The Sun.
London, England, 1851-06-12 00:00:00

EVENING, JUNIII l2, lB5l.

"At the expiration of the six days petitioner was
sentenced to be sent back to the refractory cell under
the same treatment, but the payment of money and the
dangerous state of his health prevented the sentence
from being carried into effect. From that period, as
the infirmary books will testify, petitioner never re-
covered his health, and he feels convinced that, had bis
imprisonment lasted a short time longer than the period
of his sentence, ho would never have quitted the prison
with life.

" Your petitioner therefore prays your Hon. House
to grant some investigation of the treatment to which
he was subjected, by which the authority of the judge
was superseded, by which the rules of the prison were
violated, the laws of the country broken, and by which
the health of the prisoner was ruined, and his life ina-
perilled—an investigation that may prevent similar in-
juries from being inflicted on other prisoners it future.
" And your petitioner, as in duty bound, will ever
pray, &c. " ERNEST CHARLES JONES."

IMPROVEMENTS AT BILLINGSGATE MARKET.—The
first po,tion of the new market, namely, the architectural
river front and shell-fish market, constructed on the site of
the old wet dock, is nearly finished, and will in the course of
a few days be opened. The river frontage extends from the
Custom-house-stairs to Dark-house-lane; it is in the Tudor
style of architecture, built of Dutch brick, with dressings of
Portland stone and granite, and consists of a central or
clock tower, two wing turrets with an intersecting colonnade,
having fifteen distinct river entrances. The bed of the old
dock is reached by a double flight of stone steps; here shell
fish will be exclusively sold, and its surface will be covered
with stalls for the sale of other kinds of fish. On the open-
ing of this portion of the market the removal of the houses
in Dark-house-lane will commence, in order to complete the
new market. Tha amount which the Corporation are ex-
pending in this important improvement is 22,000/.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, June 11.
(Before Mr. Commissioner FONBLANQUE.)
IN ES KEELS AND BISDEN.
The bankrupts, James Keele and Robert John
Bisdee, of 2, Riches-court, Lime-street, London,
merchants, came up upon the question of certificate.
The joint balance•sheet, commencing December 1,
1843, and ending January 9, 1851, shows the fol-
lowing :—Joint creditors, 10,8031.; ditto, holding
security, 10,1641.; capital, December 1, 1843, be-
longing to James Keele, 3791.; profits, 1,678/. ;
debtors, good, 1,0241. ; property in the hands of cre-
ditors holding security, 11,7111. ; property in the
hands of Beames and Co., 1,617. ; trade expenses,
4,310/. ; partnersWithdrawings—James Kee1e,2,148/. ;
J. 13uidee, 1,7101.; losses, 5001.
Mr. Lawrence appeared for Keele, Mr. Linklater
for Bisdee, and Mr. Alfred Jones, for the assignees,
opposed on the ground that new books had been pre-
pared, and that it was not satisfactorily proved that
they were correct copies of the old ones, which were
not forthcoming to vouch for the accuracy of the
new ones.

James Keels, examined by Mr. LAWRANCE—The
partnership ccmmenced in 1843. Kept books in the
usual way that merchants did. In 1847 it was dis-
covered that the books had been improperly kept.
Bisdee went to Sydney in July, 1847, to adjust some
accounts. When the new books were opened
every sum was copied from the old ones. There
was no reason for opening the new books except
the imperfect state of the old ones. Bisdee went
to New South Wales to obtain a settlement of a
balance due to the firm. Previous to Bisdee's
return mace an assignment for benefit of cre-
ditors. There was no beneficial result from Bisdee's
going to Sydney. The charges in the colony upon
consignmert were enormous-71 per cent., besides
other charges, amounting to 20 per cent., which
swallowed up all the profits.
Robert John Bisdee examined by Mr. LINKLATER
--Each partner was to put into the business 1,0001.
within a month of signing the partnership deed.
Keele kep; the bocks. Went to Sydney in July,
1847, to Eet money owing to the firm. Believed the
firm was solvent in 1847. When he returned from
Sydney fund that Keele had made an assignment.
The clerk they kept was not an efficient man.
Mr. LAWEANCE said it seemed that both these
gentlemen started together with a view to mutual
advantage; they had each to share in the responsi-
bility, and on the part of Keele there had not been
any attempt at concealment. The books had been
kept openly by a clerk, who, it appeared, was but
moderately paid, and that might account for their in-
accuracies. The question was, whether these gentle-
men had anything to be blamed for except trading in
a distant colony when the markets were falling. The
charge which affected the morale of the case more
than anything, viz., destroying the books, had been
abandoned. If there was any charge against the
bankrupts, it was that of imperfect bookkeeping. The
trading extended over a period of seven years, and no
creditor was there to make any complaint. The bank-
rupts had not traded either fraudulently or recklessly,
but it was from misfortune and unavoidable losses
that the failure had occurred, and he called upon his
honour to grant; first-class certificate.
Mr. LIISILLATZR said the story of Bisdee was an
unhappy one, but so far from avoiding the investiga-
tion, he courted ;t. tie had been to Sydney to col-
lect some accounts which were due ; he did all he
could, and was unsuccessful. The drawings of Bis-
dee during a perlod of eight years had been only
1,7001., and thatdacluded his drawing money for his
passage to Sydney. His drawings, in fact, had been
less than his fatter bad sunk in the concern. Mr.
Linklater, after (Ailing the attention of the Court to
the fact that no preference had been attempted to be
given to the fathtr of Bisdee, who had advanced the
money, asked foi a first-class certificate.
His Hosioua, b giving judgment, said that there
was certainly no fraud or concealment in the case
before him. But whatever was the state of trade in
New South Welts in the year mentioned, there was
ample time for tie bankrupts to have known the
state of trade in the colony, and to have conducted
their affsirs accordingly. He (the Commissioner)
must therefore consider that the bankrupts had acted
very improvidekly in making large consignments to
places when it as notorious that returns were at
all times difficult to obtain. In considering the cir-
cumstances of ttc case, his Honour said be thought it
was not a case here the bankruptcy was unavoid-
able, but that i, was occasioned by improvident
trading, the drayings being nearly double the gross
profits. He (03 Commissioner)* should draw some
slight distinctioi between the bankrupts, because it
appeared that Badee was abroad when the large con-
signments took )lace, therefore he considered he was
less blameable lan his partner. The certificates
would be of du second class ; that of Keele to be
suspended for six months, and that of Bisdee for three
months, with Protection.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MAZ-LBOROUGH-STREET'.
Joseph Grifiths, one of the Foot Guards, was
brought up los final examination, charged with
having violently assaulted the police.
Police-constable Gray was on duty in the park,
about ten o'clock on Monday last, when he heard the
cries of a woman for help. He ran to the spot, and
found the prisoner getting up from off a young wo-
man whom he had thrown on the ground and had
attacked with Ilse intention of committing a capital
offence. As ►oon as witness came up, the young
woman, who appeared to be a servant of a decent
class, cried oul, " Thank God, lam glad some one
has come to ay assistance." Witness proceeded to
take the soldit
r into custody, upon which five of his
comrades calm to his assistance and rescued him from
custody. Witness sprang his rattle. Another constable
named Pritchard -came up and was kicked severely
by the prison's. The prisoner took off his belt and
struck furioudy right and left, injuring the other
constable severely with the brass ornament. The
young woman Made her escape as soon as witness
went in pursuit of the prisoner after he had been
rescued by hi' Comrades.
Police-conlable Jones said, he met the constables
in Piccadilly ;eking the prisoner to the station-house.
As soon as tht prisoner saw him he rushed forward
and gave hiss a dreadful kick on the lower part of
his person, D. 9 which severe injuries had been
sustained.
Police-sergeant Pritchard, who had been unable to
attend at the first examination in consequence of the
violence he bed sustained, now stated that on bearing
the first witness spring his rattle he went forward
and found the constable engaged in a violent struggle
with the prisoner. He attempted to give assistance,
but was immediately knocked down. After a violent
struggle, in which witness was severely kicked, the
prisoner was overpowered and taken to the station-
house. On :he way to the station-house the prisoner
threw himse f down and inflicted a kick on witness,
which had ol'liged him to keep his bed for a day or
two.

The prisoner, who received a good character from
his sergeant, made no defence.
Mr. BINGJAY said, there was very little doubt that
the prisoner would have perpetrated a dastardly out-
rage on the young woman, but for the fortunate in-
terference of the police. The prisoner had then pro-
ceeded to commit a violent assault on the constables,
one of whom had been so injured as to be obliged to
keep his room. The case was one which called for
a severe example, and he should therefore send the
prisoner to the House of Correction for two months.
WORSHIP-STREET.
Lucy Macdonald, a well-dressed woman but of dis-
sipated appearance, was charged at the instance of the
parish officers of Stepney with ,scandalously neglect-
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ing and otherwise cruelly ill-treating three children,
who had been placed under her care by their f athor,
the warder of the gaol at Dartmouth, in Devorishiro.
It appeared from the evidence that for a c, wind en-
able time past the neighbourhood of the prison, sea re-
sidence, in Queen-street, Cambridge-road, Mile-end,
has been in a state of much excitement in consei luence
of rumours that the prisoner was in the hi 'bit of
most cruelly treating three children placed under
her charge, one of whom, a little girl eight y, jars of
age, bad been lately seen in the street covered
with nothing but rags, both her eyes swolle n and
contused, and other parts of her person pre-
senting manifest indications of having been recently
subjected to extreme personal violence. The ex cite-
ment at length rose to such a pitch that the attei ition
of the police was attracted to a mob of about 200
persons collected round the house, who displayeil the
greatest exasperation against the prisoner, calling her
a second Mrs. Sloane, and declaring that they wculd
burst open the door and tear her to pieces. In non-
sequence of these violent demonstrations a comcuu-
nication was forwarded to Sergeant Smith, of the K
division, who proceeded at once to the office of Mr.
Seaborne, the relieving overseer, who accompanied
him to the prisoner's house, and on entering a rotsm
on the ground floor they found Henry Brooks, the
eldest boy, and his sister Catherine, with a younger
boy, five years of age, and an illegitimate child be-
longing to the prisoner herself, all of whom presented
the most filthy and wretched appearance, having
scarcely anything upon them to cover their skirls ;
and it was elicited upon questioning the first three
children that their father had left them under the care
of the prisoner about nine months previously, when
he was appointed to his situation at Dartmouth, but
that he had regularly remitted to the prisoner from
17s. to 1/. per week for their maintenance. They
stated, however, that the principal food the pri-
soner gave them was dry bread and a little tea, and
that the prisoner was in the habit of cruelly beating
them, sometimes with the wooden roller of a blind,
and sometimes with an instrument which the children
called a heavy stick, but on its being pointed out to
tbe officer he found it to be the bottom bar of a window
frame. The little boy also stated that he had like-
wise another brother about ten years old, who had
been so cruelly beaten by the prisoner a few months
before that he watched for an opportunity of escaping
from the house, ran away, and he had neither seen
nor heard of him since. The appearance of all the
children indicated that they were nearly in a state of
starvation, and the youngest child was in such an
emaciated condition as to resemble a perfect skeleton.
Having ascertained that the prisoner was in a room
upstairs, he (the sergeant) proceeded there, and found
her lying upon a bed in a state of such helpless intox-
ication that they had some trouble in getting her down
to the lower part of the house, where, in consequence
of the threats of the infuriated mob surrounding the
place, it was necessary to remove her through an ad-
joining house in the custody of a person in plain clothes,
or she would certainly have been subjected to severe
personal violence. The sergeant added, that he had
ascertained from the eldest of the children, who com-
plained that he bad not tasted animal food for a fort-
night, that the woman had no excuse for her inhuman
conduct on the ground of poverty, as she had within
that period received a draught for 4/. 10s. from the
father of her illegitimate child, an officer in the army
stationed with his regiment at Malta, in addition to
the usual remittance of 17s. per week from their father.
(The sergeant produced the window-bar referred to
by the children, which was a piece of wood about
three feet in length, three or four inches in width, and
of proportionate thickness.)
The three children, who had been taken under the
care of the parish officers, were brought into court
clothed in decent apparel furnished by the union au-
thorities, and the youngest child, five years old, being
exhibited to the magistrate, his half-starved and atten-
uated appearance excited a feeling of indignant commis-
seration in every one present. To prove that this was not
the natural condition of the little creature a certificate
was handed up to the bench from the medical officer of
the workhouse, stating that it was not labouring under
any disease, but that the deplorable condition it pre-
sented was solely the result of the gross neglect or
ill-treatment to which it had been subjected.
Henry Brooks, the eldest, a boy stated to be 15, an
' intelligent but diminutive little fellow, was then ex-
amined, and stated that at the time his father was
obliged to go into the country, leaving them in the
care of the prisoner ; they were all provided with
comfortable and sufficient clothing, but that his aunt,
who was in the habit of drinking very much, pawned
the whole of their clothes in a very short time after.
They were in consequence kept closely confined
indoors, and his little brother, from want of clothing,
had not been out of doors for at least five months.
They were chiefly fed upon bread and weak tea, and
when they did have meat, it was never more than once
a week. The boy added, that after enduring this
treatment as long as be could, he availed himself of an
opportunity of secretly writing to his father, to ap-
prise him of the prisoner's conduct towards them, in
consequence of which he immediately wrote to the
prisoner cn the subject, but since then, to use the
boy's own expression, " she has treated us worse and
drunk more than ever."
Several other witnesses, neighbours of the prisoner,
were in court, and displayed much anxiety to give
evidence in the case; but
Mr. HAststrer. did not consider it necessary to hear
them at present, as he had made up his mind to re-
mand the case for a week, and requested the relieving
overseer to submit the matter to the consideration of
the board of guardians, as he regarded it as a fit case
to be taken in hand and prosecuted at the expense of
the parish.
Mr. Seaborne expressed his intention to immedi-
ately do so, and the prisoner, who offered no obser-
vations upon the facts detailed against her, was ac-
cordingly remanded for a week.
LAMBETH.
James Manning, a well-dressed young fellow, who
described himself as a servant out of place, was
placed at the bar on Tuesday last, before Mr.
Elliot, on a charge of defrauding, in concert with
two others, Mr. Richard Anderson, a clerk of the
Gloucester Bank, Gloucester, of four sovereigns, a
silver watch and gold guard chain, at Vauxhall-gar-
dens on Monday night.
From the lengthened statement of Mr. Anderson
it appeared, that on Monday evening he was stand-
ing on Hungerford-pier, when he was accosted by
the prisoner, who asked if he knew when a boat would
start for Vauxhall, saying be was going to Vaux-
hail-gardens. Witness replied that he did not
know, nor did he know where Vauxhall-gardens
were. A boat just then came alongside the pier
for Vauxhall, and the prisoner and himself got on
board, and ultimately went to the gardens. Here
the prisoner met with a man who appeared to be
Ilan acquaintance, and with whom he shook hands,
and they all then sat down in one of the
boxes to have some refreshments. While there
a third man came up, and asked if the box was
engaged, and the prisoner replied that it was, but
that at tbe same time they could make room for him.
This person, who affected to be a stranger to all, sat
down, and said the cause of his anxiety to sit there
was that on the previous night he had given Si. to a
woman whom he had met in the gardens to purchase
a shawl, and that she had promised to meet him in that
very box on that night. The prisoner soon after pro-
posed to toss with this person for cigars, and then for
money, and, having lost three sovereigns to him,
turned to the prosecutor and asked him for some mo-
ney to go on with, saying, he knew a " new dodge"
by which he cnuld win his money back. The prose-
cutor, through his persuasion, first lent the prisoner
one sovereign and then throe, and when the strange
man had won all, the prisoner, in a whisper, repeated
that he was up to a new dodge by which he must win
the money back again, and induced the prosecutor to
stake his watch and chain for 201. The toss for these
articles was soon over, and they were as soon con-
signed to the pocket of the lucky winner of the
sovereigns, who told the prosecutor he could
have his property back any time he chose
to call at his residence in Tavistock-square,
the number of which he gave. The for-
tunate winner left the box, for the purpose, as he
said, of ordering a choice bottle of wine at the bar,
but forgot to return. The second man, who acted as
a stakeholder, also sneaked off, and the prisoner made
a desperate effort to get away, but the prosecutor
cried out " Stop thief," when he ran away, and was
secured by Sergeant Hughes, who was on duty in the
gardens.

The prosecutor was subjected to a rigid cross-ex-
amination by Mr. Games, the prisoner's attorney, in
the course of which he admitted he bad won a shilling
by betting while the tossing was going on. He did not,
he said, join the prisoner in tossing. The prisoner
gambled on his own account, and the prisoner did not
tell him how he was to get his money back if the pri-
soner lost. The prisoner told him that the man who
won his watch and chain would give his address, and
the latter said he resided in Tavistock-square.
Sergeant Hughes deposed to having apprehended
the prisoner, and found on him twenty shillings i▪ n
silver, and some copper money. He looked after hi▪ s
companions, but did not succeed in finding them.
The prisoner was remanded for a week.

GRAY'S INN, JUNE 11, 1851.—The annual exami-
nation in law instituted by this society took place in the
hall on Thursday and Friday, the sth and ith instant, and
the following is the class list of the successful candidates
for honours on that occasion, which was published this
evening in the presence of the benchers and members of
other inns of court : - 1. Mr. William Fowler, of the Inner
Temple; 2. Mr. Oliver Claude Pell, of Lincoln's Inn; 3.
Mr. Edward Samuel Dale, of Lincoln's Inn ; 4. Mr. Richard
William Fisher, of Lincoln's Inn, Mr. Horace Townsend,
of Lincoln's Inn, 2Eq. ; Mr. Leonard Field, of the Inner
Temple, Mr. Joseph Napier Higgins, of Lincoln's Inn,
lnn
consisting ie
onfl
'Eq.; 6. Mr. John Lindsey Reed, ofPritzhee,
7. Mr. David Kitcat, of the Inner Temple, pan George
y of the Inner Temple, /E q. Mr. Fowler receivedeforregme
the lecturer, Mr. W. D. Lewis, his
complete set of tlio Eeporta of Ve4ey, jaw (20
9r Yolvizies).

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.
OXFORD, JUNE 11.
THE CLASS LIST.—EASTER TERN.
IN LITER'S HUMANIORIBUS.
CLASS I.
Bailey, Alfred, Christ Church.
Chitty, Joseph G., Balliol College.
Falcon, Robert S., Queen's College.
Furneaux, Henry, Corpus Christi College.
Gardiner, Samuel R., Christ Church.
Lea, Frederick S., Wadham College.
Riddin, George, Balliol College.
Rogers, Benjamin, Wadham College.
Sanford, Charles W. Christ Church.
Watson, Albert, Wadham College.
CLASS IL
Bull, Charles M., University College.
Caldicott, John G., Jesus College.
Church, Alfred J., Lincoln College.
Cure, Edward C., Balliol College.
Day, Starling G., Wadham College.
Firth, George A., Christ Church.
Joyce, Francis H., Christ Church.
Leigh, Cholmeley A., Trinity College.
Pope, Edwin, University College.
Trinder, Daniel, Exeter College.
Tyler, George G., Christ Church.
Welby, William E., Christ Church.
Wood, John R., Christ Church.
CLASS 111.
Adams, Coker, New College,
Alexander, David M., Brusenose College.
Arnaud, Henry 8., Christ Church.
Becgough, John C., Oriel College.
Bonner, Arthur T., Lincoln College.
Buttonshaw, John, Corpus Christi College.
Campbell, Thomas H., St. John's College.
Clay, Charles J., University College.
Collier, Charles H., Oriel College.
Dangerfield, John H., S:. Mary Hall.
Edwards, David, Christ Church.
Feilden, Henry A., St. Alban Hall.
Heaven, Hudson G., Trinity College.
Hichens, Richard, Exeter College.
Hill, Thomas 8., Wadham College.
Kennedy, Alexander M., Exeter College.
Macnamara, Henry, Lincoln College.
Mills, Charles H., Christ Church.
Nutt, Charles H., Magdalen College.
Price, John, Jesus College.
Rennison, Thomas, Queen's College.
Rowcliffe, Henry, St. John's College.
Whately, Arthur P., Christ Church.
Wilgress, George F., Exeter College.
Wood, William, Trinity College.
Woodward, Lionel M., Oriel College.
CLASS IV.
Browne, William S., Pembroke College.
Cholmeley, Charles H., Magdalen College.
Darby, Jonathan G. N., Christ Church.
Dixon, John IL, Queen's College.
Hamber, Thomas, Oriel College.:
Hayden, John, Trinity College.
Kemp, John C., Balliol College.
Lodge, Samuel, Lincoln College.
Marriott, Richard W., Lincoln College.
Monkhouse, Joseph R., St. Alban Hall.
Musgrave, Charles 8., Christ Church.
Parry, Henry H., Balliol College.
Ridgway, James, Lincoln College.
Ross, Alexander H., Christ Church.
Stedman, John, Pembroke College.
Stirling, Waite H., Exeter College.
Walker, James R., Christ Church.
Wright, William, St. John's College.
HENRY B. WILSON,
WILLIAM LIN WOOD,
Examiners.
BENJAMIN JO WET T,
GEORGE BUTLER,
MERTON COLLEGE.
Mr. William Henry Kerslake, 8.A., and Mr. Charles
Savile Currer, 8.A., of Balliol College, were this day
elected Fellows of Merton.
Trinity, or Act Term, begins to•morrow.

CAMBRIDGE, JUNE 11.
At a congregation holden this day the following de
green were conferred:—

D.D.
Matt. Wilkinson, Clare Hall.
B.D.

Rowland Wißlame King's College.
James Rickards, Sidney College.
LL.B.
C. H. Wood, Christ's College.
M.B.
• Septimus Gibbon, Clare Hall.
Robert Martin, Caus College.
LICENTIATE IN MEDICINE.
Edward Burd, Caius College.
B.A.
Edward Sweto Cumminson, Christ's College.
BARNARY LECTURERS.
The under-mentioned gentlemen were appointed:—
Mathematios--Mr. R. Luard, Trin. College.
Philosophy—Mr. J. S. Perowne, Corpus College.
Rhetoric—Mr. C. S. Drake, Jesus College.
Logic—Mr. J. P. Birkett,
At the same congregation it was agreed to allow Mr.
George West Piggott, of St. Peter's College, to proceed
to a degree in medicine, ho having inadvertently omitted
to give the usual notice to graduate in that faculty.
COLLEGE EXAMINATIONS.
TRINITY HALL.
CANDIDATES FOR MATHEMATICAL HONOURS.
SENIOR SOPHS. JUNIOR SOPIIS.
Clark. Tearle—priae.
Holden. Weston.
Tulk. Morris.
Salisbury.
.DINARY DEGREE.
Wynne.
Bowers Absent.
Skipper

MEN.

)rm Examinations.
I Marston.
I Maitland.

Gibbons.

Headley.
'ululation only.
Inge }
Orpen )It,grot.