The Sun.
London, England, 1856-02-25 00:00:00

COMMITTAL OF A CLERGY KAN FOR
RE-MARBYIIVG A COUPLE.

The Rev. R. M. Benson, M.A., student of Christ
Church College, Oxford, and perpetual curate of Cowley,
appeared on Saturday last before the county magistrates
at the County Hall, Oxford, at the instance of Mr. J. T.
Dobney, superintendent registrar of Oxford, to answer
the charge of haring married Richard Pinnell Carey and
Sarah Polley, his parishioners, without duly publishing
the banns or without any license. Mr. F. Moire' at-
tended as solicitor for the xeverend defendant.
From the evidence it appasrs that on the 23d of May,
1852, Richard Carey and' Sarah Polley were married at
the office of the superintendent registrar. By this mar-
riage these parties had three children, the two first being
twins. A month after the birth of the twins the woman
applied to be churched, but the defendant declined to do
until she bad been married according to the rites of
the Church of England. The result was that Carey and
his wife agreed to be re-married, and the ceremony was
performed by the Rev. Mr. Benson on the 3d of May,
1855, no banns having been published, nor any license
obtained.

The defendant, when called upon for his defence, ad-
mitted the facts as stated in the evidence, but considered
that he had done no more than was required of him NS a
clergyman, and that he had' neither violated the spirit
nor the letter of the law. He stated that he bad been
advised to defer his defence until a future opportunity.
The rev. gentleman was then fully committed to take
his trial at the next assizes, but was admitted to ball,
himself in 1001, and two sureties of 1001. each. The
Rev. J. Slatter and the Rev. Venables offered them-
selves as bail, and were accepted.
The proceedings caused great excitement. The ma-
gistrates' chamber was crowded by clergymen of the
high church party, and others anxious to hear the reiult
of the examination.

SHOCKING MURDER AT PORTSMOUTH,

A very shocking occurrence took place late on Friday
night at No. 15, Kettering-place, near the cemetery, in
the Mile-end•road, Portsmouth. The person whose life
has on this occasion been destroyed. was Amelia Ansell,
life of Wm. Ansell, who is a steward in the navy, and
recently returned to this country in the Albion, 90, on
board which ship he was captain's steward. It appears
that Ansell and the deceased had been out together on
Friday afternoon, and that sbe returned home earlier than
he did. Between IO and 11 o'clock a next door neighbour
heard Ansell and his wife quarrelling, and soon after, the
report of fire-arms. Some neighbours thereon went into
the house and found the unfortunate woman lying on the
floor quite senseless, and bleeding profusely from
the temple. Medical assistance wee; immediately pro-
cured, but death ensued in about an horn. The
police being informed of the tragedy, police-con-
stable Fendlon proceeded ..tcr-The home and took
Ansell into custody. "The latter told the constable
that it was an accident; he happened to have the pistol
in his hand and his wife touched the cock. He did
not know at the time whether it was cocked or not,
and that when it went off he was so overwhelmed that
lie did not hear the report. When he recovered himself
he saw the blood gushing from leer temple, and he put
out his arm and said, "Amelia, what have I done ?"
He ran down stairs, he said, to send for medical aid.
The ball entered just above the left temple, and lodged
between the right jaw-bone and right ear. But there
were some of the fingers of the left hand shot away, as
though the hand had been raised to protect the temple.
The prisoner was taken before the borough magistrates
on Saturday morning, but nothing transpired before
them, there being only a formal remand to (this day)
Monday. 'lt is rumoured that one of the neighbours
heard the deceased exclaim, just before the report of the
firearms was heard, "Oh, William, give me time to make
my peace." Deceased appears to have been in bed at the
time of the pistol being discharged. There does not ap-
pear to have been any premeditation on the part of the
prisoner, supposing the charge against him is true, for
himself and his wife bad arranged to take possession, on
Saturday, of a beer-house of which they had become
tenants. In the possession of the prisoner was found a
magnificent shrine, made of silver, and which had been
taken by some sailors from a church'at Kertch, and from
whom it had been bought by the prisoner.

ATTEMPTED MURDER AND BURGLARY
JR WALWORT.H.

Last night the inhabitants of Walworth were thrown
into a state of the greatest excitement, in consequence of
the perpetration of the following diabolical act :—Abont
8 o'clock in the evening a servant girl named Mary Con-
stable, aged about 19, in the service of Mr. Notch, ap-
pared at her master's door, No. 15 a, Sutherland-street,
South Sutherland-square, Walworth, with a gash in her
throat, from which the blood was flowing, crying out "I
am murdered, lam murdered !" Some persons passing
by called the police, several of whom, with Mr. Price
and Mr. Crisp, surgeonsiresiding in the neighbourhood,
were promptly on the spot, and the latter gentleman
examined the wound, which, though extensive, had for-
tunately not severed any of the principal arteries or
windpipe, but it was considered necessary for her to be
removed to St. Thomas's Hospital. The girl before her
removal made the following statement :—" That her
master and mistress had gene to church, and about 7
o'clock a ring came at the bell at the outer gate, and
upon her going to the door she found it open, and the
chain had been lifted up from the outside. Three per-
sons were there, who after some trifling remark rushed
into the passage, overpowered her, and before she could
give an alarm threw her down the kitchen stairs. A gag
.vac then put into her mouth, and then her face was
covered with a greatcoat. They left her in that condi-
tion, and then proceeded to rob the house. Atter which
they returned, and she commenced to struggle a great
deal to get free. One of them passed his arm round her
neck, and with something sharp cut her, inflicting a's)
a deep gash on her hand, which she had used to ward
off the knife. One of them-also gave her a violent kick
in the side, which rendered her insensible, in which
state she remained for rear an hour. The police, on
examining the premises, discovereq a skeleton
key in the lock of the door, and a knife belonging
to the house -Was found- in the kitchen covered
with blood. The brutal ruffians contrived to carry
away a Silver sugar basin and other valuable articles,
to what - extent has, of course, not at present been ascer-
tained. In consequence of the above daring affair extra
police have been placed on duty in the neighbourhood.

POPULARVY 01. BERANGEI3.—..4.t a recent copyright
trial in Pang, though the plaintiff, one 111. Vieillet, bad
sold 250,000 copies of " La Lisette" by Beranger, as let
to music by Berart, of which song he is the proprietor,
more than a million pirated copies of it had been dis-
pelled of.