same time, that " as every tree is known
by its fruits," we are warranted in concluding that
these are some of the fruits of the Puseyite tree :
" The Rev. Francis Courtenay spoke under
a manifestation of deep solemnity. He felt bound to
close the church in the evening, and he desired to
give his reasons for so doing. He then proceeded to
describe a state of dissoluteness and disorder, as the
usual state of things at this church, ou a Sunday
evening, which is hardly credible. In a part which
he designated the ante-church—a young man had been
known to light his cigar by the gas. Parties talked,
and young girls flirted there—young people had
been seen making signals to each other across the
gallery, and many young females had been ruined by
their attendance at these Sunday evening lectures.
You might have thought that he was speaking of the
vestibule of a brothel, or one of the dancing saloons of
the metropolis, from the description which he gave of
this sorrowful scene of levity, irreligion, and demorali-
sation. Under these circumstances he felt bound to
close the church. If, however, the Bishop com-
manded him, then being bound by his vows to render
obedience where God had placed authority—he should
obey. But God would relieve him from the respon-
sibility, and in the day of judgment he should not
have to answer for it. He dwelt with apprehension
on the consequences which impended over his
parishioners for their wickedness at this Sunday even-
ing lecture, and appeared to expect an especial judg-
ment, as the punishment of this last Sunday even-
ing riot."

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH, Nov. 4.
(Sittings in Banco.)
SMALL AND ANOTHER V. GIBSON.

Mr. Sergeant SHEE moved in this case, which is one
of considerable importance to those engaged in maritime
pursuits, for a rule to show cause why the plaintiffs
should not be at liberty to enter judgment upon the
issues found for them, awarding 551. 1 ls. and the costs,
notwithstanding the verdict founo for the defendant, upon
the second issue; or for a new trial. The case was
tried before Mr. Justice Wightman at the sittings at
Guildhall on the sth of July last. The jury found for
the plaintiffs on several issues, and for the defendant
upon the one referred to. The action was upon a time
policy of insurance upon the ship Susan, dating from
the 23d Sept., 1843, to the 25th Sept., 1844, effected in
1843. The declaration alleged that the ship had been
rendered valueless during the existence of the policy,
and claimed the usual compensation. The defendants
put several pleas upon the record. The second (which
was found for him) set forth that the ship was not, at
the commencement of the risk, nor at the making of the
policy of insurance, nor on the 25th of September, sea-
worthy, or in a fit and proper condition to go to sea.
The third urged that the vessel was not during the con-
tinuance of the risk injured by the perils of the sea;
and another plea set up that during the insurance the
ship became damaged, and was not fit to remain at sea;
that the owners were aware of the fact, and ought to
have had the ♦essel repaired at a small expense; but
that they did not do so, and that the ship remained at
sea, arid was destroyed through the negligence of the
owners. The vessel traded between Madras and the Mau-
ritius, carrying merchandise and Coolies. On one of her
voyages she encountered some boisterous weather, and
was obliged to put into the nearest port, where she
was condemned. The question involved in the me was
whether the seaworthiness of a ship at the commence-
ment of the tisk on the 25th of September was an
answer to an action to recover an insurance for time.
There were no cases upon this point. The Learned
Sergeant cited, however, cases which touched upon the
matter. He contended that a time policy only required
that a ship should be seaworthy when she commences
her voyage, and the ship in question was fit to undertake
the voyage. An owner very seldom knew the exact
place where his ship was at a given time; it was, there-
fore, impossible he could be aware with any certainty of
her condition.
The COURT granted a rule upon the first point—that
relating to the judgment.
REG. V. GREGORY.
In this case the Duke of Brunswick had been the pro-
secutor of an indictment against a person of the name of
Barnard Gregory, who had been convicted thereon, and
sentenced to six months' imprisonment in the Queen's
Prison. The attorney had entered the verdict generally
upon the whole indictment, some of the counts of which
charged no offence, in consequence of which a writ of
error bad been brought.
Mr. SNOW now moved for a rule to show cause why
the judgment roll should not be amended according to
the rule of sentence made by the officer of the court,
who had entered the judgment upoa each count sepa-
rately. The Learned Counsel contended that the judg-
ment might be amended after a writ of error had been
brought, and joinder therein, and even after argument,
ment, as in the present case, if there was anything to
amend by.
The COURT granted a rule nisi.
TRIMEM V. DE BURGH.
Mr. Sergeant SHEF: showed cause against a rule which
had been obtained on the motion of Mr. M. Chambers,
Q.C., to enter a nonsuit in this case.
The action was brought by a surveyor against the de-
fendant, who was a member of the managing committee
of the Oxford, Thame, High Wycombe, and Uxbridge
Railway Company, to recover the amount of his charge
for surveying the line of the proposed railway. In the
first instance, the plaintiff, on the 23d of October, 1845,
had addressed a letter to the committee, in which he
offered to survey the line at the rate of 501. a mile ; but
on the following day he was present at a meeting of the
committee, when a resolution was passed, and assented
to by the plaintiff, in which it was resolved that the pro-
posed terms should be abandoned, and that on the survey
being completed he (Mr. Trimen) would be perfectly sa-
tisfied with leaving his remuneration in the hands of the
committee. The committee had subsequently paid him
the sum of 8001., which, is their judgment, was a suffi-
cient remuneration for his services. The defendant had
contended that the plaintiff ought to have declared spe-
cially upon the written agreement, and that if he had
done so he would not be entitled to more than the com-
mittee might think proper to grant.
Mr. Sergeant SHEE and Mr. fLarscE now showed cause
against the rule, and contended that not the amount but
the rate of the plaintiff's remuneration was to be deter.
mined by the committee.
Mr. CHAMBERS, Q.C., rose to reply, but was stopped by
The Comte., who made the rule absolute.
Rule absolute.

COURT OF BAIVKRUPTCY, Nov. 4.
(Before Mr. Commissioner GOULBURN.)

WILLIAM HAMMOND'S BANKRUPTCY.

The bankrupt in this case was a seed-crusher, carry •
ing on business at Uxbridge, and now appeared before
the Court on the question of certificate.
The bankrupt was opposed on the general grounds of
misconduct as a trader, including allegations of sales of
property, &c., to relatives when he knew he was in an
insolvent condition.

Mr. Commissioner GouLnuaN, regarding the case as a
very bad one, and considering that the bankrupt bad
acted in a fraudulent and dishonest manner, ordered a
su)pension of the certificate for two years. Alluding to
the late Act of Parlimnent which empowered the Com-
missioner to grant a release to those bankrupts who hid
had their certific ttes either refused or suspended when
they were supposed to have undergone sutficiAlt punish-
ment, his Honour said, he was of opinion that the most
convenient course to pursue would be to mention at the
time of giving decision the date at which (presuming the
bankrupt to be incarcerated) the Court would grant his
release Under these circumstances, he would order that
in the case of the present bankrupt protection be granted
after he had undergone six months' imprisonment.

HAGEN AND HAGEN'S BANKRUPTCY.

The bankrupts, described ai merchants carrying on
business at Bermondsey, passed their final examination
without opposition.

INSOLVENT DEBI ORS' COURT, Nov. 4.
(Before Mr. Commissioner HARRIS.)
IN RE EDWARD JOLIN LACK.
This insolvent, lately a clerk in the office of the Board
of Trade, was opposed by Mr. Skinner on behalf of Mr.
Whiting, a printer, and also by two creditors named
Payne and Avis.
The insolvent, whose salary during the latter period
of his retaining his situation was 2501. a year, had peti-
tioned the Bankruptcy Court in 1843, and obtained a
fin d order of protection against 31,292/. of debts, a con-
siderable portion of which were
,fiabilities on account of
his father, a retired comptroller of Customs with a pen-
sion of 1,0001. a year. The debts in the present schedule
amounted to 8,0201., of which 3,5091. were without con-
sid ration, and 2,648/. were his consideration debts.
Mr. Whiting complained that he had been induced to
advance 2301. to the insolvent upon a written statement
ef the latter that his father's pension (which was im-
pounded by the Court of Chancery, and of which there
was about 5,0001. in hand) would be paid out in Novem-
ber, 1847, and that he (Mr. Whiting) should be secured
for his advance by a first claim on the fund. The suit
in Chancery, however, still depended, and there were
several prior claimants on the fund, whose securities
were in existence to the insolvent's knowledge at the
time of borrowing the money from Mr. Whiting.
Mrs. Payne, an oyster room keeper, near Charing-
cross, complained that the insolvent had contracted a
debt with her to the extent of 38/. fur refreshments, and
had also induced her to become security for him to a
loan society for 151., which she would have to pay. She
brought an action against the insolvent, who pleaded,
and thereby increased the costs to 41/.
Mr. Avis, a coal merchant, stated that he also brought
an action to recover a debt of 321., to which insolvent
pleaded, and increased the costs to 461.
Mr. Commissioner HARRIS was clearly of opinion that
Mr. Whiting's debt had been fraudently contracted, the
insolvent at that time being perfectly unable to repay the
_
loan. In the cases of the other creditors, gross cases
vexations defences had been proved, and the judgment
ofl of
the
the Court was that insolvent should be discharged
suit of Mr. Whiting at the expiration of l
2calender
months from the date of his vesting order, and from the
suits of Mr. Avis and Mrs. Payne after a period of eight
mor.ths.
These periods are concurrent, the shorter term merg-
ing in the

The investigation ended in smoke, having abused
the mayor and laity, and eulogised the clergy, the
Bishop declared he wanted to go home, and went
home accordingly.

PULMONARY DISEASES IN CATTLE.—On this sub-
ject Mr. Pond, author of the "Farmers' Cash-Book,"
has just issued a short pamphlet, which is well worthy
the perusal and consideration of farmers, dairy-keepers,
and others interested in the rearing of cattle. While
pointing out the ravages of pleuro-pneumonia
in dairy stook, the writer also lays down valuable
and practical remedies and preventives. After stating
that he had made an inspection of thirty dairies
in Edinburgh (about one-fourth of the whole num-
ber), Mr. Pond presents the following statistics
to show the alarming fatality of the disease, and
consequent loss entailed on the owners of the cattle:
—" The aggregate usual number of stock of these
30 dairy-keepers is 537, and the loss from pulmonary
disease, within the last twelve months, had been no
less a number than 458, or on an average about 16
deaths in every stock of 18 cows. When I say that the
lops has been 458, it is • not to be understood that
that number actually died in the byres, but that
that fearful number either died there, or were removed
from the stock and immediately slaughtered, before
the disease was communicated to the system. In either
case, however, the dairy-keeper has been a severe
loser—in fact, every cow attacked has been almost a
'dead loss' to him." In speaking of bad ventilation,
the evil effects of which he forcibly points out, as well
as the healthful influence of fresh air, the author re-
marks—" In many instances, I observed that the mode
of ventilation adopted (if it deserved the appellation)
tended more to do mischief thaw to counteract evil. A
certain degree of heat is no doubt very essential to the
comfort and thriving of cows, and that fact being ad-
mitted, shows that they should not be subjected to
currents of cold air; but the warmth produced from an
over-crowded byre, or by an atmosphere loaded with
respired air, must be as destrucive to health as it is
insidious and sure in its effects. No stronger reasoning
can be advanced in support of ventilation than the fact,
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CONSUMPTION, &C. The
cases of G. Arnett, Es q., Surveyor of Customs,
Major Lynch. 111 i
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Hsite, wood, Sir 11. N. W—s, Bart.,
Morley. Ca • •
Captain Lindsey, R.N., &c., are
published in the Clinical
Report of Cases by Dr. Cronin,
on the Use of " Ana
Psis , in the treatment of some of
the severest forms of disease of the stomach, heart, and
lungs, and may be
bad
Leicester-place, rratuitously between ten and
One, daily, at 14,
place, Leicester-square.
BRISTOL SUGAR-AIARILET Thmarket
supplied continues to be very badly Nov.*
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the sales of the week are
extent, at about former consequently only to a limited
steady. Rum and Prs ; the n.fined market is
Molasses continue very dull.—Bristol
Mercury.

MIDDLES;EXSESSfONS.
BROTHEL-KEEPERS.—On Friday Madame de Sonzs,
who was sentenced to six months' imprisonment with
hard labour in Coldbath-fields, at the. last sessions, for
having kept a brothel in Bury-street, in the parish of St.
James, applied to the court for a remission of some part
of the sentence, upon the ground that possession of the
premises had been given up to the landlord, the rent
paid, and that the house had resumed its previous
character.
The JuDGE went over the circumstances proved upon
the trial, and said the gravamen of the charge was that
the prisoner, after a previous conviction, had gone into
another street and opened a new brothel there. Nu-
merous letters had been sent to him, none of which he
had read, upon this very case; for if he were to listen to
all applications of this nature, after trial and sentence,
justice would be completely mocked. His only answer,
then, to the Learned Counsel was, that he had done, and
would do in this case, what justice seemed to him to
require.
ANuTHKR WHOLESALE BROTHEL-KEEPER.—On Sa-
turday, George Joseph Murray, alias Bradley, alias
Jones, alias Williams, was placed at the bar, indicted
with Ann, his wife, and seven other persons who did not
appear, for keeping brothels in various parts of London.
Mr. BODKIN prosecuted for the Society for the Pro-
tection of Young Females, and stated that as the female
prisoner was enceinte with her ninth child, and appeared
to have acted under the coercion of her husband, the so-
ciety would not proceed against her.
Ihe male defendant then pleaded guilty of keeping a
house in Curzon-street, Mayfair; another in Eagle-
street, Red Lion -square; and a house in Sheppard-street,
H .nover-square;as brothel-. It was stated that he had
an interest in the celebrated " Mother ll's," in Brydges-
streespCovent-garden, and upwards of 30 other houses,
chiefly at the west end of the town.
As the prisoner was brought up on a writ of habeas
corpus from the City Compter, where he was undergoing
a sentence of imprisonment for another offence, the Court
postponed
judgment till the term shall have expired, and
the prisoner was sent back to the Compter.

AN UrsrART.—A negro boy was driving a mule
in Jamaica, when the animal suddenly stopped and re-
fused to budge. " Won't you go, eh?" said the boy.
"Feel grand, do you? I s'poso you forget your fadder
was a jackass?"—American Paper.

MONDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 6, 1848.

LONDON SESSIONS-SATURDAY.
DERBY SWEEPS.-WILLIS, APPELLANT; SIR P. LAURIE

AND ALDERMAN WILSON, RESPONDENTS.

This case, which excited a great deal of interest, was
an appeal made from the decision of Sir Peter Laurie
and Alderman Wilson, who convicted Mr. Willis, the
proprietor of the King's Head public-house, in New-
gate-street, for that he, being duly licensed under the
9th of George IV., did, on the 22d of May, knowingly
and unlawfully, and against the terms of the said li-
cense, and against the force and effect of the Act :of
Parliament, suffer certain gaming in his house, and
suffer and permit a certain game, or lottery called a
Derby Sweep, to be played and drawn as by lot, By
direction of the magistrates who convicted the appellant,
the City Solicitor conducted the proceedings for the re
spondents. At the commencement of the proceedings
the Recorder sat alone for some time, both parties hav-
ing consented to abide by his decision. Subsequently
Alderman William Hunter entered the court.
Messrs. Wire and Child were the solicitors for the
appellant ; Mr. Rs land and Mr. Laurie were counsel for
the respondents; and Mr. Clarkson was counsel fur the
appellants.
Mr. RYLAND said the license had been granted to the
appellant under certain conditions, one of which was
that he should not allow any unlawful games, or any
gaming whatsoever in his house. The question was one
of considerable importance to the publican, but, in his
opinion, of much more importance to the public in gene-
ral, inasmuch as it was calculated to affect the morals of
the community to a most mischievous extent, if the de-
cision of the magistrates were declared null and void. It
was regulated by the appellant that there should be 2,000
tickets, at ss. each; that the person who should draw the
horse that should be first in the Derby race would be
entitled to 3001.; the person who should draw the horse
that should be second in the race should be entitled to
801.; the third horse in the race would entitle the holder
of the ticket having :his name to 401.; and there was a
deduction of 5 per cent. from each of the prizes to be
paid to the landlord, who, as a matter of course, doubled
that profit by the contingent trade arising from such a
multitude of speculations on the game. His Lordship
would not forget that at the past Central Criminal Court
Sessions a young person was convicted of felony, who
afterwards acknowledged that he had been led to commit
the offence in consequence of the temptation which these
sweeps held out of realising a large amount of money.
The practice of permitting sweeps had also the effect of
inducing persons to frequent public-houses, so that the
immoral tendency of the unlawful game was unquestion-
able, and it was the duty of the magistracy to crush it
altogether by inflicting such penalties in all cases as
would far exceed the amount of pecuniary recompense
derivable from the infringement of the obligation ex-
pressed in the license; and, if it were necessary, by re-
fusing to license in any future case of the violation of
the law. It could not, he thought, be denied that the
Derby sweep was a lottery.
Mr. CLARKSON said it was not his intention to make
any objection calculated to prevent a speedy decision on
the question, which was, as had been observed, a very
important one. His client had no idea of requiring
proofs of any of the facts of the case. He admitted that
the Derby sweep held at his house was a lottery. The
great point was whether the sweep was held in violation
of the license.

Mr. RYLAND referred to the schedule of the Act 9th of
George IV., cap. 61, which set forth the terms of the li-
cense under which the appellant kept his house. He
considered the case of the Art• Union in point. There
was a lottery which had about it none of the mischiefs
with which sweeps abounded; on the contrary, it was
calculated to promote intellectual attainments and im-
prove the taste of society. The violation of the law,
however, was held to be of so much consequence, that
an immediate stop was put to that innocent lottery, and
it became necessary to pass an Act of indemnity for the
protection of those who unconsciously subjected them-
selves to penalties by the infringement of the law. Mr.
Ryland then referred to the 10th and 11th of William
IV., cap. 17, which related to " mischievous and unlaw-
ful games called lotteries," and also to the preamble of
the 42d of George 111., cap. 119, which also related to
certain mischievous games or lotteries; and likewise to
the 6th and 7th of William IV., which referred to the
illegality of lotteries and tickets, and chances or throws
therein. He could not for a moment see how there
could be any doubt at all about the validity of the con-
viction, and he expressed a most confident expectation
that it would be sanctioned by the Bench.
The RECORDER—The question is, whether the Derby
sweep was a lottery and a gaming within the meaning of
the words expressed in the license.
Mr. RYLAND that was the question. He did not see how
the license could have been more essentially violated than
had been proved in the case of the appellant. The
tendency of those sweepstakes in a moral and pecuniary
point of view was most pernicious. It encouraged a
most dangerous spirit of gambling, and was calculated
to lead to loss in most cases, and to ruin in many; but
the publican was sure to be served, not only by obtaining
a considerable per centagn out of the sum subscribed,
but by an increase of trade, by means of the calamitous
temptation,

gr. LAURIE proceeded to argue upon the same
side. He contended that the case of Allport v. Nutt,
decided in 1845 before Lord Chief Justice 'Tindal, was
exactly in point, the only difference being that the
present case was much stronger. Effect must be
given to the words of general prohibition con-
tained in the 10th and 11th William IV., cap. 17, whch
I recited that " Several ill-disposed persons, for divers
years last past, had set up many misobievous and un-
lawful games called lotteries, and had thereby most un-
justly and fraudulently got to themselves great sums of
money from the children and servants of several gentle.
men, traders, and merchants, and from other unwary
persons, to the utter ruin and impoverishment of many
families, and to the reproach of the English laws and
Government by colour of several patents or grants under
the great seal of England for the said lotteries, or some
of them, which said grants or patents were against the
common good, trade, welfare, and peace of his Majesty's
kingdom; and for remedy thereof it is enacted, ad-
judged, and declared that all such lotteries are common
and public nuisances, and that all grants, patents, and
licenses for such lotteries, or any other lotteries, are
void and against law." The words he had quoted were
decisive of the illegality of the Derby sweep, which was
to all intents and purposes a lottery, and could not for a
moment be sanctioned after the decision upon the case
to which he had referred. Amongst the publicans wh o
were obedient to the laws the feeling was strong against
these sweeps.
The RECORDER--It appears that the only thing cer-
tain in Derby sweeps is, that each person must pay five
shillings.
Mr. LAURIE—There were more than 1,800 blanks out
of the 2,000 tickets; in fact, there was no one argument
of law or morality that did not completely discountenance
the practice which the decision of the magistrates had
condemned, and to the affirmation of which by the Bench
be looked with perfect confidence.
Mr. CLARKSON, for the appellant, argued that his
client had not committed any offence against the terms
of his license; the gaming referred to in that instance
not having any reference
sweeps, which, how-
ever unlawful they might
b eceornbsyidered by some to be,
matters which the
comprehended in the licensed
were not
victualler had in his license pledged himself to repudiate.
He considered that Derby sweeps were illegal within
the meaning of the Act against lotteries or little goes,
but he could not see that the conviction in the present
instance was sustainable, as it did not at all appear to
him that a racing sweep came within the terms of the
license.
The RECORDER considered that the conviction was
not liable to the objection which Mr. Clarkson had made
to it. He did not see how the arguments of the counsel
for the respondents could be evaded in deciding upon
such a case.
Mr.CLA.RKSON wished that the Recorder would give the
appellant an opportunity of applying to the Courts above
in a case of such great importance. One of the highest
authorities in Westminster Hall had given it as his
opinion that the case did not come within the meaning
of the words of the Act.
The RECORDER said be was desirous to give the ap-
pellant the opportunity, but unfortunately be could not
do so without quashing the conviction; a thing which he
could not conscientiously do.
Mr. CLARKBoN then made an objection to the form of
the conviction, but it was not considered tenable.
The RECORDER then affirmed the conviction, but said
that the decision would not at all affect the appellant as
to his license. His Lordship considered that the de-
fendant bad acted fairly in appealing in a matter of so
much importance to the trade; it would, however, be
dangerous for licensed victuallers to have any more lot-
teries
of the kind in their houses, as the magistrates
would unquestionably stop the license of any violator of
the law.

Mr. CLARKSON informed the Court that his client had
determined, whatever should be the result of this appeal,
never to have anything of the kind again in his house.
Mr. RYLAND and Mr. LAURIE spoke in terms of ap-
probation of the conduct of the appellant.
The penalty of 51. was then paid, and handed over to
the poor-box.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

Jonas Harris, formerly in the Guards, and in the A
division of police, from both of which forces he was dis-
missed for bad conduct, was brought before Mr. Bing-
ham, charged with having committed a robbery, attended
with violence, on Miss Catherine Bisset, a maiden lady,
residing at No. 11, Gloucester-terrace, Kensington.
Miss Catherine Bisset stated that on Friday after-
noon, about two o'clock, she was walking alone in Ken-
sington-gardens, and on passing one of the alcoves her
attention was attracted to a woman who appeared to be
dodging her steps. Not liking the appearanc ) of the
woman she increased her speed, with the intention of
seeking temporary protection in one of the keeper's
lodges. She had not proceeded further than the Mount
alcove when a man rushed out upon her, and, without
saying a word, felled her to the ground by a blow with
his fist between her shoulders. The robber then seized
her reticule, and tried to force it from her. Having a
large sum of money in it, she struggled with the priso-
ner, and for some time prevented him from taking it.
She screamed loudly for assistance, in the hope of at-
tracting the attention of the park-keepers, still retaining
hold of the reticule. The strings of the reticule at
length gave way, and the man ran off with the reticule,
dropping a cheque for 101. in his hurry to escape. The
reticule contained a cheque for 501. and e. small sum in
silver. As soon as she recovered she made the best of
her way to the keeper's lodge, and gave an account of
the robbery and also a description of the prisoner, she
having had a full view of him while engaged in the
struggle to save her reticule. Witness afterwards went
to the bankers', Messrs. Berries and Co., and stopped
the cheque. The prisoner at the bar was the man who
knocked her down and robbed her of her reticule.
Moses Benjamin, shopman to Mr. Myers, clothier,
Marylebone-lane, said, on Friday afternoon, about four
four o'clock, the prisoner came into the shop, and said

he wanted a suit of clothes about the value of 6/. The
prisoner fixed upon a suit of clothes, in payment of
which he offered a cheque for 50/. on Messrs. Herries and
Co. Witness asked him where he got the cheque from,
and the prisoner replied he had just received it from his
old mistress, in payment of his wages. Witness took
the cheque to Mr. Myers, who directed him to detain the
prisoner until he had been to the bankers to ascertain if
it was genuine. Witness did as he was directed, and in
a short time Mr. Myers came back with a police-con-
stable, who took the prisoner into custody.
Police-constable Hadley, 199 I), said he was on duty
at the station in Marylebone-lane on Friday afternoon,
when Mr. Myers called upon him and produced a 50/.
cheque, stating that ho had received it from a person then
in his shop, and that from what he had just heard at the
bankers he believed the cheque had been stolen. Witness
accompanied Mr. Myers to his house, and there saw the
prisoner, who, when questioned, gave such unsatisfactory
answers that witness conceived it to be his duty to take
him to the station-house. On searching the prisoner a
half-crown was found in his possession, and also a glove.
The parkkeeper found the fellow glove near where the
struggle had taken place.
Miss Bissett identified both gloves.
Policy-sergeant Whicher proved that the prisoner had
been in the police force, and had been discharged for
misconduct.

The prisoner said he would reserve his defence, and
was committed.

THAMES.

Ellen Leveret was brought before Mr. Ballantine,
charged with stealing seventeen sovereigns from Patrick
Sullivan, her father.

The prisoner. a dirty, noisy, dissipated woman, has
given much trouble to her father, who is an Irish ballast
getter, and by his industry and frugality saved a good
deal of money, the greater portion of which he indis-
creetly carried in his pockets, instead of investing it in
a savings-bank. On Friday afternoon, on the termina-
tion of a very hard day's work, he was annoyed by his
daughter, who demanded some money of him, and vowed
she would exterminate him if he did not comply with
her demands. The prosecutor said he would sooner
throw his money into the common sewer than give her
any, for he knew she would waste it, as she had done
before, in the gin shop, or a much worse place, and
to avoid her he ran out of his house. She followed
him, and, to use his own words " haunted him
up and down the streets, and bully-ragged him
for several hours." In despair ho again went home,
followed by his daughter, who used the most horrible
language, and declared she would not quit his dwelling
till she had some money. He gave her 25., and told her
not to let him see her again, and directly afterwards
pulled off an old waistcoat, the pockets of which con-
tained seventeen sovereigns. She immediately snatched
the garment off the dresser, where he had placed it, ab-
stracted the money, and ran away. In her haste she
dropped one of her pattens in the passage and another in
the street, and, although she was halt drunk at the time,
got away with the money. On the following morning
the prosecutor and his son, John Sullivan, traced the
prisoner to an Irish colony in the neighbourhood of Gray's
Inn-lane. She was found in bed " stone-blind drunk,"
and when she recovered her senses, she told her brother
she went home with a strange man in a cab, and he
robbed her of all the money she took from her father. She
afterwards told a police-constable, 88 G, that she had
not taken the sovereigns out of her father's pockets, and
that he gave her 25., and one of the pieces turned out to
be a sovereign. A quantity of pawnbrokers' duplicates
were found upon her, but no money.
Mr. BALLANTINE said the prisoner was a most aban-
doned and wretched woman, and committed her for trial.

George Grove, a young fellow late a footman in the
service of Mrs. Kemble, a lady of property residing in
Denmark-hill, Camberwell, was finally examined on a
charge of stealing and pawning a quantity of massive
family plate of the value of upwards of 1001., the property
of his mistress.

Nine different pawnbrokers produced the stolen pro-
perty, and some of them were severely reproved by the
magistrate for taking in such massive property having
a crest from a person they wore not in some instances,
able to swear to.

The prisoner was fully committed for trial.
SOUTHWARK.

Alexander Byers, an engineer, living at Dockhead,
was summoned before Mr. S. cker to show cause why he
refused to maintain his two illegitimate children, which,
with their mother, had become chargeable to the parish.
The complainant, rather a decent looking Scotch-
woman, with a baby in her arms, and another about
two years old at her feet, stated that about six years
ago she was married to a man named Mackintosh, at
Glasgow, but unfortunately, after living happily together
about a year, he was killed by falling off a scaffold while
assisting in building a new church at that place. After
the funeral she obtained service in a respectable family,
when she received 131. a year as wages. While in that
place she became acqu tinted with the prisoner, who
worked at a factory in Glasgow. After keeping com-
pany with her for some time, he contrived to seduce her
from the paths of virtue, and persuaded her to leave
Glasgow and accompany him to London, promising at
the same time to cherish her and keep her from want.
They lived together four years, the result of which was
the birth of the two children now with her. A short
time ago he got tired of her, and having married another
woman, he turned her and the children into the streets
to shift for themselves. She had since then made re-
peated applications to him for assistance, but he treated
her like a brute, telling her to go to the workhouse.
She was at last compelled to go to the latter place, or she
would have starved, as she had parted with everything
she possessed to purchase food.
The defendant here made an objection to the summons.
She had there stated her name to be Brackenbridge,
whereas now she called herself Mackintosh. He could
prove that her right name was Ferguson, as she was
married to a man of that name lately.
The complainant denied ever being married since
Macintosh died, or living with any other man but the
defendant. The reason she asked for the summons in
the name of Brackenbridge was because it was her
maiden name, and she thought she had no right to her
late husband's. Her name was certainly Macintosh.
Mr. SECKER said that the summons was certainly
made out wrong; but if the defendant liked, the name
could be altered, and the summons decided.
The defendant, in a very violent manner, exclaimed
that he did not care for the Bench or any person; the
summons was wrong, and he did not care a fig for it.
His conduct became so violent that the Magistrate or-
dered him to be locked up, and at a late hour another
summons was served on him for hearing another day.