The Sun.
London, England, 1851-08-15 00:00:00

UNIVERSITY OF LONDON.

FIRST EXA`IINATION FOR THE DEGREE OF
BACHELOR OF MEDICINE, 1851.
FIRST DIVISION.
Brigg',, Henry—University Coll, ge.
Carpenter, Alfred—St. Thomas's Hospital.
Carter, Henry Vandyke—St. George's Hospital.
Ekin, James —University College.
Evens, Evan—University College.
Flower, William Henry—University College.
Gould, John Henry—University College.
Hillier, Thomas—University College.
Money, Frederick John—St. Thomas's Hospital.
Musiiet, William Boyd—University College.
Piayne, Alfred— King's College.
Josiab—Guy's Hospital.
Hobbs, William Elward— King's College.
Roberts, William—University CoPege
Roche, James Martin—University College.
Tunzelmsnn, Julius Woldemer dc—University College.
Winter, John Newnham—Gily's Hospital.

SECOND DIVISION.
Barker, Walter Goodyer—bondun Hospital.
Clarke Er College.
Doubleday, Janows—Guy's Hospital.
Evans, Charles Reeves—University College and Paris.
Franks, Henry James—Queen's College, Birmingham.
Grundy. R.)bert —Univer.ity College.
King, Henry Stavely Thaddeui—Kiug's College.
Langford, William—King's College.
Rob,rts, Elias Junee—Richmond 11)spital, Dublin.
Wilkinson, Riehavd—Kinv's 04)11e.ge.

THE BISHOPS AND THEIR REVENUES.
The tollowing letter has b-en addressed to the
editor of the Harrowgate Herald :

" Sir,—l h see read a leading article in your paper of
Wednesday, July 30, containing some observations re-
flecting up to myself; and as I evidently perceive that
they are written in no hostile spirit, I am sure you will
be glad to insert the following remarks, which will dissi-
pate the erroneous impressions you have conceived from
the imperfect statement of the Morning Herald.
" That paper, it seems, has published • a scheme of the
English bishoprics, as settles in the year 1837' (it should
be by the Act of August, 1836) • with the respective in-
comes then aieigned to them,' and adds a list of t evenues
received by the Archbishops and Bishops in 1850, leaving
parties to infer that they may ascertain from the sums
thus set down for that year what is the real annual in-
oome of each see. But herein lies the fallacy of this
statement; it does not include the words of the Act of
August. 1836, which assigns certain • average annual
income's' to the Bishops; it does not state that these
averages are to be drawn up at the end .if every seven
years, the income of each year being flectu sting and
uncertain; it does not give the least intimation that ail
conclusions as to the aversee annual income of an Arch-
bishop or Bishop drawn from the sum ne may chance to
have received in 1850 must needs be erroneous; nor
does it take any notice of the fact that the sums it has
set do wn for 1850 are the gross, and not the net revenues
of the respective sees for that year.
" The following facts relative to the revenues of the
see of Ripon will illustrate what I mean. On the first
creation of that see, in the year 1836, the Ecclesiastical
Commissioners arranged that one-halt of the income of
the Bishop should arise from a fixed Annual payment,
the other halt depending upon the fluctuating produce 01
estates, not yielding regular annual income, but such
returns only as might accrue from time to time from the
renewal of leases for years, and leases for lives. Those
estates being chargeable with exeieneive annual repairs
of staiths and fleodgwes on the river Humber; with the
payment of certain fees to officers connected with the
see of Dirham (from which those estates were severed).
who held their office,' by patent; as well as with the
cost of all surveys and veleatiens incident to each re-
newel, were calculated to produce such an average sum,
after the payment of these charges, as would make up
by the end of every seven years the amount assigned to
this see by Act of Parliament. No surplus was antici-
pt'ed, as there was in the cases of the sees of Ely and
St. Aeaph; and therefore no surplus was required to be
paid to the Commissioners, as in the instance of those
sees. The earlier years of the septennial cycle, accord-
ing to this fluctuating arrangement, having been compa-
reto be expected that the
latter
1850, would exceed the average,
t. v e ly
yens,unproductive,
including t w 55
and thus make up the defietency in the form.ir years
When, however, the balance eas struck at the end of
the year 185 d, the average net income of the see fir the
of several huedred peueda, as the
r
Herald might him-
self have known, if he would have taken the trouble to
showede r preceding
of a
thseev sernt deficiencyi
years not only yielded no surplus, but
lye in the A/ Geeing
look through the whole balanceesheet from which he
made that partial extract.
o you will now therefore see that there was no ground
for the reflections upon myself in which you indulged,
and will be glad, in justice to him whom you have un
consciously misrepresented, to publish this letter, which
will dissipate the erroneous and unfavourable impression
iticlned°oE July 30.
obedient servant,
produced
ulamby,
Sir,you soar
oleuardtianigthaturil
"C. T. RIPON.

"Palace, Ripon. Aug. 7 "

SEABORNE MAILS.,
elgnitlea that the malls are cent &eta the General Poet-Oftet
by the night—and M by the morning --41i4enteb•1

When wade up in From wual.
PLACES. (General Post-oelce port die. Wben
London. patched. due.
America (by Brit. pkt.) N Aug. 15 .. TLiverpeel • • Attr. 17
America (by U.S: pkt.) N Aug. 19 I Liverpool Aug. 13
America (by U.S. pkt.) M Aug 27 gouthampt. Aug. 41
Africa ( West coast).. N 14th of the month Plymouth Sept. 6
Alexandria* • ....... N 19th & 30th of mo. Dover .. Aug id
Belgium • • .. •. N Daily .. .. . Dover .. Daily
Brazil M 9th of the month Southampt. Sep .16
Buenos Ayres •• 31 9th of the month Southampt Sept. 16
Califonda(viaChagres)M & 17th of montl Southampt. Aug. 20
Cape of Good Hope N 14th of month Plymouth.. Se. t. 6
Constantinople* .. N 7th 17th 27th of inn Dover .. Aug. 20
Central America .. 3d 'ld & 17th of mon. Southampt. Aug. 10
Channel Liles N Mon., Wed., & Fri. Southarnpt. Ts. Th.Ba
Chili M 17th of the mouth Southampt. Aug. 20
France .. M& N Twice daily .. Dover
Greece* N 7th 17th 27th ef ino Dover • • A.ug .20
Hamburgh N Tuesday & Friday London .. Tees. Sat.
Holland Wednes. & satur. Louden ..
Honduras .. . N 17th of the mouth Southampt. Aug. 20
Ireland .. & N Twice daily Holyhead .. Tvemiall)
India (via Southamp.) M 20th of the month Southampt. Aug. 23
India ( viaM arsenics) N,7thdt 24th efmonth Dover • • Auy. 17
Mediterranean (via
Southampton) • • M,2oth of the month Southampt. Aug. 23
Mediterranean (via
Marseilles) 7th& 24th of month Dover • • Aug. 17
Mexico .. M2d of the month.. Sonthampt. Sept 5
Madeira......sl9th of the month Sol
Duthovaemr pt.
ASeugpt..
ills
f 7th,l7th,l2th,d7th
Malta* • • • • & 30th of month
Naples* . 17,5 th 15th 26th of mo Dover • • Aug. 22
Papal States.* 21'5th 15th 25th of mo Dover .. Aug. 12
Peninsular.. .. M 7th 17th 27th of mo Southampt. Aug. 26
Peru 417th of the month Southampt. Aug. 20
Tuscany* N sth Ibth 25th of mo Dover .. Aug 21
West Indies M 17th of the moath Southampt, Aug. 20
West Indies (except
Havanna & Nassau) Bf 2d of the month .. Southampt. Sept. 5
. .

I2d of the month —lSouthampt. Sept.( 5
ountries thus marked (*) are conveyed by
Illes
and from California, oia the United >/tates
mne hr every American packet.
a

.0 The malls to those c
French packet VA Marge'
CALITORNIA.—MaiIa to
Are now despatched and d

The neat West India 1
the morning of the Itith
en a Sunday.

id Penin-ular mail. will be made ap on
Institut, in consequence of the lith falling

SUPPLY OF GAS TO THE MET ROPOLIS. Few
things show
more forcibly the effect of free and unrestrained
competition than the reduction which has recently been made
Ihe price of gas by all the great metropolitan gas com-
panies. But a short time since the general price at which
gas was supplied throughout London was 9s. per 1,000 feet.
At this moment it is just half, or 4s. 6d. per 1.000 feet—a
rate which enables every householder to obtain artificial
light at a very considerably less cost than tallow candles,
and, of course, when eompared with other kinds of candles,
as wax or stearine, the saving in favour of gas is greater.
This reduction has been obtained for the public chiefly in
consequence of the proceedings of a new
which obtained an Act on the condition of supplying gas at
4s. per 1.0 0 feet, and is now carrying out this condition in
a bona fide manner. gas company,
POOR.. LAW RELlEF.—According to a return to the
House of Commons printed yesterday, the number of paupers
in the receipt of relief on the Ist of July, 850, was 831,760,
and on the Ist of July last 813,089, sh.)wing a decrease of
18,6914 •Of able•bodied paupers the decrealo in the oslllo
.period wne 7,903,

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.
OxbionDClßCUlTl—Gloucester, Aug 13

CRONN
.(1()Ul3, r.—(E.l,..fore Mr. Liiron MARTIN.)

'James Adams, 32. a t d!, geollem4uly-lo,,king
and Elizabeth Williamq, 23, a tolerably good•looking
young WOO3lll, were cnirged with forging wid uttering
an order for the delivery of g.iods in the name of L )rd
Villiers, with intent to defraud one John Lane, at Ciren-
cester.

Mr. Cripps conducted the prosecution, and Mr. Hod-
dlestone she deteuce.

On the 21st of May Mr. Lane, who is a grocer mad
elector at Cirencester, of which town Lord Viiliers is
representative, received a letter, signed " Villiers," re.
questing him to send to him, at his London address, 41,
North-street, Manchester-square, a side of Gloucester-
shire bacon as good as he had, and, if he bad not a
good one, ri-questing him to procure one, and adding:—
" My constituents complain ot my not dealing with them;
but if I could procure this g• as good at Cirencester as I
do in London, I should get everything from my consti-
tuents." Mr. Lane, on receiving this letter, procured im-
mediately and sent off a first-rate aid, of baeon
by the Great Western Railway. Oa the 221 ot
May the prisoner called on a Mr. Fish-r, a tailor,
who lived at No. 40, North-street, Manchester—quare,
and who knew him formerly as a tailor, and asked
him to take in pare is and letters for him. He said
they would be addressed in the name of Villiers He
called again on the same evening, and upon the day
following. On the Saturday (lie 25th) a letter came,
but was not taken. He said the parcels would contain a
side of bacon and a gold watch. Mr. Fisher asked him
why he got the letters and parcels addressed to him in
the name ot Villiers? end he said it was because he did not

like the old man (his fattier) to kn 'w wnere he was. On
the 23d Williams called and asked whether any letters or
parcels bad come for Lora' Villiers? Adams never
mentioned Lord On the Saturday the Great
Western Railway Company's waggon came, and the
driver raised a side a bacon out and took it to No. 41.
North street, the house of a Mr. Dindo, who said se
knew nothing of Loru Villiers, and would have nothing
to do with it, and made the driver take it back. Mr.
Fisher met Adams the same day, and told him that he
bad seen a Great We stern Rsilwey Compacq's waggon
bring up a side of bacon to No. 41, and take it away
again; whereupon Adams said, "I must look after it."
Mr. Fisher said the prisoner Williams never called at
his house together with Adams, but heard that she %via
with him as his wife. In the course of that day
Adams called at the house of a person named Parker,
living in . William-street, St. Luke's, end wanted
to burrow a few shillings to pay for the carriage
of a side of bacon, which had come to him
from a person named Lane, but having
been carried to a wrong number, was taken back to the
station. When the prisoners were arrested Williams
said to Adams, in the presence of the constable, " Yon
know that you wrote those 1-tiers and sent me for the
things," to which Adams replied, " Hold your tongue;"
and she then added, "You know you told me the things
were to come from your father." Williams cried much,
and was heard by another constable saying to Adams,
"I told you all along not to write these Liters; but 3ou
told me your father would set all right." The next
morning Adams asked B-wles, a policeman of Cirene s-
tar, if he thought his father and Mr. Lane would make
it up, and requested him to go to his father and persuade
him to go to Mr. Lane and make it up. Bowles said be
could nut intertere. Tne prisoner then asked if he
would be allowed to write a letter, and being told that
he could do so, he wrote two letters, one to Mr. Lane
and the other to his father. In the letter to Mr. Lane

he begged of him to go and see his father, and in the
letter to his father he oegged of him to see Mr. Lane.
One witness, who saw Adams write once, about three
years ago, swore that the I.tiel• was in his handwriting
At the close of the case tor the prosecution, his Lord
ship said there was no case against Williams, and di-
reced her to be Acqu.tted; Adams was found Guilty.
There were two other indic:ments for similar trans-
actions against the prisoners, but on these no evidences
was offervd, and Williams was declared Not Guilty. It
was not thought necessary to proceed upon them against
Adams.

His LORDSHIP, in passing sentence, said —James
Adams, you have been convicted on the clesrest 'possible
evult-uce of the crime of forgery. No one who has heard
the evidence can have any doubt that you wrote, or pro
cured some one else to write, that letter for the purpose
of defrauding Lord Villiers or Mr. Lane. You probshly
thought that Lord Villiers would make good his loss to
Mr. Line, and that no steps would be taken against you.
You are a man of good education, you write well, and
express yourself very well; end you must know that the
law of Eugland attaches great importance to the eenuine
[less of documents respecting property. When it is
considered what an enormous amount of property is re•
presented in this country by written documents, it is
obvious that the law must take care to preserve them
from forgery; and for a very long time it punished with
death forgeries much lest serious than yours, and per-
sons were over and over again executed in dczens and

doz-ns. The law was lstely mitigated, but still the
judge was left no discretion, but to transport for 1 fe.
However, very recently some more discretion was al
lowed, and that discretion Iwm now about to exercise.
I will not transport you for life, but you must leave thi.
country for a long period. You best know how you have
been conducting yourself in other countries. You arm
others must know that if they choose to violate the law
it will bs sure to ovvraike them. The sentence is, that
you be transp .rted for ten years._

It was aajo that the (4fic-ers of the prison had re-
ceived some documents from the French police to shoe
thar the prisoner had been convicted of pickiug pocket*.
ILI Frinee.

Edmund Curtis. 29, a labourer, was indicted for the
nvinslaughter of hii wile, Hester Curtis, on the sth of
April last.
Mr. Mecnamara was counsel for the prosecution, and
Mr. Cooke fur the defence.
Jane Anne Wilkes said—l am the wife of Henry
Wilkes, who keeps the White Lion public-house at St.
Mary's, near Gloucester. I knew Hester Curtis, ant
employed her as a charwoman. She was at my h'euse
on the sth of April. Her husband (the prisoner) caries
in the evening, She spoke to him, desiring him to come
home. He refused. She said " His place was al
home;" and he said, " So is yours." They then both
left the room. It was then twenty minutes before seven.
He was not particularly angry. He was sober.
After they had lett the house-:-about three minti
after—l heard a violent shriek. I went out and saw
tier lying across a low iron railing in my garden.
bad hold of her over the lel% shoulder with his right
hand, and was striking her on the head with his clinched
tier. When I got out the shtick had ceased. I hearts
no noise atter. I told him ne would kill her if be had
not done so, and desired him. to louse her. Ile did not
do so. I called out William Kirkland, who pulled him
from her, and she fell on her left side en the ground.
apparently lifeless. I told him he bad killed her. I
:ailed assistance. She was lifted up and put on a chair.
Sne fetched three sighs and died. She never spoke after
I saw her. The doctor was sent for.
Cross-examined—When she was carried into the par-
lour be knelt down by her. He had been working in
my garden that day. I told him he owed me 69. 8d
He bail he had a charge of 41. for two days' work
against me. I refused to pay more than Is. 81. a day.
She came up. and was there while we wrangled about
the wages. This talk was going on about three minute,.
Tney both left immediately. I did not see her hold
him by the collar. I heard her say nothing about his
drinking.
Mr. Alfred Clarke, a surgeon, practising in Glouces-
ter, proved that he was called in Le attend the cl.ceasen
at the White Lion. bhe died in ten minutes. He mad,
a post mortem examination, and found bruises on the
head, which caused an extensive effusion of blood on the
br in and spinal marrowe which was the cause of death
Cross-examined--When she was brought in he knelt
down and cried. The skin on her head was not broken.
The prisoner offered to make an explanation respecting
the transaction, but I would not listen to him, as I
thought he ought to be cautioned before he made any
sta,etnent.
Mr. Cooliti said be could not struggle against a con-
viction, and would give :he jury CO trouele.
They at once returned a verdict of Guilty.
Mr. CooKE then said that the statement which the
prisoner wished tit make to the surgeon was, that as
they left the White Lion she upbraided him and spat in
his face, and that he thereupon used his fist and struck
her, and she got over the rails. It did not appear that
she received any severe blew, and it was because the
skin was not cut that the effusion of blood proved fatal,
as the vessels could obtain no fromreliusafel
. the effusion
consequent on the excitement of a quarrel.
In answer to his LORDSHIP, the prisoner said he had
one child.
His LORDSHIP, in passing sentence, said—The facts
show that you iiidu,ged in a very violent degree of pas-
sion. Some sharp words took place between you and
your wite, and I can very well believe that you did not
mean to kill her. Nothing, however, can jus-ity a man
in striking a woman. No doubt when this result oc-
curred you were sincerely sorry fir it. I think, in con-
sidering all the circumstances, I can satisfy the justice
of the case by
sentencing you to be imprisoned for six
calendar months, and kept to hard labour.
John Aston, aged 28, was indicted for the men-
slaughter of James Chamberlain on the 7th of May last,
Mr. Powell prosecuted, and gr. Cooke defended the
prisoner.
On the evening of May 7 the deceased, the prisoner,
and a man named Jones, the prisoner's uncle, were
drinking in a public-house near Gloucester, when a
quarrel arose between Jones and the deceased, both
of whom were drunk. The prisoner, who was sober,
promoted a fight between them, and they went out and
fought, or rather pulled each other about for some
time, when they became exhausted. The prisoner,
however, caught hold of his uncle, Jones, and
dragged him towards the deceased, and he also went up
towards the deceased and squared his fiats at him, upon
which a person named Jeffs, who had been attrawed from
his house by the noise, went to him, and, after telling
him it was a sha_ue in him to induce two el.
derly men who were drunk to fight, added that
if he struck the deceased he would himself pre-
fer a charge of assault against him. The priaoner
then used abusive language towards Mr. JAN
and said of the deceased, after a violent impreca-
tion, " I had once to pay twenty tanners (sixpences) for
giving a man a bit of kick, and if I have to pay again.
it shall be for something more." He then went up 0)
the deceased, who was leaning against a wall, raised his
hand unwell's and downwards once or twice, and struck
the deceased a violent blow on the left temple, which
felled him to the ground, and cut his face open. The
deceased was assisted up and placed against the wall,
and, turning to the prisoner, he said, " I will make you
Pay fir this." Mr. Jeffs also said he would get a war-
rant against him; upon which the prisoner said. "
pay fir something, then," and again struck the deceased
in the same place, and again knocked him "own. The
deceased was then conveyed to a house, bleeding and

nearly senseless, and Ives afterwards conveyed home and 1
died in the course ol the night. Mr. limits, a surgeon,
ceede u post mortern examination tail proved clearly
that the death wa►i occasioned by the blows on the
temple.
Mr. C,Olce said he could not upon these facts st►uggle
against a verdict, and the jury thereupon immediately
convicted the prisoner, and he was sentenced by his
Lordship to 12 months' imprisonment, with hard labour.
Henry Parker, 19, and James Davis and John Reed, of
ab, ut the same age, were tried )est.:rday fur a rubbery
with violence, at Bristol, on the Bth of August last.
Mr. Cleave prosecuted; Mr. Powell defended Parker,
and Davis; Reed defended himself.
The prosecutor, a captain in the merchant service,
was going along the Broadmead, in the city of Bristol,
about nine o'clock in the evening, when a persan came
up to him, looked earnestly into his face, and said," Go
it" upon which the prosecutor was struck down, and
his pookets rifled of his watch and sv►me silver coins in an
instant. A bystander named Stevens saw the transac-
tion, and went and pulled one of the m°n from the pro-
secutor, but, thinking it a street row, did not detain
th,,m, and they ran away. The prosecutor gave informa-
tion to the p ►lice, and in about half an hour afterwards
went with them to the spot. While looking at it the
prisoner Parker went by, end a .p,,licrnan told the pro-
secutor to go and look at him. The prosecutor did so,
and said to Parker, "I believe you are the men that
robbed me just now." Pa, ker said he was not; but the
prosecutor took him to a lamp, and then gave him into
custody as one of the persons who had robbed him. The
other prisoners were not apprehended for some time
afterwards, and in the interval the witness Stevens, who
said be knew Davis and Reed before, but not their
names, met Reed and coaver‘ed with him f.A. some
time, but did not attempt to appr, bend him.
Reed cross-exlmine 4 this witness et some length, and
attempted to show that there had been a quarrel be-
tween them.

The defence was that the prosecutor was mistaken in
the identity of Parker; that Stevens was alio mistaken
as to the other two, and that the o ;nduct of the latter
was so extraordinary that the evidence could not be re-
lied on. _ _

The jury deliberated for some time, and then said
they could not agree; they were locked up for half en
hour, at the end of which time they returned a verdict
of Guilty.
Previous convictions against Pa►ker for burglary and
R'sd for robbery were then proved.
His LORDSHIP said he would consider what sentence
to pass, and this morning he. sentenced Parker and
Reed to be transported for twenty years, and D+vis to
be imprisoned for twelve months and kept to barii labour.
Thomas Davie, 18. pleaded guilty to two indictments,
one charging him with burgliriously breaking and en-
tering the house of James Barnes, at Churcham, and
stealing therein three pairs of shoes, his property; and
the other charging him with burglariously breaking arid
entering the house of Joseph Kitchen, at Churcham, and
stealing therein a pair of boots, his property, and was
sentenced to six months' imprisonment with hard 1.-
hour on each charge, the second term of imprisonment to
commence at the coneltp,ion of the first.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
BO W-STREET.
Thomas Baker, a tailor, living in Crown- onort, Crown-
street, Westminster. was charged before Mr. Jardine
with having attempted to violate the person of his step-
daughter, a child only nine years of ago.
Mr. JARDINE committed hue for trial.
The mother of the child returned to the court, after
the disposal of the case and asked if his Worship could
give her any advice or assistance in regard to the fu are
welfare of her little girl. Of course she (the soother)
could never return to the prisoner, and must therefore
go into service ; but she had two other children to sup-
port, and they were by the prisoner. She believed she
should be able to maintain herself and these if some pro-
vision could be made for the third. There were several
benevolent institutions intended for children like hers,
and it would be a grtat boon to her it her admission into
one of them could be obtained.
Mr. JARDINE expressed his willingness to assist her
in this objsct if an opportunity of so doing occurred.
MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
Mr. John Horatio Brown, of 26, Conduit-street' was
summoned before Mr. Bingham for using abusive and in-
suiting language towards Major Charles Macdonald,
whereby a breach of the peace might have been oc-
casioned.
It will be remembered that about a fortnight ago
Major Macdonald, accompanied by a French lady and
gentleman of distioctis n, went into the auction-rooms,
26, Conduiteareet, of which the defendant was the
ostensible proprietor. The lady selected a brocade
dress, fur which she offered 305., the price askei beteg
2/. 10s. This offer was refused, and the Major and his
party were ab ut leaving the place, when the detehdatit
'allowed them to the door, and said be would take the
30s. for the dress. Meier Macdonald and the lady re-
turned to the room and the money was paid, but on the
'ady examining the dress she found it vastly inferior to
be one she bad chosen, and not worth 15s. Ou the
complainant demanding the money hack he was assailed
with abusive language, such as " You d—d snob; I'd
kick you out," &c. For this insulting language the
oresent proceedings ware commenced, and yesterday was
fix d for bearing the ease.
When the case was called on the magistrate's adjia
cation was belted for will great at.xi,ty, and a •srt
number of persons more or less connected with she
irapery trade were in atter.dance. It wags generall
,rated that Mr. Ballantine would appear for Mjur
Macdonald, and Mr. Parry for the defendant Brown.
Mr. Parry at length came ietii court, and, addressing
'4r. Bingham, said, he appeared in answer to a summons
which hid been granted on the application of a person
who called himself Mejer Macdonald. Mr. Brown,
against whom the summons had been obtained, and for
whom he (the Learned Counsel) appeared, was in at-
tendance, and was perfectly ready to answer any charges
that might be mate against bun. It was the moils Im-
portant t bat his client's character should be cleared from
,he imputations that had been made upon it, as many
ulip'easant rumours had found general ci-culation.
Mr. BINGHAM—I understood some time ago that the
summons has been withdrawn.
Mr. Parry—l have just heard that myself. Supp,se
'his was an action at law, I should be alliovetl to have
the jury sworn and the plain ill inunsuiced. Very inju-
rious rep irts have been circukted with respect to Mr.
Brown, and now that we are to meet and rebut th..m
Major Macdonald does not choose to appear.
Inspector Wriall, who was calltd. said be had Bern
sent fur and had been informed that Mr. Brown t•avir g
made a humble ap dogy to Maj sr Mucdunald, that gest-
Tiernan hal withdrawn the summons.
Mr. Parry, who in the interim had applied that the
summons should be recorded, sail be knew nothing about
the summons having been withdrawn, but as that ape
neared to be the case tie was compelled to let the matter
drop. At the same time he was bound to repeat that
Nlr. Brown was Tee° willing to have the case heard.
The proceedings then terminated.
Shortly after the shave proci edinga terminated, a lady,
who said her name was Bates, entered the court in a state
of great excitement, and in a foreign accent said, I
have to complain to your Worship of a, great take-in in
Conduit-atreet."—; Laughter.) She continued a 1 tol;owa:
—" This morning I went into the sale-routes in Conduits
street, attracted by bills which had been circulated. I
looked at a dress which was stated to be silk, and was
asked two guineas and a half for it. Presently the per-
sons in the sale re-ma eam- down to 35e , and I bought
it at that price. It looked very handsowe in the piece,
hut when I came to examine it I found it was mere stuff;
in fact, a gross deception has boen practised upon use.
'l4oreover, the man who sold it to me stated that it was
five yards and a half wide, whereas on looking at it I
fund that it was not nearly five yards wide."
•Mr. BINGHAM expressed has astonishment that a lady
should have b -en so victimized in a matter t f silk. With-
out professing to be iutineately Bog tainted with the
mysteries of the fabrics of which ladies' dresses were
composed, he thought he sheet.' have very read ly s -en
mat the piece of stuff produced had no claim to the cha-
racter of silk. It he were going to buy a knits,. or any
usher article with which he was &lege wilted he should
examine it well before putting down his money. The
grossest
eve
ere swi
witnessed.
s;.dly. n of the
that she had been very short-
sighted deceptionsldDhut
admittedie:htdadin
sighted in entering into such a barg,tte
Mr. BINGHAM .aid he hardly knew what law would
protect the complainant. It a men b aught a horse
with only one eye, having taken no precsucion to as
certain whether he had another, the law would hardy
protect him.
The complainant said that probably she would n
have cared so mush snout the ausoutit of money of which
she had been deft anted had nut been for the excessive
reenees which had been Showu to her in the sale-rooms
She had been grossly ill-used by the person to the sale,
room to whom she comp:anted of the trick that bad been
played upon hr r.
Mr. BINGHAM advised the complainant to appeal to
the County Ceurt for redress, expressing at the same
time his doubts as to the result of such an application
under the circumstances.
Hardly had this case been disposed of before a police
officer brought up in custody a man who had been dtstri.
bating circulars from the firm above-named in Regent-
street and the other public thoroughfares. These circu-
lars, which gave a moat flattering description Of the vast
amount of goods to be disposed ef, were signed .4 Ban..
bury, Greville, and C 0.," while others bore no name, and
were placed in envelopes.
The police-officer stated that the man threw his p,pers
into omnibuses and carriages, and otherwise obstructed
the thoroughfare.
P. isoner said he had been ont of work for along time.
He had been engaged by the people iu Conduit street to
deliver these hills, and he was glad to earn a shilling.
Mr. BINGHAM advised him to be cautious as to the
manner in which he conducted his vroceedinga. He
would not he allowed to (instruct persons who were out
either on business or ph !Pure. The kernel was the
only proper place for distributing such circulars. It' a
similar case come before him he should feel it to be his
duty to deal severely with it.
WORSHIP-STREET.
Jacob Evans, a dissolute-looking fellow, was brought
up before Mr. D'Eyncourt upon a warrant, charged with
the following brutal attack upon his wit's..
In the early part of the day the wife came to the
court with her lace and one of her eyes so shockingly
contused and swollen that the magistrate ordered a war-
rat.t to immediately issue for the apprehension of the
prisoner, and upon his being brought to the court in the
custody of Holland, the warrant officer, the wife stated
that she had been married for several years to the pri •
goner, but nearly the whole time had been subjected to
such cruel treatment by him that she had been three
times oblige d to abandon her home and s' ek r. foue at •
the house of her parents in the c.mritry. Each time,
however, he had induced her to return by the most
earnest promises of amendment, which he immediately

after broke, and upon the last occasion, while staying at
the house (if her w thee, he •cvaikd bw,,eit of the op-
portunity so 'Med to suttee l•er famgest sister. on
Sunday he eatne home in a surly howour, and, after
loading ber with the most oirgusiing r pitheis. brat her
furiously over the head and face with his fir, struck her
own by a violent blow between the e‘ es. the results of
which she the presented, then dragged her down the
stairs into the passage in a state of partial insensibililYs
and on getting her to the lower part of the house swore
that ha would disfigure her for ever, and kicked her
with such ferocity all over the body that there Wes
scarce any part of her that was not covered with Wades
and contusions. She had been subjected to simila
treatment upon so m-e.ny other °cessions that she dared
not return home again unites the magistrate insured ber
protection, as she felt convinced she shou►d sustain
soma ii.jury of a serious and permanent character if
she did.

The prisoner generally denied all that the For wo•
man had matt d; t.ac
Mr. D'EYNCOURT characterised it as a very cruel out•
rage. find seutroc.d the prisoner to pay the full penalty
of 5/, or in default to stand committed for tso months
to the House of Correction, and in addition ordered bim
to put in sub-dentist sureties for his peaceable behaviour
fur the succet ding six months.

The prikorier could not pay the penalty, and was,
therefore, removed in the, van.
CLERKEN WELL.
William Knight was placed at the bit' before Mr.
Tyrwnitt, onurged with having assaulted and wounded
Mary Knight, his wile, by which her life is pieced is
imminent danger.
The prisoner was also charged with having assauLed
Police-constable Riynes, 221 G.
Toe constable having been sworn sitid, that on the
previous night, about half past ten o'clock, he was on
duty in Sydney-grove Cit)-road, St. Luke's, when his
a"ren:ion waslitirtictedllcy hitid screams and cries of
Murder 1" trim a woman. He proceeded to the door
of the prisoner'. house, where he saw the prison. r stand'
ing in the passage in his shirt sleeves. He was in es
agitate' state. He saw his wife bleeding from wounds
on the buck of the head. The prisoner threw a large
click at his head, which knocked his bat off and near'',
stunned him. He took the prisoner to the station'
house, snit on searching him he found two heavy 111n$
stones in his pocket. On returning to the house he
found the prisoner's wife in a weakly state from loss of
blood. On asking her how she had received the injuries
on her head, she replied that her husband beat her on
the head with a poker. A surgeon was sent for who
dressed her wounds.

Mr. TYRWHITT inquired whether she was able to at'
tend the court? Prisoner (smiling)-oh, no; she is Da
able to appear. She is at home in bed. I own I did it.
The fact of 'he matter is it is a bit of jealousy. She kept
" sniggerir g" and "sneering" at me. when I took up the
p ,ker and gave her a few taps on the head and I threw
it away.
Mr. TYRWHITT said, that after such an admission front
the prisoner i.e must have a certificate IYOM the surge
as to the state or the injured wcreart.
the officer was ii.stailtly dispatched, and shortly re'
turned with a certificate pronouncing that Mary Knight
was in imminent danger.
Mr. TYRWHITT said he would remand the prisooer
for a week, when the fate of his wife would be made
known.

WANDSWORTH.
Mr. Edward Richardson, a gentleman living in the,
Bridge-road, Battersea. cane before Mr. Paynter as
a
stated the following circumstances:--
Mr. Richardson said, that on Wednesday evening
about seven o'clock be was visiting a friend who resident
in the Brighton -road, Lower Tooting, when they were
suddenly alarmed by screams of " Murder," and, os
proceeding into the street, he saw a woman who wike
smothered shiiitist-With-her blood, lying in the road, and
a man, who was said to be a tray.liing tinker and the.
woman's husband, giving her the most desperate ‘b jobs-
under her chin with his clenched fiat till the chin was I
mass of bruises. She hal also a deep cut over the eye.
Ac the fellow continued his brutality after the wornall
had become insensible be remonstrated with him, and the
man asked him what business it was of his, and said if
he interfered with him he should not be, particular is
serving him in the same manner. This occurred in 11.00
of he Rising Siiri, in the Brighton-road, the entire neigh'
bourt,,,d was alarmed, and the cry was, " Where's the
policy- ?" but not one eoliceulau ci.utel be lound, when It
geeteman he was well acquainted with ctate by in hi.
phaeton and took applicaut up, and they went in ssarch
,if the police, of whom they found two, viz., 134 V Ind
324 V. with whom they galloped back to the spot whet°
he (Hr. Richardsoe), as he supposed, h-ft the woraea
dying. On their return the pour woman was still lying OS
the ground and weltering it, her blood. He told the police.
men what he and some others had witnessed, and the‘
very coolly replied, that as they had seen no blow Aran
they could not interfere. By dint of threats that the
case should not step where it was, the constables LOU
the man to the station house; but on arriving thud he
sergeant or acting inspec.or was on duty to take the
charge; and upricant ltfs fur home, receiving a plecie
from the police that they w,,uld convey the prisoner to.
Wandsworth police-station, and he wits to meet theta a:
the police•court at ten o'clock that morning. He 118"
been punctual, and had waited en hour a halt; but
no votice or prisoner had made their appearance, and the
police on du y at the staloa appeared to know nothivg
of the transaction

Mr. PAYNTER, after putting some questions to Ser'
geant Read, said the police of this district were eon°
smelly oriuging up charges cf a trifling character, tind
at eons:Lindy r. tusiug to interthre in cases where the/
atl-g.d they did not see the offence. He had as re'
pea;edly read the clause of the Act of Parliament to
them and explained the law, but it appeared they is
it at defiance. In this case they could see that tn.
woman's lace was cut. They did not know %hat otal
injuries might have been flitted, end still they refused
to iuterfere. He should advise the applicant to II
his complaint before the Commissioners of Police, 111°.`:,
if they did not attend to it, to apply to the Secretary of
state.