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London, England, 1860-12-04 00:00:00

THE SUN, LOND6N, TUESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 4, 1860.

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irr INTELLIGEN CE.-(TRIS DAT)

COURT OF EXCHEQUER.
(Before the Lord Chief Baron and a Special Jury.)
Ho/IN V. LEVER.

This was an action of compensation for services rendered
and money lent in forming a company called the Galway
Line of Mail Packets to North America. The defendant
pleaded never indebted.
It appeared that the parties had entered into a verbal
agreement to form the above company, and the balance-
sheet showed a balance in favour of the company of assets,
£317,550 (value of ship, £27,700; Mr. Lever's interest in
the company, valued at £279,856, and £10,000), and the
plaintiff claimed an adequate remuneration for his services
in forming the company according to agreement.
The case was resumed this morning,- and the counsel for
the plaintiff, without going before the jury, elected to be
nonsuited.

The plaintiff was nonsuited accordingly.

PROBATE AND DIVORCE.
(Before Sir C. Cresswell and a Special Jury.)
DENT. V. DENISON.

The question at issue in this case was, whether or not a
will, admitted to have been executed by the late Mr.
Frederick William Dent, the celebrated watch and
chronometer maker, of 61, Strand, was cancelled, the
plaintiff, who is the mother of the testator, alleging that
it was destroyed by his direction.
Mr. M. Chambers, Q.C., having finished his address
for Mr. Denison, called that gentleman into the witness
box, and examined him at great length as to his acquaint-
ance and friendship with the late Mr. Dent.
Dr. Partridge, the surgeon of Spring-gardens, who had
attended Mr. Dent in his last illness, was under examina-
tion when we went to press.
The case will not conclude to-day.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE ( THIS DAY.)

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

MURDEROUS AFFRAY.—Henry Lennox, clerk, a tall,
powerful young man, who gave his address, 66, Mount
Pleasant, Lime-street, Liverpool, was charged before Mr.
Beadon with violently assaulting with a poker a French-
woman, named Emma Mercier, living at 11, Queen-street,
Gnld - Ariu are .
Mr. Lewis, of Great Marlborough-street, appeared for
the prosecutrix, who seemed in a weakly state and to
have received serious injury.

The prosecutrix said the prisoner came to her house, said
he was a rich man, who had no money with him, but that
he would give her a half-crown. She told him to leave,
when he shut the door, and seizing the poker struck her on
the head with it and also kicked and threw her on a sofa,
breaking it in doing so. She tried to get out of the room,
but could not, the prisoner having injured the lock. He
tried to get out of the window, but could not, and a con-
stable coming in found him singing. She felt very ill, but
had not been to a medical man.

Mary Ann Barclay, living at the same house as the pro-
secutrix, proved going up to her on hearing cries of " Mur-
der I " but the room door was fastened, and when she did
get in she found the prisoner with a poker in his hand, and
the "prosecutrix was bleeding from the head.
Waterson, 144 C, said that hearing cries of " Murder "
that morning he went to the house, 11, Queen-street. At
the door he found a female, who said, " Oh, policeman,
come upstairs, there's a man killing a woman." He pre-,
ceeded upstairi, and there found the prosecutrix bleeding
from a wound in the head lying on the sofa. The prisoner
had nothing in his hand at the time. A female came up-
stairs and said that the prisoner had struck the prosecutrix
on the head with a poker. The prisoner said he wanted to
get out of the house but could not.

By the prisoner—The poker was hot, and your hand was
burnt in three places.
A formidable stick wok here produced belonging to the
prisoner, found on the floor of the room.
Mr. Beadon said one thing was perfectly clear. The
man was found with a hot poker in his hand, and it was
most probable the woman had taken it out of the fire, and
the prisoner caught hold of it, the assault being made on
hi

im first. The question was what was thp nature of the

wound.

Prisoner said the woman locked him in the room, and he
wanted to leave. She threw his hat in the fire. He ham-
mered at the door, but no one came. She seized the poker,
and it was in trying to get it from her that his hand was
burnt. They had a desperate struggle. He went to the
door to try to get out, when she rushed at him again, and
another struggle took place. The blow on her head was
caused by his warding off a blow, and she then rubbed the
blood over her face and cried " Murder." The constable
then came and he was taken into custody.

Evidence having been given that the wound was caused
by something like a poker,

Mr. Beadon, believing there was some truth in prisoner's
statement, fined him 405., or a month's imprisonment.
RIGHT IN HIS RECKONlNG.—Frederick Hamilton, a
young man, described as a copper plate maker, was charged
before Mr. Beadon with stealing an Inverness cape of the
value of 30s. from the shop, and the property of Mr. Wm.
Foster Smith, hosier', &c., 8, Coventry-street.
The prisoner was seen by Gordon, 336 A, to take the cape
from the prosecutor's doorway and make off, but being
pursued into Whitcomb-street, was caught by the constable
with the cape, bearing a large shop ticket on it, -in his pos-
session. On being brought back the prisoner said he
supposed he should get 6 mouths for it, and his supposition
turned out correct, for Mr. Beadon sent him to prison for
that term with hard lab Our, the prisoner as he was leaving
the deck seeming quite satisfied at the result, and expressing
his intention of " doing it on his head."

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

TATTXRSALLS'—YESTERDAY.
DERBY>
30 to 1 agst Nautilus (taken) '
50 to 1 agst Copernicus (taken)
50 to 1 agst Forester (taken)
50 to 1 agst Overton (taken)
66 to 1 agst Kildonan (taken)

6000 to 300 art the mares

CITY BETTING.-(YESTERDI.Y),
CROYDON STAKES.

4to 1 agst Heads or Tails (~aken)
sto 1 agst Johnny (offered')
6to 1 agst King William (taken)
6to 1 agst Doubtful (talcen)
INNKEEPERS' PLATT.

3to 1 agst Friar of Apshall (taken)
sto 1 agst Sunbeam (t'.ken)
6to 1 agst Bannockburn (taken)
GRAND METROPOLITAN STEEPLECHASE.
6to 1 agst Topsy (talen)
7to 1 agst Omar Pasb a (taken)
7to 1 agst Doubtful
Bto 1 agst King Wl,lliam (offered)
Bto 1 agst Medora (taken)
10 to 1 agst Nelly
10 to 1 agst Tuml•,ler
10 to 1 agst Hazzard
10 to 1 agst Roscommon (offered)
12 to 1 agst Curate (offered)
From 12 to 15 agst A ny other
DERBY.

MR. MASON JOIVES "ON GARIBALDI AND

ITALT."

Last evening, the large room of the Manchester
Tree-trade Hall was filled with a crowded audience
to hear Mr. Mason Jones, who has just retutned
from Naples, deliver, for the first time in England
an oration on " Garibaldi and Italy." The address
occupied fully two hours; and, although Mr.
Jones had occasionally to refresh his memory by a
glance at his "notes," the interest of the audience
never flagged. The day before Mr. Jones left
Naples, Garibaldi desired him to express to Eng-
lishmen his deep and abiding gratitude, not only
for their material aid, but far more for the moral
sympathy he had received from them in the great
struggle in which he had been engaged. Garibaldi
said he owed to England a debt of gratitude
which he could never repay, but which he would
never forget ; and if Italy ever became one and
united, England might reckon upon her as an ally,
though her alliance might not prove so expensive I
as that of some of which she could boast. (Ap-
plause.) Mr. Jones gave a rapid outline of Gari-
baldi's life, social and political, from his birth to
the revolution in Rome, in 1848 ; and then graphi-
cally sketched the leading incidents of Garibaldi's
progress in liberating Sicily and part of Italy. The
first thing that struck him in Garibaldi's character
was the union of good with great qualities. It was
the morale of the man that most impressed him,
and that was the secret of the immense influence
he exercised, and of the ardent attachment which
was shown towards him by the Italian people. He
was gentle as a lamb, confiding as a girl, tender as
a woman, simple as a child, brave as a lion. But
Garibaldi was not without his faults. As a military
man he lacked the genius of organisation. Wherever
he (Mr. Jones) went in Naples, he was struck with the
want of order, respect, and discipline. Everybody
went everywhere; no one knew his position ; and
the duties of nobody were sharply defined. There
was no regular commissariat ; the material of war
was wanting for the army,'although all the stores
and arsenals in Naples bursting with supplies.
They had no guns for the gunners, and no gunners
for the guns. There were two regiments of cavalry
in Naples, only they had no horses—(laughter)—
and yet there were thousands of horses in the stables
or the corrupt nobility, who had fled from fear of the
revolution. So exalted, however, were Garibaldi's
notions of honour that he would not take one of
them. Mr. Jones gave a harrowing description of
the torments endured by prisoners in the dungeons
of Naples (many of which he had inspected with the
correspondent of the Times); and remarked that
no language could possibly exaggerate the horrible
character of these places. The Neapolitans, he
considered, were thoroughly degraded by a long
course of tyranny and misgovernment. With a
few exceptions, they were all rogues, liars, thieves,
and cowards. The city of Naples, with the finest
bay and the loveliest scenery in the world, was the
filthiest den he was ever in. The inhabitants
dwelt in dirt; it was necessary to their life—the
breath of their nostrils. Their only redeeming
feature was that they honoured and loved Garibaldi,
which was enthusiastically cheered. In the course
of the oration Mr. Jones remarked that he found

6to 1 agst Dundee (taken and offered)
100 to 7 agst Big Ben (offered)
20 to 1 agst KlArikoff (off-25 to 1t f)
20 to 1 agst Kettledrum
1000 to 15 agst East Stanley (offered)
1000 to 15 agst Knight of the Thistle (off)

it impossible to say all he wished in one evening,
and therefore he should continue his subject on
that night week.—Manchester Guardian.

[This talented orator lectures on Thursday evea-
ing, on the same subject, at St. James's Hall,
Piccadilly.]

?HE .RETr. C. H. SPURGEON'S TABEIUTACLE.

Last night a tea meeting was held in the large
school-room of Islington Chapel, Upper•street,
Islington, in aid of the fund fur erecting the
Metropolitan Tabernacle at Newington, for the
congregation of the Rev. C. 11. Spurgeon. The
attendance was very large. After tea had been
disposed of the meeting adjourned to the chapel,
where the Rev. Mr. Spurgeon presided. After
devotional exercises, _ _

The Rev. CHAIRMAN, in addressing the assembly,
remarked that their present meeting was only one
of a considerable number which were about to be
held. For the benefit of those who were not ac-
quainted with their movements he (Mr. Spurgeon)
would tell them that they had for some time past
been building a large structure which would hold
upwards of 6,000 persons. It was not easy for him
to give them an idea of its size, but suffice it to say
that it was twice as large as Exeter Hall, and one
third larger than the Surrey Music Hall. Many
might say why build it so large ? Iu answer to
this he would say that it was a growing conviction
in the minds of many of his congregation that it
would not be large enough. Seeing that they had
1,600 members of the church they could pretty well
guess what the congregation was. Their present
number of members more than filled their chapels.
Their conversions also were more numerous than
at any previous period ; they were going on at the
rate of 300 every year. Many might ask also,
" Why have it opened free of debt ?" In answer
to this he would say because he had said it must be
so, and he did not like to draw back. Their chapel
would stand for generations as a representative
chapel of Dissenters, and therefore be would not like
it to be said, " that is all very well, but they had to
borrow the money, and they are still in debt." If,
therefore, he could get his friends to pay for it now,
they would have no burden. But let them not ima-
gine that because they subscribed now they would
not have to do so hereafter, because they would be
most mightily mistaken. Other things would
occupy their attention, which if they were in debt
they would not be able to perform. They were all
aware that he had undertaken to prepare a few
young men for the ministry. But he hoped when
their chapel was paid for to raise his present num-
ber to 100. He believed he had a call in this
matter. He aimed not to bring out scholars but
rough thunder men that could preach and be under•
stood. He had often felt that there was a lack of
these men—men who suited the people and spoke
to them in their own language. The sum they
originally wanted was 130,000; £24,000 of this
had been subscribed, so that £6,000 was now all
they wanted. This amount they were desirous of
raising by the end of March, about which time
they intended to open. He intended to be a beggar
that night—a beggar as bold as brass. It was a
matter that would only occur once in his life, and
he therefore felt like the man who said when he
was doomed to be hanged, It's only once, and 1
would like it done thoroughly well."
The meeting was then addressed by the Rev.
B. G. Thallis, Joseph Payne, Esq., the Rev. H. G.
[ngram, &c., and after a liberal collection the Doxo-
,ogy concluded the proceedings.