The Sun.
London, England, 1860-04-02 00:00:00

SAY EVENING, APRIL 2, 1860.

Dimsdale, Esq., Robert Dimsdale, Esq., E. H.
Hoskins, Esq., J. W. Chesshyre, Esq., Jasper
Gripper, Esq., and Mr. Samuel Hatchard."
Mr. G. E. HYDE seconded the resolution, which
was agreed to.

Mr:CHESSHYRE asked Mr. Armstrong whether
he would be kind enough to act as auditor ?
Mr. ARMSTRONG said he should be happy to
serve the Company in any way.
Mr. POLLARD—I have had something to do with
accounts, and shan't mind acting as auditor.
Mr. R. DIMSDALE then proposed " that Mr. Arm-
strong and Mr. Pollard be appointed auditors." In
submitting the motion he remarked that he looked
forward to this company extending itself indefinitely.
He had received a communication on the subject
from Cheshunt and other places, in which offers
were made to become shareholders if cottages were
built there. He replied that, as the company had
received most support from Hertford, it must begin
there ; but he looked forward to the time when
they would go from place to place and build a large
number of cottages. It was therefore important
they should show, not a great, but a fair return for
their money. In the Strand Union Company they
had just paid a dividend of 4-1 per cent., and he did
not see why they might not obtain a similar return
here, and confer great benefits on different locali-
ties. (Hear, hear.)
The lion. and Rev. Mr. HASTINGS—If the land-
lord do not move, I hope this company will ; but I
hope the voice of the country will compel them to
do their duty. (Hear, hear.) Mr. Hastings then
seconded the resolution, which was agreed to.
Mr. ARMSTRONG moved the next resolution—
" That the London and County Bank at Hertford
be appointed bankers of the company."
Mr. J. GRIPPER seconded the resolution, which
was agreed to.
Mr. DIMSDALE moved a vote of thanks to the
chairman, who, he said, had been more regular in
his attendance at their preliminary meetings than
most of the committee.

Mr. CHESSHYRE, in seconding the resolution,
said all the remarks that had been made should
have- the attention of the directors, who would
be happy to listen to suggestions from any of
the shareholders, or to hear the opinions of any
practical gentlemen on the subject. His idea
was, that this movement was more applicable to
agricultural labourers than to any other class ;
for he attributed much of the overcrowding in
towns to the fact that cottages were pulled down on
estates in the country and the labourers driven into
the towns. If it were, however, found that rents
could be kept up, and labourers afford to pay them,
he should be tnNst happy. (Hear, hear.)
The vote having been agreed to,
The CHAIRMAN said he was glad the company
was now fairly afoot, and hoped it would go on and
prosper; that it would not only be useful to the
labouring classes, but that eventually it would pay
such a moderate interest to the shareholders as
would suffice to induce landlords to build cottages
on their estates. (Cheers.)
The proceedings then terminated.

stilted by Miss Martin as to what course she should
pursue with regard to disposing of the two bills of
lading, and that it was by his advice that she went
to Cork to sell them.
Miss Martin, a lady-like woman, apparently about
40 years old, was also examined, and she swore
positively that she had known Lambe since 1847,
that he introduced her to De Bous, and that she
purchased the two cargoes (shortly before she dis-
posed of the bills of lading to Mr. Hall) of that per-
son. She declared she knew nothing whatever of
the bankrupt Antonio Demetrio, and that the
money she paid for the bills of lading was her own,
and a variety of letters and other documents were
putin, which showed that she was in possession of
considerable sums of money.
At this stage of the case the trial was adjourned.
On Saturday morning, at 9 o'clock, it was again
proceeded with.
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Miss Martin was cross-examined at very great
length by Mr. Bovill. She said that she knew no-
thing whatever of Dc Bous until she was introduced
to him in Hyde-park, and that she had never seen
either him or Mr. Lambe since the transaction re-
lating to those cargoes. She first became acquainted
with Lambe in 1847, and she did not see him again
until 1857, when she met him in Kensington-gar-
dens. She did not know what his business was, or
where he lived. A letter was here shown to the
witness, and she said that she had received several
similar ones, without any signature, and she could
only guess from their contents who the writer was.
She said that she first became acquainted with
Nicholas Demetrio four years ago, and they were
on friendly terms until he left, and the action she
brought against him did not make any differ-
ence in their relations. She said she had
known Mrs. Westbrook since the year 1851.
She purchased the furniture that was in the house
at Kensington of Nicholas Demetrio, who had come
into possession of it by some arrangement with Mrs.
Westbrook. She paid altogether £6OO for the fur-
niture, but did not pay it all at once. The money
was sent to her from Holland. There was a fire in
the house, and the insurance company resisted the
claim, which was £2OO, and ultimately they received
£l5O, but she was not aware that this sum included
costs. Witness's income was about £4OO a-year,
which was partly derived from the lodging house,
but sometimes she lost money by her lodgers. The
witness then admitted that in the years 1859 and
1858 she was in debt to a number of tradesmen, and
that judgments were obtained against her, and the
debts were not paid until she received this money
from Mr. Hall. Mrs. Westbrook used to go by dif-
ferent names, as Drinkwater and Turner, and wit-
ness received letters from her in these names. She
did not remember her going by the name of Smith.
Smith, she considered, was "no name." (A laugh.)
If any letter came to witness's lodgings in the name
of Smith she used to take it in and open it, and she
might herself have said to a cabman, who was in-
solent to her, or who demanded her name, that it
was Smith. (A laugh.) The reason she did not pay
the debts in 1859, she said, was that it was not con-
venient at that time to do so. Miss Martin then
stated that she had employed several solicitors on
various occasions, and she was fond of having fresh
ones. She was recommended to Mr. Walker by a
law stationer, but she did not know his name or his
address, but she could find it, although she could not
describe where it was. The witness then said that
she had heard that Mrs. Westbrook had on one oc-
casion accepted and drawn a bill for her husband
in her maiden name, and that she had done the same
for Nicholas Demetrio. The witness was then cross-
examined at great length upon the subject of the
circumstances under which she had received the
money from Canada, and she stated that he was
engaged in speculation, and never stopped six
months at any one place. He had no banker or agent
to assist him in his affairs. He came to Liverpool
from Canada, but she did not know the name of
the ship. She said that he had since gone to Aus-
tria, but she did net know where he was. The
whole sum of £2,700 was brought to her in gold
and notes, and there were about 300 sovereigns. She
said she had not got a single scrap of her husband's
writing, except the account he gave her at the time
he hande,d her the money. She put the money into
a bag, and took it up stairs and showed it to Mrs.
Westbrook. She knew nothing about the qualities
of grain, but she looked at the newspaper to see the
prices. These were the first cargoes of grain she
ever bought, but she should not object to buy more.
Re-examined—A gentleman named Ashcroft,
and Mrs. Westbrook's nephew, saw her cousin
when he came to bring her the money.
Mr. Ashcroft and Mr. Lewsey were then exa-
mined, and stated that they remembered being at
Miss Martin's in the month of July last, when a
gentleman, who was introduced as her cousin, was
there.

Mr. Terry, the manager of the Unity Joint-stock
Bank, proved that in June last two persons, who
represented themselves as Nicholas and Andrew De
Bous Brothers, opened an account with the bank,
and referred to Demetrio. They paid in .£2OO, and
drew out the whole amount in August, and he heard
no more of them. He expressed an opinion that the
whole of the signatures to the different documents
that had been produced were similar to the signa-
tures in the bank book of De Bous Brothers.
In cross-examination the witness said he had
never seen either of the Demetrios, and he could
not say they were not the same persons.
Mrs. Westbrook, the lady alluded to, was then
examined, and she corroborated the evidence of Miss
Martin as to the circumstances under which the
proposition for the sale of the corn first took place
between her and Mr. Lambe and De Bous, and also
as to the fact of the cousin of Miss Martin coming
to her house and bringing her money in the month
of August. She was subjected to a very severe cross-
examination by Mr. Sergeant Ballantine, pretty
much to the same effect as that of Miss Martin, and
answered every question that was put to her very
readily. She declared that the reason she and her
husband separated was on account of his ill-treat-
ment, and she denied most positively that any im-
proper connexion had ever existed between herself
and Nicholas Demetrio.

Evidence was then given that Antonio Demetrio
had offered the bills of lading in question for sale
to Messrs. Young, Begbie, and Co., corn merchants,
and an agreement had been come to ; but in conse-
quence of the quantity being larger than those gen-
tlemen required, the bargain went off, and this was
the reason why the marks of cancellation appeared
upon the contracts.
Mr. Bovill having replied upon the whole case,
Lord Chief Justice Erle summed up, and the jury
retired at half-past six o'clock to consider their ver-
dict. At 10 o'clock they returned and found for
the plaintiffs.

NORTHERN CIRCUIT—LIVERPOOL, March 29.
CROWN COURT.
(Before Mr. Justice Hill.)
Mary Ann Sullivan was indicted for the murder
at Liverpool of Margaret Cross.
Mr. Simon and Mr. Littler prosecuted; and Mr.
C. Russell defended the prisoner.
It appeared from the evidence that the prisoner
and the deceased were both prostitutes, living in
the same brothel in Liverpool, that on Christmas-
day last the child of the keeper of the brothel was
christened, and that the deceased stood sponsor on
the occasiox. About 5 o'clock the deceased went out
to return a bonnet which she had borrowed for the
purpose of attending the christening, and did not
return until half-past II at night. In the mean-
time the prisoner and two other girls who lived
in the house sat drinking at home. The brothel-
keeper and his wife went to bed in a state of
intoxication, and the deceased when she returned
was also to some degree in liquor. As deceased
came up the court whero the house was she
called twice to the prisoner, who went out and
pushed her into the house, and then on to a form.
Deceased thereupon called her a name, which she
retorted by calling her a cow, which so incensed her
that she took a candlestick and threw it with great
force at Sullivan. Sullivan ran at her, seized her
by the hair, bumped her head on the ground, and
then kicked her severely on the head. Deceased
then said in a feeble voice, " Oh, Mary Ann, another
like that will kill me." Whereupon the prisoner
said, " There it is, then," and kicked her again with
great force.

After the second witness had been called Mr.
Justice Hill said the charge of murder could scarcely
be maintained, and the jury should direct their at-
tention to the charge of manslaughter.
The facts and cause of death being fully proved,
Mr. Russell declined to address the jury, as he
could not mist a verdict of manslaughter.
The jury convicted the prisoner.
Mr. Justice Hill expressed his horror that such
depravity should bi found in a so-called Christian
land, and that the prisoner, although only twenty
years of age, had been eight times in gaol, five of
which were for acts of violence. She had been
guilty of a most aggravated and malignant offence,
and the sentence of the Court was that she be kept
in penal servitude for the term of her natural life.
John Rooney was indicted for the manslaughter
of Jimes Carlisle at Liverpool on the 15th of July
last.

Mr. Preston prosecuted, and Mr. E. M. Fenwick
defended the prisoner.
The statement of the case on the part of the pro-
secution disclosed a melancholy instance of depra-
vity arising from intemperance. It appeared that
the deceased man Carlisle, who was a dock labourer,
and lodged with his wife in a room in the prisoner's
house, had at the time given way to very drunken
habits, and when in that state his widow said he
was very hasty, and on coining home would "beat
her badly," so much so that she ran away from him
and left him on the 10th of July, five days hefor
the affray between the deceased and the prisoner.

She never saw him again till she visited him in a
dying state at the Northern Hospital, on the
Bth of August, the day of his death. Carlisle,
after his wife's desertion, continued to lodge at
Rooney's, indulging in his old course of drunken-
ness, and persuaded Rooney's wife to drink with
him at various publichouses. On the morning of
Friday, July 15, the prisoner Rooney came home to
dinner from his work, and, finding his wife out, he
sought her in a neighbouring publichouse and
brought her home ; at 6 o'clock, on his return to
tea, she was again absent, and on this occasion he
discovered her once more in a publichouse in com-
pany with Carlisle and some other women, and
much intoxicated. In this state he led her home to
the cellar of his house,' in which they lived, and
having fastened the door commenced beating her,
and some neighbours, on hearing her screams,
came to the house, among others Carlisle, who first
knocked at the front door, which led by a distinct
passage to his own apartment, and then knocked at
the cellar door and called out to Rooney, who told
him he should not enter, but that if he did so it
would be at his peril. Upon this Carlisle burst open
the door, and Rooney, who had in• the meantime
armed himself with a dagger and pair of tongs,
etruck him Moor three severe blows upon the head,
and he fell on the ground, after which a scuffle took
place, and when down Rooney again beat the de-
ceased about the legs, causing, among other wounds
a compound fracture of one leg, which resulted in
Carlisle's death on August Bth. Mrs. Rooney was
found lying on the floor, very tipsy, and in a state
of nudity, with her clothes torn from her, and her
body covered with her chemise slightly thrown over
her. Carlisle was in a very weak condition, bleed-
ing, and was at once taken to the Northern Hospi-
tal, where the wounds on his head and legs were
attended to.

A son of Rooney, who was present during the
quarrel, explained that the entrance into Carlisle's
room was from the front door, and that the cellar
door led into Rooney's chamber only. He also said
that his father had several children and had been
twice married. The deceased was a powerful man.
After the surgeon had been examined,
Mr. Fenwick, addressing his lordship, said he
felt it hopeless to struggle further against the evi-
dence which had been offered, and after urging the
great provocation which the prisoner had experi-
enced and his natural jealousy and resentment at
the conduct and interference of the deceased man,
who had forced himself into the cellar, said that he
could not, under any circumstances, hope to reduce
the case below the crime of manslaughter. He also
reminded his lordship of the good character which
prisoner had previously maintained in the neigh-
bourhood.

His Lordship having directed.the jury as to their
verdict, they accompanied it with a recommen-
dation to mercy, upon the ground of the very great
provocation the prisoner had experienced.
The learned Judge said in such a serious case he
must take time to consider the sentence, and that
the recommendation of the jury should have its pro-
per weight.

CROWN COURT.
(Before Mr. Justice Hill.)
Bridget M'lntyre and Sabina Whaling, mother
and daughter, were indictedfor having on the Ist of
December unlawfully and maliciously inflicted grie-
vous bodily harm on Elizabeth M'lntyre, the step-
daughter of the first prisoner. They were charged
in various other counts with the same offence com-
mitted on other days down to the 19th of March on
Elizabeth M'lntyre.
Mr. Leofric Temple and Mr. Deighton appeared
for the prosecution, and Mr. Simon for the defence.
It appeared that the prisoner Bridget M'lntyre
is the wife of a sailor now away at sea, and that his
child, Elizabeth M'lntyre, by a former wife, aged
six years, lived with the prisoner and Sabina Whal-
ing, her mother, at a house in No. 19 Court, Robert-
street, Toxteth-park, Liverpool. From the evidence
of Mary Hewson, it appeared that on the 19th of
March she went to a petty in that court, and there
found Elizabeth M'lntyre, the stepdaughter of the
prisoner, crouched up in a corner. She gave her a
piece of bread. Between 6 and 7 o'clock next morn-
ing she found the child sitting there in the same
position in a dirty state. On the Monday before this
she had seen the prisoner M'lntyre take the child
by the hair of the head and knock its head against
the wall and kick it twice. She was finding
fault with her being late on a message. She
knocked the child down and kicked her up +he
court, and did this a second time within five mi-
nutes. In the middle of last month she saw the
prisoner M'lntyre lift the child out of a tub of
water by the hair of the head, and on another occa-
sion saw the child with two black eyes. Another
witness, Esther M'Cormick, proved that the pri-
soners formerly lived at her house, 73, Mann-street,
and left it on the 2d January last. She had seen the
prisoner Whaling beat the child in December last on
the face with her hand until she made the child's
lips swell out, and when doing this on one occasion
she heard Whaling say " Yon young fairy of hla 71.51,
will you ever tell tales again of your mammy ?" The
witness waited in the room some time, and saw
Whaling take the child up by the arm, and repeating
the same expression to her, she put the child's face
to the bars of the fire. Witness interfered, andwas
told to mind her own business, and Whaling then
attempted to place the child on the fire, but witness
caught hold of her and dragged her away. The
fire was in a small grate, but at the time red and
blazing at top. On the 18th March the child came
to her house, and Mrs. Whaling came for her and
said to her, " Are you coming home, Lizzy ?" The
child said she would rather stop with Mrs. M'Cor-
mick. Mrs. Whaling then called the child a " young
fairy of blazes," and said she would cut Mrs.
M'Cormick's throat for all she was there with her
then. She then took held of the child by the arm
and threw it on the floor, and when it was down she
kicked it twice between the legs behind, and the last
kick raised the child off the ground, and the child
cried out and was taken away by the prisoner.
Another witness, Jane Rooney, stated that on the
19th March she had seen the prisoner Bridget
M'lntyre kick the child up the yard. Other wit-
nesses proved similar acts of violence and cruelty to
the child on other occasions. A witness named
Alice Harding proved that on one occasion in De-
cember last she saw Bridget M'lntyre, the step-
mother, beat the child with a strap and buckle,
striking her with the buckle end of the strap, the
grandmother, Whaling, being present. The child's
clothes were stripped off. It had dirtied itself.
She struck it on its body and little legs, and made
it bleed. The child cried very much. On the fol-
lowing morning she saw the prisoner Whaling beat
the child with the same strap and buckle on its
naked body till the blood came. Mr. Wall, the
surgeon to the workhouSe in Toxteth-park, proved
that on the 20th March the child was taken there
by a policeman, and he examined her and found
her in an extremely emaciated and neglected condi-
tion. On examining her person he found nearly a
score of wounds and contusions upon her. Some of
the wounds were the result of violence, some were
the result of burns. There were several livid con-
tusions. The child was in a very dangerous condi-
tion. He attributed her condition to want of food
and proper clothing, and to the bad treatment he
had heard described. In the course of this witness's
evidence the child, carried by a nurse, was brought
into court for the purpose of identification. It was
pale and emaciated to a dreadful degree, and though
six years of age, looked no bigger than an infant of
three years old. The sight of its poor little wasted
arms and hands excited a thrill of horror through
the court, coupled with the evidence which had just
been given.
Mr. Simon, without attempting to extenuate the
cruelty which had been proved, attempted to show
that the beatings, though cruel and in excess, were
administered to the child as correction for being a
dirty child, and without any malice, and amounted
only to a common assault.

' His lordship having carefully summed up the
evidence,'
The jury found both prisoners guilty of the
graver charge.
His lordship, in passing sentence, said the jury
had very properly convicted them. The evidence,
to his mind, brought the charge home conclusively
against them both. He could hardly restrain him-
self to express an opinion of their conduct in mode-
rate terms, it had been so brutal, so inhuman, and
so destitute of every spark of humanity. He should
feel it his duty to pass on them a very severe sen-
tence as a warning to all others that children were
not to be so treated with impunity. The sentence
of the Court was, that they be each imprisoned for
two years with hard labour.

CANTON. The acres of unkept, overgrown
wilderness, with its rotting pavilions, tumble-down temples,
dried-up lakes, crumbling rockwork, and broken seats and
tables, formed the spring of all the impressions I afterwards
received in and about Canton. Nothing so dreary—not
even -Vauxhall on a wet Christmas Day—ever could be
imagined. It was not the breakdown of acute organic lesion,
but the decay of long, long-continued atrophy : and I formed
a theory at the moment, which the appearance of every other
yamun, or temple, strengthened, that the Chinese bad r
ages so jealously shut up their 'vaunted city, not from any
terror of the barbarians becoming acquainted with their
secrets of trade, government, or manufacture, but from a
positive idea of shame that any one should see the moul-
dering neglected " lions" of their southern capital. True
to the estimated value of their curios, everything was in a
state of " crackla." Combine all you can call to mind .f
dreary places—Miss Linwood 's old room in Leicester-square,
and the present aspect of the square itself ; the gaunt,
cheerless show-rooms of palaces generally; the " Molded
Grange" and " Haunted House;" the old pavilion on
Monkey Island, and indeed " pavilions" generally, from
that in Hans-place to any damp ceiling-stained summer-
house, dedicated to friendship or nature, that you know of
—mix them together, and extract their essence, and then
you will have not the least idea of the general rot and ruin
that is spreading, like an ulcer, throughout Canton,—
Ornhig Aragazine for dpril,