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THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 8, 1858,

LAW INTELLIONCX..-.:Ded. 2.

COURT OF PROBATE AND DIVORCE.

(Before the Judge Ordinary and Comm-on Juries.

WEBER V. WEBER AND PYNE.

Mr. Huddleston, Q.C., and Mr. Macqueen were
counsel for the petitioner ; Dr. Swabey for the re-
spondent ; and Mr. Edward James, Q.C., and Mr.
L. Temple for the corespondent.

The Petitioner, Mr. *Weber, prayed for a dissolu-
tion of marriage on the ground of his wife's adul-
tery. The respondent and the corespondent denied
the allegations of adultery.
The petitioner became acqutinted with the re-
spondent in 1854, he being at the time employed
in a commercial house at Liverpool at a salary of
about £l2O per annum. The respondent, then Miss
Emily Mary Ann Reade, had just left a boarding
school, and was 17 or 18 years of age. As her mother
objected to her marriage with the respondent she
accompanied him to Gretna-green, where they were
married in June, 1854. They returned to Liverpool,
and were again married at St. Margaret's Church,
Birkenhead, in the following August, They at first
lived with the respondent's mother, who was then
married to a Mr. Oakes, and afterwards took lodg-
ings in Ashton-street. They did not live together
very happily, and on one occasion she left his house
and stayed for a short time with her mother. In
1856 the firm to which Mr. Weber belonged
stopped payment, and his mind became so much
affected that he had to be confined for four months
in a private asylum. When he came out his wife
refused to receive him, and at last, in March, 1857,
a deed of separation was drawn up, in pursuance of
which he permitted her to live apart from him, and
made her an allowance of £52 per annum. She was
then living with her mother and the corespondent.
Mr. Pyne, who is a commercial traveller, was an
inmate of the same house as a lodger. It was
alleged that an improper intimacy had sprung up
between Mrs. Weber and Mr. Pyne, and that they
occupied the same bedroom, first at a house in
Boundary-lane, where her mother lived, in July
and August, 1857, and afterwards at a house at
Woburn-hill, to which the family had removed, in
February and March, 1858. The petitioner is about
30 years of age.
The first witness examined on the part of the
petitioner was Mr. John Murray, who had married
the parties at Gretna-green, and who said he had
officiated there for the last 13 years. He described
the manner in which the marriage was' effected.
The lady and gentleman told him that they wished
to be married. He told them to stand up, and in
the presence of two witnesses asked them if they
were single persons and free to marry. They each
said that they were, and then told them to join
hands. He said to the gentleman, "Do you take
this woman to be your lawful wife, for better and
for worse as long as God spares you to each other ?"
The gentleman said, "I,do ; ' and he put the
same question to the lady and received the same
answer. A ring was then put on' her finger, and
they declared themselves to be man and wife ac-
cording to the laws of Scotland before the witnesses.
They then signed the marriage certificate and the
register. That, he said, was the " whole concern,"
and the parties quitted Gretna-green after a stay
of 20 minutes or half an hour. It was proved by
Mr. Kinnear, a member of the Scotch bar, that this
was a valid marriage according to the law of Scot-
land in, 1854. _ _

Evidence was given that in 1855 Mrs. Weber
had been met in the streets of Liverpool in com-
pany with persons apparently of an equivocal cha-
racter, and that since the separation she had been
seen in a room in the house of her mother, on
one occasion in the company of Mr. Pyne, and
on another occasion in that of a gentleman who
was not recognised, under circumstances which
could leave no doubt that she had been gailty
of adultery. These circumstances were stated by
the servant of a neighbour, who said they occurred
in a parlour of Mrs. Oakes's house, and that she
had witnessed them from her master's garden.
The learned counsel for the respondents addressed
the jury on behalf of their respective clients, point-
ing out the improbability that Mrs. Weber and Mr.
Pyne would have committed the acts imputed to
them in a room where they could be seen by wit-
nesses on the outside of the house, commenting
upon the credibility of the witnesses who had been
called to prove those acts, and contended that the
evidence only showed that Mr. Pyne was a lodger
in the house of Mrs. Oakes, and that Mrs. Weber
was in the habit of occupying Mr. Pyne's bedroom
when Mr. Pyne was absent.
On the part of the respondents Mr. and Mrs.
Oakes were examined, and stated that no improper
intimacy had taken place between the respondent
and the co-respondent. Mr. Leather, a medical
man, stated that he had attended Mrs. Weber in
March last for a complaint which rendered it highly
improbable that she could then have intercourse
with any person, and added that Mr. Weber had
offered to pay his account for attending upon her
if he would give evidence on his behalf. It was also
proved that Mr. Weber occasionally visited and
slept with his wife during her residence with her
mother.

The learned Judge having summed up, the jury
found a verdict for the wife.

that condition he sat down and, smoked a pipe. It
also appeared that, uponthe premises being searched
after this, the watch and other articles that were
supposed to have been stolen were found Concealed
about the prosecutor's cottage, but no article what-
ever had been actually removed.
The jury upon hearing this evidence, without
troubling his lordship to sum up, at once returned
a verdict of not guilty.

WESTERN CIRCUIT.—WLNCHESTER, DEC. 2.
The commission for holding the winter assizes
for the county of Hants was opened in this city
yesterday afternoon by Mr. Justice Byles. His
Lordship then attended divine service at the cathe-
dral. This morning the court was opened for
business. The calendar is perfectly shocking.
There are forty prisoners for trial, but among them
there are no less than eleven cases of rape and un-
natural offences.
The learned Judge, in delivering his charge to
the Grand Jury, observed, with reference to this
particular class of offences, that they might perhaps
in some degree be attributed to the crowded state
of the dwelling-houses of the poor, where whole
families were huddled together in one room, and
there was no distinction between father and igh-
ter or between mother and son, or brother and
sister. Those wh? assisted to prevent such a state of
things not only did good during their lives, !but laid
the foundation for immense benefits to arise in ages to
come, when they should be no more. In well-regulated
houses from whom did the child learn his first, his
best, and most lasting lesson ? From his mother ;
where the paternal home was the school of virtue,
the temple of religion.
Joseph Hibbert, Edward Cassidy, and Charles
Nicholls were indicted for shooting at G. A. Smith,
with intent to kill and murder him.
Mr. Poulden prosecuted.
On, the night of the 13th of August last Smith,
in company of a policeman, was walking over his
father's farm. They saw the three prisoners, who
were privates in the 15th Regiment, rabbit shoot-
ing. Smith went up to them and requested them
to go to his father, as they were trespassing. They
consented, and gave up their fowling pieces. The
father said he should summon them, and they went
away, and about half-past 10 that night they came to
the house of the father and asked for their muskets,
which Smith refused to give up, upon which one
of the three prisoners said they had a charge for
him. They then went round to another part of
the house one of the prisoners saying " Fix
bayonets." Smith, fearing violence, went down
from his bed room and fetched his gun ; on his
return to the upper room a shot was fired. Smith
was about to open the casement, when a bullet
passed through a pane of glass, and close to his
head. Upon that Smith fired in return, and two
other shots were fired from without. Smith saw
all the prisoners. One of the balls (rifle) penetrated
a brick wall 31 inches. The sentry of the 15th
Regiment and the colour-sergeant of the guard
proved that about 11 o'clock the prisoners returned
to the barracks, having several rounds of ball
cartridge and two rifles in their possession. The
next morning the prisoners were taken into custody,.
They made several statements which materially
differed, but Cassidy said he wished he had done
more. Hibbert admitted having fired the shot at
the window. Nicholls said as soon as he heard the
noise of firing he fell down on his face.
The jury found Hibbert and Cassidy guilty, with
intent to do grievous bodily harm, and acquitted
Nicholls. The two former prisoners were then
sentenced, Hibbert to four years' penal servitude,
and Cassidy to 12 months' imprisonment, with hard
labour.

Emily Evans, Emma Walker, and Matilda
Hughes were indicted for forging two receipts for
£6 and £lO, with intent to defraud the trustees
of the Portsmouth Savings' Bank.
Mr. Poulden and Mr. Gunner conducted' the
prosecution ; and Mr. Coleridge defended the pri-
soner Walker.
It appeared that a person named Mary Ann
Howard had deposited £l6 in the savings' bank at
Portsmouth. She died some months since. Before
her death she had married a person named M'Shaen.
Mrs. Evans, the prisoner, was her sister, but the
money had been deposited in the bank long before
the marriage, and it remained in her original
name. When Mary Ann Howard deposited the
money she made her mark, stating that she could
not write. On the 11th of May last Matilda
Hughes went to the bank and gave notice to with-
draw the money of Howard, and made a mark to
the notice stating that she was Mary Ann Howard.
She afterwards went to the bank and obtained £6
and £lO in the name of May Ann Howard. After
the discovery that the money had been withdrawn
M'Shaen's attorney saw Hughes, who said she had
been innocently drawn into it, and did not know
she was doing wrong. She said she was a married
woman. She knew Walker, with whom she dealt.
Some short time before Walker said she was pressed
for money, and 'Mrs. M'Shaen owed her £l6, and
Evans asked Hughes if she would go to the savings'.
bank and get the money, and said Mra: Howard
was her sister, but that Hughes would not get into
any trouble about it, as there was no such person
as Mary Ann Howard in existence.- Evans gave
her a book, and told her to go to the bank and say
she was Mrs. Howard, and if they asked her to
write her name she was to say that she could not
write, and she was to make her mark. Accord-
ingly she went to the bank, gave in the book, and
put her mark to a notice to withdraw the money.
In some days afterwards, Mrs. Walker sent for
Hughes again. Evans told her to go to the bank
again and deliver.the book, and they would give
her £l6. She went and obtained the money, and
gave it to Mrs. Walker. Mrs. Evans was present,
but had not awy of the money. When Mrs.
Walker was taken up she said it was hard she
should suffer for taking her own. Evans said she
she had the other £lO, and she was only sorry
she had not taken the lot of it, as it was her sister's
money, and she had no business with it. Hughes
afterwards said that what she had done she had
done by the persuasion of Mrs. Walker and Mrs.
Evans, who had told her she should not get into
any trouble, and they had told her what she was
to do.
Mr. Coleridge, for Walker, urged that she had
no intention to defraud an,y Q. Mrs. Walker
alleged that Mrs. M'Shaen awed her £l6, and she
thought upon her death she Waajustified in getting
it from the savings-bank. 'Tse bank book was
always kept by Mrs. Evans, the sister of Mrs.

IWSlinen. - -
The prisoner Evans stated that her sister told
her to draw out some of the money and pay Mrs.
Walker, and if anything happened, to her to take
it all, and not let her husband have any of it.
A witness, named Mrs. NichQlson, was called
by Evans. She stated that she had heard Mrs.
M'Shaen tell Evans that the money,that was in the
bank was hers.
The learned Judge having summed up the case,
The jury found Walker and Evans guilty, and
acquitted Hughes. The two prisoners were then
sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment.

OXFORD CIRCUIT.—STAFFoAD, Dec. 1.
CRIMINAL COURT.
(Before Mr. Baron Bramwell.) '
George Wilton' 28, clerk, was charged with
forging an order for the payment of £5O on the
16th of August, 1858, at -Walsall, with intent to
defraud the Shropshire Banking Company, and also
with uttering the same knowing it to be forged.
_ Mr. Mottvram appeal ed for the prosecution ; Mr.
Scotland and Mr. Holroyd defended the prisoner.
It appeared from the evidence that on the 16th
of August last the prisoner and another went to
Messrs. Duignan's bank at Walsall, and presented
a letter of credit for £5O on the Oriental Bank at
Melbourne, in Australia, in favour of " Robert
Thomas." The clerk asked the prisoner whether
he wished the Bank to collect it, and he said he
did. He first said he lived at Birmingham, and
then he gave his address at 32, Dog-pole, Wyle-
cop, Shrewsbury. The clerk saw that the letter of
credit was endorsed with the name of " Robert
Thomas," and he asked whether that was his name,
and he said it was. The clerk said he would make
inquiry about, it and if the prisoner would call
again in a day or two heshould have an answer. He
retained the letter of credit, and gave the prisoner
a receipt for it. The letter of credit was drawn
upon the (Mental Bank Corporation, Melbourne,
in Australia, authorising that bank to " honour the
draught of Mr. Robert Thomas for £50." The fact
of the endorsement of the name of Robert Thomas
excited suspicion, and on the same day the prisoner
was taken into custody at Walsall and charged
with stealing the letter of credit The prisoner at
first said he had bought it of a person who owed
him £2, but, upon his being searched, in his pocke.t-
-; book was found a letter of which the letter of credit
ha: originally formed a part, and from which it
had been cut. The letter was dated " July 31,1858,
Eaton Constantine," and, it being shown to the pri-
soner, he then stated that a Miss Thomas had given
him the letter to post to her brother, but he had
failed to do so. The receipt for the letter of credit
was also found upon the prisoner, who then gave
his name as George 'Wilton, and said he was a
clerk, but lived nowhere. Miss Thomas, the daugh-
ter of a farmer at Eaton Constantine, near Walsall,
said she had a brother, Robert Thomas in Australia,
from whom she had not heard for some time. She
produced four letters, which she said she had re-
ceived from the prisoner, writing under the name
of "W. Maitland," and that she afterwards saw
him at Birmingham, when ho paid he would try to
get her brother home. In consequence of what he
said she paid £5O into the Shropshire Banking
Compaßyi and wrote a letter to her brother Robert
Thomas, in Australia, which, with the letter of

credit attached, she sent to the •prisoner to take to
her brother. From the comparison-of-the-hand-
writing of the letters received she said she believed
the endorsement of the name of "Robert Thomas"
on the letter of credit was in the handwriting of
the prisoner.

If appeared that the letter of credit was issued.
by the Union Bank of London, who were agents of
the Oriental Bank, and was in the following form :
" Union Bank of London, 2, Princes-street,
London, July 28, 1858.
" Original.—£50 (1,380)—On demand, pleise to honour
the draught of Mr. Robert Thomas for £5O. Equivalent
received here from the Shropshire Banking Company,
Wellington.

" Your most obedient servant,
" (Signed by the Assistant Manager).
" To the Oriental Bank Corporation, Melbourne."
Evidence was given to show that, according to
banking practice in this country, a letter of credit
in this form was usually paid on the simple endorse-
ment of the payee, but whether it would be so paid
at Melbourne was not shown. According to the
regular practice, on the presentation of the letter of
credit at Melbourne, the bank there would take
pains to ascertain the identity of the person credited
and, in the terms of the letter of credit, would
"honour the draught" of the party to the extent of
the letter of credit.

Mr. Scotland, upon this evidence, submitted tha.
the endorsement was not shown to be an " order."

After considerable discussion on this point,
Mr. Baron Bramwell said he was sorry for it, if
in other respects the prisoner was guilty. It was
quite true that, if the bank at Melbourne chose to
pay such a letter of credit on the simple endorse-
ment of the person credited, the latter could not
afterwards oblige the bank to pay him a second
time. But the letter of credit was directed to the
Oriental Bank at Melbourne, who were to "honour
the draught" of " Robert Thomas." His lordship
thought the simple endorsement in this country was
not an order, not being within the original man-
date; and he therefore directed the jury to acquit
the prisoner, which they did accordingly.
Mr. Baron Bramwell then suggested that the pri-
soner might be indicted for the misdemeanour of
attempting to obtain money by false pretences, but
.Mr. Motteram said the prosecutor was not dissa-
tisfied with the result of the prosecution ; and he
did not wish to press the matter any further.
As soon as the intelligence of the prisoner's ac-
quittal reached the hall, the prisoner's wife, a young
woman of very respectable appearance, was so over-
come by the intelligence, that she fell down, and
dropped her child from her arms. Restoratives were
administered, but it was some time before she was
in a state to be removed.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—Dec. 2.

BOW-STREET.---Mary Anne Edge, the wife of
a private soldier in the Grenadier Guards, was
brought up, on a charge of threatening to commit
suicide.

On the evening of the 24th she was observed
sitting on the steps of Westminster-bridge, by a
man who sells fruit at the foot of the bridge. He
asked her what she was about, and she replied that
she was going to drown herself. He called the
attention of the constable to the matter, and the
prisoner- was taken to the station. She had been
drinking. At the examination before the magis-
trate on the following day the husband, a soldier
of excellent character, with two good conduct
stripes, attended, and told a sad story of the
misery produced by his wife's unfortunate habit of
drinking. He did all in his power to keep a com-
fortable home for her, and it would, in fact, be as
comfortable as could be desired if she would only
attend to it ; but she was ruining him by her
drunkenness. The children were growing up
neglected, to say nothing of the probable influence
of the bad example she was setting them.
The sergeant also attended and spoke of Edge in
the highest terms.
While in the House of Detention on remand the
prisoner bad seen the Rev. George Jepson, the
chaplain, several times, and a letter had been
received by Mr. Hall from the rev. gentleman,
expressing his belief that his remonstrances had
had a beneficial effect on her and that she was
sincerely penitent. She had promised her husband,
in Mr. Jepson's presence, that on her release she
would go home and for the future abstain from
drink, and do all in her power to restore comfort
and happiness to her husband and children.
Mr. Hall hoped she would do so, for if she per-
sisted in her present course it would result in her
utter ruin. He trusted she would consider before
it was too late how much sorrow and humiliation
she had brought on herself and her husband,
and might yet entail upon her children. If she
would keep the promise she had made to Mr. Jep-
son she might yet make amends for all that she had
done, and might henceforward be comfortable and
happy with her husband. Relying on the promise
he would discharge her, though she was liable to be
sent for trial, and, on conviction, to be sentenced
to a long term of imprisonment.

141.ARLBOROUGH-STREET.—Edward Gordon
Herbert. a boy ofls years of age, was charged with
burglariously entering the premises of his em-
ployers, Messrs. George Barton, Kent, and Co.,
wholesale brush manufacturers, Great Marlborough-
street, and stealing therein £5l, their property.
Mr. Edward Lewis, of Marlborough-street, ap-
peared for the.prosecution.
Mr. Lewis opened the case with the following
statement :—I appear on behalf of Messrs. Kent,
brushmakers, of Great Marlborough-street. The
prisoner is charged with stealing from their pre-
mises upwards of X5O. This is an important case
inasmuch as others have been accused at this bar of
stealing the money, the charge being supported
only upon the evidence of the prisoner now at the
bar. After detailing the burglary and loss of money,
and the reward of £5O offered by the firm, Mr.
Lewis went on to say that the boy gave evidence
which induced Mr. Kent to have three persons in
the employ of the house in whom he had hitherto

placed the greatest confidence apprehended. This
boy (the prisoner) then declared on oath that he
overheard. Gale and another man talking about
committing the robbery, and that being detected in
listening to that conversation Gale told him he would
give him a sovereign not to tell. The robbery was
committed the next day, and when the police were
sent for Gale, according to the prisoner's story, gave
him a sovereign to say nothing. The prisoner's fa-
ther, having found out that his son was in possess-
sion of money, questioned him, and the boy told
him the story which he afterwards repeated in
court, and on which the three persons in Messrs.
Kent's employ were apprehended. These men
all denied the charge, and were afterwards dis-
charged, as the magistrate said, without a stain on
their characters.. Sergeant Crocker having sus-

picions watched the boy-, and a day or two ago saw
him go to Hammersmith churchyard, dig up the
ground and take something out. When the pri-
soner was taken into custody £7 in gold was found
in his possession.
William Ogden, clerk, said—l locked ulj the fac-
tory on the night of the •11th of Nov. I was in the
habit of seeing the prisoner leave the premises, but
did not see him leave on the night of the robbery.
I locked up the drawer under the desk in which
money was kept to pay wages with. There was
£39 ls. in the drawer on the night of the robbery.
I locked it up and took the key with me.
Robert Conolly, another clerk, said, I locked up

my desk on the night of the robbery and missed
from it next morning X 5 ls. 6d. The desk had

been broken open and was in the office.
George Quick, in the employ of Messrs. Kent,
locked his desk on the evening before ; at that time
there was £5 19s. Bd. in money in the desk, which
was also in the office, and he missed the amount the
following morning.
Thos. Edwards, a carman employed by the firm,
said, the morning after the robbery he found the
back premises and the factory door open. Saw
several desks also open, and noticed a pair of pin-
cers lying on the floor.
Sergeant Glass, 3 C.--On the 13th November I

went to the premises of Messrs. Kent, where I saw
two desks in the office which had been forced open,
also a drawer open in another room. Was shown
a chisel, which fitted the marks both on the desks
and drawer. Also saw the ring part of the key
broken off. The pincers were found near the door,
and had evidently been used to turn the key. I
examined the lock of the front door to see if a false
key had been used to oven it, but found no marks.
The desks appeared as if very little force had been
required. The breaking open had evidently not
been done by apractised hand. After the prisoner had
made his statement to his father I took from him
145., which the prisoner said was part of the sove-
reign he had received from Gale to keep silence.
He said that Gale was the porter, and pointed him
out. This purse and cap were given by the father.
I went yesterday to the prosecutors;, where the
prisoner was at work. I asked him where he had

been, and he said to. Hammersmith. I asked what
money he had on him, and he said none. I searched
him and found in his pocket, tied up in a handker-
chief, seven sovereigns and 10s. in silver. He said
he had got thatfrom a tombstone in Hammersmith
churchyard, where he had put it the Sunday after
the robbery, that Gale gave him that money when
he gave the sovereign. In another pocket I found a
piece of new sponge, identified by Messrs. Kent's
foreman, I told prisoner I should take him inte
lurnersmithl
custody for the robbery, and he said hehad not doily
it. After the charge had beenentercd tit `OW 4Nticua
I accomp4nig tilCi Owner to ffi
churchyard, and he pointed (lilt a tombstone from
which bp h 4 Wien the money, showil pull]
hole of three or four inphes dppth recently made.
Sergeant Cit crO4cri 0, accompanied the last

witness and corroborated his evidence. Upon the
apprehension of the three men, upon the prisoner's
statement, I asked him if a sovereign was all Gale
had given him, and he said it was.
-Thomas Gale deposed that he never gave the pri-
soner a sovereign or any other sum, either before
or since the robbery.
Mr. G. B. Kent identified the sponge produced
and found on the prisoner. The prisoner worked in
the department where it was used, and bad con-
fessed it was their (Messsrs. Kent's) property.
Sergeant Glass said, the prisoner told him the
sponge had been given to him by another in the
same employ.
Mr. Bingham (to prisoner)—Do you wish to put
any questions to the witnesses or say anything now
to me?

Prisoner—Yes, sir. lam guilty.
Mr. Lewis said, the firm was exceedingly anxious
the men accused by the prisoner should be cleared
from the charge.
Mr. Bingham said, there is now no imputation
whatever on those men. Mr. Beadon never be-
lieved the boy's statement from the beginning. The
pross will no doubt give currency to all you wish
to say on behalf of the persons wrongfully accused.
The prisoner was remanded for a week.

THAMES.— George Collins, alias Lewis, aged
30, and George Wilkinson, alias Cyrus Knight,
aged 28, who have been in custody since the 9th
of November, were finally examined on the charge
of stealing from Mr. J. T. Burke, a hat manufac-
turer, of Union-street, Southwark, on the last
Derby day, a gold chronometer watch, originally
manufactured by Mr. Arnold, in the Strand, for
the Rev. Theodore Williams, vicar of Hendon, at a
cost of 95 guineas.
After hearing all the evidence,
Mr. Yardley said he was not inclined to believe
the prisoners were the persons who stole the watch,
but they had been improperlydealing with it, and
no doubt knew it was stolen or unlawfully ob-
tained. , The watch was a very heavy one, of great
value, the very appearance of which indicated it
was stolen, and dragged from the person with
great violence. When the prisoners were taken
into custody they gave false accounts. There was
no evidence that they stole the watch, but he
should convict them of unlawful possession of the
property, and sentence them to two months' im-
prisonment and hard labour..

SOUTHWARK.—James Atkinson, collector and
traveller to Mr. John Walker, wholesale teadealer
and grocer, 157, High-street, Southwark, was
brought up for final examination, charged with
embezzling various sums of money, amounting to
nearly £lOO, the property of his employer.
Additional evidence having been given in sup-
port of the charge, the prisoner was committed fbr
trial.

LAMBETH.—Henry Rudledge and Charlotte,
his wife, were re-examined, the former on a charge
of violating his daughter Kate, a girl between 14
and 15 years of age, and the latter with assisting
him in the commission of the act.
Mr. Sleigh, instructed by Mr. Shaen, solicitor
to the Society for the Protection of Young Females,
attended for the prosecution, and Mr. Wontner for
the defence.
Mr. Sleigh said he should not trouble his wor-
ship at any great length on that occasion, but he
could not help saying that it was most fortunate
for the ends of justice in the case that he had, in
the discharge of a public duty, and in the exercise
of his judgment on the former examination, given
the wife of the prisoner into custody ; for upon her
being searched a letter was found on her which
would form a most important feature in the prose-
cution, as it fnrnished, in the handwriting of the
wife, a perfect proof of the husband's guilt, as well
as a corroboration of the testimony of the prosecu-
trix. The learned gentleman here read the follow-
ing extract from the letter in question :—" Remem-
ber lam not in a heathen country. Do not bring
Kate with you. If I should return home I should
like her to be treated as a daughter, and not as a
wife."

The following additional witnesses were then
called :
Mrs. Amelia Dallas, the searcher at the station-
house in Kennington-lane, said that after the charge
was booked against the prisoner on the last day of
examination she searched her, and found on her the
papers produced. The prisoner was about to de-
stroy them by tearing them up, when witness asked
her what they were, and she said only a letter,
which she intended to give to her husband. Wit-
ness, however, told her she must take them from
her, and she did so. The papers produced were
the same.
The Rev. Jeremiah Cotter, a Catholic priest,
said he formerly belonged to St. George's Cathe-
dral, but on the 17th of October last he had been
sent to take charge of the mission at Woolwich.
About the end of that month the prosecutrix and
her aunt, who were members of his congregation,
called on him at his chapel, and the former com-
plained to him of the improper conduct of her
father towards her. The aunt and the niece at once
left Woolwich, and went to reside at the house of
Mrs. Renville, in the London-road, close to St.
George's Cathedral. Some days after, he thought
it was the following Thursday, he (Dr. Cotter) met
the male prisoner in the street in Woolwich, when
he spoke to him, and asked about his daughter and
her aunt. Re then told him his daughter had com-
plained of his unnatural and disgusting conduct
towards her, upon which he became exceedingly
excited, said it was a lie, and that he had been to
Mr. Mayne to stop his daughter and her aunt at
every station in the kingdom. He (Dr. Cotter)
then told him that if he met him on the following
afternoon he would take him to where his daughter
and her aunt were, and he did so. On the even-
ing of Friday week he accompanied the prisoner
from the cathedral to the house where his daughter
was, and on seeing Mrs. Renville he told her the
prisoner was the man belonging to the persons
lodging there. Mrs. Renville upon this opened the
door leading to the room where the daughter and
the aunt were, and the prisoner at once went in
there while he (Dr. Cotter) remained in conversa-
tion with Mrs. Renville. In about five minutes he
heard a loud screaming, and on the door being
opened he saw the male prisoner holding his daugh-
ter with his left hand and pressing her downwards,
and the large knife or dagger produced on
the former examination open in his right
hand, and he appeared to be in a very excited
state. On observing him the prisoner
stretched out his right hand, in which he still held
the knife, and exclaimed, " You see that I am going
to kill her and myself too. At this moment the
officer who was concealed in the house was called
and rushed into the room, and a struggle took place
between him and the prisoner, during which the
latter managed to put the knife away. The officer
requested further assistance, when he (Dr. Cotter)
ran into the street, and seeing two policemen he
requested their assistance, and the prisoner was
secured.

Mr. Norton—Dr. Cotter, did you observe the
prisoner close the knife ?

Dr. Cotter—l cannot say I did ; but I observed
he placed his right hand behind his back. The
witness further said that upon being made ac-
quainted with the nature of the prisoner's conduct
he thought it of so shocking a description that its
very publicity would do much mischief, and his
object, therefore, was to have the daughter re-
moved from the scene of such shameful injury.
Mr. Sleigh observed that the explanation was
unnecessary, as there could not be the slightest
doubt that the rev. gentleman had acted in every
way as became a clergyman and a gentleman.
The testimony of a surgeon who had examined
the daughter terminated the case for the prosecution.
Mr. Wontner observed that the charge was so
serious that he felt it would be much better for him
to have it sent before and tried by a jury, and
therefore he (Mr. Wontner) should not offer any
observations at present on the contradictory state
of the evidence. With respect to the wife tile law
was somewhat different, and ho should leave her in
the hands of his Worship.
Mr. Norton said he should send both prisoners
to take their trial on the charge of rape.
Mr. Sleigh was instructed to say that a second
indictment for rape would be preferred against the
prisoner at the Old Bailey, in which a young
woman, named Ellen Saltmarsh, who had been a
short time in the service of the prisoner, would be
the prosecutrix.

35, described as a
GREENWICII.—Chas. Land,
draper, of 4, Church-street, Deptford, was brought
up for final examination, charged with committing
a criminal assault upon Clara Susannah Emma
Land, his own daughter, aged 10 years. The depositions were taken, and the prisoner was
fully committed for trial.

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AN EXTRAORDINARY CASE OF BELL

STEALING.

At the Stratford police-court yesterday Samuel
Tuttlebee, a general dealer; J. Ashton, a carpenter ;
and W. Irvin, a carman, of East Ham, Essex, were
placed at the bar before Joseph Somes, Esq., on a
charge of stealing a large bell, valued at 2,000
guineas, the property of Alderman Finnis, of Wan-
stead-park, Essex, and the City of London.
The bell, which is a splendid piece of oriental
workmanship, is composed of various metals, chiefly
the offerings of the Burmese people to their gods,
and formerly belonged to one of their temples or
places of worship, and was captured during the late
Burmese war by a relative of the alderman, to whom
it was presented.
Edward R. Benmore, gardener in the service of
Alderman Finnis, said that the bel was the pro-
perty of his master, and had been suspended to a
yew tree on the lawn in the garden of the mansion.
The bell was very valuable, and witness saw it quite
safe on Monday last. On the following morning,
about 8 o'clock, he went round the grounds and
discovered that the bell had been taken away.
Witness made a search and traced footsteps from
the lawn to Wanstead Forest, where he believed
the thieves had placed it in a cart and carried it
away. Witness did not know the prisoners.
Mr. West, brassfounder, of Backchurch-lane, at
whose shop the bell was found by the police as it
was being broken up, stated that the bell had been
brought to him by Mr. Day, a large dealer in old
metal. He agreed to give 91-d. per lb. for it. Mr.
Day was accompanied by a man named Marks.
Chas. Wm. Day, of Wellington-place, West India
Docks, Poplar, stated that on Tuesday morning last
the prisoner Tuttlebee came to his house and said
he had a piece of metal for sale, something like a
large bell, and weighing 14ewt. Witness told him
that he could not buy a bell of that dimensions, but
he would take it up to town to a person who would
purchase it. Witness had not seen the bell at that
time, but the prisoner said it was in a cart up the
road. Witness told him to drive the cart to Spital-
fields Church. The prisoner. Irvin was driving the
cart, and when. they.reached .Whitechapel witness
saw Mr. Marks, -whom witness • stopped, and said
" There is a man who is a dealer in metal at Vic-
toria Docks, whom I have known some time ' • he
has some metal for sale." The bell was then taken
to the house of Mr. Marks, where it was taken out
by the prisoners Tuttlebee and Irvin. Mr. Marks
exclaimed " 'Why, this is a rum bell. It is a foreign
one." Tuttlebee then said "I want to get it settled."
Witness told Tuttlebee that nothing could be done
with the bell until it was broken up. He left for
a short time, and when he returned he found that
Tuttlebee had been trying to break up the bell;
his hands were galled and blistered with the sledge
hammer he had been using. Tuttlebee asked him
eightpencelalfpenny a pound for the metal.
Witness asked him where he had got the bell
from ? and he said, " I know the party ; it is all
right." He did not mention the name of any per-
son, but he said, " I have to pay for it when it is
weighed."
Magistrate—l think you ought to have used
more discretion in the matter.

Witness—l thought it was an old bell brought
from India.

Seargeat Copping stated that when he took
Tuttlebee into custody, he said a man named Ash-
ton asked him to sell the bell for him, and that the
cart belonged to Irvin, who lived on the Marsh at
West Ham. He apprehended Irvin and Ashton
(who tried to make his escape). Irvin stated that
Ashton had employed him.
A statement of Tuttlebee implicating the other
two prisoners was handed in and read, and the
prisoners were remanded till Saturday.

COUNTRY MARKETS.

BOSTON—DEc. 1.
To-clay there was a moderate show of wheat in bad con-
dition. The best yellow samples made is under previous
rates. Oats, beans, and peas in demand, and tending up-
wards.
Wheat, white 448 to 468 Beans, Mazagan..-8 to —s
red 38s to 39s Middle & small 42s to 505
Barley 2BB to 34s White peas 4os to 60a
Oats 2os to 258 Grey.. 4OB to 608
Averages for the week :
Wheat 7,924 qrs., at 41s ld
8ar1ey......... 481 „ 3os 4d
Oats 478 ~ 22s Od
Re
Beyans 353 „ 44s 9Odd
Peas .... 126 „ sos Od

BRISTOL—DEc. 2.
The supply of English wheat at market to-day was far
shorter than of late, and sold slowly at about last week's
rates. Fine barleys maintain their values ; inferior malt-
ing and grinding rather easier to purchase. Oats meet
with a better inquiry, at somewhatenhanced rates. Other
articles unchanged.

MANCHESTER—DEC. 2.
The supply of wheat from the growers was good, and
althoughan attempt was made to buy at a reduction, the
farmers succeeded in obtaining last week's prices. Barley
of fine quality maintained former rates ; indifferent sorts
nearly unsaleable. Oats easier to buy. Them was very
little alteration in beans.

-DEC. 1.

)-day, at last week's prices.
Oats. met a better demand.

Barley, grinding 30s to 323
Oats, old, .. —s to ---3
New do 30s to 324
Beans.. 44s to 483
Malt.. ...... 6Bs to 72s