The Sun.
London, England, 1860-05-29 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, MAY 29, 1860.

was dangerous, from the falling roofs and chimneys
of the houses. In Globe-street, Mr. David Parkin-
son, hairdresser, was killed in his house by the fall
of an adjoining stack of chimneys. While seated
at breakfast with his wife they felt the rocking of
the premises, whereupon Mr. Parkinson proceeded
upstairs, apprehensive for the safety of his children,
who were yet in bed. He had but reached the
staircase when the chimneys of the next house fell
with a fearful crash through the roof of his house,
the accumulated wreck breaking through the upper
floor, and partially through the next floor. A party
of workmen passing at the time (it being their
breakfast hour) rushed in and commenced a search
for the inmates. Mrs. Parkinson and the children
providentially escaped ; but the unfortunate man
was found buried in the staircase, among the fallen
rubbish, and quite dead. He was pressed closely
to the wall, and his head was literally smashed, the
skin being torn from the bone from the eyebrows
upwards, presenting a ghastly spectacle. Several
narrow escapes at sea, from pleasure-boats near the
harbour, occurred during the outbreak of the gale.
So sudden and violent was the tempest that it was
impossible for them to reach the harbour, although
only a few yards away. The wind blew from the
north, and a party of four young gentlemen were cast
upon the rocks a mile to the south of the town ; and
it was only by the exertions of one of the party, a
nephew of Dr. Robertson, who was an expert swim-
mer, that the rest were saved. Every street in
the town is strewed with materials and rubbish.
Two new houses were entirely blown down on the
esplanade, and on the north side scarcely a window
has been left to many of the most exposed houses.
The peculiarity of the storm is the exceeding sud-
denness with which it broke out into full violence.
In an hour and a half a fine tranquil morning had
given place to one of the most violent and devasta-
ting storms with which the town and neighbour-
hood were ever visited. Fruit and flower gardens
have severely suffered, and in many parts they will
i not recover this season.

It blew very hard from the westward at Ply-
mouth on Sunday afternoon, and at half-past eight
o'clock the Netherlands screw steam-frigate Zee-
land, 51, Capt. H. Wipff, parted her chain in Ply-
mouth Sound, when a second anchor was let go, by
which she held on. Yesterday morning a Govern-
ment tug went down from Devonport with the in-
tention of removing the Zeeland further to the
westward, but she had not sufficient power for the
purpose. The frigate drifted to leeward, and
coming in contact with Messrs. Money Wigram's
passenger ship Suffolk, the jibbooms of both were
carried away. When the wind declines a second
tug will most likely be sent down, and the Zeeland
will then be removed about half a mile to the west-
ward. It was intended that the Suffolk should
leave for Melbourne yesterday; she will, however,
be detained 24 hours to make good defects.
It blew a hard gale at Portsmouth from W.N.W.,
and all communication, except by signal, between
the shipping at Spithead and the shore was in con-
sequence entirely suspended. The:men-of-war at
Spithead sent down topgallant yards, and pointed
lower and topsail yards to the wind. Barometer
at 9 a.m., 29.66 ; at 5 p.m., 29.86.
One of the most severe gales ever witnessed in
Liverpool visited that port on Sunday night, and
continued with unabated violence during yester-
day. It began to blow fresh on Saturday after-
noon, and gradually increased until it had reached
a perfect hurricane, accompanied with hail and
sleet. The damage to the shipping in Liverpool
has been very great. The traffic between the two
sides of the river was maintained 'only with consi-
derable difficulty, and many of the vessels anchored
in the river sustained considerable damage, as the
wind, blowing from the north-west, had a clear and
unchecked sweep into the port. The following is a
list of the casualties which had occurred up to the
time when our parcel was despatched. The Rock-
away, for New York, carried away part of her
quarter by collision with the north stage. A ship,
supposed to be the Emily Gardner, grounded at
Garston-point ; and another, name unknown, near
Eastham. The J. M. Wood, from New Orleans,
fouled the Waterloo dock wall, and sustained con-
siderable damage. The West Point, from New Or-
leans, drove against the Victoria wall, broke the
crane there, and was herself much damaged. The
schooner Elise, from Bordeaux, dragged and fouled
the south landing-stage, and was damaged. The I.
L. Hall, from St. John's, New Brunswick, drove
against the Prince's Pier, and got into the Basin
for safety, slightly damaged. The Young Sam,
from Boston, slipped from her moorings, fouled the
south landing-stage, and damaged herself and the
stage. The ship Adelaide, from New York, came
into collision with the bark Seaflower, for Africa.
The latter sank immediately afterwards, and the
former ran on the Sloyne, after grinding on the
wreck and fouling the :schooner Rose, which had
both her masts carried away. The gale still con-
tinues, and as the river is very full of shipping, it
is feared more damage will be done.

EAST LYDIA COAL COMPANY.


At the ordinary general meeting of the proprie-
tors, held at the London Tavern yesterday, Mr.
Haymen in the chair, the report of the directors
was presented. It stated—" That as the Govern-
ment contract extends over two years, it is advis-
able to consider the workings of the period embraced
in the last and present balance-sheets together.
The amount written off to revenue from preliminary
expenses and from general expenses of previous
years, upwards of £6,000 must be added to the net
balance on revenue for the two years—this will
show for the period a working profit of £12,400, or
over 7 per cent. per annum ; this amount has been
absorbed by the payment of the last dividend of 71
per cent., and the large sums written off the preli-
minary expenses. The directors take the opportu-
nity of annexing a report from Mr. C. S. Staig
(formerly of the East Indian Railway), the super-
intendent at the collieries, on the nature, extent,
and workings of the company's property under
his charge, together with a chart, showing their
respective positions in the district, as well as
the course the extension lines of the railway
now under construction by the East India Rail-
way Company, will take through the com-
pany's lands. It appears that by both these
lines the shareholders will be largely benefited.
The Baraker extension puts the valuable mines
at Neegeah in railway communication with Cal-
cutta, while the Singarun branch does the same for
all the pits between Gopeenauthpore and Toposi.
These lines, it is confidently believed by the agent,
will be finished within 12 months. By one of the
statements it appears that the average rate of cart
hire for conveyance of coals from the mines in the
Singarun Valley to the railway terminus is
.7 pie
per maund, or equal in sterling to 2s. per ton ; this
heavy tax on profits will shortly cease, but this is
not the greatest advantage that will be derived
from these branch railways, inasmuch as the supply
of carts is limited, and unequal to the requirements
of the-company. A contract has been entered into
between the company and the East Indian Railway
Company for two years, for a supply of coals in
Calcutta and at the various stations on the Ganges
to Allahabad, to the steamers of the railway com-
pany, which came into full operation on Ist January
last. In October last the directors purchased and
despatched to Calcutta a 12-horse power portable
steam-engine, with winding and pumping gear com-
plete, which is now in course of erection. The direc-
tors have taken possession of the property " Pur-
asia," and both the agent of the company and the
superintendent at the mines confidently state that
they will immediately be able to more than double
the quantity of coals raised. The directors intend to
declare all shares forfeited on which the last call
shall not have been paid by the 31st July next.
The directors have resolved on recommending to
the shareholders that the number of shares requi-
site for the qualification of a director shall be 100
instead of 25 as at present. The directors expect a
large increase in the working expanses, owing to
recent accession to the property, thus creating a
necessity for additional working capital, and they
have resolved on asking authority to offer rateably
to such shareholders as may be willing to take them
the forfeited shares of the company, on payment of
£5 per share."

The CHAIRMAN moved the adoption of the re-
port, and said that the difficulties with which the
company had had to contend might be said to be at
an end, and the recent purchases which the direc-
tors had been authorised to make would enable them
greatly to increase the quantity of coal brought
to market. During the last fortnight of the work-
ings the raisings had increased cent. per cent. ; and
Mr. Boyle, their agent, had written over to this
country, stating
.that he would shortly be able to'
get from the East Indian Railway as many as 18
trucks, which was more than double the number
he was now working with. (Hear, hear.) He
(the Chairman) thought the affairs of the company
had now arrived at the turning point, and it was
only necessary for the directors and shareholders to
act in harmony together in order to bring the un-
dertaking to a successful issue. (Hear, hear.) In
conclusion he moved the adoption of the report.
A discussion ensued, in which some dissatisfac-
tion was expressed at the non-declaration of a di-
vidend, but after explanations from the chairman
and Air. Fiume (one of the directors), the report
was adopted with four dissentients.
After the transaction of some routine business
the directors postponed their intended resolution
for raising further capital by issuing at the
£lO shares which are to be forfeited for non.p ay-
meat of calls. The question will be discussedim-
mediately after the forfeiture of the shares at the
meeting which the directors intend holding for
that purpose an the 31st inst.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.—May 28.

(Before Mr. Whateley, Q.C.)
The Court resumed its sittings this morning, and
proceeded with the criminal business.
Augusta Horton, 31, and Ann Williams, 30,
were indicted for stealinn a purse containing the
sum of L 5 Os. 10d. from the person of John Davis.
Mr. Ernest Jones was counsel for the prosecu-
tion ; Mr Ribton defended the prisoners.
The prisoners accosted the prosecutor, a butcher,
living at 2, Maze-mews, Jermyn-street, in the
Green Park, and during a rapid conversation
adroitly picked his pocket of his purse. He took
the purse from WilLiams's hand ; it was open, and
tip money gone, and he gave them both into the
custody of the policeman on duty.
The jury found both prisoners guilty ; and
Mrs. Haine, female officer of the Westminster
Prison, proved a former conviction, and a sentence
of ten years' transportation against Williams, wbo
had been convicted previously to that, and put in a
list of eight summary convictions against Horton.
The learned Judge sentenced Williams to five
years' penal servitude, and Horton to two years'
hard labour.

Thomas Hooper, 30, carman, and Edward Pur-
cell, 23, were indicted for stealing 18 oranges, the
property of the Midland Counties Railway Com-
pany, their masters. They surrendered in Court.
Mr. Staveley Hill was for the prosecution, Mr.
Ribton defended Hooper, and Mr. Ernest Jones
was counsel for Purcell.

This was a prosecution instituted by the diree
tors of the Midland Railway Company against two
of their servants, and the case sought to be made
out was that the prisoners had broken the bulk of
a chest of oranges on the way from the Castle and
Falcon, Aldersgate-street, to the goods depot of
the Midland Railway, at King's-cross,•and taken
out about 131bs. The prisoner Hooper was the
driver of the van in which the chests were, and
Purcell was what is termed " the dog,"—that
is, one who sits behind, on the tail-board,
to watch that nothing falls off, or is taken off.
The oranges, which were consigned from Bullock,
of London, to Russell, of Leicester, weighed, when
sent out from the Castle and Falcon, 5 cwt. 3 qrs.
and 16 lb. ; when they were weighed at King's-
cross, they were 131 b. short of that, and some loose
oranges were found in a van which the prisoners
were about to take from the station. Upon Pur-
cell they found two oranges, which he admitted
having taken, and Hooper had eaten one; informa-
tion having been given to the officers, the prisoners
were charged with having broken the chest, and
taking the oranges therefrom.
It was urged that the directors had no other feel-
ing in the matter than that of protecting property
entrusted to their care as carriers, and to cast sus-
picion from those servants who were honest, who it
might have been supposed were concerned in these
petty depredations, and they had no alternative,
under these considerations, but to prosecute.
The learned counsel for the defence, on behalf of
their respective clients, said in effect that this pro-
secution, if successful, would ruin the whole pros-
pects in life of two honest, hard-working men, who
had hitherto borne irreproachable characters
(Hooper had been in one situation 11 years in the
Eastern Counties) for what amounted in fact to no
more than this, that a package of oranges having
got open by accident in transit, some of the oranges
got loose, they picked one or two up to eat them
without the slightest idea that what they were
doing was to be attempted to be construed into an
act of felony.
A witness named Longley, who rode in the van
all the way from the Castle and Falcon, to King's-
cross, with the prisoners on the journey in question,
deposed that neither Hooper nor Purcell attempted
to touch an orange chest at all; if they had he must
have seen them.
The learned Judge summed up the evidence, and
the jury at once acquitted both the prisoners.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—May 28:

MANSION-HOUSE.--Thomas Hayward, a re-
spectable-looking young man, was brought before
the Lord Mayor, charged by Alongen, one of the
detective constables of the city of London, under
the following circumstances :
The officer stated that on Saturday evening he
went into a public-house, in Fenchurch-street,
where he saw the defendant, who immediately be-
gan to abuse him and threatened to serve him out,
and to " do" for him. He told him to be quiet, and
not interfere with him, but he persisted, and con-
tinued annoying him, and at length he said, " I
have got stolen property about me now, and you
dare not interfere with me." Witness observed
that he had a parcel under his arm, and he asked
the defendant what it contained, and he said it was
the stolen property he referred to, and upon that
he took him into custody.
_ _ _ _ _ _

T evra Avln ynr—VriTl to Ir eunnose. um:pi
his own confession that he had stolen property in
his possession ?
The Officer—Exactly, my lord. (A laugh.)
The Lord Mayor—Do you know anything about
the prisoner ?
The Officer— [ do not know anything against him,
my lord. I believe he was formerly a merchant's
clerk. The parcel that was upon him only contained
a few pounds of rice, and I believe it was merely a
sample, anA that it had been given to him by some
person connected with a firm in Mincing-lane, who
had authority to do so.

The Lord Mayor—Has he been locked up since
Saturday night ?
The Officer—Yes, my lord.

The Lord Mayor—Well, prisoner, how was it you
made such an ass of yourself as you appear to have
done ?

Prisoner—l did not tell the officer that I had
stolen property about me. All that I said was that
I had a parcel.

The Lord Mayor—Well, I think you have been
sufficiently punished. Go about your business, and
do not make such a fool of yourself again.
The prisoner, who looked very sheepish, was then
discharged from custody.
Eliza Smith, a rather good-looking married
woman, was charged with unlawfully attempting
to destroy herself.
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IVillia-m Barnard, a City police-constable, deposed
that he was on duty on London-bridge on Saturday
night, about a quarter to twelve o'clock, when he
saw the defendant wandering about in a very
wretched state, and she appearad desirous to go
down the steps to the river, but he prevented her
from doing so, and tried to induce her to go away.
She refused, and told him that she intended to de-
stroy herself, and upon this he took her into custody.
The Lord Mayor—Have you made any inquiries
about the prisoner ?

The Officer—T have, my lord, and have ascer-
tained that she is the wife of a respectable labour-
ing man, and they have five children.
The Lord Mayor—Well, prisoner, what answer
have you to make to this serious charge of intend-
ing to destroy your own life ?

Prisoner-1 was driven to it by the wretched life
I live with my husband. He is always abusing me,
and making use of bad language, and I could not
stand it any longer and resolved to make away with
myself, and should have done so if the policeman
had not interfered.

The Lord Mayor—ls the husband present ?
A decent-looking man stood forward, and said
that he was the prisoner's husband.
The Lord Mayor—Well, you hear what she says.
What answer have you to make to htr statement ?
The Husband—My lord, there is no truth at all
in it. I earn sometimes as much as £2 or £3 a
week, and I give it all to her, but she has such a
violent temper that it is impossible to have any
peace with her.

The Lord Mayor—How do you account for her
acting in this manner ?

Th-e Husband—l cannot account for it, my lord.
I do not think she really meant to destroy herself,
but her passion and bad temper got the better of
her, and she did not know what she was about.

The Lord Mayor—l supposed you are willing to
shake hands with her, and take her home and take
care of her ?

The Husband—Certainly, my lord, I had no
idea she was going to act in such a way as she has.
We had made an arrangement to go to the Crystal
Palace to-day and have a holiday, when she picked
a quarrel with= and rushed out, and I heard no
more of her until I found she was in custody.
The Lord Mayor to the Prisoner—Well, woman,
your ♦ile tempr seems to have placed you in your
present positior, but as your husband appears wil-
ling to forgive you, I shall not punish you, but I
hope it will be a warning toyou in future.
The husband iud wife then left the court together.

GUILDHALL—DanieI William? was charged
with assaulting sue of the " volunteers" connected
with the Queen's printing-office.
Henry Cockirg•said he had been to drill on Sa-
turday evening ;ast, at Bridewell, and after deposit-
ing his rifle in the armoury, he adjourned with a
friend to a public house in Bridge-street, Black-
friars, to have a glass of ale and on leaving he asked
the prisoner—who, with several females, was ob-
structing the feetpath—to move and allow him to
pass, whereupon the prisoner called him a
rifleman, and asked him " who shot the dog"—
(laughter)—and refused to stir. Witness immedi-
ately pushed past him, and the next instant received
a violent blow on the nose from the prisoner, who
was evidently in liquor.
The prisoner denied the charge of assault, and
said the female was in court whose husband struck
the "volunteer" for insulting the females.
Alderman Finals said it was a very unprovoked

assault, and fined the prisoner ss. for being drunk,
and 2s. 6d for assault.

Mr. Joseph Varshofslii, a tailor, of 39, Fetter-lane
was summoned for unlawfully assaulting a girl 15
years of age. s s

Frances Knights said she had been nearly eight
months in the defendant's service, and she com-
plained that he was, to use her own expression, "a
very great blackguard." She then described that on
various occasions he had unfastened his clothes and
exposed himself to her, and urged her to allow him
to have improper intercourse with her, at the same
time holding out inducements to obtain her com-
pliance. The last time he did so was on the Sun-
day before last, and the previous occasion was a
fortnight before that, his wife being confined
on the following night. Witness said he had made
use of the most " undeeent" talk, and put his arm
round her waist, and said as he could not make use
of his wife for four weeks he must make use ofsome
one, and if she would let him do what he wanted he
would take her out for a holiday and pay all ex-
penses. This all took place in the room adjoining
the one in which his wife was lying, the two rooms
being separated only by folding doors. She did not
give any alarm, but she told her mother of it, but
she did not tell her all that happened. She told
her sister. Her mother thought it was only an ex-
cuse to leave her place, and told her not to mind it
unless it occurred again. She told her mother seve-
ral times of similar occurrences. She was to have

left her situation on the following day, having
given notice to that effect. His wife used to go out
early every Sunday morning, and it was while she
was out that he wanted her to go into his bed, as he
was not a very early riser.
The mother of complainant said her daughter
told her of defendant's conduct four or five mouths
ago, but she did not believe it, and told her to go
about her business, and not come home with such
paltry excuses. She was to have stayed another
week, but she declared that, if her mother would
not take her away, she would run away from her
situation and her home too. The defendant and
his wife, when the mother went to complain, repre-
sented the girl as a thief and a liar.
The defendant, who is a foreigner, denied the
charge in toto, and called as witness a. respectable
married woman, who worked for him. She said
the defendant had never been guilty of the slightest
impropriety towards her, although she had been
left alone with him at work in the same room many
times. On the night that defendant's wife was con-
fined the complainant told witness that Mr. and
Mrs. Varshofski were very nice people, and she
liked her situation so well that she hoped she should
stay there a long time. This was on the night after,
as the complainant alleged, the defendant behaved
towards her as she had described.
Alderman Finnis, after expressing his surprise
and disgust that a mother should allow her
daughter to remain under the same roof with a man
four or five months after receiving such a complaint,
said he had listened very attentively to the evi-
dence, and had noticed the manner in which it
was.given, and had come to the conclusion that he
could not credit the girl's story. It was most im-
probable that the conduct complained of should
have taken place within hearing of the defendant's
wife, and without any alarm being given, if, as
was alleged, it was so much against the complain•-
ant's will as to induce her to leave her situation.
If there had been any truth in the girl's complaints,
he should have thought a mother's first care, if she
believed them, would have been to remove her from
such contaminating influences. He, therefore, dis-
missed the summons, and recommended the defen-
dant not to let this lesson be lost upon him, but
to be exceedingly circumspect in his conduct to all
the females in his house, so as not to give the
slightest ground for the repetition of such a charge.

MARYLEB ONE. MURDEROUS ASSAULT.—
Maria Briscoe, a tall and middle-aged woman, was
brought before Mr Seeker charged with assaulting
and inflicting a serious wound upon the head of
George Bruce, barman at the Marquis of Anglesey,
Devonshire-street, Lisson -rove.
The complainant stated that about a quarter to
eleven o'clock the evening before the prisoner, who
was in the company of three men, entered the house
when one of the men asked for half-a-pint of gin,
with which he was served. After it was drunk a
pot of porter was asked for, upon giving which he
was told that it was near the time of closing. The
man said he would not go until he thought proper.
He took the pot away, and being followed by him
(complainant) gave the pot to the prisoner. While
he was in altercation with him the prisoner came
behind him and gave a violent blow with the pot on
the back of his head, which caused the blood to
flow freely. (Complainant had a patch of adhesive
plaster on the wound, and the collar of his shirt
was saturated with blood.

Mr, Chas. Pinningar, the landlord of the house,
corroborated the evidence. He said that he saw
the prisoner take the pot from the man and strike
tho hcad of thc batman with it. It wnm a frightfulwound. His orders were to see that his house
should be closed before eleven o'clock.

Mr. Seeker observed it was a most serious charge,
as erisypelas might come on. He should remand
her for a week.

The prisoner was remanded for a week.
VIOLENT ASSAULT WITH A POKER.— Charles
Belmore, residing in John's-place, Commercial-road
East, and Charles Long, were charged under the
following circumstances :

Mr. Rice appeared for the prisoners.
The evidence went to show that an the previous
evening House and Martin, detectives of the D
division, were in pursuit of a prisoner who entered
the house 16, Charles-street, Lisson-grove. They
went up into the first floor, where they thought
their prisoner had entered. When they were in the
room Belmore observed, "We want no
preachers here." House said, "We are not
preachers. lam a policeman," and asked
him if a young man had not come in, to which no
reply was given. He was, however, immediately
attacked by Long with a poker, which broke his
hat. He was also further attacked by several other
persons who were in the room, and during the
melee his shirt was torn to pieces.
House produced his hat and shirt, the former of
which was doubled up, and the latter was nearly
torn to shreds.

Long was -fined 10s., and the other prisoner was
discharged.

LAMBETH.

CASE or STABBING.---Joel Holland, a determined-
looking young rascal of 16 years of age, was
brought up on a warrant charging him with using
a knife and stabbing James Sayers, a potboy at
the Montpelier Tavern, near the Walworth-gate.
The complainant deposed that the prisoner had
been in the habit of hanging about the front of his
master's house, and helping himself to beer brought
front the bar by children, and, in fact, was a perfect
nuisance and terror to the inhabitants. On Thurs-
day evening he took his station in front of the
house, and " knowing his usual game," he re-
quested him to be off; he refused to do so, and
commenced a volley of the most abusive language,
upon which he caught him by the collar and shook
him, but not so as to hurt him. The prisoner
struggled hard, and struck at him several times in
a determined manner, but he thought nothing of i 6
and was about to go away with his beer, when he
discovered that he was wounded in the side by the
blood running down his leg. He 'also discovered
that his coat was cut in no less than twelve places,
and that one cut, deeper than the others, corres-
ponded with the wound in his side.
Hayle Semenner, a paperhanger, said he was pre-
sent and saw the struggle between the last witness
and the prisoner, when the former shook the latter
violently, but did not strike him, and had it been
any one else than the prisoner he (witness) should be
surprised at the desperate resistance he made. The
prisoner struck the potman several blows about the
side and body, but he had not the slightest idea at
the time that he had a knife in his possession.
When the complainant let the prisoner go, the latter
in an exulting manner said, " You've got enough of
it, you've got some ribands to look after, look at your
coat; and if you should come down our way, Hill-
, street, with your beer, I'll take care to turn your cans
over, so look out." The prisoner then walked away,
and complainant discovered that he had been
stabbed. This witness, in conclusion, described the
prisoner as one of the most determined and saucy
young ruffians that could be well conceived, and a
terror to the neighbourhood.
The prisoner denied having used the knife, but
when taken into custody a small two-bladed pen-
knife was found on him, which it was admitted he
had been in the habit of carrying.
The prisoner's father, a respectable man, admitted
that his son was rather violent in his temper, but
complained of the conduct of the potman in shaking
him as he had done. He promised that, if leniently
dealt with, he would so look after the prisoner for
the future that no further complaintwould be made.
The Magistrate said it was most fortunate that the
prisoner did not commit a more serious injury; and
if properly dealt with he should be sent for trial.
On account of his father, and the promise he had
made of looking sharply after his son, he would
deal more leniently with him on one condition, and
that was that the father would promise him not to
pay the penalty he was about to impose.
The father promised this, and the worthy magi-
strate sentenced the prisoner to pay a fine of £5, or
in default to be imprisoned with hard labour for
two months.

DARINGIOBBERY.—Ann James, alias Ann Bur
deaw, a middle-aged female and notorious thief
was charged with stealing a watch from the person
of Henry King.
From the evidence it appeared that the prosecu-

tor was standing at his door on Saturday night, '
having some words with his wife, when a crowd
assembled, and the prisoner getting close to him he
heard a snap at his watch. He immediately seized
her hand, when the watch dropped to the pave-
ment, and she was given into custody.
It was proved in evidence that she had been con-
victed of felony and sentenced to four years' impri-
sonment, and she had in addition been frequently
summarily convicted.
She was fully committed for trial.

THAMES.—ROBBERY OF £305 AND A GOLD
AVATcH.—John Dent, a cab driver, aged 34, Ann
Dent, his wife, aged 29, and Mary Shaw, their
niece, aged 19, were brought before Mr. Yardley,
charged with stealing £305 in gold and bank notes,
and a gold watch, the moneys and property of Mrs.
Louisa Fisher, a dealer in marine stores, of No. 62,

Leman-street, Whitechapel.
John Dent and his niece, who had been for some
time carrying on an incestuous intercourse, were ap-
prehended on the 14th inst. by an active and intelli-
gent officer named Clark, 108 M, at No. 6, Union-
place, Crosby-row, Long-lane, Bermondsey, and he
found there a large quantity of new furniture and
wearing apparel recently purchased. They were
taken before Mr. Combo at the Southwark Police-
court, and the fact was proved that Dent was sepa
' rated from his wife for some time and had been co-
habiting with his niece, who had given birth to a
child, of which her own uncle was father. They had
been in a state of the greatest poverty until Mrs.
Fisher was robbed of her cash-box, £305, and a gold
watch. After that event they were flush of money,
and made various purchases of furniture and wear-
ing apparel. They also spent a good deal of money
in drink. On Saturday, the 19thinst., Mr. Radley,
the superintendent of the Rochester police, appre-
hended Ann Dent at a place called Charlton Green,
near Dover, and in a box belonging to her disco-
vered £9O in gold and a large quantity of new
dresses and wearing apparel. 1 esterday John Dent
and Mary Shaw were sent from the Southwark
Police-court to the Thames Police-court, and were
arraigned in the felons' dock with Ann Dent.

In addition to the, evidence given on a former oar
casion, Mr. Radley said that, since the last exami-
nation, he had seen the male prisoner, and said to
him, " Your wife has robbed her mistress, do you
know anything about it ?" to which he replied,
" No, Ido not ?" He said to the prisoner," Why,
von have been to Rochester and. visited your wife."
Prisoner said, "I have not been to Rochester, nor

have I seen my wife." On Tuesday he saw the male
prisoner in custody at the Southwai k Police-court,

and told him his Wife was under arrest, and had re-
vealed everything to him. The prisoner then said,
" I know she will transport me if She can." On
Monday he saw the woman Ann Dent, in the cell
behind the Thames Police-court, and she made the
following statement :—" I took the cash-box, con-
taining £305 in notes and gold, and . gold watch
from my mistress, and went direct to my husband,
John Dent, at a coffee-house near the Bricklayers'
Arms. I found him seated there, and said to him,
Cabby, you are wanted.' He came out and asked
me if I thought any one knew me in the coffee shop
I said I thought they did. He said, wish you
had not come here.' We walked on a bit, and my
husband said, ' I will get a cab and take you up.'
He got a shofull (Hansom eab), and I went down
to Gravesend with him in the cab. Another man
drove us, When we passed through the toll-gates
he told me to squat myself down at the bottom of
the cab to avoid being seen by the turnpike men.
When we reached Gravesend I gave my husband
£5 out of the stolen money. He said that was not
enough, and I gave him another sovereign, and a
sovereign for drink. I also paid £3 for the cab
and took the remainder of the money—gold and
bank notes to Rochester. I walked from Graves-
end to Rochester. On the Tuesday following, my
husband (Dent) came to me at Cross's house at
Rochester, and took the notes to London to get
them cashed, and took the watch with him as well.
nn the Sunday following he came to Rochester
and brought me £26 of the money he had received
for the notes. I asked him if that was all he had
received for the notes I gave him. He said,' Yes ;
I had much trouble to get the notes cashed, and
had to throw in the gold watch and chain.' I
should not have committed the robbery if my hus-
band had not told me to do so, and he promised to
take me to Australia.
Mrs. Louisa Matthews said—My name was
Fisher at the time of the robbery, and I have since
been married to my present husband. The prisoner
Ann Dent was four months in my service. She
left me on Good Friday night. She slept in the
same room with me. They went to bed at the
same time on Good Friday. On awaking I found
the prisoner gone, and searched the house for her.
I could not find her, and went to the street door,
and found it not bolted, and the key outside. I
went to a drawer where I kept my cash-box, and
missed it. The drawer was locked, and the key
was in my pocket. The prisoner must have taken
the key out of my gown pocket, unlocked the
drawer, and replaced the key in my pocket. The
cash-box contained £305 and a gold watch and
*chain. The money consisted of £4O in notes, and
the rest in sovereigns and half-sovereigns.
Dennis Clark, a police-constable, 108 M, said,
from information, he went to the lodgings of the
prisoner Shaw, in Union place, Bermondsey, on the
14th inst., and asked her if she knew Ann Dent,
to which she replied in the affirmative. He asked
her if she had any property of Ann Dent's, and
she said she had not. After some resistance on the
part of the prisoner, he opened a trunk, which
contained new wearing 'apparel and other pro-
perty. The prisoner said the trunk belonged to
her aunt, Ann Dent. On the way to the
station-house he asked her to whom the
men's clothes in the trunk belonged, and she replied
to her uncle, John Dent. He afterwards arrested
John Dent, the cabman, at a public-house in South-
wark. The prisoner, in reply to a question put to
him, said that a new coat and three waistcoats in
the trunk were his property, and he had recently
purchased them. Dent and his niece had been
cohabiting together as man and wife. They had
one child.
E Iward Cross, a shoemaker, living in Troy-town,
Rochester, said the prisoner Ann Dent came to his
house on the Bth of April last. She said she had
come from Gravesend, and had come down for a
run. On Tuesday week John Dent came and visited
his wife. They were for some time closeted toge-
ther in a room up stairs, and he heard the clinking
of money. He saw Ann Dent wearing a gold watch
and chain. She said she brought it from Australia.
Mr. Yardley said the coffee-shopkeeper who saw
the woman Ann Dent in his house, and heard her
call for her husband, the man who drove the man
and his wife to Gravesend, and some other witnesses
ought to be forthcoming. There was no evidence
on which he could commit the younger prisoner,
Mary Shaw, and she must be discharged.
Shaw was then ordered into the witness-box and

sworn. She gave her evidence in a bold and reek

less manner, and was repeatedly admonished by
the magistrate, and also warned that if she said
that which was false he would cause her to be in-
dicted for wilful and corrupt perjury. She said
she was a single woman and had known the male
prisoner some time. She never lived or cohabited
with him. The men's clothes in the box belonged
to John Dent. They had been in her possession
for one week. John Dent told her to put them in
the box. The other clothes had been in her pos-
session three years. John Dent did not lodge in
the house. Her apartments had been furnished for
three weeks. She bought the furniture with her
own money she had saved. Her cousin took the
house for her. She had lived in a garret, for which
she paid ls. 6d. per week rent, until three weeks
ago. She bought some of the furniture in the New-
cut, and other things in the Waterloo-road.
Mr• Yardley—Do you mean to say you have not
been living with your uncle, John Dent ?
Witness—l have had a child by him. (Sensation.)
Mr..Yardley—What money have you had from
that man Dent in the course of the last three
weeks ?
Witness—Only 25., sir.
Mr. Yardley—Did you have any money of him
before ?
Witness—Yes, ho gave me 14s. per week last
summer.

Here the female prisoner exclaimed, " Oh, wha
a lie. My husband was out of employ all las
summer."

Hall, a police-constable, 127 H, said that John
Dent and his niece were in th@ greatest poverty
before the robbery, and did live together.
Mr. Yardley directed Mr. Pyer, the chief clerk,
to take the depositions formally against John Dent
and his wife. He should commit them for trial.
Finally the magistrate said he should remand the
two prisoners until. Friday next. Mr. Selfe, his
colleague, had commenced the investigation, and
had better complete it. He had no doubt the girl
Shaw had told great untruths on oath.
The two Dents were then formally remanded
until Friday next.

WESTMINSTER.—THE MATRIMONIAL CAUSES
ACT.—A gentleman applied to Mr. Arnold, stating
that he wished to take proceedings for a woman of
respectable and prepossessing appearance, about
thirty-five years of age, against her husband, who
had used her very ill, and of whom she went in
dread.
Applicant said that the complainant was living
in the service of Lady Elizabeth Russell, and had
received no assistance from her husband for some
years, but the latter, not being content with rid-
ding himself of the responsibility of maintaining his
wife, constantly importuned her until he obtained
part of her earnings, and inoifited upon coming to

where she ,was, is i service for money. His conduct
bad been such al ; to make+ his with dread him, and
she,, now
.s.(uzglit . the magistrate to relieve her from
the fear site el Itertained, and also to grant her a
protection order , so that she might enjoy the wages
of her inl,
nted out the anomaly existing in
complaining that a man would insist upon coming
to where his ,
wift was, and soliciting a protection
order
t upon desertion. He then in-
n
quir usitdryp - without molestation.
Mr.
Areo 01
the particulars under which the
id clo what were
man and his wife A,
'td become separated.
The wife stated tl,
at eight years ago her husband
left her, stating that he should go and look for a.
situation, as he had nt means of maintaining her,
when, es she was left
- with her two children to sup.
port, she entered the ikservice of Lady Elizabeth
Russell's family as head nurse, in which she had
remained ever since ; she had not seen her husband
for upwards of two yeark• but had, in answer to
his applications from time to time, sent him money.
She thought it very hard that she should be obliged
to do so.
Mr. Arnold asked what induce,'l her to go in fear
of her husband ; -whether he had used any-threats
towards her.

The wife replied, not personally, because she had
not seen him ; but when last at the house, he told
the footman that "he would have his revenge of
her."

Mr. Arnold did not think it a case in which he
couia now giant a protection order to secure her
to hefself under the Matrimonial Causes
cc'uld not say whether the Divorce Court
might not crotect her by some decree ; had she
eAacrtn, butng k4
sought mag'istrate's order during his desertion,
and
return, there might have been no
the
before b
difficulty.ht it was a very hard case upon
the wife,He ti a n
d itfhtohegz
ootman, to whom the remark
had been made, he would have his revenge,"
would attend at the court, he (Mr, Arnold) would
see what could be done re,:4pectivg her personal
safety.