The Sun.
London, England, 1866-06-14 00:00:00

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THE SUN, LONDON, TH URSPAY EVENING, J UNE 14, ISM

LAW INTELLIGENCE—This Day.

COURT OF EXCHEQUER.
(Before Mr. Baron Martin.)
EMERY V. JEWITT.

Mr. Sergeant Parry appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr.
Coleridge for the defendant. ,
Mr. Parry, in opening the case, said the defendant was
the printer of a small publication called the Glowworm, and
that a short time ago the plaintiff brought an action against
him for a libel, reflecting on the plaintiff's character as an
actor, which appeared in the above journal, when the jury
found a verdict for the plaintiff. After the trial another
ciltique appeared, reflecting still stronger on the plaintiff's
character. After Mr. Parry had briefly opened the case,
Mr. Coleridge, on the part of the proprietors of the above
journal, made an ample apology, and consented to a verdict
for £5 ss.
The case then terminated.

SROREDITCH COUNTY COURT.
(Before Mr. Dasent.)

A £5 SUIT LASTING EIGHTEEN YEARS.-ALLEN V. B iIItFOOT.

This was one of the most singular cases ever brought
into a court, and disclosed how a debtor may baffie his
creditor, and how the creditor may, if sufficiently per-
tinacious, continually succeed in bringing that debtor to
book. The present proceedings were taken in the form of
a judgment summons. The plaintiff was a draper of
Hatton-garden, and he first sued defendant in this court
upon a debt of £4 10s. sd. in 1848, when Mr. flarfoot was
ordered to pay ss. per month. Plaintiff after this laid
by until March, 1850, when he again brought defendant
before the Court, defendant being then ordered to pay 15s.
per month. It would appear that defendant temporised
with his creditors for some time, for the third summons did
not issue until June, 1854, when he agreed to pay 4s. per
month. Defendant paid a few instalments, and then dis-
appeared, but was hunted out and appeared a fourth time
before the court in November, 1857. Again he enlisted
the sympathy of the late judge of the court, Mr.. Sergeant
Storks, who made a fresh order of ss. per month. For
three years after this ho managed to keep his creditor
at, bay, but was brought to this court, for the fifth time, oa
a judgment summons in 1860. He was committed for ten
days, and the amount was allowed to stand over upon the
defendant paying a certain sum. It happened, however,
that the defendant could not be found, and these proceed-
ings fell through. Nothing daunted, however, the plain-
tiff followed out his cause—which by this time seems to
have become a labour of love to him—and he succeeded in
bringing his debtor again before the Court (this was the
sixth time) in Jan., 1863. Defendant was again committed
for ten days, and this time went to prison. He had, during
this long period, paid various sums, and, with a little care,
might have been a free man. His imprisonment, however,
had little effect upon him, and he was brought up for 'the
seventh time on the 25th of April, 1865, when he.was again
committed for On days, but he paid a small part of the
debt, asAd was left alone until March, 1866, when he came.
up for tie eighth time, and was sent to prison again for
ten days. He came up for the ninth time this morning
and it then appeared that the accounts stood as follows :
Debt and costs, £s.Bs. 2d.; money paid by the defendant,
£4l2s. ; thus leaving the sum to be paid 16s.
His Honour made a fresh order, and told defendant that
if he did not pay he would most certainly be sent to prison
for forty days.
The defendant then stood committed again for ten days,
the warrant to stand over fur a certain time.

The detailment of the history of this remarkable case
created considerable interest in court, and somewhat
astonished the Judge himself.

CRIMINAL COURT—This Day.

THE CANNON-STREET MURDER.

The trial of William Smith, alias Denton, charged with
the murder of Mrs. Milsom, housekeeper to Messrs. Beving-
ton and Son, No. 2, Cannon-street, City, on Wednesday,
April 11th last, was resumed at the Old Bailey this
morning.
Mr. Metcalfe and Mr. Striaght appeared for the prose-
cution ; and Mr. Sergeant Ballantine and Mr. Montagu
Williams for the defence.

The following witnesses were called on behalf of the
prisoner :—Henry Harris, John Harris, Henry Costen, and
John Starling, all of whom swore that the prisoner did not
leave Eton on the night of the murder.
LIVe shall continue the case in our late edition.]

POLICE DITELLIGENCE.--Th is Day.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

PADRONI AND THEIR INHUMANITY TO CHILDREN.—Dr.
Bloxham, ono of the medical officers of St. George's,
Hanover-square, waited upon Mr. Knox this morning, ac-
companied by a little Italian boy, and said that as he was
passing through Maddox-street this moaning about one
o'clock, he saw the poor little fellow lying on a door-step.
lie asked the boy why he did not go home, and he said
that he had not enough money to take home to the
padrone,
with whom he lived on Saffron-hill. Ho in -
quired of the boy what would be the consequence
of his not having enough money, and how much he
was expected to take home, and the boy replied to his first
question that he would bo beaten, and to his second that
he was required to give the padrone 2s. He then took the
boy to the infirmary, he being cold and hungry, and nou-
rishment was given him, and ho had felt it his duty to
toting him before his worship that morning, in order that
some steps might bo taken against the padrone, who had
ten of these children in his hands, and who was in the
habit of beating them when they did not satisfy his de-
mands, and also with the view of the boy's being sent back
to his native place, being fully aware of the inhumanity
practised towards these boys.

In answer to Mr. Knox, the boy said he came to this
country three months ago with the padrone, who was in
the habit of beating him.
Mr. Knox, having ascertained that the boy's age was 10,
said that he clearly came within the words of the Act,
which authorised the magistrate to interfere in the case of
any child apparently under the age of 14 years that is
found wandering, &c. He would send the child to the
worhhouse, where he would be well cared for, and he
could be brought before him again in a week; and in the
meantime Dr. Melid, the almoner to the Italian Minister,
could be communicated with.

Dr. Bloxham said the boy should be at once taken back
to the workhouse.

THAMES.

AUDACIOUS ROBBERY BY A CARMAN.—William Crane, a
carman, was brought before Mr. Partridge, charged with
stealing a large quantity of quicksilver, the property of his
master, Mr. Charles Birks, looking-glass manufacturer, of
No. 2, Greenfield-street, Whitechapel.
It appeared from the evidence that the prisoner had been
in the service of Mr. Becks ever since the Wednesday in
Passion Week, and in the course of that time he had missed
large quantities of quicksilver. The loss of quicksilver
had lately increased, and in the last fortnight 122 lbs. were
missed. The value was £3 per pound. A few days since
Mr. Birks taxed the prisoner with robbing him, and said,
" What do you mean by taking my silver ?" The prisoner
made loud protestations of innocence, and said, " When
you detect me throw weights at, my head." Yesterday
afternoon the prisoner was leaving his master's warehouse,
when it was suspected by Mr. Birks and son that he had
a bottle of quicksilver about him, and he was stopped and
searched, and a bottle containing 21bs. of quicksilver was
found upon him. A gallipot containing more quicksilver
was found in his master's van, where he had concealed it.
The prisoner asked the prosecutor to forgive him, and
said ho had only taken a similar quantity before, and sold
it for 2s. 6d.

The prisoner pleaded guilty.
Mr. Partridge said be had no doubt the prisoner had
robbed his master to a considerable extent, and he ought
to have taken notice of the caution given by his master
last week. He convicted the prisoner of larceny, and sen-
tenced him to four months' imprisonment and hard labour.
CRUELTY TO A HORSE.—Joseph Sealy, aged 19, was
brought before Mr. Partridge charged with cruelty to a
horso on the towing path of the Regent's Canal.
Mr. W. Love, of the Royal Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Animals, prosecuted ; and Mr. Joseph Smith,
solicitor, defended the prisoner.
The court was cleared of women and children while the
case was heard, and it was fully proved by Mr. Jas. Lewis,
veterinary surgeon, of the Canal-basin, City-road, and
other witnesses, who saw the prisoner commit the foolish
and brutal act complained of.

Mr. Joseph Smith said no pain was caused by the absurd
act of the prisoner, and there was no uneasiness. It could
not be said to be an act of cruelty.

Mr. Partridge said ho was quite satisfied the horse was
in pain for 24 hours, and the evidence of the respectable
veterinary surgeon who had been examined was conclusive.
The act committed by the prisoner was ono of a most dis-
gusting nature, and how any one could take pleasure in
such a case as this he could not conjecture. Ile thought
the legal part of the case was made out. It was a clear
case of abuse of a horse. If he thought the prisoner had
a deliberate intention of putting the horse to pain ho
would have sentenced him to three months' imprisonment
and hard labour. He hoped this would be a warning to
brutal and ill-disposed people not to behave in such a
mischiveous and disgusting way again. He sentenced the
prisoner to 21 days' imprisonment and hard labour.

CURIOUS DlSCOVERY.—Yesterday, as a gang of
excavators were at work in tunnelling through Thurlow-
hill, Norwood-lane, for the purpose of completing the new
line of railway from New-cross to Sutton, they dug out,
at a very considerable depth from the surface of this hill.
part of a leaden coffin, which contained the remains of
the skull and other parts of human bones, some ancient
copper coins obliterated, and a kind of small spear or dag-
ger in a very decayed condition. The spot where they
were dug out resembled an earth cave or depository, and
there was a species of subterraneous passage leading out
of it. History records that an old feudal castle stood, some
centuries ago, near to this part, and that it was demolished
in revolutionary times, and this great hill thrown up for
military purposes and shelter.

Education of Poor Catholic Children.

PUBLIC MEETING THIS. DAY.

This morning a very lap public meeting was held at
St. James's Hall, for the purpose of taking means for tho
extension of Catholic education amongst the poor.
His Grace the Most Rev. Dr. Manning, the Archbishop
of Westminite
presided.

The Right Rev. CHATR3IIN said if he were simply to
discharge his duty of presiding at the meeting he should
detain them but a very short time, but taking more than
an ordinary interest in the sibi cct then to be brought before
them, he was also animated by a motive which was that of
urgency, which would be quite sufficient excus,, he was
certain, fer his requiring the ideasure of their attendance
on the present occasion. Al! were equally interested with
himself in the great work of education. Nothing was
dearer to the heart of his illustrious predecessor than the
cause of education—(hear, bear)--and when the illustrious
Cardinal lay dead he had on him a rochet worked by the
orphans of Norwood. He had, in the steps he had
taken towards improving the education of the poor,
only followed out the line laid down by the
great man who had passed away. The liberality of the
Catholics had enabled them to do much, and it was the
more delightful to know HIM private charity had accom-
plished so much, but much remained to be done, and it was
of the greatest importance that active steps ahould be
taken to bring about a more extended system by which the
children would be given that which was beyond price or
estimation. In the last few years more than 4,000 children
had been added to those already who attended their schools,
and a sum of £20,000 had been spent in maintaining
those mission schools in the diocese. (Hear,
hear.) He begged to return thanks for the great good
that had actually been performed, and to show the work
that remained to be performed, he. would state, in detail,
the present state of Catholic education. His Grace then
said they had now 148 Catholic schools, and in 18634,
11,642 children attended these schools. In 1864-65 the
attendance was 11,342, or a diminution of 300 ; in the
years 1865-66 the number was 11,145, still a diminution of
200, so that in the last two years the number
of children" attending their schools amounted to more
than 500. The pupil teachers had also for the same period
diminished, but that was not a discouragement, because
the falling off was identical with the publication of the
change of the minutes of education by the Privy Council.
The same cause had led to the decrease in the number of
pupil teachers in the country at large and in the Estab-
lished Church. He did •not attribute the falling off to
any slackening of zeal, but to other and more tran
sient causes. The right rev. chrirman then read from
a tabular statement to show the number of Catholic
children who were at that time totally 'Without the means
of education, and from which it appeared there were over
7,000. It was to provide for these that he now besought
their aid.

(We shall continue tho report in a lator editiort.)

Railway and Other Bills in Parliament.

Yesterday, in the House of Lords' committees,
the following business was transacted. In Lord
Redesdale's committee the Metropolitan and St.
John's-wood Railway (capital), Worcester, Brom-
yard, and Leominster Railway, and the Crofthead
and Kilmarnock Extension Railway were passed
through. In the Painted Chamber the Metropoli-
tan District Railway Bill passed wiji special amend-
ments, and in the case of the Lynvi Valley and
Ogmore Valley Railway Companies, the opposition
to the bill was withdrawn. In the committee in
Rcom A their lordships announced that the opposi-
tion had been withdrawn in the following cases :
The Liverpool Central Station Railway, the Great
Yarmouth Fish Wharves and Tramways, and the
Great .Northern Railway (Barnet branch abandon-
ment). Several bills were postponed for a few days.
In room B (Mr. Smith) the following unoposed
bills passed standing orders :—South Staffordshire
Railway, North Metropolitan Railway, East and
West Junction Railway (capital) ; Berks and Hants
Extension Railway, Newport Pagnell Railway,
Wantage and Great Western Junction Railway,
and the Thorpe and Great Clacton Railway and
Pier. The examiner also passed the standing orders
of the opposed Midland Railway (Settle to Carlisle)
Bill.

In the House of Commons committees yesterday
the South Eastern and London, Chatham and Dover
(London, Lewes, and Brighton) Railways new
Brighton line scheme was under consideration in
group 3 during the whole day. In group 16 the
Swansea Vale and the Swansea Union Railway
Bills were proceeded with and adjourned. The
L'anelly Railway and Dock Bi'l, being unopposed,
was referred to the general committee. In group.
17 it was announced that the parties would not pro-
ceed in the ()galore Valley Reways (Nos. 1 and
2), and the Vale of Neath Railway (transfer, &c.)
BilJs. In group 18 the Caledonian and Scottish
North Eastern Railway Company's Bill was pro-
ceeded with. In group 19 the committee proceeded
with the Forth and Clyde Navigation and the North
British Railway (Wishaw, &c., branches) Bills. The
committee in group 20 declared the preamble proved
in the case of the Eastern Bengal Railway Com-
pany's Bill, the Great North of Scotland Railway
was adjourned, and the bill of the Bo'ness, Grange-
mouth, and South Alloa Junction Railway being
unopposed, was referred to the general committee.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.—Tha Day.

LEY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. I

GRAVESEND, Thursday Morning.
Arrived, Juno 13.—Pickwick, from Jamaica ; Electric,
from Adelaide ; Minstrel, from Trinidad ; Flora, from
13arbadoes ; Capiolani, from New York.
Arrived, Juno 14.—Germania, from Hamburg.
DEAL, Thursday Morning.
Passed—Rowell, brig, from London, for New Zealand ;
Shepherdess, from London, for Rio Janeiro ; William and
Clara (s.s.), from London, for Dieppe ; Euphrossa, from
Shields, for Malta; Liberty, from London, for Sydney.

Foreign Mail Packet List.

MAILS DUE.

Australia and New Zealattd, via Southampton...,,Juno ID.

Ditto, via Marseilles July 14.
Brazil and Cape Verde, by British packet ..... July 4.

Ditto, by French packet .• J 11110 22..
Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena June 22.
China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton. June 19.
Ditto, via Marseilles June 27.
Falkland Islands
Gibraltar, via Southampton June 19.
India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton June 19
Ditto, via Marseilles
India (Bombay), via Southampton. June 27.
Ditto, via Marseilles .. June 21.
Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton June :9.
Ditto, via Marseilles June 21.
Mauritius, via Southampton July 13
Ditto, via Marseilles. July 7.
Newfoundland .., , June 20.
Portugal
Ditto, by private ship to Lisbon..
United States and British North America, by Bri-
tish packet .. June 20.

Ditto, by United States packet, via Southamp-
ton

Ditto, via Cork

Ditto, by Canadian packet, via Londonderry June 15.
West Coast of Africa, Madeira. and Tenerife .. .. June 11.
West Indies and Pacific (except Bahamas and
Ilonduras) June 13
Cuba and Mexico .•
Bahamas, via New York. June 28.
Bermuda, via Halifax .. July 4.

EARL RUSSELL'S LAST PRIVATE TELEGRVI TO
KING VICTOR, EMMANUEL—Take the rest and be thankful.
—The Owl.

OCEAN RACING.—The great ocean race of the 1
tea ships is now being ran from China to England. The
a n c e
Tl ohti3, butting Ta epi u
following, we learn from Hongkong, is a list of the com-
petitors :—Fiery Cross, Serica, Ariol, Taitsing, which were
to
estart first; and
Sir
others.L
Black Pr;nce, and Young Lochinvar, which wore to sail a
w days after
the
ga' Chinaman, Ziba,
t Hongkong runs
very high. Ariel, a new ship, is the favourite; Taeping
few
has also sanguine supporters, and not a few that Fiory
Cross will be again the winner. Last year Fiery Cross and
Taeping raced side by side the whole way, till they en-
tered the Channel abreast, when the wind failed, and the
Fiery Cross, obtaining the aid of a tug, won by a few
hours, the entire voyage having been accomplished in 89
days. The Serica won in 1864. A prize of about £.1,000
is given to the clipper which brings the first now tea to
England, £1 a ton being subscribed by the London tea
merchants for the purpose.

THE BLOCKADE OF THE PERUVIAN PORTS.—
From the following letter of the Spanish Admiral to the '
British Charge d'Affaires at Linia, it would appear that the
blockade of the Peruvian ports is completely raised :—" To
John Barton, Esq., her Britannic Majesty's Charge
d'Affaires, Lima. Having chastised Peru for the unjust
provocation given by her Government by the bombard-
ment of Callao and the attack on her fortifications, of
whose many and heavy guns only three were replying to
the fire of the squadron when it retired to its anchorage,
the undersigned has the honour to announce to John
Barton, Esq., that from this date the blockade of Callao is
raised, and the squadron leaves the waters of Peru, at the
same time assuring him that if the Government of Peru
should molest or permit injuries to be done to Spanish
subjects resident in Peru, the naval forces of her Catholic
Majesty will return to these waters to revenge the same.
The undersigned improves this opportunity to reiterate to
Senor Barton the assurance of,, his consideration soad
esteein,—CAsno ALENDEZ NUEz..