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London, England, 1858-03-10 00:00:00

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE,- Alarch 9.

GUILDHALL.—Francis O'lteily was charged
with assaulting his wife.
In this case the wife complained that the prisoner
commenced ill-using her within a month after her
marriage, and his brutality for a long time was
such that she was at length obliged to leave him.
On Monday week last she had been seeking him,
and when she, returned she found him at home
drunk, and upon asking her for money he struck
her on the head, and knocked her down three tunes
and there left her. On Thursday he watched her
from her work, and on arriving in Chancery-lane
he gave her such a violent blow between the eyes
that on being taken to a surgeon's she fainted from
loss of blood, and was afterwards conveyed to the
hospital where she was attended to. She said she
worked at the sewing machine, and had been
obliged, for some time, to keep her husband, who
was a costermonger, but he did not bring her home
any money. On Saturday last the prisoner had
threatened her life, and said he would kill her at
once, as he did not mind hanging for it. She was
afraid to live with him, and asked for a divorce.
Sir George Carroll said he understood the pri-
soner was charged here, about 18 months ago, with
sannoyingtrongly
the complainant's parents, and that they
opposed her wish to marry the prisoner,
and notwithstanding that, and the magistrate's re-
commendation, she had linked herself for life with
the prisoner, and this was the fruits of her dis-
obedience. However, the prisoner had behaved
with great cruelty to her, and he, therefore, com-
mitted him for two months, with hard labour, and
required him to give security in 201. to keep the
peace for a further term of four months.
The prisoner was then removed.

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SOUTHWARK—THE UNEuptLao
forward
oarstdaatehdd his name ERS.—During the afternoon Mee
assistance hard-
working ra et:
ame to be Patrick
Worship's advice and
entered the court to ask
Leary,One heThey
had been chosen
spokesman for the others.
had alt been
turned out of work through the inclemency of them,
weather, and the consequence Was
()menu of the
that their wives
and families were almost starving. He stated that
he lived in St. John's, Southwark,
and had been to
the relieving officers for a trifling assistance until he
got work, but they refused him
any,_ and told him
to come before the board on Thursday with his
family.
Mr. Burcham asked him if the relieving officer
did not offer to receive them into the workhouse.
Applicant replied that he did, but then their
little homes would be broken up,
was a trifling assistance until he got
i All he wanted
Cornelius Ryan then came forward,nto work.
and said he
was out of work, and belonged to the
He had a wife and four children, and on Parish'
on his going
to the relieving officers they refused to
but gave him an order for the workouse assist
him'
Mr. Burcham told both applicants that the re-
lieving officer had performed his duty, and uo fault
wh
could be found with him. y not enter the
workhouse with their fatuities?
Ryan said that they had both their little homes,
which would then be broken up, and they would
never be able to get together
again. All they was a little out-door
~. oor relief until they
ob-
tained work:
Mr. Burcham asked them
whether they want to
the relieving officers alone f
Ryan replied in the negative. The whole of
them proceeded there
together.
Mr. Burcham told them they had done wrong.
That looked very ' mu, like intimidation, and must
not be allowed. It i e
considered that they had no
right to complain, as the parish officers had con-
forMed to the lair.
Another man, wh
Saviour s said be o said be belonged to St.
had broken fifteen hundred
weight oistone, but they refused to give him more
work or relief.
Mr. Burcham asked him if the officer had not
offered to take them all into the workhouse ?
Applicant replied •
in the affirmative ; but he did
not wa ont tgo
the course ofthere. The weather might alter in
a
employment. few days, when they could obtain
Mr. Burcham told 1 •
um the relieving officers had
exercised their discretion in acting as they had
done, and if theresB
and families were in want,
they must enter the
"
i workhouse. He should, how-
ever advise theirot to go about in such large
bodes, as such pro i
proceedings were likely to attract
the attention of the
police.
The men thuknd his -
a worship, and left the court.

L A.MBE rEr. --SALE 01? EXCISRIBLE LIQUORS
WITHOUT A LICENSE.—William Hilkins, a person
living at a private house, 18, Elizabeth-place,
Waterloo-road, appeared before Mr. Elliott to
ar slyer a summons, taken out against him by order
of the Commissioners of Police, and charging him
with selling certaiu exciseablo liquors by retail, to
be drunk on the premises, without being duly
licensed so to do.
Police-c3nEtable 49 L deposed that on Sunday,
the 28th of last month, at about half-past eleven
in the forenoon, he, accompanied by another con-

I MIDLAND CIRCUIT.--LINCOLN, MARCH 9.
CROWN SIDE.
(Before Mr. Justice Coleridge.)
Ann Sharp, 21, domestic servant, stood indicted
with having wilfully murdered her female illegiti-
mate child, at Pinchbeck Fen, on the 28th Nov.
last. She was also charged with the same offence
upon the coroner's inquisition.
Prisoner pleaded not guilty.
Mr W.
M.P., appeared for the pro-
secution Stephens was assigned by the Coart
counsel for the prisoner, she being undefended.
W:
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Adams,
Mr. Adams, after briefly narrating the facts of
the case to the jury, called Mre. Sirnson, in whose
service the prisoner was at the time of her confine-
ment. Witness deposed that on the 28th of Nov.
last she found a child in the prisoner's box with a
list garter tied tightly round its neck, and that the
prisoner said it was hers. It appeared to have been
strangled. Dr. Morris was sent for. Prisoner
wanted the child to be buried and nothing said
about it. She (the prisoner) told witness the child
had cried.

Ann Wyers, another witness, corroborated this
evidence, but did not recollect hearing prisoner tell
Mrs. Simson the child had cried, but the prisoner
told her she had tied the garter round the child's
neck because it was alive.

The jury, after having been locked up for some
time, returned into the court with a verdict of
manslaughter against the prisoner.
Sentenced to 10 years' penal servitude.

MANSION-HOUSE.-IVlessrs. Ellis and Fick-
ling, shipbrokers and emigration agents, of 132,
Leadenhall-street, appeared before the Lord Mayor
and Mr. Alderman Wire, on a summons obtained
against them by Frederick Pearce, for a breach of
the 01st section of the Passengers' Act, 1855.
Frederick Pearce, the complainant, deposed that
in the month of October he went to defendants'
office, and paid 120/. for the passages of himself,
wife, son, and daughter to Melbourne, in the Wind-
sor. The vessel quitted dock on the 2d of Novem-
ber, and put to sea on the sth, having 29 passengers
on board. On the Ist of December the vessel was
wrecked in broad daylight, on the island of Buena
Vista, complainant losing his clothes, money, and
inescaping to the shore only in his shirt
and r
'it' seg
and then having 30 miles to walk, over
the mountains, to Port Sal Rey, and being for-
warded to Southampton by the British Vice-
Consul. Since his arrival in England he had been
unable to see the owners; but he had repeatedly
applied to the captain and the defendants for sus-
tenance-money and a passage out by another ship,
but without effect. When he paid his passage-
money he received no contract-ticket, but only a
receipt.
Ou cross-examination, the witness stated that he
and about 20 other passengers messed with the cap-
tain, and were all cabin passengers, while there
ware four or
passengers who messed by themselves,
and ho admitted that he had the full space provided
by act of Parliament.
Mr. Bodkin, at some length, contended that the
case could not be sustained, inasmuch as the act
only provided that the contract ticket should be
given to cabin passengers in a passenger ship,
because she did not carry more than 30 passengers,
and had been passed, after inspection, as a non-pas-
senger ship by the emigration agent. He called
Captain Westbrooke, R.N., assistant-emigration
officer of the Port of London, who deposed that he
visited the ship before she sailed, and passed her as
a non-passenger ship, as she had only six steerage
passengers on board.
Wm. Gold, captain of the Windsor, also deposed
that he took out altogether 28 or 29 passengers, of
whom only six were steerage
passengers, who were
duly provided with contract tickets.
On completing a prima facie case, an order was
taken by consent, for payment forthwith to com-
plainant, by defendants, of 1201., the amount of his
passage money, and Si. ss. costs, it being under-
stood that the case should be argued as speedily as
possible before a judge in chambers ; that mean-
while, defendants should make arrangements for
maintaining complainant and the other passengers ;
and that the decision of the judge should be held to
apply equaly to the case of the other passengers as
well as to the present complainant.

stable, went to the house of the defendant, and
being both in plain clothes at the time they were at
once admitted. At that time there were 10 men
there drinking and smoking, and as many as six
mugs of beer before them. Witness and his com-
panion were also served with the beer they called
for, and they stopped there as long as an hour,
during which time there were as many as 28 per-
sons came in and went out, all of whom had been
served with beer awl gin. Ile counted as many as
nine pots of beer brought from a cask in a back
room, and about five pints of gin, and for the
former sd. per pot was charged, and for the latter,
5d a quay tern.

Mr.Elliott—What time was this ?
Witness—Between eleven and twelve o'clock in
the forenoon, your worship ; during church hours.
Mr. Elliott (to the defendant)—Well, what have
you got to say to this charge—this wholesale charge
of selling exciseable liquoas without a licence ?
Defendant—l cannot say that lam not guilty,
your worship, but these officers were in disguise,
and got in by using a false name.
An inspector of police here informed the magis-
trate that from information which had reached the
force, there was every reason to believe that the
prisoner had for some time past carried on an ex-
tensive sale of beer and spirits, and that the per-
sons assembled there were persons of not reputable
character. Indeed the person whose name was
said to be used by the constables as a means of
getting into the house was a returned transport.
The person alluded to by the inspector here came
forward, and begged to be heard by the magis•rate.
He said it was true that he had "got into trouble."
and Was out on leave ; but since his return ho bad
used every means in his power to get an honest
living. His friends had enabled him to get into a
beer-house, bat the police did everything to annoy
him. The last act of their annoyance was to use
his name to get into the house of the defendant ;
and since that time he was continually taunted
by the defendant's friends and neighbours with
sending the police to his house for the purpose of
injuring him, when, in point of fact, he had nothing
whatever to do with it.
The defendant said he was out of employment
and in bad health, and the persons who came to hie
house were friends, who did so with a view of
benefiting him.
Mr. Ellictt remarked that it was quite evident
he had carried on his illicit trade to a considerable
extent ; and for that offence he might have con-
victed him in a penalty of 201. ; however, as it was
his first known offence, he should mitigate that
sum to 6/.' and that sum he must pay, or in default
be committed to prison fcr one mouth.

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WANDSWORTH. —THE CURIOUS CHARGE OF
ROBBERY BY LODGERS.—James Page, and his wife,
Anne Page, wore brought before Mr. Ingham, on
remand, charged with being concerned in stealing
money from a box kept in the bedroom of their
landlord, Henry Mason, a gardener, of No. 1,
Point Pleasant, Wandsworth.
In this case the prosecutor had missed 2/. from
the money-box on thelBth of Feb. last, which in-
duced him to mark some more and place it in the
box on Sunday, the 28th ult. When his wife went
to chapel in the evening she locked him in a cup-
board near the bedroom door. He saw the female
prisoner enter his room, take away the money-box
and then return it. She afterwards came up again
and dropped something into the box, which was
no doubt the money she had taken out, upon dis-
covering it marked. The male prisoner was down
stairs, but it was not clearly shown that he was a
participator. When the box was opened, three
halfpence were missed, which turned out to be un-
marked money.
The prisoners denied the robbery, and
Mr. Ingham discharged the husband, and sen-
tenced the wife to one month's imprisonment with
hard labour.

T HAME S. —INGRATIT UDE AND ROBBERY.--.WM.
Sorby, a boy, aged 12 years, was brought before
Mr. Selfe, on remand, charged with stealing a sil-
ver watch, value 51., the property of John Morgan
Slowsen, a baker, in Whitechapel.
It appeared that ihe prosecutor, a humane man,
was passing along a street near his own home, a
few days ago, when the prisoner accosted him‘ and
solicited alms. The baker relieved him, and hear-
ing he was in want of a home, took him to his own
house, and shielded him from the inclemency of
the weather by allowing him to sleep on the shav-
ings in his bakehouse. On the following morning
the baker provided the boy with a broom, and re-
commended him to select a street crossing, and
pick up what halfpence he could. The baker also
promised the boy, if he behaved well and was in-
dustrious, he would do something more for him.
The prisoner was provided with a she]) er and bread
nightly for a week. One night the baker left the
prisoner in the bakehouse for a short time, while
tie went out upon an errand, and upon his return
the boy was gone, and a watch he had left sus-
pended to a nail was missing. The police were
informed of the robbery, and a City of London
policeman traced the prisoner, and found the watch
in possession of a potman, to whom it had been
sold for 6s.

The watch was produced and identified.
Mr Se1(0 condemned the conduct of the party
who had purchased it of a boy so much below its
value.

The mother of the prisoner said her son was a
very bad boy, and she bad put him into a reforma-
tory at Whitechapel, and paid 2s. 6d. per week for
him ; but be had twice escaped from it, and given
her much trouble.
Mr. Selfe said the prisoner was not only a bad boy,
but a very ungrateful one ; and he should stop his
career of wickedness for a long time, and send him
first to a prison, and. afterwards to a reformatory
school, from which he could not escape. A more
ungrateful lad than the prisoner he had never met
with. He convicted him of larceny, and sentenced
him to three months' imprisonment and hard
labour, and at the expiration of his imprisonment
to be detained in a reformatory school to be here-
after named for four years,

From the London Gazette of Last Night

WHITEHALL, MARCH 6.
The Queen has been pleased to direct letters patent to
be passed under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Ireland, appointing the Right Hon.
Edward, Earl of Ellenborough, G.C.8., to be her Majesty's
Commissioner for the affairs of India.
The Queen has also been pleased to direct letters patent
to be passed under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom
of Great Britain and Ireland, appointing the Right Hon.
T. H. Sutton Sotheron-Estcourt to be Poor Law Com-
missioner for England.
WHITEHALL, MARCH 8.
The Queen has been pleased to direct letters patent to be
passed under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Ireland, constituting and appointing
the Right Hon. Sir J. S Pakington, Bart. ; Vice-Admi-
ral W. F. Martin ; Vice-Admiral the Hon. Sir R. S.
Dundas, K.C.B. ; Rear-Admiral A. Milne; Captain the
Hon. J. R. Drummond, C.B ; and A. G. Percy, Esq..
(commonly called Lord Loraine), to be her Majesty's Com-
missioners for executing the office of Lord High Admiral
of the said United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland,
and the dominions, islands, and territories thereunto be-
longing.
The Queen has been pleased to direct letters patent to
be passed under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Ireland, granting the dignity of a Baro-
net of the said United Kingdom under Richard John
Griffith, Esq., of Munster Grillagh, in the county of Lon-
donderry, and Pencraig, in the county of Anglesey, and
to the heirs male of his body lawfully begotten.
WHITEHALL, MARCH 8.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint the Right Hon.
Charles Bowyer Adderley to be President of the General
Board of Health.

WAR-OFFICE, MARCH 6.
The Queen has been graciously pleased to give orders
for the appointment of Colonel Robert Richardson Robert-
son, Unattached, formerly of the 7th Dragoon Guards,
Colonel John Francis Glencairn Campbell, of the 91st
Regiment, Colonel Charles Henry Somerset, of the 72d
Regiment, and Colonel Frederick George Augustus Pinck-
ney, of the 73d Regiment, to be Ordinary Members of the
Military Division of the Third Cites, or Companions of the
Most Hoitourable Order of the Ba h.
DOWNING-STREET, MARCH 1.
The Queen has been graciously pleased to direct that
letters patent be passed under the Great Seal, granting
and declaring that the degrees of Bachelor of Arts, Master
of Arts, Bachelor of Laws, Doctor of Laws, Bachelor of
Medicine, and Doctor of Medicine, already granted or con-
ferred, or hereafter to be granted or conferred, by the
Senate of the University of Sydney, in the colony of New
South Wales, shall be recognised as Academic distinctions
and rewards of merit, and be entitled to rank, precedence,
and consideration in the United Kingdom, and in the
Colonies and Possessions of the Crown throughout the
world, as fully as if the said degrees had been granted by
any University of the United Kingdom.
CROWN OFFICE, MARCH 6.
MEMBERS RETURNED TO SERVE IN THE PRESENT
PARLIAMENT.
Borough of King's Lynn—The Right Hon. Edward
H. Stanley, commonly called Lord Stanley, one of her
Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State.