The Sun.
London, England, 1858-07-31 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE—(This Day.)

VICE CHANCELLORS' COURT.
(Before Vice-Chancellor Sir R. T. Kindersley.)
JUDGMENT-PARKINGTON V. REYNOLDS.
This was the case of another of the Irish claimants as
next of kin to the late Mrs. Shard, who died in 1819.
The petitioner, Catherine Edgar, claimed as first cousin.
His Honour, the Vice-Chancellor, after examining
very minutely the whole of the evidence laid before
him in support of the claim, came to the conclusion that
the petitioner had not made out her claim, and dismissed
the petition with costs. His Honour said that there had
been such a total failure to make out the claim that he
would not allow any farther evidence to be taken in
support of it.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—(This Day.)

THAMES.
HEARTLESS AND SHAMEFUL ROBBERY.—Mr. I. Angell
an officer of the City of London Union, introduced to
Mr. Yardley a poor man, named John Thomas Gale,
who has lost one eye, and cannot see much with the
remaining one, for the purpose of giving informaion 0
a most cruel robbery.
Mr. Widdle, the second usher of the court, stated that
the unfortunate man Gale had been in the army, and
served his country in the 54th Regiment, in the Crimea,
wh.-re he was wounded. 0u leaving the 54th Regiment
his comrades presented him with a very handsome cornet-
a-pi-ton, and being an excellent musician, he joined two
other men, named Andrew Davison and John Maclean,
and they roamed the country dressed in dark
green uniforms with red' braiding. Their career
as musician,. was pretty successful, until the Bth April
last, when ,they lift Windsor for London, intending
to proceed t,) the south west of England. They
stopped at Honnslow on their journey, and Gale went to
the barracks there to visit an old comrade in the 11th
Hussars stationed there, leaving his bag of clothes and
his cornet-a-pi-ton with his c..mpanions. When Gala
returned totne place where he left his brother musicians
they were gone. The rascals took advantage of his
temporary absence to decamp with his instrument and
clothes. Gale proceeded towards London, and
became (It stitute, and was admitted into the City of Lon-
don Union-house. Toe guardians had offered a reward
of M. for the apprehension of the two thieves Davison
and Maclean,and the recovery of the instrument. If the
poor fellow could recover his cornet-a-piston, he would
be enabled to obtain his own living The editor of the
.Hue and Cry and Police Gazette intended to insert a
de-oription of the thieves and a reward for their appre-
hension in that journal, but it was necessary before that
was done that Gale shou.d swear to the truth of his
statement and exhibit an information before a magis-
trate.
Mr. Yardley commiserated the poor fellow and re-
ceived his information, upon which he would grant a
warrant for the apprehension of the villains who had
stolen the musical instrument.

Mr. Angell said Gale was a well-conducted man, and
that he had three brothers now serving in the army in
India.

SUPPRESSION OF INFAMOUS Houszs —Margaret
Jamee, alias the Bloater, a fat and vulgar-looking wo-
man, Mon is Sheedy, her brother, Elizabeth Martin, and
Mary Martin were brought up in the custody of Mr.
Stock, beadle of Wapping, and Kitty, a police-constable,
130 11, who apprehended them last night, charged with
wholesale trafficking in vice and prostitution. The pri-
son re are the proprietors of upwards of 100 infamous
brothels in St. George-in-the-Bast, Wapping, and White-
chapel, and the most horrible outrages and robberies
have been committed in their houses. The evil has be-
come so great that a society called the East London
Association has been founded to repress profanity and
vicel in the district, and on Friday the parish officers
entered into the necessary recognisances to prosecute,
and warrants were granted for the apprehension of the
offenders. There was a warrant against Benjamin James,
the husband of Margaret James, but the fellow abtoonded
on Friday directly after the warrant was granted.
Mr. Sidney, solicitor, on the part of the defendants,
Benjamin and Margaret James, said if the prosecutions
were abandoned then 25 brothels should be closed within
12 hours.

Mr. Yardley—l have nothing to do with it at all.
Any negotiations of that kind must be carried on with
the overseers at the sessions.

Mr. Sidney tendered bail to the amount of 101. for
each of the four prisoners.
Mr. Yardley—Thii are wholesale keepers of brothels
of the worst description, and I must have four sureties
of 401. each.
The wholesale traffickers in vice and blasphemy were
committed in default of bail.

RAILWAY TRAFFIC RETURNS.

TRAFFIC RETURNS FOR THE WEEK.

Miles Receipts.
opened, NAME OF RAILWAY.
1858. 1858. 1857.
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BRITIsn. £ £
- Anerdeen .... •• .• •• .. - -
65. Belfast and Ballymena •• ••••.,•• • • •• 1•391 1,316
1f Belfast and County Down.• ••..•• •• .. 346 360
84 Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire
5,386 2,543
26% Bolton, Blackburn,and West York •• .• - -
118 Bristol and Exeter • • .... ••....• • • • .. 6.736 6,756
198% Ca1ed0nian............. .• .• • ....... 15,315 16,537
945,1 Chester and liolyhead•••
614 Cork, Blackrock, and Passage • • ••.. 302 313
20 Cork and Bandon .. • • ............., 278 293
56 Dublin and Beitast function ........ 1,195 1,190
63 Dublin and Drogheda...-. ......... 1,757 1,623
40% Dublin and Kingstown .............• 2,632 2,065
1714 i Dundee and Arbroath ••••••• • • • • • • • 686 el 9
31 Dundee, Perth, and Aberdeen Junction 1,215 1,212
L.l_ Dundalk and Enniskillen ••..••• • •• • • 618 510
.t6O
ot Ya East Anglian.... •••••• • • • • • • •"• " ' 7 1,033 1
7,156
99 I East Lancashire.. • • ........ •••• • • • • 'Ol6
489 Eastern Counties and Norfolk.. ••• • 1 27,018 26,163
Eastern Union ••• • • • ••••• • • • • • •• • .5
142 Edinburgh and Glasgow .............
4 4 668
78 Edinburgh, Perth, and Dundee ••• • .. 3,64- ,
6,676 7,066
6 Exeter and Crediton .......... • •
22 Furness Railway ••• • • • • .... :: ::
7,298 7 eO3
1,-236 1,250-
183% Glasgow, and South-Western........ . • _
283 Great Northern.• •..
6 694 6,576
203% Great Southern and Western (Ireland) 32,868 35057
465 Great Western ••••• • • • • • •• • •
251% Irish South Eastern .......... :: :: "
..
6 980 7,320
103 Lancaster and Carlisle •••• • • • • '241 260
27,351 27,751
• 2864 i Lancashire and Yorkshire.. •• • • ::::::
- -
- Leeds Northern ... • .. • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
166 Liverpool, Crosby. and Southport • • - -
68,1 V 71,033
653 London and North Western ... -
1,7,1 1,783
5% London and Blackw all •••••••• • • • • •• 18421 18,325
192% , London, Brighton, and South Coast..
289% London and South We5tern......... 19,1/ 9 21,139
60 Londonderry and Enniskillen • • •• •... 762 811
- Manchester, Buxton, and Matlock, &c. - -
1731% Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire 10,164 10.618
914 Manchester and South Junction•..... 918 921
28 Maryport and Carlisle ............. 920 1,045
667 Midland .....- ...................: 33,186 33,247
177 Midland Great Western (Irish) ••.• • • 3,596 3,234
52 Monklands •••• • • - ................ 1,43 J 1,519
78 Newcastle and Car1i51e.............. 3,228 3,626
149 North British .... •• • • .............. 6,234 5,998
233 North Staffordshire .. • ............ , 6,685 8,360
47 North-Western •................... 1,062 1,010
50 Scottish Central ........ „ ......... 2,729 2,693
321 ti Scottish Midland -
29 Shrewsbury and Birmingham• ...... 2,008 1,954
481x4 Shrewsbury and Chester ............ 4,433 3,177
30 Shropshire Union .................. 930 893
57 South Devon ......... ...... ..•..... 3,027 3,087
301% South Eastern .... ...... ............ 23.756 25,135
171 South Wales .................. •• .. 7,279 8,106
1081 South York., Doncaster, and Goole ..
4,-323 4,662
36 Ulster . ............ ..
2
77 Waterford and Limerick • • .......... ,221 1,096
27 West Cornwall •••• • • •• ... •••• • • •• 650 740
121% Whitehaven Junction ............... 416 502
682 York and Newcastle, and Berwick &
York and North Midland & Leeds.. - -
108
LD
yu
ot
nc hs Rhanhde nmi sFOREIGN:
4,565 4,023
Mediterranean ........... .
diterranean........... - _
- Montereau and Troyes .......... •• .. - ~..,
- Namur and Liege .. • • .. • • •• .• • • •• • •
539 Northern of France .......... 43,272 37,600
- Orleans and Central .. •••• •• • • - _
- Paris and Lyons ...... • • ........... - -
- Paris and Rouen. .. - •• •• - •• • • - - - -
959 Paris and Strasburgh • • .......... .. 42,773 36,299
- -oven and Havre • • ........ •• •• . .., - -
621 • W Pat and North-West of France .. • 31,773 32,905_

THE RESuLUTE.-8 une correspondence relating to
Her Majesty's ship Resolute and the Arctic expedition
was printed yesterday. It refers to the negotiations
with the American G tvernment respecting the disposal
of the ship and the adjudication of the reward for the
discovery of Sir J. Frai,klin. Lady Franklin's protest
against the late adjudication of the reward for the dis-
cJvery of the fate of her husband and his crew is included,
but this is quite ont of date. The proceedings in the
Legislature of the United States respecting the purchase
and presentation of the ,Resolute to England are also
reported at length. There are also other letters from
Lady Franklin to the Admiralty (the last dated in
April, 1857) rt-lative to the proposed private expedition
to the Arctic regions. The answer of the (late) Govern-
ment to these communications does not appear, but the
refusal of the Admiralty to risk any more valuable lives
in wildgoose expeditions to the regions of perpetual ice
has long since been recorded and approved of.