The Sun.
London, England, 1866-06-26 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENOE—This Day.

A LONDON MOB.

BAIL COURT.
(Before Mr. Justice Lush and a Common Jury.)
JENKINS V. MOOI2E.
This was an action to recover £lO5 for money lent and
paid on account to the defendant, Mary Moore, an aunt of
the plaintiff, to which she pleaded that she was never in-
debted.
Mr. J. 0. Griffiths appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr.
Powell, Q.C., and Mr. W. J. B. Smith for the defendant-
From the statement Df counsel and the evidence for the
plaintiff it appeared that the latter was employed at a
shipwright's at Sheerness, and although a young man
from saving habits was enabled to accumulate over £lOO.
In the April of 1865 the defendant suggested to the plain-
tiff that he should assist her to get into business, and an ar-
rangement was made by him for the purchase of the Eagle
Tavern at Sheerness, on which he paid,a deposit of £2O,
and sho entered into possession of the establishment. Ile
had previously lent her £BO, and after the purchase of the
Eagle Tavern ho made her a further advance of £5. He
obtained. no acknowledgment for the different sums of
money at tide time of lending them, but on the
event of a fire breaking out in the premises, by
which a considerable portion of the property of
the defendant was destroyed, he got an I 0 U from her for
the full amount lent, and dated the 2d of April, 1865, some
months previously, the ground of which was that it was
the day on which the £BO was advanced. The plaintiff
lodged with the defendant, but always paid her for his
board and lodging. On applying for his money the plain-
tiff was surprised by the defendant stating that she owed
him nothing, and when the I 0 U was produced she denied
that it was in her handwriting.
On the other side evidence was given, from which it
appeared that the defendant had been in the service of
most respectable families, and had saved up a large sum of
money for a person in her station of life, and that it was
most improbable that she should have borrowed any money
Iron the plaintiff, or that from his youth, and the nature
of his employment, he could have required the amount of
money which he allogekhe had advanced to the plaintiff

W. D. B. writes to tke Times as follows :—As it

is possible that some journals which affect to repre-
sent public opinion may allude to a scene which oc-
curred to-day
working men of the metropolis on the question of
as a proof of the real feeling of the
Reform, I beg permission to describe what that
scene really was, and of what ingredients its prin-
cipal actors were composed.
Returning quietly fromthe House through the
Green Park, ruminating over the scanty intelligence
which had been furnished me by Mr. Gladstone, I
suddenly heard yells proceeding
from some dis-
tance behind me, which, as.l paused to listen, gave
notice, by their increasing dissonance, of their rapid

approach. •
A divergence of a hundred yards or so brought me
in view of three gentlemen walking abreast, pursued
by about 20 men and twice as many boys and
girls, who were engaged in serenading them with
the music that first attracted my attention.
My first impression was that Mr. Villiers was
being escorted home by pauper lunatics, who were
adopting this mode of congratulating him on his
admirable management of metropolitan workhouse
infirmaries ; but a nearer inspection showed me that
this was a grand reform demonstration, and that the
working-man was expressing his disapprobation of
the opposition to the Government Reform Bill iu
general and •of the conduct of Mr. Lowe in parti-
cular.
Seeing him but slenderly 'attended, and judging
from the appearance of his followers that something
more than insult might be intended, I joined his
small bodyguard and walked with him to the steps
of the Mike of York's column, where he got into
a carriage and drove away.. During the walk I
took especial notice of the very
treble of the boy-and-gir:
contributed a Very inadequate base to the shrill
few grown men who
Majority of serenaders.
I know something of the reel working man of
London, and I can safely assert that i:Pt more than
two or three of the little mob bore the least resem-
blance to the class intended to be represented. The
great majority were of that stamp whose proximity
leads a man instinctively to button up his coat and
feel for his watch. Two or three were indisputably
drunk, and of these one, a young fellow, about as
ill-favoured an example of a non-elector as I have
yet come across, lurched past me twice, and on each
occasion endeavoured to articulate some dangerous
doctrines, the syllables of which, however, like the
Reform Bill itself, became f used in committee in
his mouth, and never either redistributed or repro-
duced themselves in an intelligible shape.
Are we to expect, Sir, much more of this ? Is
this the true expression of " popular opinion ?"
I see that great meetings are being held express-
ing firm confidence in the Government, and an
earnest desire for the dissolution of Parliament.
May I ask of what materials these meetings are
composed ?

COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH.
(Sittings at Nisi Prins, before Lord Chief Justice Cock-
burn and.a Special Jury.)
VALENTIN V. BALL.
The cross-eaamivation of the plaintiff was resumed this
morning, and her case is not likely to be closed before to-
morrow. •

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—This Day.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
SERIOUSLY INJURING A BOY.—Eliza Narsh, a German
laundress, carrying on business at No. 87, Charlotte-street,
Fitzroy-square, was charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt with
violently assaulting a boy named William Carr, residing
at No. 8, Bennett-street, Fitzroy-square.
The complainant, whose head was enveloped in a ban-
dage, said, a little after 10 o'clock last night some niggers
were singing and playing outside a public-house, when a
boy ran into the prisoner's shop and called her a name.
The prisoner then came to the door with a can of water
and lung it into the street, and it struck him on the head
cutting it very badly. I was afterwards taken to Dr.
Saul's in Charlotte-street, and had the wound attended to.
The prisoner (through Mr. Albert)—Was it not done
accidentally ?
The boy—She threw the can at anybody.
Mr. Tyrwhitt (to the bay)—ls all the blood I see);about
you from the wound?
The boy—Yes,-sir, I lost a deal of blood.
Mr. Tyrwhitt—Had you been in the shop ?
The boy—No, sir.
Police-constable Thomas Boyce, 55 o—Last night I saw
the.boy coming out of the do.3tor's, bleeding so profusely
that I could scarcely see his face. The boy told me that
the prisoner had struck him in the head with a can, and I
took her into custody,ften she denied all knowledge of it.
The can—a half-gallon one—was smashed by one of the
boys about the street. The wound the boy had received
was about two inches in length, and it had to be sewn up.
Mr. Tyrwhitt—lt will be my duty to remand the pri-
soner to see how the boy gets on, because especially in
this hot weather there is danger of erysipelas setting in.
It was ti most improper thing to throw such a can into
the street.

Captain .Waddell and the Shenandoah,

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The Times correspondent, writing from Mel-
bourne on April 26, notices some extraordinary
statements, which appear to have been made on
oath to the United States Government by a man
named Temple, professing to describe the proceed-
ings relating to the Shenandoah, when in that port
in the month of February of last year. Assuming
that Temple's deposition is accurately abstracted,
he finds the deponent stating as follows :
"That on her (the Shenandoah's) arrival at Melbourne
she was received in the most cordial manner by the officials
and people of that port, and had every facility afforded to
obtain supplies and make repairs ; that the officers of the
Shenandoah were entertained on shore, and in their turn
entertained the officials of Melbourne on board the S henan-
doah ; that Captain Waddell entertained privately on the
Shenandoah the Governor of Melbourne ; that the Govern-
ment engineer at Melbourne was on the vessel two or
three times a day, and, if he did not superintend the repairs
that were being made, at least gave the benefit of his ad-
vice; that at the time they left Melbourne they had more
than 40 persons stowed away on hoard the vessel, all of
whom were enlisted and enrolled upon the ship's articles
before they went out of sight of land."
The Times correspondent continues : " Now,
in reference to the above passage, which is all
that relates to Melbourne, you may find in the
letter of your own correspondent for the month of
February, 1865, a circumstantially correct account
of the proceedings and treatment of the officers
of the Shenandoah in this port and city, and that
account is diametrically opposite to the one deposed
to by Temple. In point of fact, the Governor, so
far from being entertained by Captain Waddell,
never had even an interview with him or any of
his officers ; no member of the Government ever
visited the Shenandoah, or the Shenandoah's
officers, or any of them, or ever had any but strictly
official communications with the ship, such commu-
nications being confined to the subject of the amount
of repairs and supplies which could be permitted to
Captain Waddell for the purpose of enabling his
ship to leave our port. So far from the Shenan-
doah having been welcomed by the Government
here, it is quite fresh in the memories of the
people of Melbourne that the Government, on re-
ceiving well-authenticated information that Capt.
Waddell had in his vessel British subjects who
had been shipped in Melbourne in violation of the
Foreign Enlistment Act, caused a warrant to be
issued for the apprehension of the men, which war-
rant Captain Waddell would not allow to be exe-
cuted; that at this time his ship was on the patent
slip, and that on Captain Waddell's resisting the
search of his ship ho was refused assistance in
getting her off the slip; that the following morn-
ing the Argus had an article with a sensational
beading, Seizure of the Shenandoah,' the Govern-
ment being denounced for inhospitable treatment
of the vessel ; that, to the confusion of the sympa-
thising believers in Captain Waddell's ' word of
honour as a gentleman and rn officer,' which
backed his assertion that he had no one on board
whom he had not brought into port with him, four
men were arrested by our police one night, when
being rowed away from the ship, all of whom had
been secretly shipped in Melbourne; that two of
these men were afterwards prosecuted to conviction
by our own authorities in our Supreme Court for
violating the Foreign Enlistment Act ; and that
whatsoever men were finally shipped by the cap-
tain were taken into the vessel outside the Heads,
and beyond the control of our Government. That
the officers of the Shenandoah were privately en-
tertained by certain members of the Melbourne
Club and at Ballarat is as certain as it is certain
that the Government had Ito right or power to in-
terfere with these private hospitalities. And when
Temple deposes " that Captain Waddell entertained
privately on the Shenandoah the Governor of Mel-
bourne," I half suspect that lie must mean the then
Mayor, inasmuch as believe that civic dignitary
did visit the Shenandoah, and we have no Governor
of Melbourne co ?zombie. I cannot suppose that so
sensible a man as Mr. Seward or Mr. Adams would
propose to hold her Majesty Queen Victoria liable
for an exuberant Melbourne Mayor's admiration,
which must be equally innocent and harmless,
whether bestowed on a Confederate Captain or on
a State coach."—Anglo-American Times.

ELOPEMENT OF A BRIDE.—An amusing scene has
been enacted in Cirencester during the week, the
chief performer being a Mrs. B—, from the neighbour-
hood of Redditch, who arrived in the town on Thursday
last, with her newly-married husband. Tho quarters chosen
wore situate at an inu, not a long way from Dyer-street.
Everything seemed to go on "as merry as a marriage-bell,"
the husband calling his wife his dear viola adorata. The
married couple were accompanied by the bridesmaid and
"father in church," and wore on the eve of returning to
Tewkesbury, after having seen the newly married couple
off to London. The delighted husband was so pleased with
his young Wife's charms that during their stay at Cirences-
ter he made her several purchases out of the money he was
foolish enough to obtain by the sale of some houses in the
neighbourhood of Redditch (the facts of which ho gave to
our correspondent). Tuesday evening was fixed upon for
the start, and dinner for the four was prepared at 1 o'clock,
at which they were seated, when, shortly after that, a
stranger arrived at the inn, and seated himself in a chair
by the fire. Alas, the scene 1 We now describe it. It
appears that some years ago the stranger was the first love
of Mrs. B—, and immediately she saw the gentleman she
rose from her seat, shook him by the hand,
and invited him
to partake of dinner. The invitation was accepted. At
this juncture Mr. B— left the table and called out his
wife. She followed, and shortly again resumed her seat.
The husband wont out for a walk to console his feelings
and on his return he found that the two had fled, the lady-
love not forgetting to take-his purse, containing some £32.
He immediately searched the town, but to no effect ; his
viola tricolour (or "heart's ease") had duped him. On Wed
nesday he left for Stroud, taking with him the bridesmaid
and father at church."—North Wilts Berate/.

TIDE SUN, LONDOIN, TUESDAY EVENING, JUNE 26, 1866,