The Sun.
London, England, 1851-07-26 00:00:00

JULY 26, 1851.

rang:merit for newspapers on the whole;' that he does
not consider it a tax,' but a payment made to the
Post-office for services which he does not think could
be so efficiently performed in any other way for much
more cost.' Other witnesses do not participate in this
opinion, nor is it supported by the Post-office authorities.
It appears to your Committee that newspapers do not
practically enjoy such favourable terms for transmission
by post as other printed matter; for while newspapers
are compelled to stamp every copy of their impression,
whether sent by post or not, other publications, up to
the weight of 2 oz., obtain, by virtue of a Treasury
minute, the same freedom from postage as newspapers,
by registering as newspapers, and by stamping only so
many copies as are actually required to be sent by post.
If the newspaper stamp were allowed to be affixed only
to such copies of newspapers as go through the post, it
might then assume the character of a mere equivalent
for postal services; but in those canes, especially in that
of provincial papers where the post is little used, the
compulsory stamp upon every copy can be viewed in no
other light than that of a tax. In reality, however, the
freedom from postage charge is not alwap accorded
to newspapers in return for the newspaper stamp. As
en instance of this, your Committee think it right to ad-
vert to an anomaly that exists with regard to the trans-
mission of newspayers by postage, viz., that in the Lon-
don district, a circle of three miles round the General
Post-office, and where the post might be of much use,
for the distribution of newspapers, a stamped newspaper
is charged a penny if posted in one part of this district
to be transmitted to another. Your Committee do not
see any good reason for this regulation, and would,
therefore recommend that it be abolished.
" Your Committee find that considerable evasions of the
postage charge take place under cover or pretence of
stamped newspapers; that letters and unstamped pub-
lications and parcels are sent concealed within rolls of
stamped newspapers; and that unstamped and foreign
newspapers are occasionally passed without being sub-
jected to charge. This is partly admitted by the Post-
office authorities, who attribute much of the evasion to
the papers which pass through the Post-office by virtue
of the Treasury minute of 1833. It is clear that in a
department transmitting daily from 120,000 to 260,000
papers, and which are dispatched within two or three
hours after the greater portion of them aro received,
nothing but an extravagantly large force of examiners
could prevent evasion.
"If a revenue is to be derived from the postage of
newspapers, it is worthy of consideration whether it
would not be simpler and more economical that the col-
lection of such revenue should be managed, as in the
case of letters, directly by the Post-office rather than
indirectly by another department. Were this suggestion
adopted, and the present newspaper stamp abolished,
your Committee see no reason to doubt that the Post-
office authorities would devise means of regulating the
transmission and distribution by post of newspapers, if
not of all printed matter, at a small charge, not exceeding
a penny for each packet up to a weight equal to that of
the largest existing newspaper, without exposing the
revenue to the frauds to which the present system un-
avoidably renders it subject. In passing, it may be right
to mention the peculiar use which is sometimes made of
the existing privilege of sending papers within the
United Kingdom, free from postage charge for ever, in
virtue of the original Somerset-house stamp. Mr. Park-
hurst, senior clerk in the office of the secretary of the
Post-office (Evidence 1,677), says, ' We know that news-
papers are sent as waste paper very often through the
post; there have been cases of very old bundles of
papers being sent in that way.'
" There is, however, a consideration conuected with
the additional cost supposed to be caused by the impo-
sition of the stamp on' newspapers, which requires a
particular notice, viz.—the right of gratuitous transmis-
sion of newspapers through post. Mr. Smith, the head
of a London newspaper agency firm, which has been
established for the last 60 years, and which trsnsmits
about one-seventh of all the London daily papers, states
distinctly that the re-transmission of newspapers is car-
ried on to tt'neost enormous extent, so as greatly toreduce
the cost of their newspaper to those least able to pay for
ia He gives instances in which the cost of tho Times is
thus reduced to 2d. and even to ld., and yet read by the
last person in the series en the second morning after
publication; and he adds, that the number of persons
thus receiving the, best newspapers at a very cheap rate,
is exceedingly numerous, and that the proposed charge
of a penny for each re-transmission would in fact pre-
vent them, probably, from taking any paper at all, un-
less it was a weekly paper.
" Oa the whole, considering on the ono hand the va-
rious modes now in use by railways and private agency,
of distributing newspapers through the country; and, on
the other, the frauds upon the Post-office from unstamped
publications being now unavoidably carried-"pest free;
seeing, in short, that in many cases the stamp is paid
where no postal advantages aro received, and in other
cases the stamp is not paid where postal advantages are
obtained, your Committee are of opinion that immediate
steps should bo taken to place the regalations, affecting
the transmission of newspapers and other printed matter
by post on a more satisfactory footing.
"In examining witnesses as to the operation of the
law on the newspaper press, it is found that an opinion
prevails to some small extent that the maintenance of
the stamp has the effect of rendering newspapers more
respectable than they would be if free from that restrict-
tion. After weighing the reasons for such opinion, your
Committee conclude that it does not rest on any good
foundation. No deterioration of the newspaper press,
but on the contrary an improvement followed the re-
duction of the stamp which took place in 1836; and
doubtless the character of newspapers would continue to
improve in proportion to the advance in public taste and
morals, although the stamp should be entirely abolished.
It is stated by one of the witnesses, as an object to the
removal of the stamp that a new class of journals would
spring up, if the stamp were repealed, in the smaller
towns and country districts, and that it would be (Evi-
dence 1,555) a misfortune that there should be local
papers of a more petty character than at present exist.'
The general bearing of nearly all the other evidence is
of a contrary tendency; and the unanimous opinion of
those gentlemen who, being persons who had devoted
attention to the education and social improvement of the
working classes, were specially examined on this branch
of the subject, was to the effect that moral advantages
might be expected to follow the establishment of cheap
local newspapers.
" Your Committee concur with the proprietor of the
Liverpool Journal in thinking that the cheapening the
cost of existing provincial papers would extend their cir-
culation and improve their quality; while they also be-
lieve that, should a new class of small and cheap local
papers arise, they would occupy a field hitherto not
reached by existing newspapers, and be the vehicles of
knowledge to large classes of persons who otherwise
would get no newspaper at all.
" The present extensive sale of penny publications, as
shown by the evidence (Evidence 2,494 and 2,509),
abundantly proves the desire among the humbler classes
for some kind of reading and mental improvement; bat
the stamp prevents the penny paper from containing a
record of the current events of life, thus depriving the
readers of small periodicals, who are for the most part
persons living by labour or of limited means, of that most
useful knowledge, the news of the day; for which, as is
stated by Mr. Abel Heywood, a gentleman extensively
engaged in supplying cheap literature, as the result of
his experience' among the class of readers alluded to,
there is a greater desire than for any other kind of in-
formation. It may be said, with truth, that the news-
paper stamp prohibits the existence of such newspapers
as from their price and character would be suitable to
the means and wants of the labouring classes.
" The question of pirating articles of intelligence by
one newspaper from another, has been brought under
the notice of your Committee by witnesses conversant
with the newspaper press, and favourable to the aboli-
tion of the duty. The established newspapers—particu-
larly the London daily press—collect the valuable infor-
mation which they report to the public at a very great
expense, and publish it at a very costly celerity. It has
been stated that if the newspaper duty were abolished,
there would be great temptation to the numerous half-
penny and penny publications which would then spring
up, to pirate the public intelligence collected at so much
cost and exertion. It has been proposed that some short
privilege of copyright should therefore be conferred.

" YOur ConYmittee consider it their duty to direct
attention to the objections and abuses incident to the
present system of newspaper stamps, arising from the
difficulty of defining and detorming the meaning of
the term news ;' to the inequalities which exist in
the application of the Newspaper Stamp Act, and
the anomalies and evasions that it occasions in postal
arrangements; to the unfair competition to which
stamped newspapers are exposed with unstamped publi-
cations; to the limitation imposed by the stamp upon the
circulation of the best newspapers, and to the impedi-
ments which it throws in the way of the diffusion of use-
ful knowledge regarding current and recent events among
the poorer classes, which species of knowledge, re-
lating to subjects which most obviously interest them,
call out the intelligence by awakening the curiosity of
those classes.

" How far it may be expedient that this tax should be
maintained as a source of revenue, either in its present
or in any modified form, your Committee do not feel
themselves called upon to state; other considerations,
not within their province, would enter into that question.
But, apart from fiscal considerations, they do not consi-
der that news is of itself a desirable subject of taxation.
" July 18, 1851,"

THE WATER COMMITTEE.—On Thursday, Mr. Scott,
of Liverpool, was called on behalf of the companies and ex-
amined relative to the water economy of that city. Mr.
Gibb, civil engineer, in the drainage of the Haarlem Lake,
and other works, deposed from his experience of public
works in general, that in conducting matters of this kind
individual enterprise was best, joint-stock enterprise the
next best, and municipal control the most imperfect
species of management. The witness was about to be ex-
amined with reference to a repert which he had made on
the subject of the Farnham and Bagshot new sources of
supply as contained in the report of the Board of Health,
when Mr. James, Q.C., objected to the tenor the exami-
nation was about to take, as not being in accordance with the
resolution of the Committee, which directed that the residue
of the inquiry should relate to the general management of
the London companies. Mr. Sergeant Bellasis replied that it
was only fair the companies should have an opportunity of
refuting the unfair and fallacious statements contained in
the reports of the Board of Health. The Honourable Chair-
man said it would be remembered that none of these reports
were signed by Lord Seymour, the Chief Commissioner of
Woods and Forests; and he thought that, for the remain-
ing objects of their inquiry, it would be as well to assume
that the River Lee, the New River, and the Thames above
sewer point, should be taken as unexceptionable sources
of supply, leaving the other numerous sources to be looked
on as auxiliaries. The witness was cross-examined at great
length by Mr. James, and the Committee rose at four o'clock.
Yesterday the Committee were occupied throughout the
sitting with the evidence of Mr. Wickstead, the engineer of
the East London Company.

Dispatches were sent off yesterday evening from the
Colonial-office, for the Governors of the North American
colonies.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT, July 25.
(Before Sir J. L. KNIGHT BRUCE
MURRAY V. INGRAM—" BOSWELL'S LIFE OF JOHNSON"—
COPYRIGHT.
This motion was brought.on to-day. It prayed " that an
injunction might be granted against the defendant, Her-
bert Ingram, his servants and agents, to restrain him
and them from printing, publishing, selling, or disposing
of, or being in any way concerned in the printing, pub-
lishing, selling, or disposing of, any copy or copies or
volume or volumes of a certain work, published, sold, and
brought out by him, called The Life of Samuel John-
son, by James Boswell, Esq.,' containing any notes or
note, passages or passage, or copy taken or colourable
altered from any note or notes, written and composed
by Mr. John Wilson Croker, as in the bill filed in this
cruse mentioned and distinguished as therein mentioned
in the plaintiff's editions of the work." In consequence
of the short interval which had elapsed since the notice
of motion, the defendant, had instructed his counsel to ask
that the motion might stand over until next week, to
enable him to prepare affidavits negativing the allega-
tion of piracy. The question was, what undertaking the
parties would give in the interval. The defendant stated
that the third volume of his edition of the work was an-
nounced to appear on Monday, when it was expected that
10,000 volumes would. be sold.
His HONOUR inquired of Mr. Russell and Mr. Gif-
fard, who appeared tor Mr. Murray, whether they would
be willing to give an undertaking to be answerable in da-
mages to the defendant, if
.they should fail-in establish-
initheir allegation of copyright.
Mr. RUSSELL assented to this.

Mr. P. BURKE (who appeared with Mr. Moore for
the defendant) said the plaintiff's affidavits did not give
them any information as to the passages in the two works
which were so similar as to justify the suspicion of an
unfair use of Mr. Croker's notes, and the defendant was
not therefore prepared to meet this motion. If the de-
fendant were restrained from publishing the third volume
on Monday, it would probably c2casion to him a loss of
5,0001.

Mr. RUSSELL said if the defendant would furnish him
to-day with a copy of the forthcoming work, and would
give an undertaking to be answerable for any damages
to the plaintiff from the publication of the three volumes,
he would offer no opposition to the request for postponing
the case.

Mr. BURKE denied the right of the plaintiff to ask for
any undertaking extending to the third volume, as the
notice of motion was only directed to the volumes already
published. He was willing that the defendant should
keep an account of the sales of the three volumes. He
was instructed that the defendant had a good defence,
although there had not been time fully to instruct
counsel as to the details or nature of it.
His HONOUR expressed surprise that counsel shoul d
have been so instructed without being informed of the
nature of the defence. He must pursue the usual course
of examining personally the passages in the plaintiff's
and in the defendant's edition.

Mr. RUSSELL and Mr. GIFFARD then called the at-
tention of his Honour to four instances of alleged piracy,
and referred to the corresponding pages in both volumes.
In reference to one instance, his HONOUR observed,
" the source of information is here acknowledged by
the defendant. Now that in one sense, and in one point
of view, is candour; in another point of view, there
may be those who may think it may be called some-
thing else."
The other instances having been examined and the
passages in the notes compared,
Mr. MOORE, for the defendant, objected that the plain-
tiff's affidavit did not show any originality in the author-
ship of Mr. Croker's notes.

His HoNoun, after hearing Mr. Russell, read passages
from the affidavit to prove this, said there was so strong
a probability in the case evinced by three of the instances,
without saying anything of the fourth, that something
must be done on this occasion. Tho defendant's counsel
had act:d rightly in refusing to give any undertaking in
respect of the forthcoming volume. If the defendant
would give the undertaking asked in the words of the
notice of motion, the forthcoming volume would not be
affected by it, and the motion might be postponed.
Mr. BURKE said nothing could be more fair on the part
of the defendant than to undertake to keep an account
of the volumes already published, as well as of that to he
published, on Monday.
The VICE•CHANCLLLOR—The plaintiff undertaking to
too answerable in damages, I grant the injunction. Take
twenty-four hours' notice of motion ter dissolving it.
Take the injunction, as asked, without prejudice to any
question.

- /dr. BURKE said the defendant would undertake to be
answerable is damages, and in the language of the notice
of motion.

The VICE-CHANCELLOR—Then' both parties under-
take to abide by any order that this Court may make
respecting damages, and the defendant without prejudice
gives an undertaking, in the language of the notice of
motion, until further order. But, notwithstanding that
undertaking, the defendant is to be at liberty, without
prejudice to any question, to continue until further order
to issue and sell the volumes already published, keeping
an account thereof. If the third volume shall not be a
breach of the undertaking, well: if it shall be a breach
of the undertaking, the defendant will be committed as
sure as he is born. Let this motion stand over until
this day week, the defendant filing such ailidavits, if any,
as ho may desire to file, on or before Thursday next.
Mr. RUSSELL asked that copies of the affidavits might
be furnished to him before that time.
The VICE-CHANCELLOR—YOU must not be hard on
the defendant after that undertaking. Is must be at
your expense.

Mr. EIISSELL assented, and further asked to have a
copy of the third volume to-morrow (Saturday) night.
The VICE-CHANCELLOR—Let Mr. Russell have a
copy tomorrow of that which all the world is to have
on Monday, and let him pay for it.
Mr. RussELL—We will pay for it, but without pre-
judice.
The VICE-CHANCELLOR—Mr. Russell shall have back
his 3s. 6d. if the merits shall give it to him.

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.
WESTERN ClRCUlT.—Dorchester, July 24.
The commission was opened here yesterday afternoon,
and the judges having arrived at an early hour, were
able to go to church and discharge all the necessary
preliminaries so as to be enabled to commence the actual
business of the assizes at ten o'clock this morning. The
consequence was a paucity of grand jurymen at the hour
when the roll was called, but owing to this arrangement
the whole of the business, civil and criminal, was com-
pletely disposed of by six o'clock--the hour fixed for the
judges' dinner to the magistracy. Such a circumstance
as that of the disposal of the whole civil and criminal
business of this county in eight hours has not occurred
for many years.

CROWN COURT. •
MANSLAUGHTER.-71 Garland, attired in a smock
frock, was arraigned upon the coroner's inquisition for
the wilful murder of Captain George Frederick Symes,
at Lyme Regis. The bill for murder having, under
the direction of the judge, been ignored by the
grand jury, the prisoner Wa3 tried only for the
lesser offence. Mr. Stock, who prosecuted, stated the
case to the jury. The prisoner was a labourer, living at
' Lyme, and the deceased was a gentleman, of fifty-two
years of age, who had been a captain in the Madras
Artillery, and had several yearn since retired to Lymo
Regis. On the 14th of April Captain Symes was sit-
ting in his own house, and cries of " Murder !" were
heard proceeding from the road. Captain Symes and
other persons immediately went to the spot. The pri-
soner Garland was lying on and pummelling a man named
Beer, with whom he was proceeding to Lyme, when ho
quarrelled with him, and struck him down. Captain
Symes and his neighbours with some difficulty rescued
Beer from the clutches of the prisoner, who swore
he would do for the captain, and after knocking
his hat off he rushed at him, threw him down,
knelt on his body, and no doubt - veould have
proceeded to other acts of violence if he had
not been forcibly taken off him. The unfortunate de-
ceased was at once raised to his feet, when it was dis-
covered that ho had lost the use of one side, and was in
a state of complete insensibility. Medical aid was sum-
moned, but so severe were the injuries he had received
that the next morning, after having remained insensible
since the attack, he expired.
The prisoner asserted that he had not the slightest in-
tention of injuring the unfortunate gentleman. It was
all done, he said, "by a twist." Captain Symes wanted
to go away from Lyme, and he wanted to go to Lyme,
and in jerking himself out of Captain Symes's grasp the
injuries were occasioned. In support of this view of the
case, he cross-examined the constable of Lymo Regis,
inquiring if the captain did not say, when asked if he
had any charge to prefer, " Oh, not much; its only a bit
of a brush." The constable acknowledged that he had
used these words, and the judge remarked that he ought
to have stated them in his evidence in chief.
The jury at once convicted the prisoner, and
Mr. Justice COLERIDGE sentenced 'him to be trans-
ported for 20 years.

NORTHERN CIRCUIT.—York, July 24.
CROWN COURT.—(Before Mr. Justice WILLIAMS.)
William Scott, who was convicted of feloniously shoot-
ing at Sophia Widdop, at Leeds, with intent to murder
her, was sentenced to be transported for ten years.
SHOOTING A POLICEMAN AT LEEDS.—James Morton,
26, was charged with having, on the 31st of March last,
at Leeds, attempted to shoot Henry Mirfield, with in-
tent, &c.

The prosecutor is a police-officer in the Leeds force,
and on the morning of the 31st of March last, about two
o'clock, he was on his beat in Kirkgate, when he ob-
served the prisoner lying upon the door-step of an inn,
situated in that street. He was apparently asleep, and
the officer took hold of him by the collar with the inten-
tion
of awaking him. The prisoner at first refusedto
get up, but at length did so. Mirfield asked the
t pri.
pri-
soner what he was doing there, and be replied
hav-
ing no bed to go to he had consequently laidhimself
ssar
which was
down upon the step. Whilst this conversation
going on the prisoner pulled out a loaded to
ho presented at the head of the police officer, but,
al-
though the hammer went down, the pistol fortunately
p rt
ea dn an f rs'ecaonndd
time to discharge the pistol, but
immediaatttoelmY
missed fire. The prisoner
whilst he was making his exit be failed in so doing. Mir-
and the prisoner was apprehended
field sprung his rattle,
by a person in the street.
In defence the prisoner said the officer struck him vio-
lently with a stick over the back several times before he
pulled out the pistol.
Guilty—To be transported for life.

MIDLAND ClRCUlT.—Nottinghon, July 25.
CROWN COURT.—(Before Mr. Baron PAattE )
THE POISONING AT EASTWOOD.
Sarah Barber, aged 22, dressmaker, and Robert In-
gram, aged 19, butcher, were indicted for the wilful
murder of Joseph Barber, the husband of the first
named prisoner, at Eastwood, on the 24th of March last,
The female prisoner is a very tall and rather good-

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lo oking woman, but upon her appearance in the dock
and during the progress of the trial her behaviour, was • ti
remarkably indifferent and unconcerned. Ingrate 011:
the other hand, preserved throughout an attitude and
appearance of the deepest attention.
Mr. Macaulay, Q.C., and Mr. Denison conducted the
prosecution; Mr. O'Brien defended Sarah Barber, and
Mr. Cockle defended Ingram.

It appeared that the deceased, Joseph Barber, was a
horse jobber, in comfortable circumstances, residing at
Eastwood, in this county. He died en Thursday night,
the 20th of March, at the age of thirty-five years. At
that time he had been married to the female prisoner
five years; but she had no family. The deceased for
some wees before his death had been unwell, and
suffering from pains in the joints, for which he had
bear attended by Mr. Smith, a surgeon, at Eastwood,
and his assistant, Mr. Mather. Mr. Mather left
Mr. Smith's on the 23d or 24th of March, or the begin-
ning of April, and had had not appeared since. He was
called upon his recognizance as a witness, and upon
his non-appearance that recognizance was entreated.
It was said that he had left the country. Ou the Sunday
before his death tho deceased was riding out in a gig
with the prisoner Ingram, who lived near him, and who
assisted in nursing him during his illness; but he had a
bad night on the Tuesday following, and on the Wed-
nesday was so much worse that his mother was sent for.
His mother remained with him until 11 o'clock on the
Thursday morning, when he appeared better. After she
had left he again became worse, and at twelve o'clock
he died. On the following Monday an inquest was held,
which was adjourned from time to time, in order to afford
opportunities for an examination of the body. At first
Messrs. Smith and Mather did not succeed in discover-
ing arsenic in the stomach; but its contents were pre-
served and afterwards subjected to various tests by Pro-
fessor Taylor and other medical gentlemen of eminence,
who ascertained that arsenic was present in sufficient
quantities to have caused death. The circumstances ad-
duced in evidence for the purpose of bringing home to the
prisoners the charge of wilfully administering poison to
the deceased were very numerous, and many of them
minute. The female prisoner and the deceased had
not always lived on very good terms, and on some
occasions she had used threatening language towards
him. About two years ago she had left him for seven
months and gone to France with another man, accord-
ing to the statement of the mother of the deceased ; but
the deceased went and brought her back. Since that
time they continued to live together ; and the deceased
on his death-bed spoke in terms of gratitude for the
kindness and attention which his wife and the other pri-
soner had shown to him during his illness. Both pri-
soners, however, were proved to have purchased arsenic
shortly before the death; they had admitted the purchas-
ing of arsenic on the Friday and the Wednesday before;
it had been purchased openly for the avowed purpose of
destroying mice, with which the house of the deceased
was very much infested. The statement of the prisoners,
however, was that the pennyworth bought on the Fri-
day was. burnt, and the pennyworth bought on the
Wednesday lost. Neither of them, however, had made
any disclosure of the purchase by Ingram of a third
pennyworth of arsenic at Bulwell, on the Sunday morn-
ing, when the deceased was ridingout with him in a gig.
The case for the prosecution having been closed, Mr.
O'Brien addressed the jury for Sarah Barber, and Mr.
Cockle for the prisoner Ingram.
The Learned JUDGE sumrLacd up, and the jury found
Sarah Barber Guilty, and Acquitted Ingram.
The Learned JUDGE then passed sentence of death on
Sarah Barber, without hope of mercy.

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POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
GUILDHALL.
Mr. George Lake, of 49, Cheapside, eating-house-
keeper, who was charged last week with violating the
person of Emma Gardiner, his servant, appeared yester-
day, in discharge of his bail, before Alderman Wilson
and Sir Chapman Marshall, for further examination re-
lative to that charge.
Mr. Ballantine, instructed by Messrs. Humphreys and
Morgan, appeared for Mr. Lake.

Eaima Gardiner was called through the precincts of
;h© court, but did not answer to her nc,...ne.

Mr. Ballantine said he was very anxious that no mis.
take should occur in this matter, and that in consequence
of the girl's non--attendance, he had come to the conclu-
sion it was the duty of the defendant to charge the cora-
-1 plainant with wilful and corrupt perjury. With regard
to the assignment, the specific charge would be that of
" falsely charging Mr. Lake with entering her bed-room
in the night and committing a rape upon her person."
lie had no doubt that she well knew he had witnesses
present who could refute the whole charge, and there-
fore kept out of the way in ord,r that by her absence
she might avoid being placed in a very unfavourable
position. lie attended now with the view of asking the
worthy alderman for a warrant for her apprehension.
The WI tuesses present could prove that Mr. Lake's whole
conduct towards tho girl was irreproachable, and that he
had not even spoke to or looked at her in any other
manner than that of a master towards his servant. He
therefore hoped that the magistrate would take the evi-
dence of the defendant, for the purpose of issuing tho
warrant without any further delay.
Alderman WILSON said there could be no mistake
about the time, as the girl and her father were both pre-
sent when the case was remanded, and they were par-
ticularly told to be in attendance on Friday morning at
eleven o'clock.

Mr. Ballantino said Mr. Lake was desirous, in order
to vindicate his character from such a serious charge,
that the girl should be examined by a medical gentle-
man. She had been examined, and by her own request
the surgeon who examined her was present. She finds
that the surgeon's evidence will be fatal to her case, and
therefore, feeling the effects of her crime, has failed to
appear.

Alderman WILSON said on the last examination the
case was ready for committal for trial; but he thought it
due to the defendant to remand the case to allow of the
girl undergoing an examination, and for defendant to
produce witnesses in his defence.

- After hearing the sworn statements of Mr. and Mrs.
Lake, the charwoman, and a boy who lived in the house,
Alderman WILSON said he had heard sufficient to
justify him in granting a warrant.
The depositions were then made out, and the warrant
was issued.

LAMBETH.
MASQUERADING, OR ROYALTY IN TROUBLE.--Amongst
the " disorderlies" brought before the magistrate was
Jane Griffiths, a full-grown, jolly-looking, young woman,
dressed in the character of " Charles IL," and whose ap-
pearance at the bar in the gorgeous trappings of the
" Merry Monarch," and their somewhat bemudded ap-
pearance, caused considerable laughter.
The charge against her was that of being found in
Kennington-lane, at four o'clock on that morning, so
right royally drunk as to be scarcely able to move, and
certainly not capable of taking care of herself.
Mr. NORTON (to the prisoner—the dexter side of
whose jolly countenance was much disfigured with a
" gravel rash")—Well what have you got to say to the
charge of being so drunk? You have been masquerad-
ing, I perceive. Prisoner (holding her hand over that
part of her face so severely grazed)—Yes, your Worship;
I had been to Vauxhall.

- Air. NORTON—Might I ask what was the character you
assumed? Prisoner—Charles IL, sir. I have had the
misfortune to drink a little too much wine, but still I
think they should have shown more respect for a
monarch than to have locked him up.—(Laughter.)
You perceive, your Worship, I have had a tumble down,
and caught the " gravel-rash," and what was worse,
some evil-disposed subject " boned" my handsome black
wig, with long fi9Viing locks and curls.—(Laughter.)
Mr. NORTON—I supposel you were disposed to sup-
port the character to the life, to get drunk and be locked
up; for this, I believe, was rather in character? Pri-
soner—lt was, your Vorship.—(Much laughter.)
Mr. NORTON—WeII, as this is the first time we have
had Charles 11. here, I shall discharge him on the pay-
ment of the usual drunkard's fee.
Prisoner—The fact is, your Worship, that all the
money I have about me is merely sufficient to pay for a
cab to take me to my lodgings in Waterloo-road, and as
it would not be quite decorous for me to walk through
the streets in these trappings, I hope your Worship will
not think of again locking up or further detaining the
King.—(Loud laughter.)
Cook (the gaoler)—Are your friends aware of where
you are? Prisoner—No; but I dare say they l'us
pest.—(Ronewcd laughter.)
• lit send
Cock—Because I was going to say you might home for your proper dress, so as tu be fit to appear in
the street.
Prisoner—Oh, his Worship will leave me
pay for a cab.
in hands of the
M he
r. NORTON—WeII, you are the means to
gaoler, auo I dare say he will not be verynt e
The prisoner here left the court amidst
withtehfreailiao you.ufdr
oema
laughter, in which the magistrate could n
joining.
The drunkard's fine being remitted,she Loon after left
in a cab for her lodgings_l

CLERKS ASSOCIATION.
of the meeting held at the
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Yours, &c.,
j. W. WELCH.
July 25,1851.
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THE HON. CAROLINE C. BOYLE—We understand
this lady was overturned in a carriage near the seat of the
Earl of Cork, on Saturday
now happily recovering. last.. The coachman was much
bruised, and Miss Boyle sustained severe concussion of the
brain and the spine, from which she 1.9