The Sun.
London, England, 1860-05-15 00:00:00

cutting and wounding Robert Styles upon the head,
with intent to do him grievous bodily harm.
Mr. Platt appeared for the prosecution; the pri-
soner was defended by Mr. Sleigh.
It appeared that the prisoner, a man of respect-
able appearance, whose wife is a laundress at Wal-
worth, in a fit of violent jealousy, and suspecting,
although the prosecutor denied it upon his oath,
,that too great a familiarity existed between the
latter and the prisoner's wife, attacked him with a
poker and inflicted some very serious wounds on the
prosecutor.

Mr. Sleigh addressed the jury, commenting on
the evidence, and suggesting that prisoner had acted
under a reasonable suspicion.
The Common Sergeant having summed up, the
jury found the prisoLer not guilty.

FOURTFI COURT.
(Before Mr, Commissioner Kerr.)
Jacob Philip Meade, 46, shoemaker, was indicted
for conspiracy with others to defraud Wilhelm
Weisenbach of £5O.

Mr. Gent prosecuted, and Mr. Dickie was for the
prisoner.

- The parties are both Germans, and the trick
played on the prosecutor was the old one of being
met by two persons, apparently both strangers to
each other, one of whom had come into property,
and then getting the victim to stake his property.
In this instance the prosecutor was met by the
prisoner and another man near the British Museum,
as far back as the 9th of January. They got him
into a public-house, and induced him to stake a gold
snuffbox and some articles of jewellery, to the value
of £5O, against some nearly worthless articles, after
which they got away, and the prisoner was not
taken until the end of April.
The jury found the prisoner guilty, and, there
being another charge for a like offence, where be
got *.£24 from another German, he was sentenced
to two years' imprisonment.
Geo. Taylor was indicted for receiving a quantity
of silk, the property of Joseph Surr, value £95.
The prosecutor is a warehouseman in King-street,
Cheapside, and the silk was stolen in August last,
and a few days after the silk was traced to the pri-
soner, who at that time got away, but was retaken
in March last by Knight and Funnel, the City de-
tectives, the latter of whom he severely injured.
Verdict, guilty ; sentence, 15 years' penal servi-
tude.

POLYTECHNIC'INSTITUTION I=l

An influential public meeting, convened by the
directors to give to the patrons and promoters of
art, science, and industry, and the public generally,
an opportunity of assisting in preserving this ad-
mirable place of instruction from extinction, was
held yesterday in the large theatre of the institu-
tion.
The Earl of Shaftesbury occupied the chair, and
amongst those present were Mr. R. Hanbury,
M.P. ; Mr. Slaney, M.P.; Mr. Grer,o•son, M.P. ; the
Hon. Captain F. Maude, Captain Jones, the Rev.
C. Mackenzie, the Rev. J. Owen, the Rev. Mr.
Sherman, and Messrs. J. Weylland, Joseph Payne,
W. J. Maxwell, James Bell, J. S. Phene, Futvoye•
F. Gaussen, A. Greatorex, and W. Spottiswoode.
The Rev. J. B. Owen read the report, which
stated that the.old Polytechnic Institution did not
fail, nor had it any signs of failure as an institu-
tion ; but the compulsory closing of it was entirely
owing to the costly legal proceedings consequent
upon the lamentable accident which occurred in
January, 1859. In pursuance of a resolution
passed at a previous meeting the committee com-
menced a vigorous canvas for shares, and were ul-
timately enabled to register the company under the
Limitid Liability Act. A general meeting having
authorised the initiation of operations, the direc-
tors agreed to pay the sum of £4OOO to the official
managers appointed by the Court of Chancery to
wind up the affairs of the late Polytechnic Institu-
tion. There were certain alterations to the insti-
tution which were estimated at £4OOO more, mak-
ing a total of £BOOO required. Towards this earn
there had been 900 shares subscribed, which, at
£lO per share, made £9OOO, but as it was proposed
to call up only £7 per share, the present capital
available would be £6300. Donations £600; and
guaranteed loan £650, leaving a deficiency of only
£450. If only 200 more shares wore subscribed
the directors would have no difficulty in carrying
out this very desirable project.
Mr. It. Hanbury, M.P., moved, and Mr. SlaneYr
M.P,, seconded, the adoption of the report.
The Chairman, before putting it, said that the
average number of visitors year by year to the old
institution had been no less than 250,000, and to
show how the people from the provinces appreci-
ated it, no less than £11,190 was taken at the
doors in 1851, during the Great Exhibition, and in
no other year did they exceed £6000..
The motion was then put and carried unani-
mously.
Other resolutions in favour of the objects of the
meeting having been carried, the proceedings ter-
,r minuted.
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