The Sun.
London, England, 1860-03-12 00:00:00

TILE INSTALMENTARY PROCESS.-70SEPH ♦. RINVI.L.

This was a claim for goods sold and delivered, and Mr.
Hubert Wood asked for time. A short time before the
goods in question were supplied defendant was bankrupt,
and he was now willing to pay by instalments.
His Honour did not think he could apply the instalmer.-
tary process to such a case.

Mr. Wood—lf defendant is oppressed, it will only break
up bim again. The debt is a comparatively small
one, and surely an order to pay it by two instalments would
not be going much out of the way.
Plaintiff said that the defendant was a retail dealer.

His Honour—Here is a case of a wholesale and retail
dealer, and the instulmentary process cannot apply. De-
fendant must pay in ten days.
THE LAW OF LANDLORD AND TENANT WHEN A FIRE
OCCURS.—REID V. HUTCHINSON.

This was an action to recover £lO for one quarter's rent.
Mr. Grey appeared for the plaintiff; Mr. Buchanan for the
defendant.

Defendant had occupied, under a person of the name of
Searle, who had become bankrupt, and plaintiff had pur-
chased the reversion. Defendant had admitted his tenancy
by a letter, and it appeared that on the 17th Sept. a fire
broke out, and the premises, including defendant's first floor,
were entirely destroyed.
Mr. Buchanan cross examined the plaintiff as to where
the street door now was.

Plaintiff admittod that it 'wars up a uvurt.
His Honour held that the plaintiff, in the case of a fire,
need not put himself at all out of the way.
Mr. Buchanan—That is a melancholy state of things
when a man is charged in this way.

His Honour—You recollect the case of the farmer who
had to pay for his farm under water during the lease.
Verdict for the plaintiff.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE-(THIS DA.Y..,

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

UNPROVOKED ASSAULT ON A FEMALE.—Harriet Kite,
a young woman, was charged with the following assault on
a married fomale, named Eliza Moss, residing at 15 Litch-
field-street.

Mrs. Moss said the previous night she had been out for a
walk, and was returning down Litchfield-street to her home,
when she saw a large crowd assembled in the street, and on
going up to see what was the cause, she found two men
fighting. She remarked that it was a shame it should be
permitted, to a bystander, and was passing on, when the
prisoner, who had followed her, making use of the expres-
sion "Take that," stru' k her a violent blow in the mouth,
knocking her down, and on her attempting to get up, she
knocked her down a second time, getting a crowd
round her ; and, not content with this, she twisted her
hand in her hair and struck her head on the ground. She
then told some of the men who got round to take her (com-
plainant's) cloak, of the value of £3, which they did ; and,
in consequence of the brutal treatment she had received,
and being nearly insensible, she was unable to make any
pursuit, and she had entirely lest her cloak. She.had not
given the slightest provocation.
Tricker, 168 E, said he rescued the prosecutrix from the
prisoner, who had her hand twisted in her hair at the time.
The prosecutrix's mouth was full of blood. He went after
the men who had taken prosecutrix's cloak, but was unable
to secure them.

Mr. Beadon said it was an assault of a most brutal and
unprovoked nature, and ordered the prisoner to pay a fine
of £5, or two months' imprisontnent.

THAMES.

TRH DISTURBANCES IN ST. GEORGE'S CIIURCII.---
Harriet Scarborough, a dissipated-looking woman, with a
dirty and neglected child in her arms, was brought before
Mr. Selfe, charged with being drunk and disorderly and
wilfully disturbing the congregation assembled for divine
worship in the parish church of St. George's-in_the••East.
Police-constable Carter, No. 264 K, said he was in the
north aisle of St. George's Church yesterday evening.
About half-past 7 o'clock, in the very middle of the service,
the prisoner came into the church and stood close to him,
and directly afterwards commenced talking ♦ery loudly to
another woman who came into the church with her. He
requested her to be quiet or leave the church, on which she
commenced abusing him, and said, " The parson says he
can save my body ; he can't save me at all." He again
told her to leave the church, and she said, in a loud
tone, " I won't..., go out until the service is over.
No one can save my soul." He then took her into custody.
As she was leaving the church she again called out loudly
"He can't save me--he can save no one," and acted in a
very disorderly and foolish manner.

The prisoner, who was quite subdued, said she was very
sorry, indeed, for having acted in the way she had done.
She would not have done so if she had not been the worse
for liquor. She was not aware that she had made a noise in
the church, and had no intention to do so.
Mr. Selfe—There are noisy people by hundreds who go
to St. George's Church to make a noise—sober ones, I
mean, and there is no occasion for drunken and disorderly
women to go there.
The prisoner—l was not aware what I did; pray far-
give me.
Mr. Selfe—You have sense enough to know you had no
right to go into the church drunk.
The prisoner—l was not aware that I was doing wrong.
I was bereft of my senses.
Mr. Selfe—l think you were—had she the child with her
last night
Carter—No, sir, she had not.

The prisoner—l have six children, sir.
Mr. Selfe—You had better be at home and setting them a
better example than going to the disorderly church of St.
George's-in-the-East on Sunday evening.
The prisoner—I won't go there again.
Mr. Selfe—l hope you will not. The magistrate, after
consulting with Mr. Pyer4ho chief clerk, said he could
not call the prisoner's conduct foolish, as it was a wilful
disturbance of public worship. He believed she had not
known what she was about, but her conduct was highly
reprehensible. He discharged her, and told her to go home
and mind her family.

According to the French financial journals, the
expected call of £4 on Lombardo-Venetian Railway shares
will be split into two moieties, one of which will be made
payable in May and the other in July. The forthcoming
dividend and interest will probably be deducted from the
latter,