The Sun.
London, England, 1856-08-06 00:00:00

THE SUN, LON DON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 6, 1656

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.-Aug. 5.

Hamilton-terrace, St. John's Wood, was summoned
before Mr. Corrie, by George Mather Andrews, badge
2,588, for refusing to pay him the sum of ls. justly due
to him for hire of his carriage.
The cabman, who was very respectably attired, and
who gave his evidence in a very fair and impartial man-
ner, said that on the 31st of last month he was called,
and took up the defendant at No. 7, Hamilton-terrace,
St. John's Wood, and drove him to No. 11, Highbnry-
place, Islington. When he arrived there, the defendant
tendered him 25,, but the distance being six miles, he
said that would not do for him. He gave him his ticket,
and not wanting to trouble him, he called twice for the
money, which on each occasion was refused. Finding
that the gentleman would not pay him, he was compelled
to come to tnis court and take out a summons. He was
agreeable to have the distance measured.
The defendant said that he offered the cabman 2s.
When he refused the payment of the 25., the cabman
called after him that 2s: was not enough.
Mr. Corrie said that he considered that the distance
was correct, as the defendant would not have the ground
measured, and as the cabman had called twice for his
money, he would have his costs. Ho should order him
to pay the ls. fare, 2s. costs, and 3s. for the man's day's
work.
The defendant asked for a summons for abusive lan-
guage, which was at once granted, against the complain-
ant. The offence proved was that he said that 2s. was
not enough for a 3s. fare.
Mr. Corrie fined the cabman 25., which was at once
paid, the cabman at the time skying it was not justice.

thirteen large joints of beef, each joint having from four
to fix ribs in them. I took some of the meat out of the
sack, and found it very green and offensive to the smell.',
There were also some bones and pieces lying about in a
similar condition. I further discovered upwards of
50lbe. of sausage-meat made up for use, which I have no
doubt was a portion of the same meat. This I could not
say was as had as the other, as it was so highly seasoned
with spices dec. The sausage machine was in a filthy
state, and the whole of the premises were in a dirty
cendition. I caged in Dr. Godricb, the medical officer
of health, and he at once gave an opinion that the meat
was unfit fur food. I then seized the meat, and with
the as-istance of Pummere, the beadle, I buried it at
Wormholt Scrubby. I seized about 150Ibs. altogether.
It consisted of 16 large joints of beef and some small
pieces. The defendant was not at home, but his wife
informed me that the meat was not so bad, and they
were going to make polonies of it. (Sensation.)
Mr. Francis Godrich, the medical officer of health,
said that the meat was quite unfit for human food. The
efflavium from the meat and the premises could be ex-
perienced outside, although there was a garden between
the path and the hoiese.
The defendant, in defence, said he purchased the
meat early in the morning and it was then sound. Ho
brought it home in a bag outside an omnibus, and he
cut a portion of it up into sausage meat. He then left
home and did net return for some hours afterwards, and
the meat wa+ then removed. It was impossible for them
to say that he should have used the meat for sausages
when he returned home. At this season of the year the
meat soon cha' g'-d.
Mr. Godrich said the vestry dill not press for any heavy
penalty. The defendant was a poor man. They required
that some slight punishment should be inflicted, as a
caution for t e future.
Mr. Dayrnan said these cases were very difficult to
prove, anit when they were established be was not dis-
posed to be lenient. The poorer classes were quite at the
mercy of these people, and it was necessary that they
should be protected from buying unfit food. He thought
he pas ed a most lenient sentence when he ordered the
defendant to pay 41., being ss. for each piece of meat.
It another case came before him of a similar description
he should not bo inclined to pass so lenient a sentence as
he had done on that occasion.
The defendant said he had no money, and his worship
allowed him a week to pay the 4/,

(Before Mr. Pashley, Q.C., Assistant-Judge.)
John Laws'n, a Danish sailor, was indicted for assault.
ing Alfred Jansen, and wounding him with a knife.
He was found guilty.
The Assistant-Judge sentenced him to six months'
bard labour, and in so doing remarked that these foreign
seamen, who were so prone to the use of the knife when
they quarreled, must be made to understand that such
practices could not be endured in this country, and im-
pressed upon the prisoner that bad the prosecutor died
from the effects of the wound he would have been tried
for his life at the Old Bailey.
Henry Thomas, 27, was indicted for stealing a watch,
the properly of ohn Pope Duddridge, from his person.
Ho was convicted, and having been so several times
previously,
The Assistant-Judge sentenced him to six years' penal
servitude.
Charles Webb, 23, a journeyman painter, pleaded
udty to a charge of stealing a cash box, containing two
51. notes and 3/ 10s. in gold and other moneys, the pro-
perty, &e., of Peter Walt s, in his dwelling-house. The
prosecutor was the landlord of the Crooked Billet public-
house, at floxton, and on the 25th of July, the prisoner,
another man and a woman, went there and had some
drink. The prisoner went to the back premises, pre-
tending that he was ill, but he slipped into the bar par-
lour and took the cash-box from the sideboard. The
prosecutor at once missed it, and after a search the pri
soner a as found " screwed" up ,behind a cask with the
cash-box in his possession. The other man and the
woman got away. The prisoner was recognised as hav•
ing been in the House of Correction for three months
for felony, and the court sentenced him to twelve mouths'

WORSHIP•STREET.—Shafto Wood, described as a
blacksmith, was charged with having assaulted Alice
Croly, six years of age, with intent to strangle her.
J•ihn Croly, the father of the child, a jobbing shoe.
maker, living in Park place, Haggerstone, said—Tie
prisoner during the last fortnight has occupied the hote.to
next door to my residence. Yesterday afternoon my
little girl returned from the National School in such a
state of excitement and suffering that she could hardly
stand. She appe tred completely stupefied. On asking
her what was the matter, she pointed to her throat,
which was greatly inflamed and discoloured, and kept
on exclaiming, " Oh, the man, the man." , She at length
told me that the prisoner had decoyed her into his house
and carried her up stairs into his bedroom, where he
stripped off her clothes and attempted to strangle her.
She was unable to explain in what way she had effected
her escape, but on hearing the statement I hastened to
the prisoner's house, which was strongly barricaded
back and front. I forced open the back door, and made
my way, with several of my neighbours, to the up-
stairs room, which was also locked, but we burst
in the panel and found the prisoner lying on the
bad. On questioning him as to what be had dove
to the child, he at first made no answer, but on
asking him what bad become of the rope with
which he had endeavoured to strangle her, he told me
that I would find it in the cupboard, on searching which
I discovered the piece of cord produced, knotted in seve-
ral folds as it now appears, and on showing it to the
prisoner he coolly observed, "That is what I did it
with." The witness added that he bad previously sent
for a policeman, who arrived soon afterwards, and the
prisoner was given into custody.
Mr. Wm. Henry Coward, the divisional surgeon of
police, stated that on examining the child he had found
an excoriation round her neck, which had evidently
been caused by the pressure of a cord, accompanied
with considerable extravasation of blood, and from the
extent of the injuries she had sustained he was surprised
that she had escaped suffocation.
William Sparkes, a 1 r sdesman in the neighbourhood,
stated that he had known the prisoner fir some years,
and in common with several of his friends tie considered
him to be not right in his mind.
Sergeant Collins, of the N division, stated that an
officer was in attendance who had prisoner in custody
about three years ago for a gross act of indecent exposure.
Remanded.

har•l labour.
Maria Allen pleaded guilty to a charge of stealing a
sheet and other articles, the property of Edward Byrne,
and two sovereigns, the moneys of James Smith. The
prisoner was a regular swindler, and had been in the
habit of taking ready furnished lodgings and decamping
with any available artime she could lay hands upon.
She had been previously convicted, and the Assistant-
Judge, after remarking that it was clear that mere im-
prisonment would not deter her from crime, sentenced
her to four years' penal servitude.
Alfred May Grey, 40, described as an agent, and who
is known by a number of aliases, by one of which, Cruse,
he was before this court some years ago, pleaded guilty
to a charge of having fraudulently obtained a cloak and
other articles, value 11/. 6d., the property of Lewis
Ant abate. and for stealing a ton weight of lead, the pro-
p-rty of James Rhodes, the same being fixed to a certain
building. The prisoner had acted in concert with a ma❑
'leaned Stanley, who wae convicted a few sessions ago,
n obtaining possession of houses, and then striping the
lesd from the roofs. He had been previously convicted.
The Assi,tant-Judge directed him to be brought up
this (Wednesday) morning for sentence.

From the London Gazette of Last Night.

BOARD OF GREEN CLOTH, JULY 23.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint the Honourable
Valentino Augustus Browne, commonly calle,l Viscount
Castlerosse, to be Comptroller of her Ilajesty's Household,
in the room of the Right Hoi,ourablo Archibald William
Douglas, commonly called Viscount Drutnlanrig, resigned.

DOWNING-STREET, AUG. 1.
The Queen has been pleased to constitute so much of
the present diocese of the bishopric of New Zealand as
comprises all that portion of the middle island of New
Zealand which lies to the southward of a geographical
line drawn across the said middle Island, at the northern
boundary of the territory set apart for the Canterbury set-
tlement under the provisions of the Act 13 and 14 Vic., C.
70 ; together with the southern Island of New Zealand,
and the Auckland Islands, and all adjacent islands lying
to the southward of the 43d deg. 5 min. of south latitude,
into a separate and distinct diocese, to be called " The
Bishopric of Christchurch," and to appoint the Rev. Henry
John Chitty Harper, D.D., to be ordained and consecrated

Bishop of the sai t diocese.
W HITEFIA.LL, AUG. 2.
The Queen has been pleased to grant unto the Rev.
Gilbert Frankland Lewis, M.A., the place and dignity of
canon of the cathedral church of Worcester, the same
being void by the death of the Hon. and Rev. Jas. Somers
Cocks, late canon thereof.
FOREIGN-OFFICE, Aug. 4

The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. Jas. R.
Smith, junior, as Consul at London, for the United States
of America.
BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, AUG. 4.

The Right Honourable the Loris of the Committee of
Privy Council for Trade and Plantations have received,
through the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a copy
of a despatch from her Majesty's Ambassador at Paris, en-
ciosing a copy of the following French Imperial decree, re-
lative to the importation of certain descriptions of iron.
Art. I.—ln conformity with the regulations of the or-
dinance of May 29, 1813, sheet iron, iron corners, and
other articles of iron intended to be employed in the
construction of iron ships and boilers for steam engines,
will continue to be admitted free of duty, on condition of
an engagement by the importers to re-export, within six
months, manufactured articles of the nature of those de-
scribed above, of a weight equal to the weight of the mate-
rials admitted to the privilege of the temporary free
port.
Art. 11. Such sheet iron, iron corners, Soc., cannot be
imported, and iron ships and boilers cannot be re-exported,
except through established warehousing ports (entrepots
reels), and through the offices on the frontier open to tran-
sit trade.
Art. 111.-4 A deficiencies will give rise to the applica-
tion of the penalties imposed by the Art. 3 of the law of
the sth July, 1,35.
All discovered deficiencies arising from waste in the
manufacture may, however, be considered as involving the
payment of the duty attaching to the raw material.
Art. IV.—The regulations of the before-recited ordi-
nance of 1843, which are not re-enacted by the present
decree, are abolished.
COMMISSIONS SIGNED BY LORDS-LIEUTENANT.
Tower Hamlets—Harrington Fulke, Esq., M.D., to be
Deputy Lieutenant.
County Palatine of Durham—John Richard Westgarth
Hildyard, Esq., to be Deputy Lieutenant.
Durham Artillery Regiment of Militia —First Lieutenant
Edward Featherstonhaugh to be Captain, vice Stobart, re-
signed.
Dorset (Queen's Own) Regiment of. Yeomanry Cavalry—
Lieut.-Col. the Lord Rivers to be Lieut.-Col. Commandant,
vice the Earl of Ilchester. resigned ; Captain the Lord
Digby to be Lieut.-Colonel, vice the Lord Rivers, pro-
moted ; Lieut. John Clavell Mansel to be Captain, vice
the Lord Digby, promoted ; Cornet Jas. George John Tem-
pler, to be Lieutenant, vice Mansel, promoted ; Anthony,
Lord Ashley, to be Cornet, vice Templer, promote.l.
Royal N..rth Gloucester Regiment of Militia—William
Clarke, Gent., to be Ensign, vice Hunt, promoted.
NOTICE OF INTENDED DISTRIBUTION OF
NAVAL PRIZE MONEY.

WESTMINSTER. —Jaynes Janniway, aged 21, a
soldier, recently returned from the Crimea, receMeg a
pension for a wound in the hand, was charged with firing
a pistol, supposed to be loaded with pebbles, at Char-
lotte Stanley, living in Brewer-street, Chelsea.
The prosecutrix is a prostitute, and has been ac-
quainted with the defendant about 12 months, during
which time, as she stated, he had frequently beaten and
ill-used her. According to her version of the affair, the
prisoner had been sitting in her room about ha'f an hour
(having previously followed her Oreugh the syeets for
some time) when he suddenly drew a pistol and fired it
at her. He then drew another, but she ran down stair-,
to her landlord, who gave the prisoner into custody.
A policeman deposed that the prisoner when arrested
said that if he got out of that he would serve complain-
ant worse.
Anotherpoliceman said that he found some pebbles and
nails in the fireplace of the room where the pistol had
been discharged. Mae loaded pistol was found to be
charged with gunpowder and pebbles.
The r?resouer said that complainant was sitting on his
knee, and he asked her if he should fire one of the pis•
tots off 2 She said " yes," and he fired it. He asked
her if he should fire the other off, and while be was try-
ing to do so she ran away, and he was shortly after-
wards taken into custody. He should like the woman
to be called who was with them in the afternoon.
Mr. Arnold remanded toe case for the attendance of
the witness referred to.

MARLBOROUGEI-STREET.—E. Clark, a decent-
looking young woman, aged 25, was placed at the bar,
before Mr. Boadon, under the following circumstances :
Mr. J. W. Wilcocks, the proprietor of the Green Dra-
gon Tavern, Maddox•atreet, Regent-street, said that the
prisoner was supplied with refreshments in the afternoon
about 5 o'clock, at the bar, and shortly after she retired
to the back part of the premises. No notice was taken of
her at that time, but subsequently one of the waiters
went up stairs into the coffee room, and found the bon-
net of a female, which he brought down to the bar, and
stated that he had picked it up from the floor. The bon-
net was referred to the several servant,,, but the owner
could not be discovered. Witness afterwards went up
into his sleeping apartment, and to his great astonish-
ment found that the prisoner had undressed herself, and
actually stowed herself away in his bed. An alarm was
raised, when She was soon visited by the whole of the do-
mestics, but she positively refused to leave her comfoft-
able and downy position. A police•constable, however,
was called, and she very reluctantly got up and dressed
herself, when she was conveyed to the station.
Mr. Beadon—What do you wean by such c induct?
Prisoner (laughing)—Wny I was told to go there by
a Mr. Banks—at least I believe that is his name.

Department of the Accountant-General of the Navy,
Admiralty, Somerset-house, Aug. 4.
Notice is hereby given to the Officers, Seamen, and
Marines, and to all persons interested therein, that the
distribution of proceeds arising from the Finnish barque
Preciosa and cargo, captured on the 3d August, 1855, by
her Majesty's ship Firefly, will commence on Thursday,
the 28th August, 1856 in the Prize Branch of the Depart-
ment of the " Accountant-General of the Navy, Admi-
ralty, Somerset-House."
Agents and other persons holding powers of attorney,
prize orders, assignments, or other instruments, by virtue
of which they may he legally entitled to claim the share
of any captor, serving in the above-named ships, are re-
quested to present the same et this office.
Any officer, seaman, marine, or other person, who may
desire to receive his share from the collector of customs or
inland revenue within the United Kingdom, is required to
intimate the same by letter. to be addressed, " On Prize
Business, to the Secretary of the Admiralty, London," in
which letter his own place of residence is to be precisely
stated, as well as the place of the nearest collector of cus-
toms or of inland revenue, from whom it would be con-
venient to receive such share of prize money.
The following are the shares clue to an individual in the
several classes :
s. d. 2 s. d.
1
Flag share
Captain llO 13 11. 1 Seventh class
Second class
Third class
Fourth class. 22 12 10 Tenth class 1 5 1
Fifth class
Department of the Accountant-General of the Navy,
Admiralty, Somerset House, Aug. 4.
Notice is hereby given to the officers, seamen, and ma-
rines, and to all persons interested therein, that the distri-
bution of proceeds arising from sundry deals captured at
Rasso, by her Majesty's ships Firefly and Harrier, and the
ship of war L'Aigle, belonging to his Imperial Majesty the
Emperor of the French, between the Ist and 6th Septem-
ber, 1855, will commence on Thursday, the 23th August,
1.56, in the Prize Branch of the Department of the " Ac-
countant-General of the Navy, Admiralty, Somerset-
house."
Agents and other persons holding powers of attorney,
prize orders, assignments, or other instruments, by virtue
of which they may be legally entitled to claim, the share
of any captor, serving in the above-named ships, are re-
quested to present the same at this office.
Any officer, seaman, marine, or other person, who may
desire to receive his share from the Collector of Customs
or of Inland Revenue within the United Kingdom, is re-
quired to intimate the same by letter to be addressed "On
Prize Business, to the Secretary of the Admiralty, Lou-
don," in which letter his own place of residence is to be
precisely stated, as well as the place of the nearest Collec-
tor of Customs, or of Inland Revenue, from whom it would
be convenient to receive such share of prize money.
The following are the shares due to an individual in the
several classes :

A police•constable stated that the prisoner was re-
spectably c innected, and lived at Stepney. She was
not sound in ker mind. and was subject to fits.
Mr. Bead..n—Then let her be conveyed to the work.
house in Mount-street, wkere she must remain while
somet,,ing is done fur her.
The prisoner was accordingly removed to the work-
house by a constable.
Sarah, Gibbs, a young woman in the service of a dress-
maker, residing at Nu. 50, Conduit-street, Regent-street,
was brought up on remand for attempting to destroy her
illegitimate offspring.
The evidence has already appeared.
Mr. Beadon asked the prisoner, in the usual way, if
she had anything to say in answer to the charge, when
she replied, in a f►int voice, "No, I have nothing to say."
The whole of the voluminous evidence was then real
over to the witnesses, after which the prisoner ( sho as
in a weak condition) was fully committed to Newgate
for trial at the ensuing sessions of the Central Criminal
Court, Old Bailey.

LAMBETH.—Mr. James Syme, who described him-
self as the chairman of the cornm ttee of management of
the Norwood Provident Association, applied for a sum-
mons against a person in the employment of the asso-
ciation, to compel him to deliver up the books of accounts.
The applicant banded to the magigtrate the rules of the
association, signed by Mr. Tidd Pratt, the registrar of
friendly societies in England. Oa looking at the first
role, which stated "This association shall be denomi
nated the Norwood Association, and its object shall be
to provide every article of food and other necessaries
usually consumed by the public at a fair and equitable
rate," Mr. Elliott observed that the association was a
mere trading community, and not a benefit society,
and he was therefore much surprised at finding the rules
verified by Mr. Tidd Pratt, such a proceeding being
quite unnecessary.
The applicant said that the association, whose object
was to purchase cheaply the necessaries of life, and re
tail them to the members and the public at the lowest
profit, were anxious to obtain all the legal protection in
their power,and therefore had the rules submitted to Mr.
Tidd Pratt, who had certified to their being in confor-
mity to the law.
Mr. Elliott remarked that by the 12th clause of the
rules the committee were empowered to borrow money
without any limit, which he considered highly objec-
t tionahle.
Mr. Syrna said that the committee had not as yet bor.-
! rowed any money, but traded on the subscription of the
members, of whom there were about 100. The person
against whom lie wanted the summons had been put
into the grocery department of the business about three
months ago by the committee, and, in conformity with
the rules of the association, he at that time obtained se-
curity from the Guarantee Society for 1501. The so-
ciety, wishing to obtain the books kept by him of their
transantions, had applied for them, but he refused to
deliver them up unless the receipt from the Guarantee
Society was banded to him.
Mr. Elliott observed that there was an arbitration
clause in the rules which took the matter out of the
bands of a magistrate.
Mr. Syme replied that the words of the arbitration
chime were that " If any dispute shall arise between any
member and the trustees, treasurer, or other officer of
the society, or the committee thereof, it shall be referred
to arbitration ;" but the fact was that the party against
whom he applied was neither a member nor an ()Meer of
the society, but merely a servant or shoprnan put into
the grocery department at a weekly salary.
Mr. Elliott said, that being the case, the applicant
must go to the County Court, as he bad no jurisdiction
in the case.

E e. d.
Flag share
Captain, each 72 6 5
Commander 36 3 2
Second class lB 8 0
Third class
Fourth class 9 9 2

Fifth class
Sixth class
Seventh class
Eighth class
Ninth class

£s. d.
5 5 3
4 14 8
3 3 1
1 11. 6
1 1 0
0 10 6

Tenth class

BANKRUPTS.

John James Vonder Heyde and Christopher Octavus
Vonder Heyde, tobacco manufacturers, Lower Thames-
street, to surrender, Aug. 20, at half-past eleven, and Sept.
24, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Stansfeld,
official assignee ; Lawrance, Plows, and Boyer, Old Jewry-
cha in hers.
Henry Edward Burns, licensed victualler, St. Martin-
street, Leicester. square, Aug. 11, at half past eleven, and
Sept. 17, at half-past one, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Stanafel I, official assignee; Flavell, Badford.row.
Wm. Reay, provision do,ler, Birmingham, Aug. 15, at
half-past eleven, and Sept. 4, at ten at tho Birmingham
District Court. Bittleston, official assignee, Birmingham;
Ho4son and Allen, Birmingham.
William Underwood, tailor, Frith-street, Soho, Aug.
13, at two, and September 17, at , at the Court of
Bankruptcy. Graham, official assignee ; Kelly, New
Inn, Strand.
John Stopford Taylor, apothecary, Liverpool, Aug. 18,
and Sept. 8. at eleven, at the Liverpool istrict Court.
zonove, official assignee, Liverpool; Dodge, Live pool.
Robert Johnston and James Jerram Pratt, merchants,
Billiter-square, City, Aug. 14, at half-past one, and Sept.
12, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Cannan, °di-
! cial assignee, A Me: maubury ; Lawrance, Plews,and Boyer,
Old Jewry-chambers.
Richard Thompson Jopling, bookseller, Southampton-
buildings, Holborn, Aug. 15, at half-past twelve, and
Sept. 12, at half-past eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Cannan, official assignee, Aldernaanbury ; Barrow, Clay-
ton-place, Kennington.
John Greatwood, confectioner, Handsworth, Aug. 15,
at hatf-past eleven, and Sept. 4, at ten, at the Birmingham
District Court. Bittlestone, official assignee, Birmingham
Brown, Birmingham.
Francis Jelley, jun.,brewer. Stamford, Aug. 26 and Sept.
16, at half-past ten, at the Nottingham District Court.
Harris, official assignee, Nottingham ; Law, Stamford ;
Ho igson and Allen, Birmingham.
SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS.
I Peter Sinclair, hotel keeper, Waterloo-place, Edinburgh.
John Campbell writer and inauranee agent, Falkirk.

HA.MMERSMITII.—James Bridge, a sausage
and saveloy maker of No. 16, New.street, Notting Intl,
appeared to answer a, summons at the instance of
the Kensington vestry, charging him with having a
quantity of meat which was in the course
of preparation for use, totally unfit for the food of man.
The defendant pleaded not guilty.
Mr. Giles Llveitt, inspector of nuisances for Kensing-
ton, said—On Friday afternoon I went to the defen-
dant's house, and in the back parlour I found a quantity
of beef, some of which was in pickle. I took some of
the meat out of the tub, and found that it was quite pu-
trid. I saw a sack on the floor, in which there were