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THE SU 11, L UNDO N, SATURDAY EVENING, AUGUST 7, 1855.

sn widely apart, and many miles had to be steamed over in
order to reach each vessel ; in fact, the Zara, Commodore the
Earl of Wilton's yacht, was some miles away from the Cul-
ver, and when spoken with, however, as a result of Mr. De
Horsey's indefatigable exertions, all the necessary prelimi-
naries werc at last completed, and in obedience to his orders
the yachts formed a tolerable line off the Culver, with their
sails lowered. The first gun was fired at the time appointed,
five minutes before six, but it was half-past seven before the
yachts had all got dowu to the line, and even then the Co-
lumbine was some distance astern. However, Mr. De Horsey
judged it expedient to get them off, as the lone,r the delay
the greater grew the impatience of the owners, who, since
daylight, had been on the alert, and whose tempers and
these of the crews were by no means improved at the orders
given to shorten sail after everything had been well set.
The second gnu was fired at 7.35, and three flags were
simultaneously lowered on board the steamer as a signal to
start. The summons was obeyed with great alacrity, and
in a few minutes all sail was again set, and the fleet laid
their course from the Culver across the Channel
S.W., the distance being about 60 miles. They all
got under weigh so well, except the Columbine,
that bat little noticeable difference was perceptible in their
positions, especially when the length of the course and the
time fer diff rence cf canvass are considered. When fairly
eff the starters were found to number 13, comprising the
following :

Tights. Tons. Owners.
Re+o:ution
tirsuline
Zara
Alarm ..
Claymore
Arrow
Julia
Shark
FAir Rosamond
Minx
Columbine
Extravaganza
Aurora

The steamer followed the yachts for some short time, and
when she left them to return to Cowes the Channel presented
as pretty a sight as can well be conceived. The beautiful fleet
then studded the horizon, the morning sun gleaming on
their milk-white sails; nod they were bowling away at a
rate which, should the wind hold from W.N.W., would take
them all into Cherbourg before three o'clock. When last
made out the Zara, the Shark, and the Alarm were fore—
most; the little Julia doing very well.

(By Electric Telegraph.)
COWES, FRIDAY.

The yachts are reported within 12 miles of Cherbourg.
The Alarm was Arst. About 20 minutes intervened between
the large and small vessel.. A small yacht will in all pro—
bability win. The Columbine or Mini will, it is Bali, be
the victor.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.—Auc. 6.
(Before Mr. Commissioner Fane.)
IN RE FENNELL AND CHANTRELL.

The bankrupts, Henry Edward Fennell and Charles Wil-
liam Chantrell, were brewers, of Shirley, Southampton.
This was the certificate meeting. Debts, £1,250; assets,
about £4OO.

Mr. West appeared for the bankrupt Fennell, and Mr,
Martineau for the assignees.
Mr. Martineau drew the attention of the Court to come
circumstances connected with the disposal of some hops by
the bankrupt Fennell, in the absence of, and without con-
sulting his partner, within four days of the bankruptcy.
The bankrupt Fennell having been examined at some
length, it appeared the hops had been returned to the per-
son from whom they had been obtained.
His Honour said he thought the bankruptcy had arisen
from unavoidable loss and misfortune, and that both the
bankrupts were entitled to first-class certifivates.

theref4re found necessary to resort to the present action to
compel him to do so.
Mr. Hans Busk was then examined. lie deposed that
the defendant's wife was his sister, and he was one of the
trustees under her marriage settltment. She was married
to the defendant in May, 1815, at,d from that time down ti
the year 1856 he was in the habit of visiting them and com-
municating wi:h the defendant and his sister. On the :19th
of May, two days after the marriage, he received a letter
Iran the defendant. The letter was put in and read. It
was as follows :

" My Dear Ilans,—l am the happiest of mortals—too
happy, lam lea, ful. Oh, Hans, you little know what a
treasure I clad Rosalie—how immeasurably she is my supe-
rior in all things. What an entire change and reformation
she will effset both in my outward and inward carriage. Oh,
once again I am too happy. Your sisteresopu
g slit,rea,nsomo hdtesatt,
so calm, so quiescent, so lady-like, so perfectly
I tremble at the fearful responsibility I have und,rtaken in
swearing to love, honour, and obey such an angel. She is,
dear flans, too good for me. If I had known all her charms,
all her perfection, I should never have dared to have ad-
vanced toy claims. She is too good for such a man as
myself. She will indeed prove a guardian angel to myself,
and will be the making and the preservation of us, both in
this world and the next. We read every morning and
evening a chapter cf the Greek Testament ,ogether, and we
both of us read every day together. In fact I shall live for
your sister alone."
The letter went on for some length in the same strain, and
the defeetlant concluded by saying, " I am the happiest of
mortals."
Examination continued— In the month of August, 1849,
witness received a letter from his sister, which induced Mai
to seek an interview eviqi the defendant. The letter now
produced is the one refused to. The letter was put in and
read. It was addressed by the defendant's wife to the
witness .
"My Dear Hans,—l really think I shall be obliged to
trouble you to speak to Charles about Ws behaviour to me.
This morning, after breakfast, after evidently tryint to
pick a quarrel on two or three different subjects, which I
each time managed to keep oft, he began again abruptly
about the money, saying that he had written to you yes-
terday ordering it to be put into his name. I answered that
you could not do that unless I gave directions about it.
He got into a great rage directly, and said it was all a
conspiracy between us to cheat him. I saw that, as he was
in this spirit, it was better not to say much to him, so only
added, ' The fact is, as you so often talk about going off to
Australia, you see it might be very inconvenient to me to
have my money in your name.' Ile continued making a
great noise.; asked how I dared talk about my money, said
it was all his, and that all that he or anybody else ever
married for was for the sake of getting money with their
wives. I said, ' That is a strange confession, but for the
present I think we had better change the subject, as I have
no wish to quarrel about that or anything else.' Upon this
he flew at me like a tiger, seized me by the arms, and tried
to throw me down. I managed to keep on my feet, and
then he dragged me to the door, and trying to open it kept
swearing out that he would turn me out of doors. I kept
against the door to prevent his opening it, in order to keep
the affair, if possible, from the servants, and he kept on
striking me, and at last began kicking me with all his
might, and did not leave me until he had given me one
such blow on my side with his foot that I only stopped
him by saying that he would be answerable for another life
besides mine if he did not desist; and, indeed, as it is, I have
felt so giddy and sick ever since that I greatly fear be may
have done me a more serious injury than he will like to
answer for. His object too, I fear, is pretty evident, as be
always chooses the times when I am in a similar condition
for his most violent behaviour, but I must say be never
before went to such lengths as he has to-day. I should add
that all the time he was so trea,ing me he kept going on
quite like a madman about our having a conspiracy against
him, said It was a plot of my family to get his money, that
be did not believe I ever received any money at all ; but
that I took enough of his to support my old father, and all
sorts of unfounded untruths that he could think of. He
said he should have a separation at once, and get somebody
else to take care of his children, Sc. Now, under the cir-
cumstances, what do you advise me to do? I really am
more than half afraid that he will do me some injury; but
stil,, rather than make a regular break of it I would let it
pass by, if you think it best. Certainly I would rather
suffer anything myself than be separated from the children,
but with such a temper and without having any thisig to allege
against me, I do not suppose he could keep them if he should
insist on my leaving the house. . . Ido not think your
writing to him would do any goad. We must either let it
pass over, or you must see him and speak to him."
The witness then said that he had before this received
information with regard to the conduct of the defendant
towards his sister, and upon receiving the letter he went to
endeavour to have an interview with the defendant, and. methim on Waterloo-bridge. Witness bad a horsewhip in his
hand. Upon the defendant coming up to him
.he put out
his hand, but witness pushed it away, and told him that he
was desirous of calling him to account for his stroeloacon-
duct towards his sister on the previous day, and at the same
time showed him his sister's letter. The defendant replied
that it was very sad, and he was very sorry for it. His sister
was in the family-way at this time. Witness reproached him
wittr his canduet, and he said it was riot his business, and
he had no right to interfere in his family affairs, and he
was master in his own house, and no one had a right to
meddle with him. Witness then said that, in consequence
of his brutal treatment of his wife, and his having before
assaulted her when she was in the family way, he should
feel it his duty to lay all the facts before the bishop of the
diocese, and the defendant said that be wished she was
dead, and then she would have no more children, whom he
detested. Witness had a horsewhip in his hand, and when
the defendant said this he was so excited that he raised it to
strike him; but the defendant clasped his hands and bent
his knees, and looked in such an abject state of fear, that
he desisted, and left him, saying that he would leave the
matter in the hands of the bishop. The prisoner followed
him, and entreated him not to make the matter known to
the bishop, as it would be the ruin of himself and his family
and he requested witness to meet him in the afternoon at
the Gloucester coffee-house, Piccadilly, and inform him, at
all events, what he intended to do. He went at the time
appointed, and the defendant showed him a letter he had
written to his wife. The letter was put in and read. It
was couched in the most affectionate terms, anti the de-
fendant, in the most abject manner, entreated his wife to
forgive him for the manner in which he had acted towards
her on the previous day.
The following letters were also put in and read. The first
was addressed to the father of his wife; it was as follows :
" My Dear Sir,—Will you receive a penitent son back to
your affections? I thank Hans heartily for having brought
before the bishop all my unhappy history. For the future it
will be my study to do everything to please Rosie, and will
forswear card playing, flirting, and other unclerical amuse-
ments. I have promised the bishop so to do.—Your ear-
rowing son-in-law, " CHARLES VANSITTART."

The next was the letter in which the defendant announced
his intention to separate from his wife on the following
terms. The letter was dated the Bth of June, 1856 :
"Sir,—Sinee writing the last I have come to the deliber-
ation of separating from my wife, as my hatred and aversion
ton ards her is so great that I neither can nor will ever see her
again, and my physician tells me that it is absolutely neces-
sary for my health that I should be kept as quiet as possible.
I shall not remain long in Berkshire. What I do is my
own object, and I am not at liberty to reveal my plans, but
never again under any circumstances will I ever see your
daughter. Please to favour me with the name of your soli-
citor, that the necessary steps and forms may be entered
into. If I had not married contrary to the wishes and
prayers of a most excellent mother, much misery would have
been spared me. Would to God that I had done so.—YOurs
truly, " CHARLES VANSITTART."
The examination of the witness was then proceeded with.
He said that his sister forgave the defendant upon this occa-
sion, and t hey continued to live together, but in 1853 he
discovered that the defendant had been carrying on an
adulterous intercourse with a young woman, the
daughter of One of his parishioners, and he showed
the defendant some letters he had received upon :.he
subject, and charged him with the offence. He at first
denied it, and then said in an insolent tone that it
was no business of his. Witness then told him that he had
thought it right to inform the bishop of the manner in
which one of the clergymen of his diocese was conducting
himself, and that he had been in the constant habit of beating
and ill-treating his wife, was addicted to habits of intern-
prranee, and that he had wound up by seducing the daughter
of one of his parishioners. The defendant then said it was
not, so bad as that, for she had gone away with another man
before he had anything to do with her. The defendant then
expressed great contrition for what had happened, and
said he saw his conduct in its true light, and entreated
witness to intercede with his sister to fo:give him, and she
did se, and the defendant returned home. The last
time its saw the defendant was in August, 18,56,
when he said he was determined to separate from his
wife and that a deed of separation must be drawn up, and if
this was not done he should sell all his property and go
away, and his wife anti her children would have no place to
go to, and he added that he did not know whether be should
go to Australia or to the Continent. He at the same time said
lie was willing to make his wife a fair allowance, but he was
determined to be separated from her. The defendant subse-
quently exeett.ed an agreement to pay his wife £l2O a-year,
but in September, 1856, he suddenly left, taking two of his
sons with him, and fur eigliat months no tidings could be
learned of him, although considerable expense wa incurred
to endeavour to ascertain where be had gore tom. 11e un-
derstood flow the deleudaet that his revenue was £l,OOO or
£l,lOO a-year. The defendant's wife was too ill at the pre-
sent time to appear as a evilness.
Cross-examined—His sister was allowed £l5O a-year by
her father, and the defendant told him that she only spent
£lOO a-year, and laid the rest by fir her children; but he
was nee aware that this was the origin of their quarrelling.
He believed that in the year 1846 his sister became a con-
vert to the Roman Catholic religion. Two other sisters
had also gone over to that faith. He bad been informed
that'the living of White Walthant was soldupon the under-
standing that the defendant should resign the ministry,
and that the proceeds of the sale should be investedLfor her
benefit. The living of White Waltham was slated on the
books to be worth £9OO a-year. After the defendant left,
his wife went to live with her father for some time, and she
then went to live with Mrs. Byrne, a married sister, and her
father and sister had both brought an action against the de-
fendant to recover the cost, of her maintenance. These actions
were in addition to the one brought by the present plaintiff.
The defendant himself requested his wife to see Mr. Bennett,
and also Mr. Ward and Mr. Newtuan. lie was unable to
say how long his sister was wavering before she joined the
Roman Catholic communion.
Re-examined—Tim defendant himself first introduced
High Church notions into the family, and he believed that
this led to his sisters' seceding from the Protestant Church.
A letter was here put
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parishioners.
Re-examination continued—He was aware that Mr.
Bennett was a high Pueeyite.
In answer to a question put by Mr. Chambers, the wit-
ness stated that this letter was written before the defen-
dant's marriage with his sister.
Mrs. Julia Byrne, a married sister of the defendant's wife,
was then examined—She stated that for some time after
their marriage the defendant and her sister were on very
affectionate terms, but in the year 1849 the defendant com-
menced behaving; unkindly to her. A short time before she
was confined with one of her childt en, the defendant said he
did not want any mere children i • indeed he wi:died that those
he had were dead. He then said that Sidney, one of his sons,
was a nice Loy, and ho should like to keep him, but he did
not care about any of the others. In Mnrefi, 1851, she was
present. when a quarrel took place between the defendant
and his wife, but 6he could not recollect the subject. The
defendant was very violent, and threw the chairs about the
coon', and threw his hat from one end of the room to the
other. He then rang the bell, and told the servant to pre-
pare a separate bed for him as he would not sleep with his
wife any more. The next day she took her sister away, but
tonhe
sdeevfeernadsxlainoinemitisiipeanrwred_oomhcecisraseshodiontso.
Cross-examined—She
behave better, and she returned
tnoohrimobs.su_teShe saw the defendant behave In a similar manner
en
laoldst m
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Monday Witness
where h trhas ids tbeere
owina let
a ccnvert to the Roman Catholic faith.
Mr. ChAulbtri asked tin witness bow long it was sinee

she had formed the conclusion that the Roman Catholic was
,referable to the Protestant faith?
The witness asked his lordship whether this was. a perti-
nent question and whether she was bound to answer it'?
(A laugh.)
Baron Bramwell said he saw no reason why she should
not answer the question.
She then said that she could not state exacely when she
came to the conclusion that the Roman Catholic religion
was prefereiCe to the Protestant.
le anewer to other questions, put by the learned counsel
the the defendant, the witness said she believed the amount
that was claimed for keeping Mrs. Vansittart was about
,iiree guineas or three guineas and-a-half a week, but it was
tot more than she cost. They were not bound to keep Mr.
Vansittert's wife. Ile was better able to keep her than they
were. One of the children was taken away by Mrs. Van-
sittart as she was returning from school ; but it had been
arranged that she should have the custody of this child, the
little girl, at the time of the separation. She did nut know
whether her sister took this child to a Catholic place of
worship.
Re-examined—When the defendant left his wife, in Sept.,
1856, she was without means. He took the two boys away
with hint. Her sister was very much attached to these boys,
and she nearly went out of her mind when they were taken
front her.
Miss Rachel Busk deposed that she lived with her father
wi
lall iil
in Cumberland-place, Hyde-park. In February, 1857, her
sister
membered the coming defendant cong to the house upon one oc-
casion,wasand
staying
be
sttv ae td hertha
tflaitehelir's
soldh thead
the f an
furniture,
that there was no home for his wife or children to be taken
to. yS hearned-
Cross-exatnined—Her sister went to Brighton with the
family in the autumn, and they used to walk out together.
Her sister before the separation had been abroad with her
husband and other members of her family, but she was not
aware that the first cause of her soter and her husband having
a dispute was on account of her sister going to Catholic
churches and convents, and being in communication with
priests and nuns.
Mr. Hay, the plaintiff, deposed that he was on friendly
terms with the family of the defendant's wife, and an arrange-
ment was made that she and her children should board and
lodge at his house. Ile had charged for the accommodation
' at the rate of three guineas and a-half per week, and he
considered this was a reasonable charge.
Mr. Austin, the attorney for the plaintiff, produced the
deed of separation and other documents referred to in the
case. He also proved that when the defendant left this
country, he traced him through France to Switzerland, and
ultimately foundhimat.Geneva. He then told him that it
was no use suing him, for he had got £l,OOO in his box, and
hewasssi-leexn reatitediß3Llant gone to-morrow.
Cro itness was the attorney in all the
actions that had been brought against the defendant in
reference to these transactions: He had also brought au
action against the defendant himself for pulling his nose.
There was likewise a fifth action against him for the costs
incurred in preparing the deed of separation, and other
matters, and he had served hint with a writ in this last
action since the defendant had been at Guildford.
At the close of the case for the plaintiff, Mr. Baron
Bramwell suggested whether it would not be a satisfactory
mode of settling all these disputes by referring the whole
matter to some gentleman at the bar, who should have the
power to say what ought to be done.
Mr. Chambere said he was sorry that his instructions pre-
vented him from acceding to his lordship's suggestion, and
the present action must at all events go to the jury.
• Mr. James then proceeded to sum up the case of the
plaintiff, and he said it appeared to him that the case was
entirely an undefended one, and he repeated his surprise
that any ono in the position of the defendant should have
allowed such an inquiry to take place. He said that it
had been clearly made out that the defendant, forgetful
of his position in society, and of the feelings of a man,
had treated his unhappy wife in a most brutal and un-
manly wanner, and the only excuse that was attempted
to be made for his conduct was that his wife had em-
braced the Roman Catholic faith. Supposing even that
this were an excuse, there was no doubt that he had
himself first, instilled Puseyita notions into her head,
and the natural consequence had followed ; and he
put it to the jury whether it was at all extraordinary that
site should have taken such a step when she had such an
example of a Protestant clergyman before her, one who
talked of leaving off playing cards, and alluded to adultery
as flirtation. The learned counsel concluded by steting that
it appeared to him the plaintiff's case had been clearly esta-
blished, and that the only excuse that could be made for the
defendant was that he was not of sound mind.
Mr. Chambers made a very eloquent and able speech to
the jury on behalf of the defendant. He said that it ap-
peared to him that his learned friend had endeavoured to
lead them away from the real question at issue, and, by the
use of hard words and abusing the defendant, had endea-
voured to induce tleeni to come to a conclusion contrary
both to the law and the facts. He should, therefore, en-
deavour to lay the real question before them ; and in the
first place he would tell them what the law was with regard
to those unhappy quarrels between man and wife, and if he
was wrong his lordship would correct him. When a man
and wife agreed to separate, it did not follow at all, as a
matter of course, that the latter had any power to pledge the
credit of her husband, but if she had sufficient means to sup-
port herself site was bound, by law, to do so, and she was
not entitled to make her husband liable for the cost of her
maintenance. He then referred to the evidence as to the con-
dition of the parties, and said that there was nothing to show
that the defendant had an income of a thousand a-year;
but, on the contrary, it appeated that the utmost extent of
his income was not more than four or five hundred a-year,
and out of that min he would have to maintain and educate
his children, and bring them up. It had been proved that
the lady received £l5O a-year from her father, sad this sum
was made up from other sources to more than £lBO, and he
submitted that this was quite sufficient for her niaintenance,
and that she had no right to incur an expense of three
guineas and a half per week, and then seek to recover
that amount from her husband. He then proceeded to
comment upon the hardship of three separate actions
being brought against the defendant, and he said there
could be no doubt that the family of his wife were at the bot-
tom of the whole proceedings, and that the present plaintiff
was merely put forward to act in that respect, and that the
object sought to be-at ;lined was the ruin of the unhappy
defendant. Ile was unwilling, be said, on this, or in any
other case, to enter on the discussion of religious matters;
but on the present occasion he was bound to state to the jury
his impression that the course this lady had taken on be-
coming a convert to the Roman Catholic religion, and in as-
sociating, while abroad, with priests and nuns, and attending
Roman Catholic places of worship, had been the original cause
of all the unhappiness that had taken place, and he put it to
the jury whether anything was more calculated to excite
a Protestant clergyman, who conscientiously enter ained
' Protestant opinions, than to find that his wife liar em-
braced what he conceived to he an erroneous creed, and
that alie..eves endeavouring to briny up his children in the
same doctrine. The learned counsel then went on to com-
ment upon the evidence, and said that, if the jury believed
that the defendant's wile, at the time of their separation,
was in a condition to maintain herself, the defendant was
enaiilediu a verdict.
Mr. Baron Bramwell, in summing up, said that, although
the case had lasted a considerable time, the real question
at issue he should have thought might have been disposed
of in a very few minutes. They had nothing to do with 1
the manner in which the defendant behaved towards his
wife, or with High Church, or Low Church, or Catholicism,
or anything of the kind ; and lie might observe that, in Iris
opinion, every one would do well to endeavour to make
himself a good Christian, and leave the particular shade of
Christianity to which he belonged to be sctled afterwards.
The only question for the jury was, whether the defendant
was liable to pay for the support and maintenance of his
wife upon the evidence before them. In law, when a hus-
band turned his wife adrift—and it must be understood
that he did not intend to make use of that term in an
effensive manner, but when they separated by consent
—if the wife had no means, she was not permitted to
starve, but she was allowed to pledge her husband's credit
for her support according to his position, but she was not
permitted to do more. In the present case the defendant,
was proved to have t•ld his wife that he had no horse for
her, and she was therefore compelled to provide for herself,
and the only queetion in the cause was whether she had clone
so in a manner that site was not justified, according to the
position kf her hushar,d, or not; and if in their opinion the
charge of the plaintiff was a reasonable one under the cir-
cumstances, he was entitled to a verdict.
The jilt.)• immediately returned a verdict for the plaintiff
fi r the full amount.
Mr. Cook applied fir speedy execution, and It's lordship
granted the application.

hundredweight, which had been sold to him on the 12th of
June by the male prisoner and another man.
John Cook, 198 8, on the 21st of July, went to 20, Totten-
ham-place, Tottenham.court.road, and lotted the two pri-
soners in bed together. He told f'rnt t e Ply! i. ti:ut
for elthrnittinz a hurghtry, when the male prisoner replied,
" What slant have: you gut up for us now ?"
Mr. Wale said that the tt a was loose in a basket when
brought to him. Witness knew the man who accompanied
the pri3oner, and th.ugbt him respectable. lie represented
that he purchased the tea at a sale, and dealt in that way.
Witness agreed to give £5 for the tea, and paid the female
prisoner, who was represented by Jones to be his wife.
Mr. Sherry was able to identify the tea, owing to an cdd
circumstance. A few days before the robbery he threw
some black pepper by mistake into a canister of tea, when,
to prevent the tea being used, he wrote on a piece of
paper " pepper," and placed it in the canister, and that piece
of paper was found in the tea which had been sold by the
male prisoner to Mr. Wale. The basket was likewise
identified.

Prisoner Jones said that he and another man committed
the robbery, and-sold the tea to Mr. Wale. He went home
two hours afterwards and found the prisoner Hayes in bed.
He then took her to Wale, who was unable to pay all the
money for the tea at once, and told him to pay her the re-
mainder, but site did not know what it was for.
The female prisoner denied all knowledge of the robbery.
They were committed for trial at the Central Criminal
Court.
FEROCIOUS ASSAULTS.—SamueI Roberts, a private in
the Grenadier Guards, was charged with desperately as-
saulting two police constables.
John Coggin, :242 13, said that the defendant came up to
him in a state of intoNica:ion, when he kindly recommended
him to go with his co nraies, upon which defendant, withou
any provocation, kicked him most desperately in the lower
part of his person.
Ferris Carr, another constable, went to the former's assist-
ance, wken he kicked and injured him so severely that he
was rendered unfit fur duty. He also dragged hint about by
the hair of the head and tried to bite him.

Defendant was remanded.
BRUTAL ASSAULT ON AN ELDERLY WOMAN.—John
Ragan, a powerful young man, was charged with commit-
ting a savage assault upon Susan Boileau, his mother-in-
law, a poor woman advanced in years.
Complainant's face was much disfigured and swollen, and
it appeared from the evidence that on her return home ox
the previous night, the defendant, who lives in the same
house, locked the door against ber and then knocked her
down repeatedly, and kicked her about the body in the most
brutal manner, at the same time declaring that if her hug-
band attempted to interfere to protect her from violence he
would murder him. The police were called, and finding
the poor woman bleeding, took the accused into custody,
and he was stated to be a very violent fellow.
Defendant had the hardihood to deny the charge, although
it was most clearly made out against him.
Mr. Paynter commented in becoming terms upon his
brutality, and sentenced him to two months' hard labour in
the Howe of Correction, further requiring him at the end
of that time to find bail for three months.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.—A DANGROUS MEN-
DICANT.—A sturdy, healthy-looking fellow, tall and power-
fully-built, who gave the name John Edward Jarman,
was charged before Mr. Beadon with begging in Oxford-
street, at half-past one o'clock a.m., and endeavouring to
extort such alms by means of threats.
Police-constable Robinson, C 48, said he saw the prisoner
accost several respectable persons whe were passing, who
seemed to have some difficulty in ridding themselves of him.
On going sufficiently near he heard him, in a threatening
manner, say to a gentleman if he did not give him some
money it would be the worse for him. This he repeated,
and witness took him into custody.
Mr. Beadon said the prisoner was a very dangerous man,
and he should sentence him to the House of Correction for
one month.

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THE NEXT STEP TO STREET BEGGING.—John
Roberts, who has been frequently at this court for begging,
was charged with stealing a pair cf boots from the shop of
Mr. Labram, 36, St. Martin's-court, the previous evening.
The boots, it was proved, were stolen from a stool inside
the door of the shop, and found in prisoner's possession,
who was hurrying away with the same, and overtaken by the
shopman, who had received information of the theft, about
70 yards from The premises.
The prisoner said he was guilty. He was very sorry, but
considered he was compelled to the step he had taken.
Mr. Beadon told him, as he had often done before, that if
he was in want he should apply to the relieving officer, who
was bound to assist the distressed.

AN EXTRAORDINARY SCENE IN COURT.—Just before
the rising of the Court, a dashing young fellow of about six
or eigkt and twenty marched into court in a very pompous
style, and evidently far gone in liquor, with a countenance
fierce-looking from effort, and, taking up his position in the
prisoners' dock, said be wanted particularly to speak to the
magistrate. Mr. Beadon, pointing him out a nearer place
less conspicuously unpleasant than the one he had selected,
asked his business. The applicant, now shifting his quarters
and mounting the witness-box, stared at the magstrate with
grotesque fierceness for a minute, and then said he wanted
a summons against a cabman for abuse, which he, without
the slightest reservation or apology, though it consisted of
certain filthy words, repeated. The magistrate, with much
suavity of manful', advised the applicant to make his request
the following morning, upon which he became exceedingly
irate and insisted on the summons being granted imme-
diately, for he was going 50 miles in the country and could
not be delayed. Vs by could his business not be settled, lie
added, at once.
The magistrate told him, if he insisted on knowing, in
plain language it was because he was not sober.
The applicant, on hearing this, got in a violent state of
passion, told the magistrate he was himself drunk, and
calling to a friend, who it appeared had accompanied him
and NIA standing conveniently near the door, but who was
sober, to come and smash all the windows in.
The magistrate, who at the first show of violence had
ordered him to withdraw instantly, now called upon the
officers to remove tuna from the court, which they did net,
however, without the utmost difficulty, one of them getting
his hands much grazed in doing so. Finding, when down
stairs, that they would, if he did not leave the premises,
ck him up, his friend, who really bad seemed afraid of
him, took courage, and partly by persuasion and partly by
free got him into his cab, which was waiting for him at
the entrance, and they drove away.

CLERKENWELL.—EITENSITE ROBBERY or GOLD
AND SILTED WAIT tiEs.—A very respectably a' tired young,
man, who gave the name of Frederick Twecdle, aged 21,
a commission traveller, was placed at the bar before Mr.
D'Eyncourt, charged with stealing a number of gold and
silver watches, of the value of £l3B lls., belonging to his
master, a silversmith, of Red Lion-square, Holborn.
The prosecutor said the prisoner had been in his employ
for some time as a traveller, and was paid a salary as well as
commission. He had lately been in Paris, and on his return
the prisoner handed him a list of gold and silver watches
which he said he had sold. The prisoner went out of town
for a few days, and from certain facts that were communi-
cated to prosecutor, the prisoner's lodgings, 5, King's-
terrace Norm is, Clerkenwell, were searched, and a number
of pawnbroker's duplicates relating to watches and clocks
were found, and which he had put down as sold. He at
present missed about 20 gold and 18 silver watches,, as well
as same clocks.
Police-constable Taylor, of the G division, said from
information received he went to the El,pbant and Castle
Tavern, 13righton, and found the prisoner living there in
the first of style. He had gone there with a horse and gig,
and there were staying with him two gentlemen and a lady,
the expenses of whom the prisoner had paid. He told the
prisoner the charge, and upon searching him found upon
him a gold and silver watch. He had found out that some
of the clocks had bcrn left at a place near Leicester-square,
and he therefore asked for a remand.
The p' isoner did not deny the charge, but said he was not
paying for the parties who were at Brig,h..on.
Mr. D'Eyncourt remanded the case for a week and
refused bail.

MARYLEBONE.—A FEMALE PICIEPOCKET:—A well-
dressed young woman, named Frances Mortimer, was
charged with having attempted to pick the pocket of Amelia
Smith, residing at 12, Strahope-place, Paddington.
Mr. Berry attended fsr the prisoner.
From the evidence of prosectitrix it appeared that on the
previous evening, as she was going to:the post•olliee in the
Edgware road, she was accosted by the prisoner, who asked
her the way to Sloane-Street. Witness pointed out to her the
right direction, and all of a sudden she found her (prisoner's)
hand in her pocket. She laid hold of her, and held her se-
curely until the arrival of a constable, by whom she was
conveyed to the station-house.
Mr. Horry cross-examined the prosecutrix, but did not
succeed in shaking her testimony.
Mobhs, 265 1), stated, that when he took the prisoner into
custody she had nothing to shy, and went quietly with him.
It was further shown that the prisoner had bolt of the arm
of a man when proseentrix was accosted, and that a woman,
no doubt :Willa as a confederate, was a short distance off.
Mr. Horry submitted to the magistrate that the case was
one of mere suspicion, arid that of a very slight nature. He
trusted that the prisoner would be discharged.
Mr. Long considered that the charge of attempted robbery
had been clearly made out, and seEteneed the prisoner to
two month,' hard labour in the House of Correction.

VIOLENT ASSAULT ON, A LICENSED VICTUALLER.
—Richard Raywood was charged by Mr. John Sparkc.,
landlord of the Queen's Arms, Portland-town, under the
following circumstances:—

It appeared that on the same morning between twelve
and one o'clock, the prisoner went drunk to the house, and
called for drink. Cemplainant very properly refused to
serve him, and desired him to go quietly away, but he swore
he would not do so, and on his being laid hold of for the pur-
pose of being ejected, he gave complainant many violent and
severe blows. Newman, 288 D, came up and took the pri-
soner into custody.

Fined 20s , or 14 days in the House of Correction.

"THE KING OF THE BEGGARS."—Edward Rigby
Jones, 80 years old, and Mary, his wife, 'aged 63, were
charged by Fryer, au officer of the Mendicity Society, with
begging. _ _

It appeared that on the same morning Fryer followed the
prisoners from Hyde-park to Burne-street, Edgware-road.
They were b:‘gging the whole way, and be saw them re-
ceive money. The male prisoner, who was known by the
appellation of the " King of the Beggar.," had been in cus-
tody numerous times, and committed from different police
courts. his wife had also been often convicted. Both pri-
soners had been known to the society as impostors ever since
the year 1829. The man's " game " was that of passing
himself off as a miner, and alleging that by an explosion he
had sustained such injury as would incapacitate him entirely
from getting a living tor himself.
The prisoners were each committed to the House of Cor-
rection for a month.

SOUTIIWARK.—A ,BRUTAL HUSBAND AND A Fon-
GIT TNG WlFE.—Stephen Bellini, a rat-trap manufacturer,
was brought before Mr. Combe, charged with committing a
savage assault upon his wife; Emma Benin'.
The complainant, who was far advanced in pregnancy,
s'ated that she had been married to the prisoner 15 years,
and had five children. He was a very good husband, an
never miscoedueted himself only when in liquor. As tor the
bruises on her face and arms, they were caused by ber fall-
ing down stairs on Satureay last. She hoped his worship
would discharge him, as he never ill-used her, and she did
not give him into custody.
Sergeant Smith, 4 M, here stepped forward and informed
his worship that the prisoner was a brute. On Sunday
morning, about one o'clock, witness was on duty in Bond-
street, Borough-road, where the prisoner and his family
resided. The children were in the street entirely naked,
and the prisoner was beating his wife in the house with the
fire shovel. She gave him in charge, but when they arrived
at the station-house she begged him off.
The complainant denied that her busnand had assaulted
her. She fell down stairs and caused the bruises.
Sergeant Smith told his worship that she bad cuts on her
body inflicted by the prisoner, and the officer who appre-
hended him saw him ill-use her.
Police-constable 028 M,. said that about seven o'clock
on the previous evening the complainant rushed out of her
SnQ told bin her
hone with braises on her (PO And Arm.

husband had inflicted them, a ad tie retrtrued to the house and
tank him into custody.
The wife here again inte- move', asking his worship to
fore ive him, as she wos the sauce all tht ill- uNale.
M. Combe told him he was a ciwardly brutal fellow, and
ke should sentence him to months' bald labour in the
House of Correction at Wand sw orth.

LA:MBE-M.—THE SURR B Y GARDENS AND THE
PARISH OF NEWINGTON.—J 'fr. _Herbert Harris Can-
non, ove of the official assignee a under the Court of Bank-
ruptcy, and receiver of the est ir :e and effects of the Royal
Surrey Gardens Company (1.,:a sited), appeared before the
Hon. G. C. Norton, to enssvet • two summonses and show
cause why an order should not be made on him for £270
owing to the parish of Net sit igton for rates due from the
Surrey Gardens Company.
Mr. Robinson, the barrister, instructed by Mr. Chester,
the solicitor to the parish tri ". Newington, attended to
support the summonses; and 1 Ir. Keene, instructed by Mr.
Jones, appeared for the defe natant.
Mr. Robinson opened the ease at some length, and con-
tended, quoting various leg al authorities, that the defen-
dant, as official liquidator uEr der the Winding-up Act, was
legally liable to the paymen', ...of the rates due to the parish
while receiver over the prof ler ty.
Mr. Keene, in reply, a rg ued that the defendant was
merely an officer under the Ontrt of Bankruptcy, and could
only act under the directior turf' that court. •As such officer
be could only pay those su as upon which the Court made
orders, and it would therefi Jr e be hard on him to make him
or his goods liable for the payment of a sum which the
Court might repudiate. ' The learned gentleman, in con-
clusion, said that in point . is f fact Mr. Cann an, as the officer
under the Court of Bankrut to y, was not liable to the payment
of the rates in question, at id that the Court of Bankruptcy
was the proper place to ap ply for them.
Mr. Robinson said that an application had been made to
the Court-of Bankruptcy, bra they could not get a ferthing,
as there were no assets. At . -the request of the learned gentle-
man, the defendant was sworn, and in reply to the ques-
tions put to him, he said he had received about £9OO from
Mr. Spurgeon's committi !e and other resources for letting
out the gardens during titre period over which the rates
claimed from him ran on ; and out of that sum made dis-
bursements, which left a balance of only £23 in his hands.
In June last be let the g. tnlens to Mr. Coombe for £13,000,
and out of that amount rt Ice ived £3,000.
Mr. Robinson conten tie .d that, according to his own
showing, Mr. Cannan had. such a beneficial occupation of
the property as enabled hi tiss to make 1900 out of it, and
therefore he had a perfect right to pay the parish the poor
rates for that time, partic aLairly as the gardens being open
had no doubt increased tl le pauperism in Newington parish.
After a lengthened di; tvassion, and arguments pro and
con.,
Mr. Norton declined Sr.: eking any order in the case, but at
the same time expressed a ;hope, when the proper time came,
and when the affairs were wound up, the Court would not
allow the parish to be the It ,ser of the rates.
Air. Wm. Alexander Coonibe next appeared to a sum-
mons, to show cause why an order should net be made on
him for the payment of rates, amounting to £59165. id.,
due by him during his tecupation of the Surrey-gardens
since the 17th of June lae ot. Mr. Coombe complained of the
excessive rating of the ; troperty, and said that instead of
£1,200, it should not be i .a ted on more than £I,COO a-year.
Mr. Chester observed tl ,at Mr. Coombe would have an
opportunity of appealing galnst the next rating, when, if
any excess was found, the; pariah officers would pay every
attention to it ; and upon, this understanding Mr. Coombe
agreed to pay the amount cclaimed.

THAMES.—ATTEMPT AT ROBBKRT IN A PUBLIC
ROAD.—G Gibbling, a strange and rough-looking faiow,
aged 26, and described as ig bricklayer having no home, was
brought before Mr. Yarq, ley charged with attempting to
steal a purse containing ; 9s. 6d, from the person of Mrs.
Sophia Burn, a lady resit nog at No. 28, Colct-place, Com-
mercial-road East.

The prosecutrix stated Wag about two o'clock that after-
noon she was walking alc n g the Commercial-road with her
purse containing X 3 Os. 01. in her left band, when the pri-
soner came up and pot hi's band over her left shoulder,
seized her left hand and purse, and tried to take it from
her. She screamed aloud far help, and the prisoner, after
hurting her very much in his endeavours to take her purse
out of her hand, ran away and made his escape.
The prisoner, in an in so lent manner, demanded of the
prosecutrix whether she had ever seen him before, to which
Mrs. Bunn replied that. she had not seen him until that
afternoon, when she saw him in the road. He was first
walking behind her and V Len before her for some time; and
she had no doubt whatever that he was the man who
attempted to steal her puree and money.
William Gazely, a police constable, 461 K, stated that he
saw the prisoner running,, and several persons in pursuit
of him. He stopped the prisoner, who said, " I am not
the man—don't stop me, "and made a desperate effort to
get away.
11.6 e, the gaoler of the court, said the prisoner had
been summarily convicted several times.
The prisoner said he was; innocent of the charge, and the
magistrate committed him for trial.
ROBBERY IN THE W EST INDIA DOCY.—Leonard
North, aged 14, and A Vied North, 12, brothers, were
brought before Mr. Yardley, charged with stealing 11b. and
10 ounces of sugar, the in perty of the East and West India
Dock Company, from their premises.
Joseph Cleaver, a cons table in the employ of the Dock
Company, stated that be stepped the prisoners as they were
leaving the West India Dock, and found on the person of
the eldest boy, in his frock, 11b. and 3 ounces of sugar. On
searching the youngest hi oy he discovered 7 ounces of sugar
in his pockets. The prisoaers said they picked up the sugar
off one of the quays. It vv, as quite clean, and had not been
on the quays at all. He seas directed by the Dock Com-
pany to press for a conviction, owing to boys frequently en-
tering the dock and cutting open the bags of sugar.
Mr. Yardley—The Dock Company did not send that mes-
sage to me, surely.
Witness—No, the head constable.
Mr. Yardley—Did be consult with the Dock Company—
with the directors—before be sent that message by you ?
Cleaver—l am not aware that he did.

Mr. Yardley said, no doubt the East and West India Dock
CoMpany wished to prese►•ve their property, necessarily ex-
posed as it was, from pinnder. It would depend on the
evidence and the circuraslances surrounding the case
whether he convicted or not. He must exercise his own
judgment en every matter that came before him. He could
not understand bow the hez I constable could have civmmu-
nicated with the dock company or bis superior officers since
the prisoners had been in custody. He did not approve of
these private intimations:, whether coming from indi-
viduals or public companies. He should exercise his own
judgment on the matter.
The boys were then questioned, and said they had a
mother but no father.

Cleaver stated, in answer to a question by the magistrate,
that many bags of sugar had been cut open and plundered
in the dock.

Mr Yardley directed the youngest boy to go home and
fetch his mother, and adjourned the case.
In the afternoon the mo•Aier of the two boys attended, and
said her sons were generally well behaved, and that they
had never been in custody' before. She took the greatest
possible care of them. She had a large family to maintain,
and was a widow. She was obliged to lock up her youngest
children while she attended the court.
Roche, the gaoler of the court, said the eldest boy bad
had a succession of fits since he had been in his custody for
the three previous hours. A medical gentleman attended
upon the boy, who said the case was a dangerous one. lie
believed the fits were caused by the fright occasioned by the
boy being taken into custody.
The mother% in piteous accents, implored of the magis-
trates to restore her sons, and said she would keep them out
of harm's way in future.

Mr. Yardley—l hope you will, my good woman. Have
these boys been in custody before ?
Roche said the boys were quite unknown to the police;
they had not been in custody before. He was afraid the
eldest hoy would not live.

Mr. l'rdley said he was not going to cause the death of
the boy by committing hint to prison ; and notwithstanding
the intimation convoyed to him by the officer, and although
he did not approve of boys stealing f ugar in the docks, he
should take upon himself to discharge the prisoners. lie
warned the mother to keep her children out of the dock in
in future, and not let them get among the sugars again.

SOUTH DEVON ELECTION.

EXETER., FRIDAY.

The nomination, and, as there was no opposition, the
election, of a candidate to represent the southern division of
the county of Devon in the House of Commons took place

this morning at the Castle of Exeter. The friends of Mr.
Samuel Trthavike Kekewich, of Peamore, mustered in
great strength at 10 o'clock at the New London !nn and
acconipa►tied Lim to the castle.

Sir E. M. Elton, the High Sheriff, having taken the
usual oath, and the accustomed formalities having been
gone through,

Sir MAssEY LorEs proposed Mr. Kekeiviehlas a fit and
proper person to be member of Parliament for South Devon.
(Cheers.) '

Mr. T. BELFIXLD (Paigntou) seconded the nomination.

_There being no other candidate, the HIGH SHERIFF
declared Mr. Kekewich duly elected amid loud applause.
Mr. KEKEWICH, in thanking his constituents for the
honour they had done him, said he felt that the responsi-
bility.
of the position which be had accepted was much in-
creased' by having to succeed So honest and faithful a
representative as Lord Churston had, for a period of
twenty-three years, proved himself to be. (Cheers.)
With regard to Lord Derby, to whose Government he
said he should give a general and independent support,
Mr. Kekewich said he believed that the noble lord was a
friend to safe and liberal progress, and that any man who
thought that the Government of this country ought not to
be founded on the principle of progress must be mad.
(Cheers.) With regard to the finances of the country he
did not consider there was a sufficient balance in the banker's
hands. He hoped, however, that Ministers would exercise
a wise and prudent economy, and ha sincerely desired never
to see another income tax imposed. (Cheers.) As a com-
missioner he had seen the .great injustice of the tax, and
he hoped that if it should be necessary to reimpose it
that it would not be put upon people in small trades and
small professions. (Cheats.) Parliamentary reform, be
thought, was hardly called for by the general voice of the
country, but be should trust himself in the Earl of Derby's
hands in this matter, for he believed be would not go too
far. With regard to our foreign relations, he was of opinion
that they ought not to invite war by interfering or meddling
with the business of other nations; but if the country was
really called into action, he hoped we should be prepared with
our army and our', wooden walls" toprotect the weak against
the strong. (Cheers.) He was a sincere member of the
Established Church, in whose bosom be had been cradled,
and in whose communion he hoped to die. (Cheers.) In
conclusion, Mr. Ktkewich expressed a wish to serve the
county which had conferred so high a honour upon him
honestly end faithfully as his predecessors bed done.
On the motion of Mr. BALDWIN FULFORD, seconded by
Mr. T. II ILT.Q.SEY, the thanks of the meeting were awarded
to Lord Churston for his faithful representation of South
Devon for a period of 23 years.
Thanks having been voted to the High Sheriff, and cheers
given for the ladies present, for Mr. Kekewich, and for his
colleague, Mr. L. V. Palk, the meeting separated.

REVENUE (IRELAND).—From a Parliamentary
return under this bead, just issued, it appears that the net
produce of the revenue of Ireland paid into the Exchequer,
in the year ended the 31st day of December, 1857, was as
follows : Customs, £2,098,353 9s. 4d.; excise, £2,934,000;
stamps, £453,:223 10s. sd. ; property and income tax,
£1,06,996 3s. 10d. ; small branches of the hereditary
revenue, £3OO ; miscellaneous, including repayments of
advances, £332,974 ss. 4d.; total, £6,895,847 Bs. Ild. The
total expenditure of Ireland during the same rriod was
£6133,8e8154. id.