The Sun.
London, England, 1851-01-01 00:00:00

WESTMINSTER.

Just before the rising of the Court Mts. Eliza Denman
was brought in custody of the police of the V division,
charged with knooking and ringing at the house of her
husban, Mr. John Denman, 5, Besufort-street, Chelsea,
without lawful excuse.

Upun the lady being placed at the table before the
magistrate,

Hunt, the chief usher, handed the New Testament, as
usual, to Mr. John Denman, who had entered the wit-
ness box as complainant, but he refused to be sworn.
Mr. BR')DERIP observing the delay, inquired its
cause? The chief usher replied—This gentleman re-
fuses to be sworn, unless upon a Catholic book. I
have offered him the one with the cross upon it.
Mr. BRODERIP—Do you object to that? Mr. Den-
man—l don't object to the cross.
Mr. BRODERIP—What do you object to? Mr. Den-
man—To the content.; of the bjok.
Mr. BR(DRRIP-1100 Mr. Denman—This is the
Cambridge edition, and it is nut the same as the Ca-
tholic version.

Mr. BRODERIP—You are a Catholic, I [ rentme? Mr.
Denman—Yes, a Cn.tholiu—a R ,man Catholic.

Mr. BRODERIP —W h :it possible objection can you
have to be sworn on this book? Mr. Denman—l have
the greatest possible objection—that I cannot be bound
by it.
Mr. BRODERIP —I never heard such an objection
made before. It is the authorised edition of the New
Testament, used in all courts of justice in this country,
and I cannot see what difficulty you can have in the
matter. You call God to witness that you are speaking
the truth.

Mr. Denman—My conscience must be satisfied. This
translation is not in accordance with the Roman version.

Mr. BRODERIP Can't you be Eatisfied by calling God
to witness the truth on the ordinary book ?
Mrs. Denman (with apparent astonishment) —Mr.
Denman, you were educated for a Protestant clergyman.
Mr. Denman— I am a convert to Itproani,m.
Mr. BRODERIP—Do ) ou still re'use to be sworn in the
ordinary way ? Mr. Denman—l do.
Mr. BRODERIP—Then there is an end of the case. I
have no other means of swearing you.

As the police had no charge to -prefer against the lady
she was dlscharged.

WORSHIP-STREET.

Yesterday Mrs. Mary Verinder, the wife of a trades-
man carrying on extensive business in Crown-street,
Finsbury, was charged upon an information before Mr.
Arnold with having, under the following circumstances,
unlawfully exacted and received a certain sum of money
as an inducement and reward for compounding a felony.
The proceedings were of interest, as serving for a
caution to prosecutors in similar cases.
Eliza Harbidge, a distressed-looking woman, who
gave her evidence against the defendant with manifest
reluctance, stated that about a week since her daughter
was taken into custody for felony, upon a charge of
stealing some brushes belonging to the defendant's hus-
band, and that after undergoing one examination at this
court she was ordered to be remanded for the com-
pletion of the case. Her daughter was locked up
in one of the cells, and witness, who was in
great distress of mind at so serious a charge being
preferred against her child, waited upon the defendant
at her house with the object of inducing her to take a
lenient view of the matter, when some conversation en-
sued between them, and in the course of it defendant in-
timated that he had no with to proceed harshly against
her daughter in tha case, and was perfectly willing to
abandon the charge altogether, upon condition that she
received full compensation for the value of the stolen
property, which she fixed at half-a-crown.
Witness accordingly handed her that amount, and left
the sh,,p, having been previously assured by the defen-
dant that the money should be returned to her, in the
event of the articles stolen being discovered and re-
stored. On the day appointed for the final examination,
her daughter was again brought up, but neither the de-
fendant nor her husband appeared to prosecute the case
any further, and the prisoner, in default of their evi-
dence, was accordingly discharged from custody.
When called upon for her answer to the charge, the
defendant said that the witness had certainly given a
correct representation of the transaction as it occurred,
but she could assure the magistrate that she had been
solely influenced in the course she had pursued by feel-
ings of commiseration for the acute anxiety and distress
the woman had exhibited on account of her daughter's
position, and that she was net at all aware at the time
she was acting in
any other than a very proper and
humane manner.

Mr. ARNOLD, however, told her that the offence she
had committed was ono of a serious decription, and
would inevitably, if tolerated, altogether defeat the ends
of justice. She had rendered herself liable both to in-
dictment and severe punishment; but, as ho felt satisfied
that in this case she had been solely actuated by feelings
of kindness and humanity towards the prisoner's mother,
he trusted that the position in which she then found her-
self placed would act as a warning to hor fur the future
in any similar instance; and he should therefore make
no further example of her than by ordering her to pay
the costs of the present proceedings against her, and
immediately refunding the money she had so wrongfully
received.

The money was, of course, at once paid, and the de-
fendant thereupon liberated.
A gentleman called at the court, and Ili:vested the
reporters to correct a mistake in the notice in the morn-
ing papers of a contribution forwarded fir the poor box
by the Amicable Benevolent Society, Bath-street, City-
road, the amount of which should have been stated at
11. 103., instead of 10s. only.

FATAL RESULT OF A RAILWAY ACCIDENT.,--ill the
Courier of Saturday we recorded the particulars of a fatal
accident which happened to Mr. Pearson, of Preston, colliery
owner. The unfortunate gentleman died on Wednesday
morning, at the Clarence Hotel, where he was removed after
the accident. The body was removed in a shell to Preston
the same evening, and was interred on Friday in Liverpool.
—Nanebester Courier.