The Sun.
London, England, 1859-05-06 00:00:00

THE NAVY.

The greatest activity prevails at Pembroke Dock-
' yard. The numerous artisans are employed from
early until late, and as the dockyard strength is now
very great, and almost unlimited earnings are al-
lowed, rapid progress is being made with the various
men-of-war in course of construction. The Revenge,
which has recently been launched, is in the hands
of the seamen riggers, who will immediately navi-
gate her round to Portsmouth for commission. The
build of the Revenge is an improvement upon the
tines of the Renown, 91 guns, a sister ship, and
it is thought. she will prove a fine specimen of
the new class 91's. The Howe, 121 guns, will
soon be ready for launching. She is a magni-
ficent vessel, being over 4,000 tons burden. It is
stated to be the intention of the authorities to
strengthen the approaches to the dockyard by the
erection of a powerful battery of heavy guns on the
Great Head facing the mouth of the harbour.
Captain the Hon. H. W Campbell, of the Cold-
stream Guards, goes out to Gibraltar, it is said, as
aide-de-camp to Lieutenant-General Sir W. Cod-
rington, the newly appointed Governor of Gibraltar.
The Ist battalion of the Riffle Brigade will leave
Newcastle-on-Tyne to-day for Plymouth, but it is
stated that their destination. is Gibraltar.
Her Majesty's steam store transport Dee, Master
Commander Thomas Pullen, yesterday arrived at
Woolwich, from Portsmouth, and was admitted
into the basin to reship for vessels fitting out in
the western yards.
The Doris, 32, screw steam frigate, Captain E.
Heathcotc, got under weigh yesterday at Spithead,
to make a trial of her lengthened screw at the
measured mile in Stokes Bay, under the supervision
of Mr. J. Dinnen, Admiralty Inspector of Machi-
nery ; Captain G. T. Gordon, commanding steam
reserve ; Mr. G. Murdoch, inspector of machinery
afloat ; and Mr. Miller, of the steam factory. The
results of six runs at the measured mile gave a
speed in knots of 11 81 tenths ; pitch of screw, 32
feet ; diameter of screw, 20 feet ; draught of water
aft, 21 feet 9 inches; ditto forward, 19 feet 6
inches ; pressure of steam, 201 b. ; number of revo-
lutions, maximum, 48.5 ; mean, 48.25. Wind,
direction, S. ; force, 2. At the conclusion of the
trial the Doris steamed into Portsmouth harbour,
and landed her screw on the Sheer-jetty, when it
it was taken to the steam factory to undergo fur-
ther alterations for the next trial.
The Hannibal, 91, screw steamship, Captain M.
Connolly, at Portsmouth, has moved down the
harbour, alongside the Malabar coal depot, for the
purpose of coaling.
The Urgent, screw steam troopship, Commander
Hire, alongside the north jetty of Portsmouth
Dockyard, was coaling last evening until 8 p.m.,
the authorities being anxious to despatch her with
troops to-morrow for Gibraltar, if possible.
Orders have been received at Portsmouth to com-
mission the Falcon, 17, screw corvette, and the
Pioneer and Flying Fish, despatch vessels.
The Goliath, 80, screw steamer attached to the
steam reserve at Chatham, has shipped a quantity
of her heavy stores from the dockyard. The screw
corvette Cadmus, 21, has also taken on board her
cables and other heavy stores. It is expected that
both these vessels will shortly be ordered to pro
teed to sea.

The steam storeship Rhadamanthus, Master-
Commander R. F. Sturdee, from Woolwich, with
machinery, &c., for Keyham yard, arrived in Ply-
mouth• Sound on Monday
.evening, and went up
Hamoaze on Tuesday morning.
The lighter Tortoise, Lott master, left Plymouth
on Tuesday, with mooring chains for Cork.
The surveying gunboat Shamrock left Plymouth
on Tuesday for the westward, probably for Swansea.
The apprentice brig Nautilus, Lieut. W. Grant,
left Plymouth on Tuesday for Falmouth, to enter
men under the bounty system.
The French steamer Galilee, from Plymouth,
proceeded up Channel on Tuesday.
The screw steamship Algiers, 91, Captain J. W.
D. O'Callaghan, sailed from Plymouth on Tuesday
afternoon, to join the fleet, but not being able to
make much headway returned to Cawsand Bay.
The screw steamship James Watt, 91, Captain E.
Codd, having had several fathoms of chain removed
from her fan, was undocked at Keyham on Tues-
day, and on Wednesday steamed outside Plymouth
Sound, to try her engines. In the afternoon she
took her powder on board.
The gunboat Charon was placed in dock at
Devonport on Tuesday.
The Seagull, tender to the surveying vessel
Porcupine, arrived at Plymouth en Wednesday
with sick men. She will require some repairs,
being defective.

The screw steamship Exmouth, 90, Captain J.
Stopford, was removed from Keyham basin on
Wednesday to her moorings in Hamoaze.
The screw steamship Forth, 12, Charles Moxley,
chief engineer, was brought down Homoaze on
Wednesday to be docked. The Seuhorse was to
follow yesterday.
Letters have been received at Plymouth written
from the screw steamship Caesar, 90, Captain C.

Frederick. After fourteen weeks of monotonous
exile they broke away from Greytown with joy on
the 22d of March, and went out under steam. On
the 23d they worked to windward under canvass.
Little progress was made on the 24th, and the next
day they got back to nearly the same position which
they had on the 23d. On the 26th they were in
under the land, and anchored for the night ; 27th,
sailed along the coast, with lovely weather and a
lake-like sea, and passed Cape Gracios a Dios.
Shortly after getting under weigh on the 28th an
English settler came off in a canoe, stating that
some Yankee Fillibusters had landed, which proved
a false alarm. On the sth of April they arrived at
Vera Cruz, and anchored three or four miles from
that town. The whole country was in a state of
civil commotion, as the inhabitants refused to
acknowledge the Government of Mexico. Besides
French, there were Spanish, American, and Prus-
sian ships of war, eleven in all, at Vera Cruz, and
the Caesar would probably be detained there some
days.
_ _

The Hood, 90, screw steamship, which was
launched at Chatham on Wednesday, was towed
down to Sheerness yesterday.
The Mersey, 40, screw, Captain Caldwell, will
sail from Spithead for Portland to-day (Friday).
In her recent trials under canvas she has proved
herself to be as handy a ship as any afloat of half
her length. She stays and wears like a cutter ;
under double reefed topsails and topgallantsails,
close on a wind, she can do nine knots an hour ;
wind quartering, under royals, she runs off 17
knots.

SHIPS FOR INDIA.—The Hon. Council for India
has taken up the following ships for the convey-
ance of Government stores, viz., Sea Park, 835
tons, the Thames, 570, and the St. Croix, 435 tons,
sail for Madras. The Alnwick Castle, 1,087 tons,
Victoria, 848 tons, Tyburnia, 964 tons, and Devon-
shire, 834 tons, for Bengal. The Inkermann, 500
tons, is taken up by Government for Hong Kong ;
and the Sir George Pollock, with troops for Auck-
land, and the Renshaw, 500 tons, will sail with
Government stores for- St. Helena.
SIR THOMAS GRANT'S DISTILLING AND COOKING
APPARATUS.—This galley has been reconstructed,
under the superintendance of Mr. J. Miller, of the
condensing department in her Majesty's Dockyard,
Portsmouth. It is intended to cook for 450 men ;
it will bake, boil, roast, steam, stew, and with the
same fire make 800 gallons of fresh water daily,
which, passing through the condensing apparatus,
becomes perfectly cold, pure fresh water ; and it
will also produce about 100 gallons of pure fresh
boiling water, and may be used daily for making
coffee, tea, or for medicinal purposes. The coal
required per hour for the above purposes is about
301 b. weight. There is a large hot plate for boiling
or stewing fitted to it, also two ovens for baking.
On each side is fitted a steam cooking kettle, also
a large fireplace for roasting, either with the doors
open or shut. The whole apparatus is made very
strong, and not likely to get out of order ; it is so
constructed that it may be taken to pieces on board
ship, being fastened together with bolts and nuts,
and is very compact, and far superior to the old
iron cooking galleys now in use. This apparatus
is constructed principally of gun metal, an t after
many years' wear will then be worth nine-twelfths
of its original cost.
The following appointments have been made at
the Admiralty :
Lieutenants—A. Bagley, H. St. J. de Roebeck, and E.
S. Adeane, to the Brisk; H. S. Bagge, to the Falcon;
C. D. J. Odevaine and R. H. Thompson, to the Intrepid.
Masters—Robert J. C. Grant, to the Intrepid ; Charles
Parkinson, to the Brisk ; Haben B. Hunt, to the Falcon ;
Frank Inglis, to the Flying Fish.
Second-master—John R. N. Moss, to the Pioneer.

Paymasters—W. F. Huyyhue, to the Brisk; W. H. De
Cateret, to the Falcon; J. W. Haverfield (additional), to
the Queen Charlotte; Fredk. J. Robins (additional), to the
Ajax; James B. APAvoy (additional), to the Royal Ado
laide ; H. H. Shanks, to be Secretary to Rear. Admiral
Mundy.
Assistant Paymasters—William Evans (in charge) to the
Intrepid ; W. H. Fitzpatrick (in charge), to the Flying
Fish ; Robt. H. Lowry (in charge), to the Pioneer ; W.
H. Whichelo, to the Brisk.

Clerk—G. F. Cheyney to the Falcon.
Assistant-Clerk—Arthur L. B. Conte to the Edinburgh

LAW INTELLIGENCE—May 5.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS.

Sittings at Nisi Prius in London.—(Before Mr.
Justice Williams and a Common Jury.)
COOPER V. LLOYD.
This extraordinary case, which was partly heard
yesterday, was resumed this morning by additional
evidence being called on the part of the plaintiff.
Mr. Laxton and Mr. Patchett appeared for the
plaintiff; and Mr. O'Malley, Q.C., and Mr. Francis
for the defendant.
Mrs. Watson was the first witness examined, and
she said—ln February, 1852, Mrs. Lloyd came to
lodge with me at No. 4, Blackheath-park, Black-
heath. She remained at my house for three weeks,
and whilst she was there her husband came to see
her three times. The first time he stopped to dinner
and tea, and left about half-past nine at night. He
came again at seven o'clock next morning, and Mrs.
Lloyd was not then up. She was very poorly. He
did not sleep there. I had no convenience for his
sleeping there. He did not say anything about
sleeping there. Mrs. Lloyd had a sitting-room as
well as a bed-room, but Captain Lloyd went into
her bed-room on the first day. On the next occa-
sion he came to dinner. The three visits were on
three following days.
Cross-examined—Mrs. Lloyd's bedroom was on
the top floor, and her sitting room was underneath
it. My rooms were down stairs, and I did not go
up, but I heard Captain Lloyd go up stairs into the
bedroom. I had shown him into the sitting
room. On the occasion when Capt. Lloyd went to
his wife's bedroom I had told him that she was ill.
Mr. Roberts—l am a medical practitioner, in
business in Great Dover-street, Southwark. I paid
a visit to Capt. Lloyd on board the Edinburgh, at
Sheerness, in June, 1857. I dined with Capt.
Lloyd on board. My business in going to him
was to apply for my account for attending on Mrs.
Lloyd in her confinement, and at other times. The
confinement was in 1856, and my first visit to her
was on the 27th of September, 1856. Capt. Lloyd
said he was sorry my account had not been paid
before, but there were differences between him and
his wife. He said that his wife had gone away
and had left him, and had lett her child at home,
in 1850 or 1851, and that he had in vain made
every effort to discover her. That subsequently,
at her own request, he had granted her an inter-
view at Chatham, and had then accused her of
having been unfaithful to him ; that she at first
denied this, but afterwards confessed it, and gave
him a written paper, detailing her connexion with
Mr. Winslow, which resulted in her having a child
by him. He said Mr. Winslow's name was familiar
to him through a brother officer in connexion with
a French girl. He added, " I forgave her. I read
the document carefully, and I tore it up and threw
it into the fire, and said, Phillis, I forgive you;
this shall not tell tales against you, and I will give
you another chance as my wife.' " He further
said that the reason my account was not paid
was, that there was an account due to a furni-
ture dealer, which matter was in the hands of the
lawyers, and as soon as that was settled my
account should be paid. He referred me to Mr.
Jones Carew, of Lincoln's Inn, and said he had
authority to paT me if he liked. We went to the
mess-room to dine, and when we were going down
Captain Lloyd said, " Dr. Roberts, I hope you will
not mention your business here to-day, for there is
not a brother officer on board who knows anything
of differences between me and my wife." He
further informed me that Mr. Carew had told him
that he could have got him a divorce, in the event
of the new Divorce Bill passing, if it had not been
for his after conduct. This after conduct was that
Captain Lloyd had been in the habit of visiting his
wife, and had been with her alone. My bill is still
unpaid, and, as far as my account has been sent in,
the amount is about £3O.
Cross-examined—My ledger is here, but not my
day-book. I have no entry in my books of the date
of the confinement bf Mrs. Lloyd. The confine-
ment fee is paid at once and therefore it is not
entered. My first entry is for attending Mrs.
Lloyd after her confinement, and that attendance
was on the 27th of September. On my oath I
cannot tell you when Mrs. Lloyd was confined, but
I believe it was in September. [After some dis-
cussion the witness was directed to fetch his day-
book, as soon as his examinatinn was finished, so
that the date could be fixed.] My fee was a guinea,
and Mrs. Lloyd paid me at the time. She paid me
herself, and probably a day or two after the con-
finement. I did not charge Captain Lloyd with the
confinement fee. I did not say anything to him
about the confinement. I called on Mrs. Lloyd
afterwards, but I did not say that she must pay me,
for her husband was not liable. I said she ought
to have told me before who was to pay me. It was
not Mrs. Lloyd from whom I first heard of Captain
Lloyd having forgiven her. I have read my letter
which has just been handed to me, and I adhere to
my statement. Mrs. Lloyd went with me on one
occasion to Sheerness to see Captain Lloyd. I met
him on the pier with what she called two of his
kept ladies. She first saw them on the pier at
Strood, and she became very excited, saying
Here are my husband's kept ladies come on,
board." We were on the steamerto go to
Sheer-
ness. The two ladies had broad-brimtned hats on.
One of the ladies met Captain Lloyd on the pier at
Sheerness and gave him a bsiuquet.- He afterwards
came to me, and said, " What do you want, sir ?"

I said I had come at the request of Mrs. Lloyd. He
accused me of having turned against him, and said
that Mr. Carew, the lawyer, had told him that he
was a fool to tell me the very thing that was most
against himself. He said, " How I loved that girl !"
meaning his wife ; and I said it wanted little to
bring them together again, for she was destitute.
After a time he said, "Why does she not pay you
your account ? she has £lOO a year." I said,
" Good God ! and you an officer in her Majesty's
service ; will you allow her to live on the wages of
seduction ?" He partly stripped his coat off, and
said, " This uniform must go to Maidstone Gaol,
and that is how I will pay." I was indignant, but
my indignation did not prompt me to tell him that
Mrs. Lloyd had had a child.

After some letters, which had been referred to in
the opening speech, had been read, the plaintiff's
case was brought to a conclusion.
Mr. O'Malley submitted that the plaintiff must
be non-suited, inasmuch as she had not made out
her case. The Court of Exchequer had held, in
Johnson v. Sumner, that the onus lay on the plain-
tiff to establish that the wife had express or implied
authority to pledge her husband's credit.
Mr. Justice Williams said, the contention was
that the adultery had been condoned ; and, if that
were so, then Mrs. Lloyd's case came within the
ordinary rule of a woman living apart from her
husband without due provision.
Mr. O'Malley agreed that that was so.
Mr. Justice Williams said it never was intended
that a case of this kind should be tried during the
sittings in term, when the judge could not sit late ;
and as this was the last day of the sittings, he did
not think that plaintiffs who sued for money de-
mands should be put off. The present case could
not be finished to-day, and therefore he would
adjourn it at once, so as to allow him to dispose of
some of the ordinary cases, and come back after the
Middlesex sittings to finish this case. He was of
opinion that there was evidence for the plaintiff to
go to the jury. If the defendant's counsel pleased
he might address the jury now, and produce his
evidence on a future day.
Mr. O'Malley accordingly addressed the jury for
the defendant, and asked for their careful attention
upon the ground that this was one of the most
serious cases that could be imagined, for if their
decision was adverse to Captain Lloyd, the effect
would be to hang round his neck for life a woman
who had dishonoured him in every way. If this
had been an ordinary action for debt he should not
have deemed it necessary for him to produce any
evidence before them, for he did not think there was
any gentleman in the jury box who gave credence
to the extraordinary evidence which had been given
for the plaintiff. It was the duty of the plaintiff
to show either that Captain Lloyd had given his
wife express authority to pledge his credit, or else
that the position in which she stood in reference to
him gave her an implied authority. All the letters
which had been read, as far as he could under-
stand, showed distinctly that Captain Lloyd
rep Idiated any liability for his wife's debts.
It was remarkable that no letter was pro-
duced of a later date than 1853 ; but the
letter above all others which he should have
liked to see was that which Captain Lloyd wrote
when on his return from India, in which he pic-
tured the fancied happiness which awaited him.
He regretted that he could not lay before the jury,
because it was written by a third party, the letter
which first led Captain Lloyd to believe that there
was something wrong on the part of his wife. It
appeared that this woman had not been surprised
into an adulterous intercourse, but that she had sat
down at Guernsey, deliberately, to write to Mr.
)*Winslow to meet her in London, for the purpose
of such an intercourse, she well knowing at the
time that Mr. Winslow was a married man with
the claims of a family on him. She abandoned her
child, she abandoned her home, and went travel-
ling about the Continent with Mr. Winslow,
living with him as his wife. That was the greeting
which she prepared for her husband on his return ;
when he expected to find her ready to welcome
him. When Captain Lloyd arrived in this country
he could obtain no tidings of his wife, notwithstand-
ing every exertion, and he, consequently, sent his
boy to Miss Davis's, and sold his house and went
to sea again. It was not till some time afterwards
that he heard of her through her brother. As to
the condonation which was alleged, it was not
enough to prove simple forgiveness on the part of
the husband; but what must be proved was, that
he had reinstated her in her position as his wife.
All his letters showed that it was his unwavering
determination not to reinstate her in that position,
and all the facts pointed the same way. They had
never lived together after this alleged condonation,
and she was not allowed to be with their boy. The
only night which it was pretended Captain
Lloyd passed in her room was when she was
suffering from the effects of the poison which
she had taken to destroy life. That poison
she would never have taken if Captain Lloyd
had consented to live with her. He hoped
in charity—for they heard that this unfortunate
woman had been out of her mind—that her own
imaginings had appeared to her as truth, and that
she had not wilfully tried to deceive the jury.
Captain Lloyd would deny, upon his oath,
that he had ever had any connexion with his wife
since he left England in 1847. As to the third
child, of which he was said to be the father, Cap-
tain Lloyd had received some anonymous informa-
tion about it. But the first thing certain that he
heard on the subject was yesterday, when Mrs.
Lloyd made her statement in the witness-box. It
was said that that child was the fruit of inter-
course which had taken place between Captain
Lloyd and his wife in the sitting-room of the hotel
in Chatham, but he would prove that all through
1856 Captain Lloyd had not seen his wife. The
third occasion on which there was said to have
been intercourse was on board the Edinburgh,
which was extremely improbable, and he should
show that she only remained in the ship during
the time that was necessarily occupied in obtain-
ing her removal.
Mr. Roberts, who had returned into court with
his daybook, was recalled. He said—l find my first
visit to Mrs. Lloyd, after her confinement, was on
the 16th, instead of the 27th of September. The
child was a seven or eight months' child.

Mr. O'Malley, in continuation, commented upon
what he considered the unsatisfactory evidence
given by Mr. Roberts, and said, that after the de-
fendant's evidence had been given it would be for
the jury to say whether anything had been done
after the adultery to re-establish this woman in
her position of wife ; and even if so, still after all
this, whether she had not been guilty of a secon d
adultery, in consequence of which her third child
was born.

At the conclusion of the speech the further
hearing of the case was adjourned until Tuesday
next.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.—May 5.

(Before Mr. Pashley, Q.C., Assistant-Judge.)
James Edward Bell, 20, medical student, con-
victed upon his own confession, on the preceding
day, of stealing cases of surgical instruments, the
property of various persons, was brought up and
sentenced to six months' hard labour. _ _

Mr. Sleigh was for jhe prosecution, Mr. Flowers
for the prisoner.
Samuel Hulbert, a man of very respectable ap-
pearance, surrendered to take his trial upon an in-
dictment charging him with having, by a false pre-
tence, obtained 3s. 6d. from the Great Western
Railway Company, with intent to defraud.
Mr. Digby appeared for the prosecution ; Mr. J.
P. Doyle defended the prisoner.
This case lasted a very considerable time, and was
very complicated in its details. The prisoner was
collecting clerk to Ford and Co., carriers, and the
case for the prosecution was that he had fraudu-
lently obtained from the Great Western Railway
Company 3s. 6d., in respect of a parcel of books,
weighing over 3 cwt., forwarded from Stationers'
Hall to the Bodleian Library, at Oxford. It had been
represented that the parcel came up from Southm p
ton, and a charge was made accordingly, insteada -of
as or a town collection of goods to be sent by railway.
The prisoner's employer was examined on his
behalf, and said what the prisoner had charged was
the usual rate, and was paid in by him in the usual
way. The
prisoner was a man of high character,
r e,
and, if acquitted, would instantly return to his em-
ployment, which he had followed for years without
reproach.
Mr. Doyle made a long and very able address to
the jury for the prisoner, who, however, in the re-
sult was found guilty.
The Court sentenced3r him to four months' hard
labour.

John (Before Mr. Creasy.)
Wilson, 51 described. as an
werea," (-rent " and
Eliza Edwards, 49 a' half bl' dindicted
for stealing a copper boiler, lvnaluwe°Bs.a, the property of
Richard King. They were found guilty.
Sergeant Ilarvey,9 G, stated that he had known
Filson for many years as one of a gang of thieves
and swindlers. They used to take houses and extort
money to give up possession, get loans from loan
societies upon false security, concoct frauds upon
tradesmen, and, in fact, nothing in the shape of
villany came amiss to them. Some of the members
of the gang had been caught in transactions which
had brought them within the law, and were now
undergoing sentences of 12 or 18 months, or from
that to two years hard labour.
Mr. Greasy sentenced Edwards to four months'
hard labour, and Wilson to 12, remarking that it
was quite clear that, great rogue as the prisoner
(Wilson), upon the statement of the officer, was, he
had been mean and cowardly enough to make use

of a poor woman, not too much gifted in intellect
to commit a theft, of which he was to have the
benefit, and she all the risk.

Mary Ann Cullum, 22, Mary Ann Mahoney, 20,
and Richard Willis, 50, were indicted for stealing
the sum of £l4 10s., a dagger, a gold watch, a gold
ring, &c., from Nicholas Correavich.
Mr. C. Smith prosecuted. Mr. Metcalfe xas for
the prisoners.
The prosecutor was an Austrian subject, and had
been at the gold diggings in Australia. He came
to London in December last. It appeared that on
the 13th of April he accompanied a girl to a house
in the notorious locality called Bluegate-fields, and
while there he was robbed by the prisoners (acting
one with each other) of his watch, money, and a
large ring, made of pure Australian gold. Willis
was the keeper of the house.

The jury found all the prisoners guilty.
Mr. Creasy-=This is a robbery upon a sailor in a
house of ill fame. Upon Cullum and Mahoney, of
whom I find nothing in the prison returns, I shall
pass the ordinary sentence of six months' hard
labour, and hope they will not come here on any
future occasion. With respect to you, Willis, the
case is very different. You are the keeper of the
house where this foreigner was robbed ; it is such
vile wretches as you who afford the means and the
opportunity—nay, even the inducement, to these
women to rob those whom they may entice into
such dens as you have lived by and got a profit by
keeping; it is through you and such as you that
these poor creatures, often more deserving of sym-
pathy and pity than reproach, are brought to the
criminal bar ; and I therefere sentence you to be
kept in penal servitude during the term of three
years.
Wm. Talbot was indicted for stealing marked
money, the property of his master, a leather seller,
240, Whitechapel-road.
The jury found him not guilty.
Mr. Cooper prosecuted ; Mr. Metcalfe was for
the defence.
Mary Sullivan, 48, charwoman, was convicted of
stealing a petticoat and other articles, the property
of Clara Bryant.
There was no doubt upon the evidence that the
prisoner had been guilty of a great many thefts at
houses where she had been employed, and
The learned Judge said he was satisfied that she
was a systematic plunderer, as a great number of
duplicates, relating to linen and articles of clothing,
such as a charwoman would have an opportunity of
stealing, the greater part of which had been identi-
fied, were found in her possession. He sentenced
her to six months' hard labour.
Mr. Metcalfe prosecuted; Mr. Cooper defended
the prisoner.

_
(Before Mr. Pashley, Q.C.)
Antonio Bombardini and Edward Murray were
indicted for an assault upon Mr. James Askew'
Bentley, an officer to the sheriff of this county, in
the execution of his duty.
Mr. Metcalfe was for the prosecution. Mr.
Orridge defended Bombardini ; Mr. Sleigh WO
counsel for the other defendant. _ _

This case occupied the Court-nearly all yesterdaq•
The prosecutor went to arrest one D. Somarim,
at the Union Hotel, Cranbourn-street, Leicester-
square, at the suit of Louis Castrigue, for a debt of
£3B Os. 7d., accompanied by a friend, a Crimean
officer, and the defendants were now prosecuted for
assaulting Bentley, and rescuing Somarini from hl5
lawful custody.
Evidence was given on both sides.
The jury found the defendants guilty of inflicting
actual bodily harm.
Sentence was deferred till the adjourned sessions•