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CENTRAL C.RIIIIINAL CO URT--(THIS DAY.)

OLD COURT.
(Before Mr. Baron Cliannell and Mr. Justice Keating.)

THE CASE OF THE REV. MR. HATCH.
The trial of Mary Eugenia Plummer, for perjury, was
resumed this morning (the sth day). The Court, as on the
four preceding days, was very full, and the utmost anxiety
was evinced by persons waiting outside to obtain admission.
Baron Channell, according to the arrangement, com-
menced the summing up of the evidencs to the jury. He
said the prisoner Mary Eugenia Plummer was charged
with wilful and corrupt perjury committed at the trial of
the Rev. Mr. Hatch. Considering the importance of the
trial he was exceedingly glad that he had postponed the
summing up till that morning, because had he not done so
he should have been prevented from having the assistance
of Mr. Justice Keating, who could not have attended
on Saturday. Ho begged the jury to dismiss from
their minds all impressions that might have been made,
save by the evidence they had heard, and to come to a con-
clusion solely by the aid of that testimony. The case be-
fore them was one of the greatest importance to both parties
concerned. The position into which Mr. Hatch had been
placed by the verdict was such that no surprise ought to be
created in consequence of his friends instituting the present
inquiry, because it was the only one open to them by the
law. The present trial had already lasted four days, and
during that time a number of witnesses had been examined,
and it was upon the evidence that had, through them, been
elicited that he implored them to come to a conclusion un-
swerved and uninfluenced by any other considerations. He
did not wish to suggest to them anything that might be
supposed to influence them one way or the other, but he
wished to suggest to them the spirit with which they
ought to be animated whilst deliberating on their
verdict. Tho spirit in which the jury ought to approach
the attainment of the end in view was, to see if the prisoner
was a person against whom the guilt of committing perjury
had been satisfactorily established ; and, in order to arrive
at a clear and settled conclusion, the evidence must be
their only guide. To come to the conclusion that the girl
had committed the crime of perjury, they must arrive at
such an opinion without having the slightest doubt of the
fact on their minds, and if, after fully considering the
evidence, they should be of that opinion, then it would be
their duty, however painful, of returning a verdict of guilty.
But there must be no doubt existing in their minds, and he
could not refrain from saying how fully he acquiesced in
the observations made by the learned counsel for the
defence, by beseeching them against allowing their judg-
ments to be warped or their verdict to depend upon
anything but that which was fully borne out by the evi-
dence. He trusted they would be guided by no hypothetical
conclusions ; that they would not be swayed by the feeling
that the tender age of the child would enable her to outlive
any effect that might be produced by a verdict of guilty
being pronounced. An adverse verdict was of as great
importance to her as it was to Mr. Hatch, whose everything
was at stake. He implored them not to be guided
by doubtful feelings oue way or the other, but
after a calm consideration of the whole facts, to give their
opinion without regard to consequences. In such a state
of things they must be guided entirely by facts, and the
contradictions that had been given to the evidence on the
one side or the other rendered the approach to these facts a
matter of the utmost difficulty. That there was in the evi-
dence contradiction against contradiction, no person
could deny ; and such being the case, he did not
want to express or suggest any theory on which
they could bring their minds to a conclusion that
perjury had been committed on the one side or the other.
They had on one side the direct evidence from Eugenia
Plummer, also that of the younger child Stephanie, and
also that of the parents, who could have neipossible motive
in pressing suck revolting charges against Mr. Hatch ;
but if they looked to the other side the charge against Mr.
Hatch seemed one of the greatest improbability. It would
Rot do to depend upon the oath of one witness against
that of another. The law required something more than oath
against oath. As far as the prisoner was concerned, her mouth
was closed, and to make out a case against her they must
be of opinion that she must have sworn that which she
knew to be false, and if they could have nothing else but
oath against oath then they would not be in a position
to pronounce a verdict against the defendant. The charge
that had been made out against Mr. Hatch in the former
trial appeared most extraordinary, and from the position
he held as a clergyman of the Church of England it
appeared almost an impossibility. That he, on the
very first night the child was brought to his
_house,
should commence his indecent assaults, was most extraor-
dinary, and that after that he should night after night re-
peat the atrocious abominations was scarcely possible. To
add to the atrocity of such conduct seemed to all well-
regulated minds an impossibility, yet it was in evidence
that when the young child Stephanie was taken to his
house, although sho remained there only ono night,
he acted with the same disgusting cruelty towards her.
Such facts had been sworn to, and they might or might not
be true, but that Gel only know. If the statement of the
child was true as to what had taken place in the bed-room,
there could not be a doubt but that Mrs. Hatch was an ac-
complice. It was an unfortunate thing that the position in
which Mr. Hatch was placed, as a clergyman, was no as-
sistance to them, because the annals of that court bore evi-
dence that crimes of the most revolting and atrocious de-
scription had been committed by persons holding the same
sacred profession. Such a circumstance was one of
great and unfeigned regret, yet it was certainly the fact.
The case as it at present stood was one of the most difficult
description, and would require all their attention ; yet that
it would receive their attention he had not the smallest
doubt, and to enable them to come to a clear and decided
opinion it would be his duty to read the whole of the evi-
dence over to them, giving such explanations as he pro-
ceeded as appeared necessary. The learned judge then pro-
ceeded to read the evidence, commenting upon it as he went
on. The first portion read was the statement of the de-
fendant Eugenia Plummer, given by her at the first trial,
which was followed by that given by Mr. Hatch at the
present.
The Jury then retired, but had not de i vered their verdict
when we went to press.

A NOVEL OVERTURN.—As one of Bowers' Per
severance omnibuses was turning the corner of Charing.
cross and Parliament-street this morning, about 9 o'clock,
at a rather rapid rate, owing to the hilly character of the
road at this spot, the hind wheel of the off-side suddenly
flew off, which, after a little vacillation, brought the vehicle
on its side with a fearful crash. Very providentially, the
persons on the top and the driver managed to reach the
ground without sustaining further injury than a sudden
shock at the very unexpected overturn. As may be ima •
gined, however, the omnibus was very much damaged ;
and, had it been full of persons, very serious, if not fatal,
consequences must have ensued.
THE CIVIL SERVICE.—Foreign Department.—The
consulship at Massowah, Abyssinia, has become vacant by
the death of Mr. W. C. M. Plowden; salary £5OO- Wti-
oftice.—A vacancy has occurred in the Accountant-Gene-
ral's branch by the death of Mr W. C. Byers, second-
class clerk. The Admiralty.—Mr G. 1). Laycock has been
appointed a clerk in Somerset-house, and passed his exa-
mination. Inland Revenue Department (Excise Branch).
—Mr. William Lemon, late permit writer, Glasgow collec •
tion, has been appointed permit writer in London, South
collection. Mr. Joseph Anthony Clewarth, supervisor,
Stratford district, Coventry collection, has been appointed
supervisor of Southampton district, Isle of Wight collec-
tion. Mr. William Dearman Hawley, supervisor, Sho -
borne district, Taunton collection, has ly.Tn appointed au
pervisor of Stratford district, Coventry collection.
Mr
Thomas Reilly, supervisor, Limerick district, Limerick
collection, has been appointed supervisor of Sherborne dis-
trict. Taunton collection. Mr. William C. M'Nab, super-
visor, Bells district, Drogheda collection,. has been ap-
pointed supervisor of Limerick district, Limerick collec-
tien. Mr. Maurice Mullaly, supervisor,
.Dublin fourth dis-
trict, Dublin collection, has been appointed supervisor_. of
Kells district, Drogheda collection. b. cotltmd.:—The office
of Crown agent for public proseptions in Sc.otland has
become vacant by the death of
has the
Model National Schools, Dublin, as head female teacher.
Mr. W. J. Welland and Mr. W. Gillespie (one of the in-
spectors of church works under to Ecclesiatical Commis •
sioners) have been appointed architects tos the board, in
the room of the late Mr. Joseph Welland, architect.—
Civil Service Gazette.
IRISH TENANT RIGHT.—The right of the tenant
to hold land at a rent paid by the landlord.---Tunch,