The Sun.
London, England, 1858-08-13 00:00:00

SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, AUGUST 13, 1858.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.—AuG.I2.
(Before Mr. Commissioner Fane.)

IN RE SIMON.

Th's was a sitting for the double purpose of choosing
assignees and disposing of an application for discharge from
custody by the bankrupt, Edward Simon, of 24, South-
street, Brompton, and also of 37 and 38, Mark-lane, a wine
merchant and general commission agent.
Mr. Doria appeared tar the bankrupt, and Mr. Abraham
for M. Ballereau, the detaining creditor, who opposed the
application for discharge.
Mr. Abraham having expressed his desire to examine the
petitioning creditor,
Mr. Doria objected that Mr. Abraham had no locus
stanch, his client not having proved his debt.
His Honour overruled this objection, saying that if, as a
solicitor, Mr. Abrahams told him he represented a creditor,
be might examine the bankrupt or anybody else.
M. Mioux was then examined by Mr. Abraham—He said

—I ern a Catholic priest living in Cadogan-terrace, Chelsea.
I lent £lOO to the bankrupt last year. I gave it to him in
ba. k notes ; his wife was present, but no one else. I never
asked him to pay me back because I heard he could give me
a little interest; but I have had neither principal nor in-
terest. I made him bankrupt because I thought he was an
honest man, and I thought it was impossible for him to pay
what he owed if he was not made a bankrupt; therefore I
sacrificed myself and my money, aecause I said, " I will try
to know what he will do." [This witness speaking English
but imperfectly, gave a portion of his evidence in the French
language.]
Mr. Abraham—Did any one ask you to make him bank-
rupt ?
The Commissioner—l shall not allow him to answer that
question.
Mr. Abraham—This is a case which requires strict inves-
tigation, and I want to know whether he is aware that he
is liable to the cost of the bankruptcy.
The Commissioner—l shall not require him to answer that
either.
Mr. Simon, the bankrupt, deposed that he borrowed £l2O
of last witness in May, 1857. It was entered in the cash-
book.
The cashbook upon being referred to confirmed this state-
ment.
Examination continued—lt was not entered in the ledger,
but it was in another book.
Mr. Abraham—lt appears in this examination that there
is no entry in the bankrupt's books of the borrowing of the
£lO9 of M. Mioux. M. Mioux's name does not appear,
therefore I submit that, without further consideration, your
honour ought to refuse to allow M. Mioux's claim, inas-
much as there is not a farthing of assets; and I certainly
do not think your honour ought to allow this man to get out
of custody on such a fraudulent petition as this.
The Commissioner—How do you know there are no assets?
Mr. Abraham—There is nut a shilling of assets.
The Commissioner—How do you know that?
Mr. Abraham—l have not inquired particularly, but I
am told so.
The Commissioner—How can you make such a statement,
when you have not inquired into the matter?
Mr. Abraham—l have inquired of the messenger, and of
the official assignee.
Mr. Whitmore (official assignee)—No • not of me.
Mr. Abraham—Of your clerk I did, and of the bankrupt.
Upon the bankrupt being examined again, be deposed
that though he had no property he had £3OO worth of good
Cebts. Had been in business four years in Sherborne-lane,
Tower-street, Marl--lane, and New Church-court. The
good debts were for goods sold and delivered. The largest
debt due to him was one for £lOO from a Frenchman
named Vielle; that debt was for wine and money lent.
The Commissioner—So that though you could not pay
your own debts you could lend money to other people ?
Bankrupt—lt was but a very few pounds.
The Commissioner—Have you anything further to ad-
vance ?
Mr. Abraham—My client has been robbed of his money.
Would it be worth while now to go into the question of
fraud ?
The Commissioner—l do not know how I can deal with
that now. If your client has been, as you say, defrauded
and robbed, if you can show that such is the case at the
examination meeting when he comes to pass his last exami-
nation, I shall refuse to protect him, and then your client
can send him to prison.
Mr. Abraham—But we have him in prison already. We
are now his detaining creditor, opposing his discharge
because we believe that this petition for adjudication was
presented as a ruse to get him out of custody. I submit
that the petitioning creditor has not proved his debt.
The Commissioner—Oh, as to that I am perfectly satisfied.
Mr. Abraham—Then I must ask you to adjourn the choice.
My client lives in Nantes, and is a creditor for £2OB. He
has not yet proved his debt and cannot vote in the choice
until he has done so. It will take some time to communi-
cate with him for that purpose, and therefore I submit an
adjournment is necessary.
Mr. Whitmore (official assignee), in reply to his honour,
stated the bankrupt had not tendered any statement of his
Mr. Abraham said it would take ten days to communicate
with his client, and get his debt proved, which would have
to be done before a juge de paix.
The Commissioner thought the case was in same respects
unsatisfactory.
Mr. Doria said the choice paper was already signed ; three
creditors only, however, had proved—the petitioning credi-
tor and two others; but Mr. Abraham had been very active
iu advising those two creditors not to sign the choice paper,
and had no doubt prevented others from doing so.
The Commissioner—Mr. Abraham thinks it a fraudulent
case, and it is, therefore, natural he should say, " Do not
allow a friend of the bankrupt to become assignee, because
if you do, my client will be defrauded."
Mr. Doria— He has prevented several creditors from
voting in the choice, but the three creditors who have
proved amount to nearly £l5O.
The Commissioner—How is it other creditors have not
come forward to oppose ?
Mr. Abraham—Perhaps because they believe, as I do, that
there is no chance of a dividend. _ _

The Commissioner—How came they then to trust a man
when they have such a wonderfully bad opinion of him ?
Mr. Abraham—l am not concerned for them, but my
client says he has been defrauded, and he does not care what
the expense may be, but he is determined to punish the
bankrupt.
The Commissioner—Who is your client ?
Mr. Abraham—A dealtr in sardines.
Cointuissioner—What are sardines ?

Mr. Abraham—Little fish sold in tin boxes. My client,
in ccanpliance with an order he received from a Mr. Olde-
nove, sent sardines to the amount of £lOO for cash, and
having incurred all the expense of their transit, instead of
cash all he got was two worthless bills drawn by Mr. Olde-
novc upon the ba6krupt. Mr. Oldenove gets the sardines,
divides them with the bankrupt as his consideration for
accepting the bills, and we got no money.
The solicitor to the petitioning creditor here interposed
for the purpose of explaining that the reason why other cre-
ditors had not appeared in opposition was, not as Mr.
Abrahbm had stated, because they feared they would get no
dividend, but because his (the speaker's) clerk had seen
many of them, and they had said they were perfectly
satisfied.
The Commissioner—Satisfied! Satisfied with what ?
The S,licitor—Satisfied with tke state of the bankrupt's
affairs.
The Commissioner—Who saw them ?
The Solicitor—My clerk.
The clerk, being examined, said he saw several of the
creditors, who had said they believed the bankrupt was not
so bad as be was represented or they would prove, but they
left the matter entirely in his client's hands.
By Mr. Doria—l am managing clerk of the solicitor for
the petitioning creditor.

Mr. Abraham—You are solicitor for the bankrupt as well.
Witnes—We have been acting for him, but sse arc net
doing so non•.
The Commissioner—l an) not satisfied with the case. Let
the bankrupt go into the box again.
Bankrupt deposed that he owed £1,100; about half of
that sum wai due to foreign creditors.
The Commissioner—l think it is doe to those foreign
creditors that there should be an adjournment. For how
long do you propose the adjournment should be ordered ?
Mr. Abraham—Ten days will be sufficient.
The Commisshiner—Then 1 shall adjourn it to Thursday,
Ali_. ‘26.

Mr. Abraham asked his honour to direct the bankrupt to
file a list of creditors, as hitherto he had not done so.
The Commissioner, having ascertained from the bankrupt
that he could then turn to his books and give the list, imme-
diately ordered him to do so forthwith.
Mr. Doria then applied for the bankrupt's discharge from
custody.
The Commissioner asked if there was any reason to sup-
pose the bankrupt would abscond ?
Mr. Doria—Not the slightest.
Mr. Abraham—Yes ; I do believe we shall never see him
again.
The Commissioner—l did not ask you what you believed,
but whether you had any reason for believing that the bank-
rupt would not do his duty ; because, as you know, if he
abscond he will be guilty of a felony. Do you believe he
will be guilty of tbat felony ?
Mr. Abraham—l believe he would.
The Commbsioner—What reason have you for so be-
lie% ing ?

Mr. Abraham—That he is a foreigner living temporarily
in England.

The Commissioner—Temp irarily ! (To the bankrupt)—
How long have you been in this country ?
Bankrupt—Eight years.
The Commissioner—That is what you call a temporary
residence ? (Laughter.)
Mr. Abraham—l say that if he gets out he will abscond,
beettuse havig acted fraudulently he will be afraid of being
again imprisoned.
Bankrupt deposed he had been in England eight years ;
out of which period for three years -he had been in the em-
ployment of Mr. Lewis, a pill manufacturer, of Bond-street,
and for four years he had been in trade on his own account
as a wine merchant-and general commission agent.
The Commissioner—And ycu want me not to give him
protection ?
Mr. Abraham—Yes, sir; because be ought not is have
come to tris court; he is making use of this court to get
his discharge.
The Commissioner—That is just what every man in his
position ought to do. I shall discharge him from custody.
rned to Thursday, Aug. 26.
CDischargeds
sigc cnoereds ail. no
rig. oy u

Mr. Charles Tburnwood and Mr. Spenceley, of Goodge-
street, Tottenham-court-road. In July, 1857, the trustees
realised the property, creditors to the amount of £5,000
having come into the arrangement, and realised £1,350, in
addition to which there are debts owing the bankrupt to the
extent of £1,600 or £1,700 more. The trustees being, how-
ever, made parties to a suit in Chancery, did not diviiie the
funds in hand ; and several dts,enting creditors having
adopted" hostile proce. di ,gs, the bankrupt was compelled to
petition the Insolvent Court, when Mr. Commissioner Law
refused to discharge him unless the trustees delivered up the
£1,350, which they declined to do, holding it r 9 security for
any costs incurred in the suit. The bankrupt has been in
prison since November. The total debts and liabilities, se-
cured and unsecured, are between £16,000 and £17,000 ; the
assets are as above stated, in addition to which the securities
have realised £5,410.
The bankrupt's discharge from custody was now ordered,
and Mr. Thurnwood, of Slough, and Mr. Stubbs, of Alzon,
appointed assignees.

POLIO E INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HOUSE.—Capt. R. Dawson, was aim..
mooed upon the complaint of James Hatubleton, a licensed
steam pilot; for that he, on the 31st day of July last, Icing
then the master of the William Jolliffe, a steam-ship un-
exempted from pilotage, and navigating within the pilotage
district between London-bridge and Gravesend, did unlaw-
fully, after a qualified pilot had offered to take charge of
such ship and had made a signal for that purpose, employ,
and continue to employ, a certain man named Abraham
Read, then and there being an unqualified persol, to pilot
her, contrary to the Act 17th and 18th Vic., cap. 104, sec.
353.

Mr. Fletcher appeared for the complainant; and Mr.
Winckworth on behalf of the General Steam Navigation
Company, to whom the William Jolliffe belongs.
The defendant pleaded not guilty.
Mr. Fletcher briefly opened his case, and stated that the
offence, if proved. would render defendant liable to a penalty
not exceeding £2 145., being double the amount of pilotage
ehargable on the William Jolliffe between London and
Gravesend. He then called the complainant,
James Hatnbleton, who said—l am a licensed pilot, and
now produce my license. On Saturday, the 31st ult. I saw
the William Jolliffe coming down from London-bridge, I
being then off the Tower. She was then in charge of an
unlicensed pilot named Abraham Read, whom I saw waving
his hand to the man at the helm. I hoisted my flag, and
the captain came from the starboard side to the larboard. I
asked him whether he wanted my services, and he said
"No ;" and without stopping be went right away. I can't
say that he was master of the William Jolliffe, but he was on
the paddle-box. The William Jolliffe was making about
Oft. of water at the time, and the pilotage to. Gravesend for
that draught is £1 7s.
Cross-examined--I do not know Capt. Dawson, and can't
say whether he has been pp and down the river for 30 years.
I took him for the captain by his conduct. I will not under-
take to swear that he was not in charge of the ship. The
vessel was eased when I hoisted my flag, but nut for me. I
can't say who gave the order to ease her. The defendant, in
answer to my question, did not state that he was himself a
pilot; or, if he did, I did not hear him. I can't say whether
Read continued in charge after I made the signal, but he
still stood on the paddle-box.
Mr. Winckworth—Have you not said in writing that the
captain came to the port side and took charge of the ship?
Complainant—l have said so.
Mr. Winckworth—ls that your writing
Complainant—lt is.
Mr. Winckworth then read a letter addressed to the
instant,
superintendent of the Steam Navigation Company, on the
.`1(1 in which the complainant asked that a portion
of the work now done for the company might be given to
him ; and in which he marls reference especially to the
refusal of the captain of the William Jolliffe to employ him
on the 31st ult., and asserted that the captain, upon his
application, himself took charge of the ship.
Cross-examination resumed—l believe it is the practice
cf the General Steam Navigation Company to have licensed
watermen to assist their captains in navigating their vessels
as far as the Pool; but I am not aware that Mr. Read is a
licensed vvaterrnan. I saw the name of Captain Dawson on
the books at the Trinity House as the holder of a Board of
Trade certificate.

Lord Mayer—That certificate should be produced.
Mr. Winekworth—lt shall be. I have it in court. Don't
you know, Mr. Hambleton, that steam-boats carrying pas-
sengers are navigated by captains holding a Board of Trade
certificate ?

Complainant—l do:; but then the captain:must pilot the
ship himself.

Goodman (chief clerk)—ln the busy parts of the
river is it not usual to have one person on each paddle-box
of a steam-boat to guard against accidents ?
Complainant—Yes, it is.
Mr. Goodman—But you don't contend that both these
persons should be licensed pilots ?
Complainant—l don't know how that may be. I have
seex it done.

Mr. Winckworth—But suppose the chief mate had been
on the paddle-box instead of Read, and bad waved his band
to the man at the helm, would you consider that being in
charge of the vessel, the captain being on the other paddle-
box or on the bridge at the time ?
Complainant—No; but there is a difference between the
chief mate and another man.
Wm. Coe, a waterman, who was with the complainant
when the latter made his signal, was examined, but could give
no positive evidence as to the fact of Read being in charge of
the vessel either before or after the signal was made ; but his
evidence led to the conclusion that the latter was certainly
not the case, and he admitted that all he saw was that Read
waved his hand once as if to the man at the helm. There
was no other evidence.

Mr. Win kworth contended that there was no proof, and
that the case wasone of the most trumpery that bad ever come
before a Court. He believed it had originated entirely from
ill-will, as the complainant, two days after the affair of the
William Jolliffe, wrote to the company fur apart of their work,
and because he did not get it took out the summons. To
that summons he (Mr. Winckworth) bad two objections—
first, that the William Jolliffe was an exempted ship; and,
secondly, that the defendant did not continue to employ an
unlicensed pilot, after a duly qualified pilot had offered to
take charge of the vessel. As to his first objection the
vessel was exempted before the Mercantile Shipping Act
came into operation, and the very clause under which the
summons had been taken out continued all existing exemp-
tions. The learned gentleman here read the clause, show-
ing the continuance of existing exemptions ; and then the
1.25 th sec., c. 69, Geo.l V., which exempted from theobligation
to carry pilots all coesting vessels, &c., having captains or
mates duly licensed; and he also produced a certificate
granted to defendant by the Board of Trade in 1855, and
renewed annually since, licensing him to pilot any vessel
belonging to the General Steam Navigation Company with
a draught of water not exceeding 11 feet between London
and Great Yarmouth. Finally, the learned gentleman met
an objection urged on the opposite side by quoting a bye-
law made by the Trinity House, and published by Order in
Council in the London Gazette of the 17th July, 1857, ex-
tending to ships carrying passengers the exemptions pre-
viously enjoyed by ships not carrying passenccr= tztPler the
37th section of the Merchant SliippLig Act of 1:354.
Mr. Fletcher took a technical objection to the Board of
Trade certificate ; but the oisjection was overruled, and
The Lord Mayor expressed his opinion that every possible
precaution had been taken in navigating the vessel, as
ac-
cording to the complainant's own shoeing there had been
a man to look-cut upon each paddle-box, and that every
requirement of the law 1134 been duly complied with. The
complainant appeared to have been looking more to his own
benefit than to the public good when he applied for the
summons; but be that as it might, the summons must be
dismissed.

. Mr. IVinckworth said it was extraordinary that such a
summons should be taken out against Capt. Dawson, who
had navigated up and down the Thames for 30 years. He
should not, however, ask for costs, being satisfied with the
result of the case; but if ever such a case were brought
forward again it was the intention of the Steam Navigation
Company to press for costs.

WORSHIP-STREET.—PROMPT RECOVERY OP
STOLEN PROPERTY.—CharIes Davis, a young man of
very smart appearance, and rather good-looking, and
Margaret Rogers, keeper of a common lodging-house in
Thrawl-street, Spitalfields, were finally examined before
Mr. Hammill, upon a charge of feloniously possessing stolen
property.
About four in the afternoon of the 4th inst., Dubb and
Savage, detective constables of the K division, were enter-
ing Thrawl-street, when the prisoner Rogers, who was
standing at her door, instantly darted inside at the sight of
them, and being as quickly followed, was found in the back
bedroom with the prisoner Davis, and upon the bed were a
broken-open writing desk, the contents of whi,h (upwards of
100 letters and other property) were strewn about, and a lady's
work-box wrapped in a table cloth, and under the bed a pair
of candlesticks. Rogers pointed out Davis as having brought
the things there, and on the officers inquiring if he was the
man who bad arrived shortly before in a cab, Davis said
the fact was that he had no knowledge of the stealing of the
things, but while walking in the street he saw a young man
named Jones, who had but lately come home after 6 months'
imprisonment, and that person Invited him into a cab, in
which they were driven to Thrawl-street.
The finding of the writing-desk and work-box as above
stated was reported last week in the Morning Post, and
Ann Edwards, servant of a lady named Evans, residing at
Kensington-park-gardens West, near Notting-hill, now
attended, and identlied all the property, which she saw safe
at nine in the morning of the 4th inst., and missed at three
in the afternoon, little more than an hour before the officers
found the articles in Spitalfi-lds.
The prisoner Rogers protested that she bad no knowledge
that the things had been stclen, and Davis, in reply to the
usual question, said he had nothing to offer now in defence,
and wished the case to be sent to trial.
Donoway, a police constable, proved that in October last
Davis was convicted at the Westminster sessions, and sen-
tenced to four months' imprisonment.
The prisoners were committed for trial.
ROBBERY BY FEMALES.— Charlotte Griffin, Eliza-
beth Buckley, and Fanny Hart were charged with robbing
Mr. William Hardman, of Dame-street, Islington, who
stated that about one in the morning he was passing a
fruiterer's in Shepherdess- walk, near the Eagle Tavern, when
the prisoners insisted upon his treating them, and Griffin
laid hold of his arm. lie pushed her away, upon which she
struck him a blow in the mouth. The others then got bold
of him, and another woman coming up said, " Your watch
will be gone." On looking down he discovered that his
watch, worth 10 guineas, was already gone, having been
adroitly snapped from the guard chain, which was hanging
loose from his neck.
The-prisoners were remanded.

MARYLEBONE. —SHOPLIFTING By FEMALES.
Mary Everett and Eliza Wright, the former describing
herself as a paper colourer, and the latter as a book-folder,
both of them very respectably attired, were placed at the
bar charged with having stolen two shawls, value 15., the
property of Mr. Gill; a pawnbroker, carrying on business
in the Hampstead•road.
John Crick, an assistant, deposed that on the previous
evening, between 5 and 6 o'clock, the prisoners entered the
shop, and asked to look at some shawls. Witness placed a
dozen of different pa. terns and qualities on the counter, and
arttr turning them many times they said that none of them
suited. He (the witness) was about to move the shawls away,
when be observed Wright c3nceal one of them beneath
her dress. He told the prisoners he was quite sure
that they bad not come to purchase, but to steal, and
on his laying hold of Wright, and turning her round, a
shawl dropped from her person on to the floor; she also
dropped a second one when threatened with being given In
charge.

Ali. Long—What evidence have you against the woman
Everett?

Witness—A wan who was In the shop heard her say to
Wiight—" Kick it:(alluding to the shawl first-dropped)
under the chair."

Mr. Long—ls that p:rson present ?
Witnrss—He is not, sir.
Grounds, 94 S, stated that when be took the prisoners
into custody, neither of them had anything to say. lie (the
officer) produced the two shawls, which were identified by
the first witness as belonging to his employer, Mr. Gill.
The prisoners were remanded till Tuesday next.
DARING ROBBERY.—.John HOWC// and Mary Whiting
were charged with having been concerned in the following
s'aring• robbery :

It appeared from the evidence that on Tuesday afternoon
a wan named Daniel Gould, residing at Kensington, went
into a public-house in B ul-strect, Lisson-glove, and that
while there the male prisoner rushed in and took his handker-
chief, containing 225. in silver, from his pocket. The pri-
soners, who hastily-quitted the house, were subsequently
taken into custody by police-constable 93 D.
The woman, whose complicity in the robbery was not
satisfactorily shown,
was discharged, and Howell. who
pleaded guilty, was sent to hard labour in the House of Cor-
rection for two months.
ASSAULT ON A CONSTABLE.—Nathaniel Young, a
baker, was charged with a most violent assault on Davis,
91 D.

The evidence went to show that on the same morning at
an early hour, Davis, 91 D, saw the prisoner loitering about
in a suspicious mautrer in Dorset-triews, Dorset-9uate,
and also observed him try several doors as if with the inten-

tion of making an entry. Tie officer, who was not satisfied
with the account which he gave of himself, took him into
custody, when the prisoner exclaimed, " I'll serve you cut.
you ---," and threw hint down with great force.
Mr. Long convicted Ili.= in the penalty of 205., or 14
days' imprisonment.

CLERKENWELL.-I)AniNG ROBBERY OP SILVER
PLATE.—Three fashionabl y-attired youngmen, well-known
thieves, who gave the names of Henry Phillips, Henry
Evans, and James Dunbar, were placed at the bar, befo:e
Mr. Tyrwhitt, charged with stealing nor silver soup ladle,
one parr of sugar tongs, anti two silver knives and forks,
from the dwelling-house of Mr. H. W.:Elder, es.ding at
H ornsey.

The prisoners were seen. by Mrs. Eliza Cottratn loitering
about near the prosecuto;?'s house, and on her return from
the post-office she saw Phillips come out of the garden with
something in his possessi.on. An alarm was given, and the
prisoners followed and f)und lying in a field. They were
questioned, and gave a vs ry unsati-factory account of them-
selves ; upon which they were locked up, and while at the
station the coup ladle fell from one of their trousers. That
morning Sergeant Monaghan, 38 N, searched the field
where the prisoners had been lying, and found near the
spot the silver knives and forks produced.
The prisoners said they ,went to Hornsey, as they bad got
a half-holiday, and added that Phillips found the properly.
Mr. Tyrwhitt sentenced the prisoners to three months'
bard labuur in the House of Correction.

SOUTH WARK.—Tm3 BERMONDSEY NUISANCES.—
In the course of the afternoon Dr. Challice, the medical
officer of health of the ]3ermondsey district, attended with
Mr. Drew, the vestry clerk, to prefer a complaint against
Mrs. Sarah Cripps, a glue and scratch manufacturer, of
Seven-mead, Bermondsey New road, for carrying on an
offensive trade— that is, the manufacture of scotch—which
injurious to the health of the inhabitants of the neighbour-
hood.

Dr. Challice, on being sworn, said that during the last
two months he had received c.suplaints from the inhabitants
of the Bermondsey Ne w-road respecting the offensive
smells which daily emanai'ed from the defendant's premises.
He ace,)rdingly visited tLcm, and perceived that it was
caused by the use of .sulphdreous acid in the manufacture of
scuteh, a filthy decomposed animal matter. The defendant
had made a communication with the sewer for getting rid of
the refuse filth, which spread all over the neighbourhood,
and eventually made its way into the Thames. The process
was new, and a short timo ago brought into use by Mr.
Benjamin Young, who had extensive premises in Ber-
mondsey; but, owing to the offensive smells, he was com-
pelled to remove the business to Erith-marshes.
The defendant's son, who managed the business, said that
there was no offensive smell whatever, and they had fur ten
years carried on the process of making seutch with sul-
poureous acid, and no complaint had been made before.
Dr. Challice intimated to Lis worship that the new process
had not been breught into Liao ten years. He was positive
that the smells emitted from it were not only offensive, but
injurious to health. In fact, it ought to be remedied
at once, or in such hot weather as they had now it might
cause considerable disease among the innhaitants.
Mr. Comte asked who preferred the charge?
Mr. Drew replied that the vestry had done so for the
protection of the inhabitants.

Mr. Combe thought that if such was the case it had
better go the sessions. It was a matter too serious for him
to deal with.

Dr. Challice said that it was his opinion that unless the
process was done away with immediately disease would
spread about fearfully.
Mr. Cripps denied that it was injurious to health, having
been carried on for so many years without complaint.
Mr. Combe, after some discussion, adjourned the sum-
mons until Monday, to give the defendant an oppsrtunity
of calling in a practical chemist, who could consult with
Dr. Challice on the matter in question. However, the
defendant must not continue the practice, or she will
render herself liable to heavy penalties each day.

LAMBETH.—DESPERATE ASSAULT ON A POLICE-
CONSTABLE.-++A costermonger named David Hall was
charged before the Hon. Mr. Norton with violently assault..
ing Police-constable M'Carthey, P 145, under the following
circumstances on the 19th of July last :
The complainant stated that on the evening of the day
io question several persons were assembled at the Newington
Arms, King-street, East-street, Walworth, when the pri-
soner, with two men named Williams and Charles Andrews,
and another of the name of Otty, endeavoured to make
their way up stairs into the room. As they were causing a
disturbance they were refused admission and ejected. While
they were in the street a crowd collected and a disturbance
arose. Witness endeavoured to preserve order, in attempt-
ing to do which he was obstructed by the prisoner, who
exclaimed to some persons in the crowd, " Keep back and
I will chuckle the —." He then gave witness a blow
upon his mouth, and another under the right ear. At the
same time he was tripped up by some one, and fell. 'While
be was on the ground he was kicked several times in his
side by the prisoner.
In answer to the magistrate, the witness said that for
several days after the assault upon him he felt the effects of
the blows, and was laid up in bed. The man Otty, who was
in his custody, succeeded in escaping in consequence of the
attack upon him by the prisoner.
Mr. M. Fox, landlord of the Newington Arms, gave evi-
dence in corroboration of that given by the constable.

The prisoner observed that he was sorry for wiiat had
happened, and he would take care that nothing of the sort
should occur again.
Mr. Norton asked what was known of the prisoner ?
Police-constable P 64 stated that since this occurrence the
prisoner .tad carried about him a knife, with which he has
threatened to rip up any one who should try to take him into
custody. The police had been cautioned against him.
The complainant stated that he was informed the prisoner
was in the habit of carrying a pickaxe about with him.
Mr. Norton remarked that it was a very cowardly act on
the part of the prisoner, and that he should send him for
trial.

The depositions were taken, and the priSoner wrs corn-
Toi•trfi f.r trial.

GROsS CRUELTY TO A HORSE.—Thos. Day, dairy-
man, No. 26, Pitt-street, St. George's-road, Southwark,
was charged with cruelly ill-treating a horse by violently
beating it with a whip-handle in the Westminster-road that
morning.

George Smith, a constable of the Royal Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, stated that about seven
o'clock he and Wm. Guest, another of the society's officers,
were at the foot of Westminster-bridge, when they saw the
defendant, who was with another man in a cart, and which
was drawn by one horse. The prisoner was beating the
animal very violently with the butt end of a heavy whip
upon its back and ribc. The poor creature went on with
great difficulty, when on reaching Astley's Theatre several
of the foot-passengers cried out " Shame !" The prisoner
paid no attention to the remark, and again struck the horse
violently. He stood up in the cart for the purpose of
giving the blows more effect. At York-place a man got
out. Witness and his brother officer went up to the prisoner
and told him that they should take him into custody.
Mr. Norton—How many times did he strike the horse ?

Smith—From 10 to 15 times. (Witness produced the
whip.)
Mr. Nortqn—Whatsort of condition was the horse in ?

Smith—ln a 'rery bad- condition, and totally unfit for
use. There was scarcely any flesh on its ribs, and it was
extremely emaciated. On the way to the station-house the
prisoner wanted to bribe me, and make it up.
The prisoner said that he only struck the harse twice.
Smith said that when he said 10 or 15 times he spoke
within the mai k.
Guest corroborated the evidence.

The prisoner, in answer to the Charge, said that he gave
£lO for the horse four years ago, and that it was about
eight years old; a veterinary surgeon said it was fit to
drive.

Mr. Norton went to look at the animal, which was in the
pelice-station yard adjoining the court. On his return, he
observed that the atnimal was nearer 16 than 8 years of age,
and was to'aqy unfit to be used. It was more likely worth
10d. than ,ElO, and could hardly put a leg to the ground.
If he (the prisoner) consented to have it sent to the
knacket's to be killed, he should not send him to prison.
The animal was sold to the knacker fur 205., and killed.

THAM ES.—TitH SOLDIER'S WIDOW.—AN UNHAPPY
MARRIAGE.—A woman of respectable appearance and ad-
dress, a native of Ireland, who was in a sta'e of great afflic-
tion, came before Mr. Selfe and requested his interfereuce
under the following circumstances.
The aiplicant stated that she was the widow of a soldier
named Patrick Readdy, of the. Ist Madras Fusiliers, who
served his country in India under Havelock and Neil], and
was killed between Allababad and Cawnpre. One of her
children died in Cawnpore; the other, a girl 5 years old,
she left in Newtown, Madras, under the care of Mr. Fewkes,
a missionary, and returned to England. She applied for
relief to the Committee of the Indian Mutiny, and was al-
lowed ss. per Week, and an additional 2s. 6d. per week from
the Clive Fund. On the let of July in the present year she
had the misfortune to meet with a soldier named Samuel
Spurling, recruiting-sergeant for the Tower Hamlets
Militia, who represented that be had formerly belonged to
the same regiment as her departed husband, and had seen
him in Madras. A few days afterwards Swirling proposed
marriage to her, and said he had a pension of Is. a-day, that
he was receiving pay from the Tower Hamlets Militia, and
was paid Ms. per week for drilling_ boys at a school. She
refused to change her condition, but he continued his ad-
dresses, and asked her to buy the " marriage lines." She
declared that she would never marry a man who could not
buy the," marriage lines" fur himself. However, she re-
ceived such an excellent character of Spurling from many
' soldiers' wives and others that she .ultimately agreed to
marry him and pay all the expenses: Her intended took
lodgings for her in the house of Mrs. Shannon, in Back
Church-lane, Whitecbapel, where she remained for a few
days, and application was made to Major Woodcock of the
Indian Mutiny Relief Fund Committee for a sum of money
to " sten" her and her new husband in a new home, and
they were married on Monday last in a registrar-office in
Whitechapel, She paid all the expenses of the wedding,
and took her " marriage lines" (certificate) to Major Wood-
cock, who gave her an order upon Alderman ',lnnis, the
treasurer of the Mutiny Relief Fund, for the payment of
Lill: She received a cheque for £lO from Alderman
Finuis, which was duly honoured at the Bank of England.
She gave the money to her husband, who, ou the wedding-
day, in spite of her remonstrances, paid more attention than
he ought to have done to two soldiers' wives, and spent a
good deal of money with them. On Tuesday morning her
husband said he had some business to attend to and mast
leave her for a few hours. She gave him very good advice,
when he broke out into a violent cession and struck her. Ile
then left home and called for a cab, into which be entered
with two girls of the town, aed she had never seen or heard
of him since.
Mr. Selfe—The £lO was given as a substitute for the
pension.
The applicant—lt was, sir.
Mr. SElfe—And your new husband only stopped with you
one night ?
The applicant—Yes, sir, and he left me penniless. This
is the second day I have been without food.

Mr. Selfc—fie must be a most heartless fellow. You say
be has a pension ? -
The applicant—Yes, sir, a pension of ls. per day, and
Major Woodcock says be must apply for it on the Ist of next
month, or lose it.

Mr. Belfe—Yoil can compel him to maintain you, and the
parish will no doubt attach his pension.
Mr. Widdle, the second usher of the court, said he knew
Spurling well ; he had very frequently brought recruits to
that court to be attes'ed. He believed Spurting was upon
the spree rfter his marriage.
Mr. Selfe—lle must maintain his new wife. Give her a
half-crown from the poor-box fund, and direct her to the
parish officers, who will, be doubt, look after her graceless
husband, and step his pension.
STEALING` WINE IN THE LONDON DOCK.—Richard
Spicer, an oil cooper, aged 35, in the employ of the London
Dock Company, was brought before Mr. Selfe, charged
with stealing nine quarts of port wine.
John Sayre, a constable in the service of the London Dock
Company, stated that at one o'clock on Wednesday after-
noon his attention was called to tha oil-wharf in the dock,
and he was informed •that a puncheon of wine had been
plundered, and that many persons had drank of it. Ile

instituted an inquiry, and di>ewered an " octave"—a small
c• sk containing the eighth part of a pipe—in a very secluded
place, called No. 2 arch, on the oil-wharf, where no wine
ought to b% The pr:soler was lying near the octave in a
vault, dead drunk, and he conveyed him to the station-
house. The octave was regauged, and a deficiency of nine
quarts was ascertained. There was a bung in the bung-
hole inst2ad of a " slice," which was lying near the cask.
The witness produced the alive, and added that two more
octaves of wine ware lying near the one that had been plun-
dered. They ought not to have been brought to the place
where they were discovered.

Mr. Selfe—How do you know the priEoner was drunk on
port wine ?

Sayre—When he reached the station-house he vomited,
and b: ought a good deal of wine off his stomach. It was
port win's.

. ;
The priAmcr admitted that he broached the octave of
wine and drank st me of it, but he did net drink nine quarts.
Mr. Se don't supp:.se you did—not at one time.
The prisoner—Others followed my example, but I could
not help that.

Mr. Selfe said the prisoner's conduct was highly disgrace-
ful, and sentenced him to pay a fine of 40s. for unlawfully
drinking wiee in the dock. The fire was paid.
CONVICTION OF TWO DANGEROUS THIEVES.--
Thomas Wicks, alias Convict Tone, aged 24, and James
John,son, alias Stewart, two well-known thieves, who, it
is firmly believed, are ticket-of-leave men, although the
police could not give legbl proof of the fact, were brought
up on remand before Mr. Selfe, charged with being in
King-sheet, Stepney, for the purpose of committing felony,
and also with committing two robberies, one at the resi-
dence cf Mr. Benjamin Simpson, No. '2, Bromley-street,
Commercial-road East, the other at No. 9, White Horse-
street, Stepney. •
It appeared that the attention of the police had been
called to the suspicious movements of the prisoners fur
some time, and their footsteps had been doeged. from day to
day, and hour to hour, but the constables employed had no-
thing tangible on which to act until Sunday afternoon last,
when they were found loitering about King-street, Stepney,
and peeping through the key-holes of the doors of houses, the
occupiers of which were from home. Mills' a detective,
306 K, asked them what business they had in the street, and
why they were peeping through key-holes. Weeks said it
was very hard lie could not turn the corner of a street with-
out being molested. They were taken to the station-house,
and gave fictitious names ; but their real address was No.
25, Lomas-buildings, Bull-lane, Stepney. On searching a
drawer in a room in the lower part of the house, Mills
found four pawnbrokers' duplicates, all relating to property
that had been stolen. On proceeding to a room upstairs
Mills perceived that the lath and plaster had been partially
removed. There was a large hole in the ceiling, Mills
thrust his hand through it, and discovered a secret
cupboard, in which were deposited a jemmy, too
files, a bunch of skeleton keys, and a latch key. The
latch key was identified by Mrs. Elizabeth Simpson, of No.
2, Bromley-street, who now attended, and said that on
Friday morning last, soon after she had taken in the milk
for breakfast, she heard a 'noise in the passage, and upon
going to ascertain the cause of it, she saw a man hastily
leave the house. She missed from a table in the parlour
the latch key now produced. Her parlour contained a
quantity of dirty linen prepared for the wash.
Mills produced a coat, the duplicate relating to which
was found in a tin box in the lower part of the prisoner's
house. Mills said that the street door of the house in
Bromley-street was forced and broken. There were marks
such as would be produced by a jemmy like that found in
the prisoner's house. _

Mrs. Simpson identified a coat produced by a pawnbroker,
and pawned by a female, as the property of her husband.
Ann White, the wife of James White, of No. 9, White
Horse-street, Stepney, identified another coat produced by a
pawnbroker, and pawned by Wicks. She saw Johnson pet-
ting on the coat in the passage of her house on Friday last,
and he started with it on his back and made his escape.
The prisoner's, after some hesitation, pleaded guilty, and
said they had been drawn into bad company, and depraved
women, with whom they cohabited, instigated them to com-
mit robberies.

Mr. Selfe said the prisoners appeared to have been carry-
ing on an organised system of robbery, and sentenced them
to six months' imprisonment and hard labour.

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