The Sun.
London, England, 1860-01-05 00:00:00

CR IM INA L OUR T.- ( THIS D 4 17.)

OLD COURT.
(Before Barons Bramwell and Martin.)
David Hughes, solicitor, lately residing in Gresham-
street, City, who was yesterday indicted for feloniously
omitting to surrender himself, being a bankrupt, was again
brought up this morning, and the jury returned a verdict
of Guilty.
The other charges were then proceeded with.

POLICE IN2'ELLIGENCE-(THIS DA F.)

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

CHARGE or ASSAULT AT THE HAYMARKET THEATRE
AND ANNOYING LADIES. _Benjamin John Wyant, a
gentlemanly-looking man, described as a teacher, of 17,
Mornington-place, Hampstead-road, was charged with dis-
orderly conduct and assaulting Gordon, 336 A, at the Hay-
market Theatre.

Gordon said that on the previous evening, about half-
past six, while on duty at the pit entrance of the Hay-
market Theatre, there being a great crowd at the time going
in, two respectable females called his attention to the man-
ner in which the defendant was rudely pushing against
them. He asked the defendant to pass in quietly, and not
push people about as he was doing. The defendant made
no reply, but with his right hand, his left being pressed
against the wall, struck him on the eye, knocking off his
hat. He did not feel much pain at the present time, though
he did all night.
'The defendant, in answer to the charge, said he was
going into the theatre with his si-ter, and at the time there
were several ladies on his right side, and in order to protect
his sister put his left hand against the wall so as to allow
her and other ladies to pass. The constable asked him to
take away his hand, and just at that moment he was
pushed by the crowd, and his hand might have touched
the constable's face, but it was quite unintentional, and he
never intended to strike the officer.

Gordon said it was done willfully with 'his right hand,
his left being against the wall.

The defendant then called Miss Caroline Wyant, his
sister, who said she did not think that her brother struck
the officer.

A widow lady, residing at 25, Marylebone-road, said she
was at the theatre with her two daughters. She heard the
officer order the gentleman to put down his hand,
and he replied, "If I do so the ladies will be
killed," and she heard the officer say, " You're my
soner." The defendant's left hand was against the wall,
and in her opinion the defendant's left hand knocked off
the officer's hat.

The defendant was then discharged.

CO TTISH ROSPI2'AL.

Yesterday afternoon the general court of the
governors of this charity was held at the hospital,
Crane-court, Fleet-street, Dr. R. D. Thomson in the
chair.

Major Adair (the secretary) read the following
communication :

" Saville House, Dec. 28, 1859.
" Sir,—As the solicitors to the executors of the
late Lord Henry Seymour, we beg to inform you
that his lordship has bequeathed the residue of his
personal estate, which is of considerable value,
aux hospices de Paris et de londres.'
" The construction of the words ' hospices' and
Londres' being open to considerable doubt, and
finding your institution named in the Post Ojfice
London Directory, under the head of hospitals,'
we think it right to apprise you of the bequest, and
shall be obliged by your informing us, for the
guidance of the executor, whether your institution
will claim to participate.

" The executor is advised, however, by Mr.
Roundell Palmer that he ought not to take upon
himself to decide what institutions are included in
the bequest, or in what proportions they
are to share it with the Pads hospitals ;
and therefore he has filed a bill in Chancery, to
which her Majesty's Attorney-General is a party,
and the usual notice by advertisement will shortly
be given for the hospitals claiming to participate
to come in and prove their title in the chambers of
the Master of the Rolls, to whose court the cause
's attached.
" We have the honour to be, sir,
Your' most obedient servants.

" CAPRON, BRABANT, CAPRON, and DALTON."
The communication was referred to the solicitor
of the institution, who was requested to take all
necessary steps on behalf of the hospital.
A report of the committee appointed by the ge-
neral Court in June, to consider the charter and
bye-laws, with a view of ascertaining whether the
mode of relief may not be so altered and improved
as to meet the requirements of the present times,
was then received :

The committee stated, " That having met several
times, and considered the terms of the charter and
bye-laws, and the income and expenditure of the
charity, both at the present time, and for some time
past, a• well as the present plan of relief, are of
opinion that the best mode of relief is by pensions
to aged persons whose cases have been well consi-
dered and inquired into.
"That more interest in the election of pensioners
would probably be excited, and benefit to the funds
of the charity be ensured, by the creation (in accord-
ance with a late resolution of a general court) of a
higher rate of pensions.
" They resolved to recommend to the general
court in January

"Ist. That no encroachment should be made on
the capital stock belonging to the charity, but that
the expenditure should be strictly confined to the
amount of income.

" 2d. That new recipients of relief should not be
admitted unless the state of the funds be adequate,
without the sanction of the members of the whole
committee.

" 3d. That the pension list be re-modelled as
follows : —That there be 10 pensioners, at £l5 each,
aged 72—X150; 90 pensioners at £lO each, aged
68—X900. Total, £1,050. Vacancies to be filled
up annually, as at present, by the governors gene-
rally, and 60 at £6 each, to be selected by the com-
mittee from the casual list, thereby freeing old,
infirm, and deserving persons from the labour and
inconvenience of getting a monthly petition signed.
"4th. The committee to fill up vacancies•twice a
year. That the £8 pensions be discontinued as
vacancies occur."
After some discussion,
Mr. Alderman WILSON proposed that the report
should be adopted.
Mr. ERR seconded the motion, which was
adopted, and the proceedings closed.