The Sun.
London, England, 1860-08-29 00:00:00

BANKRUPTS.

Michael Mulrenan, leather dealer, Great Dover-street,
Southwark, to surrender Sept. 8 and Oct. 5, at twelve, at
the Court of Bankruptcy.
Joseph Corns, soda water manufacturer, Stcurbridge,
Sept. 14 and Oct. 5, at eleven, at the Birmingham District
Court. _ _ _ _

Reuben Newton, silk throwster, Derby, Sept. 11 and
Oct. 2, at eleven, at the Shirehall, Nottingham.
Thomas Walker, grocer, Birmingham, Sept. 7 and 28,
at eleven, at the Birmingham District Court.
John Cotton, boot and shoemaker, Smethwick, Stafford-
shire, Sept. 10 and Oct. 1, at eleven, at the Birmingham
District Court.
John Faulkner, cab proprietor, Commercial-road,
Surrey, Sept. 29, at two, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Jnlin .1.;r'""....-9 0,1.. iv) al, nail-
past two, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Francis Beard, builder,Weston-super-Mare, Sept. 10 and
Oct. 8, at eleven, at the Bristol District Court.
Moses Hindle Burrows, worsted spinner, Wakefield,
Sept. 10 and Oct. 4, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court.
Lewis Robert Poole and Samuel Bryan, shoe manufac-
turers, New Oxford-street, Middlesex, September 8 at
eleven, and October 10 at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Frank Castelli, merchant, Bury-court, Saint Mary Axe,
city, September 11, at half-past one, and October 9, at
twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
William Perrin and Peter Perrin, boot and shoe manu-
facturers, Wellingborough, Northamptonshire,'Sept. 8, at
half-past eleven, and Oct. 10, at two, at the Court of Bank-
ruptcy.
George Almond and Richard Manlove, jun., straw hat
manufacturers, Luton, Bedfordshire, Sept. 12, at half-past
eleven, and Oct. 10, at half-past one, at the Court of Bank-
ruptcy.
William Bell, miller, Urpeth Mill, county of Durham,
Sept. 6, at half-past eleven, and Oct. 12, at half-past
twelve, at the Newcastle-upon-Tyne District Court.
William Fenn, insurance broker, New Broad-street,
City, Sept. 20, at half-past twelve, at the Court of Bank-
ruptcy.
SCOUCH BANKRUPTS.
Ross, Mitchell, and Co., merchants, Glasgow.
William Struthers, joiner, Uddingston, Lanarkshire.
George Lawson, cabinetmaker, Glasgow.

COURSE OF EXCHANGE.—YESTERDAY.
Amsterdam
Ditto
Rotterdam — 11 161 11 16f
Antwerp

Brussels 25 27f
- 13 51
_2

25 30
13 5

Hamburg
Paris
Ditto
Marseilles __ .
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51
25 171
25 40
25 421

Frankfort on Maine
Vienna
Trieste
Petersburgh —
Berlin —

1173/4'
13 30
13 30
35

117
13 35
13 40
35}

Madrid -. 491 491
Cadiz —49 a
Leghorn — 25 47f, 25 55
Milan — 25 40 25 45
Genoa — 25 40 25 45
Naples
Messina — •• • •
Lisbon
Oporto
Rio Janeiro
New York — •• .•
Foreign Gold in Bars (Standard).. ..per as. £3 17 9
Mexican Dollars
Silver in Bars (Standard) ,, 0 0 0
South American Doublons

L A TV INTELLIGENCE.-(THIS DAY)

COURT OF ARCHES.
THE CASE OF MR. BONWELL.

This Dimming having been appointed for pronouncing
judgment in this ',case, the Court was very nuxaeroubly
attended.
Mr. Bonwell occupied a seat in Court in front of his legal
adviser, Mr. Best, of the Oxford Circuit ; and Mr. John
Hassrad, the Bishop of London's private secretary, was
also present.

Dr. Lushington, in pronouncing judgment, said the course
he proposed to adopt west° examine the facts which had been
elicited during the prosecution, and having done so his duty
would then be to deal with those facts according to the law
applicable to them. There was no need of going at great
length into the evidence brought forward to substantiate
the charge against Mr. Bonwell, especially as it had not
been met by any conflicting testimony en his part, and his
duty would therefore be confined to ascertaining what that
evidence contained, and then dealing with it as a
whole, at the same time considering what amount
of credit attached to each of the witnesses. Mr.
Bonwell, the defendant, had been perpetual curate
of St. Philip's, Stepney, since the year 1845, and while hold-
ing that office in the church he was accused of illegally
harbouring an unmarried woman, named Elisabeth Yorath,
who was eventually delivered of a male child in the school-
house attached thereto, to the great scandal of the church
and parish. From the evidence it appeared that Miss
Yorath was the daughter of a deceased clergyman
—one of eleven children, who, with her mother, in
1858, was residing in Wales. In that year the first
witness, Miss Aimee, spoke to the commencement of the
intimacy with Mr. Bonwell and Miss Yorath, at Margate,
and her evidence clearly proved that he then and there con-
ducted himself as an unmarried man. If the evidence of
that young lady required any corroboration that was un-
doubtedly at hand, for the evidence of Mrs. Robinson con-
firmed it most conclusively. He then refer* to what took
place at Newport, in Wales. The brother of MissYorath
was there engaged in his profession as a surgeon, and it was
surprising that Mr. Bonwell, a married man and a clergy-
man, after a previous introduction to Miss Yorath at Mar-
gate, should go there and represent to Mr. Yorath that he
was engaged to be married to his sister, and that Mr. Wil-
liams, chancellor of the diocese, was to perform the cere-
mony. Mr• Yorath placed the most implicit reliauco upon
the representations of Mr. Bonwell, and his position
in the church was then a sufficient guarantee as
to the truth of his statement. Mr. Bonwell's conduct
at the house of Mr. Yorath was entirely that of an unmar-
ried man ; and if any confirmation to that gentleman's evi-
dence was required, the Rev. Mr. Williams, the chancellor
of the diocese, says in his evidence that during the whole
of the time he saw Mr. Bonwell in that part of the country
he conducted himself as a single man •about to contract
marriage. The evidence on this point left no doubt
on his mind that the conduct of Mr. Bonwell had been
entirely that described in evidence. The next
point of the case he would proceed to notice was
that which occurred in Islington in June. There Miss
Yorath went to the house of Mrs Glennie and engaged
apartments as Mrs. Harvey, and when she was asked for a
reference she gave a card with Mr. Bonwell's address on it.
The defendant had contended that that evidence ought to
be struck out, as the card given had not been produced, but
whether the reception of that evidence was right
or wrong it did not much signify, as there was
ample evidence without it. There was no doubt
but that Miss Yorath was staying at Mrs. Glennie's
house under the assumed name of Mrs. Harvey, that Mr.
Bonwell was in the habit of visiting her while she was
pregnant, and that he was perfectly well aware of every-
thing passing was incontestibly proved. Then again
Mrs. Gunn stated that the female was taken by the defen-
dant to his own house during the absence of his wife, where
she remained all night, and from the appearance of the
bed-room everything went to show that two persons
had occupied it. In •order to allay suspicion he
told the witness that the lady was his cousin, but that was
not the fact. Dr. Godfrey, in his evidence, distinctly
stated that Miss Yorath was delivered of a child at the
school-house of St. Philip's, Stepney; that Mr. Bonwell
was in the constant habit of visiting her and giving orders,
during the 10 or 12 days she remained; and then followed
the removal of Miss Yorath and her infant to the Sussex
Hotel, the.death, burial, and payment of the expenses by
Mr. Bonwell. No sort of answer was gives to any of these
facts; they were all admitted by him, as no witness was
called to disprove them. If he had any explanation to
such charges, surely his position as a clergyman ought to
have induced him to give it. After the most careful con-
sideration, he had come to the conclusion that Mr. Bon-
well, being a married man, had been guilty of seduction;
that he promised the girl marriage, and, the better to con-
ceal his visits he had harboured her in his own school-
house, where eventually she was delivered of a child, and
his conduct throughout showed that he was the father of
the child. No rational person could doubt that adultery
had been committed, but time and place had not been
clearly provei in evidence. That, however, was of no im-
portance, as the case of Trotter v. Trotter held that proof
of time and place, in such cases, was not necessary. His
opinion was that the whole of the charges made against
Mr. Bonwell had been fully proved, and whether adultery
had been committed in or out of the diocese did not avail,
but that he had conducted himself as the father of the
childt no sane person, as he had said before, could doubt, and
he could not be such without he had committed adultery.
He was satisfied that he been guilty of seduction, adultery,
fraud, and deception, and he fully considered the
sentence he should presently pronounce. There were no
extenuating circumstances, no palliation for such conduct
on the part of Mr. Bonwell. He oould not plead early
youth, when all are so liable to temptation, as he was a man
of ripe years, with a lady for his wife who was the head of
a college and the mother of a family, and the victim was the
daughter of a deceased clergyman, and one of the supports
of an aged mother. The place, again, where the scenes
had been enacted was no less than the school-house of the
church—a place where the great principles of religion were
inculcated, and where nothing but good ought to be known.
But this place Mr. Bonwell had polluted—the ministry of
the church he had disgraced—and for such conduct he could
not inflict less punishment than deprivation of the living and
condemnation in costs.

Mr. Bonwell, when the learned doctor had concluded his
judgment, rose and said, I hereby protest against a griev-
ance, and give notice of appeal.

The Registrater said it was the order of the court that
the appeal should be prosecuted in the first session of next
term.

The appeal will be heard before the judicial committee
of the Privy Council.

SECONDARIES' COURT.
(Before Mr. Potter and Jury.)

_ .
SINGULAR BREACH OF PROMISE OF MARRIAGE.
DAMAGES, noO,—THOMAS Y. DYER,

This was a writ of inquiry to assess the damages, laid
at £5OO, in a breach of promise of marriage case, defendant
having suffered judgment to go by default.
Mr. Lawrance, instructed by Messrs. Scarborough and
Alderson, of Bloomsbury-square, for the plaintiff, said she
(plaintiff) was a young person 25 years of age, formerly lady's
maid in the service of a stockbroker who failed. She was
of respectability and was compelled to come into court in con-
sequence of the scandalous conduct of defendant. Defendant
had been a soldier and clerk to the military camp at Col-
chester. He had been wounded in the Kaffir war, and had
received a pension of 2s. per day. In addition to his emolu-
ments he had lately come into a legacy of £6OO left him by
an uncle lately deceased. Plaintiff and defendant met at
a party, and defendant was much smitten. Ho had written
a great many affectionate letters to plaintiff, and in one ex-
pressed a hope that he might once more put " his arm round
the waist of his dear Lizvi' .2-- nisi,
kiss of affection." After many letters to the same
effect, defendant wrote a letter in which he said he was
recommended not "to marry at present," and supposed
that "no doubt plaintiff would be disappointed," but it
would be all right. Plaintiff was rather angry at that let -
ter, and expostulated with defendant, who replied, " that he
had net the least thought of breaking off the engagement,"
and begged Lizzie to forgive him. Soon after this an in-
terview took place, and then defendant said he could never
look upon plaintiff in any other light than that of a sister.
He refused to make her any compensation, and declared he
should defend himself to the last. The plaintiff's charac-
ter was irreproachable, and she was obliged to ask the
jury for such damages as they might think reasonable.
Mr. Green, librarian to the camp at Colchester, said the
plaintiff was his niece. Defendant had lost a leg in the
Kaffir war. This witness generally proved the love passages
between plaintiff and defendant, and deposed to defendant's
having told him he had lately come into a legacy of £6OO
from his uncle.

Other witnesses deposed to the same facts, and the
learned Secondary having summed up,
The jury assessed the damages at £lOO.
No one appeared for defendant.

NEW ACT ON THE LAW OF PROPERTY.—The late
Act to Further Amend the Law of Property is certainly one
of the class " which must lead to the more satisfactory ad-
ministration of justice." By this measure, brought forward
by the Lord Chancellor, freehold, copyhold, and customary
estates are placed on the same footing with leasehold
estates, and all writs of execution are to be registered. No
judgment is to be entered up after the passing of the act,
nor any writ of execution to affect any land, of whatever
tenure, as to a bona fid,e purchaser or mortgagee, although
execution or other process be issued and be duly registered,
unless such execution be executed and put in force within
three calendar months from the time when it was registered.
There is a provision for the protection of heirs and executors
against unregistered judgments. In the construction of the
term " judgment," decrees, orders of Courts of Equity and
Bankruptcy, and other orders having the operation of a
judgment, are included. Under the 22d and 23d Victoria,
cap. 35, a trustee, executor, or administrator may apply for
the opinion, advice, or direction of the Court of Chancery,
and it is now enacted that the petition or statement must
be signed by counsel, and the judge by whom it is to be an-
swered may require the petitioner or applicant to attend
him by counsel either in chambers or in court, when he
deems it necessary to have the assistance of counsel. The
Lord Chancellors of England and Ireland are empowered to
make general orders as to the investment of cash under the
control of the Court. The order to take account of debts,
Scc., of a deceased person may be made immediately after
probate is granted. The act is not to extend to Scotland,
and only a part to Ireland.

POLICE INTELLIGENVE-(TIIIS DAL)

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

CHARGE OF ATTEMPTED BURGLARY.—Tirnothy Neale
and William Walker, two young men, were charged, before
Mr. Beadon, with attempting to enter burglariously the
house No. 12, in New Compton-street.
George May, a constable of the F division, said. that
between three and four in the morning he heard a noise in
New Compton-street, and going there he found the two
prisoners near the house No. 12, the shutters of the shop
being down. On seeing him approach, the prisoners turned
round and ran off. On going close up to the house he found
that two of the shop shutters had been taken`down and a
window broken. He pursued the prisoners to a coffeeshop,
in High-street, and went in and took them into custody.
The prisoners said they had not been in New Compton-
street, and that they had been in the coffee-shop half an
hour. The prisoners were the same persons.
Tricker, 168 E, said he saw the prisoners enter the coffee
shop, and last witness follow them in. They said they had
been over the water till then.

Mr. Robert Garrett, of 12 New Compton-street, said he.
was called up by the police, but found nothing removetl,
though the shutters were down and a window broken.

The prisoners were put back and inquiries made, but
nothing against their characters found out. Walker was
found to have only lately left a smallpox hospital, and is an
apprentice to a working jeweller in Clerkenwell.

Mr. Beadon said he should remand them, but would take
bail for their re-appearance on Friday next, but it was not.
provided.

THIS DAYS' MARKET&

CORN EXCHANGE.

Scarcely any English wheat was on sale here to-day.
The demand for it was not to say brisk, yet there were no
sellers except at a further advance in the quotatirms, com-
pared with Monday, of 2s per qr, owing to the continuance
of unfavourable weather for harvest work.

Over 13,000 qrs. of foreign wheat have come fresh to
hand. Both red and white qualities sold at is to 2s per qr.
more money. Floating cargoes of grain were 2s dearer.
Barley sold freely, at quite:Monday's improvement in
value.

Fine malt was rather dearer, and other kinds were steady

in price. • -
We had a good demand for oats, and fine samples were
again rather dearer.
Beans and peas commanded extreme rates and the flour
trade was healthy, on rather higher terms.
ARRIVALS THIS WEEK.
Wheat. Barley. Malt. Oats. Flour.
English.— • • 560 100 I 470
Irish.
F0reign........ 13,580 4,910 12,340 I 980 sacks.
24,510 brls.