The Sun.
London, England, 1856-06-12 00:00:00

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SUN OFFICE, Seven o'Clock.

ASCOT RACES—(This Day.)

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
THE GOLD CUP.

Winkfield (Bartholomew) 1
Sancebox . (W-11Q) 2
Manganese.
Five ran. Won easily.
SWEEPSTAKES OF 50 SOVS.

Comedy
Tyre
Illuminator

VISITORS' PLATE.

Astrologus
Hangerford
Mishap

Eight ran.
HANDICAP SWEEPSTAKES.

Oltenitza
Sly Fellow
The Abbot
NEW STAKES.

F by Red Hart
Goldfinch
Equity
Twenty ran.
ST. JAMES'S PALACE STAKE 3.

Pitapat
Spindle

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS—(This Evening.)

The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the wool-
sack at the usual hour.
The Earl of SHAFTESBURY presented several peti-
tions in favour of the abolition of punishment of death.
Lord BERNERS presented four petitions against the
Maynooth grant.
The Earl of DONOLIGHMORE presented a petition
from Lord Mountcsshel complaining of a certain transac-
tion in the Encumbered Estates Court, in which the
purchaser was admitted into possession before the whole
of the purchase money had been paid. He also wished
to-know whether the Encumbered Estates Court Com-
mission was to continue ?

The LORD CHANCELLOR said it was certainly in•
tended by the Government to continue the bill by which
the Encumbered Estates Courts Commission was con-
stituted, unless legislation in another place should incor-
porate that court with the Com t of Chancery in Ireland.
The noble lord, in answer to some further observations
of the noble earl, said that everything had been dor.e
regularly at the transaction complained of, which he
con.idered mor3 a question for a court of law tha❑ a
petition to that house.

- Atter a few words from Lord CAMPBELL, the pet
tion was withdrawn.
SECOND READINGS.

On the motion of Lord REDESDALE, the following
bills were read a second time :—London, Tilbury, and
Southend Extension Railway ; Blackburn Roads ; Baw-
try and Tinsley Road ; Wolverhampton Water ; Hamp-
stead Junction Railway; Middlesboroughlmprovement ;
and Bainbridge Junction Railway,
COUNTY COURTS ACTS AMENDMENT BILL.
This bill was reported with amendments.
DRAFTS ON BANKERS BILL.
This bill was read a thir I time and passed.
REFORMATORY AND INDUSTRIAL SCHOOLS

LAW INTELLIGENCE.—June 11.

COURT OF COMMONIPLEAS.
(Sittings in Banco, before Chief Justice Jervis and
Justices Cresswell, Williams, and Willes.)
GYE V. WILLETT AND OTHERS.-DESTRUCTION OF
COVENT•GARDEN THEATRE.

Mr. Gye, the plain.iff in this case, was formerly lessee
of Covent-garden Theatre, and he sued the proprietors
for injuries sustained by him in consequence of the
building having been burned down. In tne agreement
which had been entered into by the parties, there was a
clause that, for the protection of the theatre against fire,
the defendants should keep four firemen in the theatre ;
but they were not to be responsible to indemnify Mr.
Gye from any loss that he might sustain by fire. The
third count in the declaration alleged that the four fire-
men were not kept, and by reason of the omission the
theatre was burned ; and it was also alleged that the de-
fendants had broken their agreement, they not having
repaired the wall and roof of the theatre after the fire.
An application had been made to Mr. Baron Bramwe.l
at chambers, that the defendants might be at liberty to
add pleas stating that the plaintiff's loss had been oc-
casioned by fire, and that the defendants were not bound
to indemnify him for any such loss ; and further, that
the theatre had been destroyed through the negligence
of the plaintiff and his under lessees. His lordship re-
fused to allow the plea to be added, and subsequently an
application was made to this Court for leave to plead
these pleas, and a rule having been granted the matter
came on to-day on cause being shown against its being
made absolute.

Mr. Creasy and Mr. Lush appeared to show cause,
and Mr. Sergeant Byles and Mr. Garth to support the
rule.

The Chief Justice sugestei that the best way would
be to add the pleas, and then they could be demurred
to, and the opinion of the Court taKen upon the matter.
This course was adopted, and it was intimated that

the demurrer might be set down at once for argument,
so that the case might be disposed of during the sittings
after term.

Mr. Sergeant Byles said that negotiations were in
progress which he hoped would settle all disputes as to

,he theatre.

The Chief Justice thought it was very much to be
desired that something should take place which would
restore harmony to that estatliThrnent. (9. laugh.)

MIDDLESEX SESS!ONS.—Jane 11.

(&fore Mr. Pashley, Q.C., Assistant-Judge, at Clerken

well.)

Frederick Silkey, a Gertuan sailor, was indicted for
having maliciously cut and wounded John Payne.
The prosecutor, a labouring man, living in E;iz Lbeth-
street, St. Gsorge's, was passing by the London Docks,
when he saw one man stab another, and then run into a
house. He followed him to the dour, when the prisoner
stepped forward and struck him in the face 'with a
sharp-imiuted knife, causing a wound by the side of his
nose.

Witnesses were called for the defence to show that
the prisoner was nut the man who committed the as-
sault, but the jury disbelieved their evidence, and ex
pressed great disapprobation of the manner in which it
had been given.
The prisoner was found guilty and sentenced to nine
months' hard labour.

In a case of larceny which came before the Cane,
Mr. Sleigh, the counsel for the prisoner, alluded to the
practice resorted t> in courts cf justice on the Continent
of subjecting persons accused to examination, and re-
marked that, in many cases, it would be most desirable
that such practice should prevail iu this country ; and
the Assistant Judge, in summing up, said he was of
opinion that it would be convenient it the law permitted'
one or two questions to be put to a prisoner, but at
present only one could be asked, whether he were guilty
or not guilty—the law presuming that he was innocent
until evidence was adduced to prove him guilty.

POLICE INT ELLIGENCK.—JuneII.

GUILDHALL—Mary Blewitt, who described her-
self as a doll manufacturer, of 1, Nelson-square, Black-
friar's-road, was again brought up on remand, charged
with having unlawfully in her possession a large quan
tity of property which formed part of the proceeds of a
burglary and robbery committed on the premises of
Alessr,. Fyfo and C of Glasgow, and Lawranceslane,
City, i❑ December last, on which cccasion property to
the value of about 1201. was stolen.

Sir R. W. Carden and Sir Chapman Marshall pre.
sided. Mr. Lewin, of Ely•place, appeared for tho pri•
soner.

There have been several examinations in this case,
but the principal, facts may be summed up in a few
words. It appeared that some time in December last
the premises of Messrs. Fyfe and Co., at 2, Llwrance-
lane, Ceeapside, were burglariously entered, and stuff
goods to a considerable amount carried off. A portion
of those goods were recently traced to the prisoner,
who was found pledging them at various pawnbrokers
in all parts of London, and en being taken into custody,
a woman of the name of Alker, who was in her employ,
was brought forwavd, and from her evidence and that
of several other witnesse3, it was &kited that there were
upwards of 100 different lengths of stuff pledged through
the prisoner's instrumentality. Upwards of 30 piece-
of goods were produced by the pa enhrokers. and
identified as the property stolen from Messrs. Fyfe's
warehouse. The prisoner Alker said she saw the
goods soon after they were brought to the prisoner's
house ; but she never saw them in the possession of the
prisoner's husband. She pledged the goods sometimes
by the prisoner's direction, but principally by that .4
her husband, who had several times given her 2s. fur
her trouble in disposing of the goods. The case had been
twice remanded to enab a the officers to find the prisore's
husband ; but that individual having disappeared as
soon as the officers got a clue to the case, all their exer-
tions have proved unavailing to discover bhp.
Mr. Lewis contended that the prisoner had received
the goods from her husband, under whose control she
was acting in disposing of the property in question, and
she was, therefore, not accountable for the unlawful
possession.
Sir R. Carden said the prisoner had been proved to
have been dealing with this property in her husband's
absence ; and he dil not think he would be acting right
as a magistrate if he did not send the case for a jury te
decide upon.
The prisoner was therefore committed to Newgate for
trial, bail being refused for her appearance.

MARYLEBONE.—CAUTION TO PAWNBROKERS.—
Mr. Hayward, a pawnbroker, carrying o❑ business in
Princess-street, Portman-market, attended before the
sitting magistrate, Mr. Long, by virtue of a summons
which, by direction of the commanding officer of the
Grenadier Guards, had been applied for by Colour•Ser-
geant Jamesßlurton, charging him, under sec. 22 of the
Mutiny Act, with having unlawfully taken in pledge a
silver Crimean medal, which had been awarded and given
to Joseph Gibling, a private in the regiment above
alluded to, and for which offence he had rendered him
self liasle to a penalty not exceed;ng 201.
Mr. Long, after reading to defendant the wording of
the _summons, asked him if he pleaded guilty or not
guilty ?
Defendant—l admit having taken in the medal, but I
beg to state that in doing so I was quite ignorant that
I was acting wrong ; it was pawned by a man in private
clothes. Ever since I have been in the trade, which ex-
tends over a great many years,.l, as Tell as other pawn-
brokers, have been in the habit of advancing money upo❑
medals. _ _ _

The ineJal wa4 produced by Mr. Hayward. It had
upon the brim thereof the name of " Joseph Gibling."
Mr. Lorg (to Serj,ant Blurton)—ls the soldier here ?

Serjeant-:11e is n ot, your worship.
The magistrate, believing the assertion of the de•
fendant, who is a highly respectable tea lesman, that he
acted i, ignorance of the law, but with which he cer-
ttahiantlytught to hay been acquainted, said he should deal
with him al leniently as possible, in the hope that he
ought
Would be mere cautious in future, and he also hoped
piiwnbrokers generally would, for their o
sakes, exereh,e a proper discretion, knowing the penalty
to which they are liable to be amerced in by receiving
in pawn medals which, upon the face of them, showed
that they were bestowed for gallant conduct in war.
The defendant was fined in the mitigated penalty of
le. for the offence, and was in addition thereto, in con-
formity with the provisions of the act, ordered to pay
229. 61—three times the value of the medal—with 2s.
costs of the summons.

—=------
THE NEW ACT ON FIRE INSIJRAN
Eso the duties un
—On Saturday
the new act to amend the laws relatieni
fire insurances, which has immediate operation, was
printed. The object of the act is to make policies by
foreign companies liable to the same duties as il•Cl •
E
made by companies within the United Kingdein.' it. :
therefore provided that duties are to be chargeable :
all insurances of property within the United Kingdom
wheresoever made. All persons insured are under this
act chargeable with duties where the insurances Wets
made by unlicensed foreign companies. All persons who
as agents receive propoeals fir insurances by companies
out of the United Kingdom are to be deemed to be per
sous keeping qii
office for insuring property from loss by
bra.
Further, the act provides that persons keeping
cfficsa for insurances on behalf of foreign companies are
to be chargeable with the duties on such ineuraccee.