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TII E SUN, LONDON, SATUHD A V EVEN IN G, SEPTE MBER 1, 1866.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.—This Day.

SHERIFFS' COURT.
(Before Mr. Commissioner Kerr.)
CAUTION TO WORKMEN CARRYING TOOLS IN THE STREETS.

SMITH V. EMERTON.

This was an action to recover 6s. damages, sustained by
the plaintiff through the negligent conduct of the defen-
dant.

The plaintiff stated that he was walking in the city on a
recent occasion, and ho met defendant, who was carrying a
small plane, called a plough. Apiece of sharp iron projected
over defendant's arm, and caught the sleeve of the plain-
tiff's coat, tearing it, so that it was necessary to have a new
sleeve. Plaintiff considered that defendant was carrying
the plane in a careless manner.

Defendant said ho carried the plane as safely as he pos-
sibly could. There was a particular way that he and his
fellow workmen carried the tool, and he thought it was
the plaintiff's duty to have avoided it.
His Honour —How were you carrying it on the day of the
accident?

Defendant—Just as I hold it now ; the iron will project
a little .way over the arm. There was plenty of room on
the pavement for plaintiff 0 have passed without touch-
ing me.
His Honour—l do not think you carry the tool in a safe
position.

- Plaintiff—l may say that defendant offered me sixpence,
so that I might get the coat repaired, but I told him I
should want a new sleeve.

Defendant—l did not offer anything. I only said that
it would not cost more than sixpence to repair the coat.
Plaintiff produced the coat, and his honour said it was
quite clear there must be a new sleeve. Ile was clearly
of opinion that plaintiff was entitled to recover. It was
the duty of workmen carrying tools in the public streets,
especially in the City, to take care that no injury was done
to passengers. Defendant should have a bag for his tools
as carpenters had, or ho should cover them up so that they
might be safely conveyed through the public streets
There was no doubt he had not done so in the present
case, and therefore plaintiff would have a verdict with
costs.

POL ICE INTELLIGENCE.—This Day.

BOW-STREET.

GOING TO MEET A FRIEND.—George Marshall, who re-
fused to state his address or occupation, was charged with
creating a disturbance at the South-Eastern Railway Sta-
tion, Charing-cross, and assaulting Inspector Bengough.
The Inspector stated that the prisoner entered the sta-
tion shortly before the arrival of the Margate train, and
was walking along the arrival platform, when witness
stopped him and told him he could not be allowed to go
that way. Tho prisoner said he wanted to meet a friend
who was to comp by the Margate train. Witness told
him that was the wrong side, and p6inted to the place
where the train would arrive. The lamps were lighted
at that part of the platform, but where the prisoner stood
it was in all in darkness. The prisoner went to the
proper place and waited till the train came in. After the
train was cleared ho again came up to witness and said, "Do
you know what I could do to such a thing as you ? I
could knock you down and jump your inside out,''
at the same time striking him in the face. A struggle
ensued, but with tho help of a porter and a police-constable
he was at once removed to:the station-house. He used a
great deal of bad language,

Thomas Archer, the aace porter, said that when he came
to the inspector's assistance tho prisoner struck at him,
but he warded off the blow.

Cyrelius DuLiman, F 81, who took the prisoner to the
station, said that he continued to use the same sort of lan-
guage as was mentioned by the inspector, not only on the
way to the station, but in the cell during tho greater part
of the night.

Inspector Brennan said the prisoner was the worse for
liquor.

The prisoner admitted that he was the worse for liquor,
and had said more than he ought. He thought he was
entitled to go to meet his friend, and he was irritated at
being interfered with. He denied that he struck the in-
spector, who, however, knocked him down.
The inspector said there was no objection to the prisoner
going to the part of the platform where the train was to
arrive. But it would be dangerous to allow strangers to
go blundering about in the dark in parts of the station not
open to the public. He denied that ho struck the prisoner,
but they fell together in the course of the struggle.
Mr. Flowers said with the evidence of three witnesses
before him he could not doubt that the prisoner struck the
inspector. The prisoner denied it, and though ho was not
on his oath lie (Mr. Flowers) paid every attention to what
he said, being reluctant to believe that a man would tell a
lie under such circumstances. _ _ _

The Prisoner—lf I bad struck him I would freely own
it. I would not tell a lie about it for £5.
Mr. Flowers—Then why should he ?

A young woman named Margaret Humphrey here came
forward and tendered her evidence. She said she went to
the station with the prisoner to meet her husband, an d
went down the platform a little in advance of him. She
turned round to see if he was following her, and saw him
lying on the platform, the inspector having knocked him
down. She would swear that he did not strike the inspec-
tor.

Mr. Flowers—How can you know that if you had your
back turned?

Witness—Oh, it was not a minute.
Mr. Flowers•—lt was long enough fcr him to be knocked
down.

G. W. Humphrey, husband of the last witness, hero
came forward, saying that he saw the whole affair from
the beginning.

Mr. Flowers—They did not seem to know that you had
arrived.

The witness replied that he did not come by that train,
but by one that arrived at London-bridge an hour and a
half earlier. In the meanwhile he had been. home, and
finding his wife was gone to Charing-cross he followed.
He described an extraordinary scene of confusion, in
which 14 or 15 porters joined in knocking the prisoner
about; and when he remonstrated with them for their
brutality two of them seized him, flung him on the ground,
kicked him, and told him that was all he got by inter-
ference.

Mr. Flowers said it was extraordinary that his wife said
nothing of all this. Tho prisoner • must pay 10s. or be
imprisoned seven days. He was liable to a fine for going
there drunk at all.

Mary-street, Bromley, was brought up 012 remand
charged with violently assaulting his wife, Jane Hall, who
is 7 months' advanced in pregnancy, and has received
serious injuries.

The evidence given on the first examination proved that
'an atrocious atrage was inflicted on the unfortunate
woman. Her husband, a dissipated fellows came home
one night intoxicated while sho was lighting a fire in the
kitchen, and ho commenced grumbling, and complained
that the fire was not lighted earlier. He knocked her
down and kicked her, and knelt upon ter chest. He was
pressing her body against the floor and beating her head
on the boards, when two women, named Newman and
Hogan, entered and interposed. They asked him if he in-
tended to kill the woman, on which he turned his abuse
upon them, and said it was no business of theirs. The
complainant went to the door and fell down in the street,
She was raised and staggered a few paces, fell again, and
was insensible for some time. She was attended by Mr.
Foster, a medical practitioner, who declared on his oath
that she had received a kick on the lower part of the spine,
and was in danger. She was carried in and out of the
court in a state of great agony. She now appeared won-
derfully recovered, and addressed the magistrate with great
volubility. She said that sho was not hurt at all, that she
had no marks, and that the prisoner was a very good hus-
band to her except when ho '• broke out" now and then. If
he was sent to prison she and her children would starve.
It was all her fault. The imprisonment which her hus-
band had undergone would be a warning to him as long as
he lived.

Mr. Partridge requested Mr. Nairn to read the deposi-
tions, and while he was doing so, the complainant said it
was all wrong, tho women Newman and Hogan saw
nothing.

Mr. Partridge said the complainant had been very bru-
tally assaulted by her husband, and she was now endea-
vouring to screen him. Ile could not pass over such an
atrocious case as this, and the prisoner must be punished
and with great severity ; no woman would be safe\ if
ho was to discharge the prisoner. He sentenced him to
be imprisoned four months and kept to hard labour. If
the complainant and her children wore in distress they
must apply at the workhouse.

The Bishop of London in the Cholera

Districts.

Yesterday afternoon the Bishop of London
visited the East of London for the purpose of con-
ferring with the clergy of the rural deaneries of
Spitalfields and Stepney, comprising a large"num-
ber of densely populated parishes and ecclesiastical
districts, as to the best mode of applying the
cholera funds, as to providing for convalescents,
orphans, &c., and to consult on the present state of
the East-end parishes generally. The large pa-
rochial school-room in Brook-street, Spitalfields,
in which the meeting was held, was completely
filled.

The Bishop of LONDON, in opening the proceed-
ings, said it was a matter of great thankfulness to
Almighty God that the sore disease with which
those districts had been so severely afflicted was
decreasing. The thanks of all were surely due to
those clergy who, at the risk of their health and
life, had been labouring in ministering to the phy-
sical and spiritual wants of their families. Times
like the present were overruled for good, morally
and h p
be to the poor, and not only to
them, but physically, si
to i
d ly'
others also. The whole- of society
t
mg
to pause and consider what could
ai s caal
be done for the welfare of those who were
liable to such sore sicknesses. He trusted that
this visitation would also prove a blessing in refe-
rence to the establishment of suitable convalescent
hospitals. There was a large sum yet at the dis-
posal of the Mansion-house Committee, some of
which and other funds might be obtained, so that
suitable houses and lands might very speedily be ob-
tained. in d. The clergyo smight receive grants from the
metropolitan
iation to send convalescent pa-
tients these houses, care being taken that
e t o any
oafsc
the patients were not likely to carry infection with
them. It would be well to ascertain, so far as pos-
sible, how many patients could be found. On these
points he should be glad if the clergy could assist
him with any statistics. The case of the orphans
was an important one, and one of great pressing
necessity. Letters which had been sent to him from
those districts seemed to show that many of the
children had lost both parents, while others had lost
only one. It would therefore be desirable to know
how many there were, iu order that provision might
be made to prevent the necessity of their settling
down in the workhouses. Of course, many of the
children who had the misfortune to lose their parents
were of a class that ought to be received into the
workhouses, and he thought it ought to be kept in
mind that the benevolent efforts now being made
must not relieve parochial authorities from their
plain duty in this matter. Nor must they sanction
the idea that the instruction of children could not
be properly administered in workhouses, and that
children ought consequently to be removed from
them. It would be fatal to confess that it was im-
possible to bring up
children carefully in the work-
houses, for in many of them the instruction and
management of the children were very good. Many
of the boys on attaining to the proper age were
draughted off to the army and navy, or other occu-
pations were found for them. With the girls there
was necessarily much more difficulty. Many of the
persons who had been afflicted with this disease
would a few weeks ago have considered it the
greatest calamity that could befall them to be sent
to the workhouse. Alany of them were skilled
workmen and persons earning fair wages. That
their families had been placed in great distress,
was, he considered, a fair ground of appeal to the
benevolent to step in and place them in such a posi-
tion as they would have maintained if their parents
had lived. That a large number of orphans would
have to be provided for by private charity could not
be denied. As to the vexed question whether the
present orphanages were quite sufficient to meet all
the calls that might be made, he thought it might
be postponed for the present. The fund with which
he was connected, and he thought the Mansion-
house Fund, would follow, in the matter of orphans,
the same rule as was applied to convalescents, not
to take in hand at present the 'foundation of any
new institutions, or supplementing existing institu-
tions, but would, as far as they were ape, assist
orphans by giving something to their maintenance
either with their own friends, or in any institution
that might be selected. He should like therefore
to have returns from various parishes in reference
to those children who had lost both father and
mother, as well as those who had lost only one parent.
A great deal was to be said in favour of those chil-
dren being sent to friends, but nothing could be said
against their being provided for in other ways. In
the house at Claptou which Mrs. Gladstone had se-
cured girls would be received, and boys above seven
at the institution founded at Pimlico. On these
matters full information could be obtained of Capt.
Helbert, 11, Carlton-terrace. At Fulham Mrs. Tait
had procured a small house where 12 girls would be
received. Any clergyman might receive informa-
tion from Mrs. Tait on the subject.

Much information on matters of detail was given
by the Bishop in reference to administration of funds
in answer to several clergymen who put questions to
him.

The Rev. I. TAYLOR, Incumbent of
.St. Matthias,
Bethnal-green, gave some information in reference
to the means he had adopted for providing convales-
cent homes for cases which had occurred in his parish.
To most of the existing homes there seemed to be some
fatal objections. Some were inconvenientlysituated,
some were full, and some were so far away that they
could only be reached at
they a great
wantedexpense. But for
theea places near
at hand, and where there was no party religious
stof London
some
teaching. (Hear, hear.) They wanted some place
within a shilling railway fare, or within a shilling
cab fare from their own neighbourhood. He spoke
of a capital house which he had seen, but he feared
it would be difficult to obtain it on account Of the
timidity of the managers, who were afraid of the
opposition of the neighbourhood.

The Rev. W. BAIRD, of St. Gabriel's Mission,
thought it would be a great blessing if an institu-
tion could be provided for those children who had
lost their mother's protection.

The Rev. ISAAC TAYLOR suggested that it would
be of great assistance to the clergy if a short state-
ment could be drawn up showing what orphanages
were available and circulated among the clergy. At
present a vast deal of their time was employed in
writing to various institutions for particulars.

The Rev. I'. PECKSTON, chaplain of Bethnal-
green Workhouse, said he feared it would be neces-
sary to have a large increase of the funds placed at

the Bishop's disposal to meet the cases that would
probably arise. There were a large number of
orphans in Bethnal-green, and he as a workhouse
chaplain looked upon the matter in a very serious
light. At the present moment his district was not
altogether free from the disease. Therefore they
ought to be very cautious, for they did not know
one moment from another what might occur. Even
now the ratepayers must feel very severely the bur-
deg of the rates. fie himself bad paid £2 2s. Bd.
for the last half-year on a £25 year's rental, and
that was a very hard thing to bear. Presently he
was afraid they would have to pay £l5 or £l6 a
year in Bethnal-green on a similar rental, a thought
which was positively alarming. Many of the rate-
payers, he feared, would have to go to the work-
house themselves.

The Rev. G. IL• arGill, incumbent in Christ
Church, St. George's-in-the-East, the Rev. A. 11.
Sitwell, incumbent of St. Peter's, Stepney, and the
Rev. J. Cohen, rector of Whitechapel, spoke in
favour of homes for convalescents.

The Rev. S. B. BURNABY, rector of Wapping,
strongly urged that the surrounding parishes should
assist in keeping up Wapping workhouse, which
was about to be closed, as a cholera hospital. The
parish was entirely free from Zymotic diseases.
The Rev. C. F. LOWDER, of St. George's-in-the-
East, strongly urged that an application should be
made for a portion of the funds of St. Katherine's
Hospital, which had been removed from the east of
London. He had made an application to the War-
office for an unused barrack, but was refused on the
ground that if cholera broke out among the troops
it might be required. Probably if a little pressure
were put upon the War-office it might be secured.
The Rev. A. STRUGNELL, minister of St. Jude's,
Bethnal-green, hoped that false security would not
be encouraged by reports that danger was at an
end. In his district there was one fatal case yes-
terday, and one on the day previously.
The Rev. J. PATTESON, rector of Spitalfields, the
Rev. G. Eastman, chaplain of Whitechapel Work-
house, and other gentlemen gave the result of their
experiences in their districts.

The Bishop of LONDON said that at a meeting at
the Mansion-house on the previous day there was a
very cordial expression of a desire on the part of
the authorities to co-operate as much as possible
with the managers of the fund over which he pre-
sided and the clergy through whom it was distri-
buted. A very cordial desire was also expressed
that the clergy should co-operate with the local
committees in the general measures taken for the
prevention and cure of the disease. In the
Metropolitan Relief Association they took great
care to communicate with the Mansion-house
committee with respect to grants, and the Mansion-
house committee communicated with them, and it
was desirable that the same good feeling should
exist among the agents through whom the relief
was administered. He might mention, not for the
clergy, who knew it well, but for the public gene-
rally, that the Metropolitan Relief Association,while
it distributed its alms on this and every occasion
through the district visitors, made it a distinct and
marked rule that religious distinctions were not to
be recognised as a condition of relief, and there was
no clergyman in that part of the country, ire was
sure, who would not give to a poor Irish Roman Ca-
tholic, or to a dissenter, as willingly as to a member
of his own communion. Obviously from what had
been said that day, there were two things to be con-
sidered, viz., the permanent improvements in Lon-
don which might result from this great visitation,
and the immediate improvements required to meet
immediate wants. There might be much diversity
of opinion as to the permanent machinery, and it
was not unnatural that while one gentleman should
have a scheme for the equalisation of poor-rates,
another about St. Katharine's Hospital, they should
be desirous of seeing them carried out. But in pro-
viding for convalescents he thought no time should
be lost ; and the same remark applied to orphans.
His lordship ably reviewed all the suggestions that
had been made, and said he should be glad to have
further details upon them, so that they might be put
into a systematic form and acted upon without de-
lay. He thanked the clergy for their attendance,
and for the reliable information they had afforded
him.

A cordial vote of thanks was then awarded to the
bishop, who dismissed the meeting with the bene-
diction.

IRELAND.

D ÜBLIN, Aug. 31.

The new Viceregal Court has arrived in Ireland
at a very opportune time to relieve the dulness of
the autumn holiday period by giving au impetus to
social life in the Irish metropolis, which was becom-
ing somewhat languid. Already several Viceregal
dinner parties have been given by the Lord-Lieu-
tenant, while Court balls, drawing-rooms, and
levees are held out in promise for the future. The
Lord Mayor of Dublin, tno, who has very hospitably
supported his year of office, has announced his in-
tention of giving shortly a banquet at the Mansion-
house,at which Lord Abercorn is to be the honoured
guest, and as Mr. Lane Joynt, the citizen upon
whose shoulders the mayoralty robes fall next year,
has also given promise of munificence in dispensing
the hospitalities of his office, a very pleasant winter
season is anticipated by the Irish metropolis. Ad-
dresses of various kinds and of the usual nature are
still being presented at the Viceregal-lodge—some
being complimentary and others didactic. Among
three just presented is one of some general interest.
It came from the International Rifle Association,
and requested the Lord Lieutenant to permit him-
self to be constituted the guardian of the famous
Irish trophy of the last Volunteer rifle meeting at
Wimbledon, where his Excellency presided over a
contest ending in Lieut. Hopkins carrying off the
Challenge Prize by a single point from his compe-
titors, Mr. Waterman for England, and Mr. Plen-
derleith for Scotland. The Lord-Lieutenant com-
plied with the request with pleasure, and has given
permission for the public exhibition of the trophy
at the Dublin Winter-garden Palace.

The usual Irish exhibitions of cattle, agricultural
implements, fruits, vegetables, and the more attrac-
tive but less generally useful objects of horticulture,
have been going forward with undecreased vigour.
Yesterday, a very excellent display of fruit and
vegetablei, combined with an horticultural exhibi-
tion, in which objects from the gardens of Lord
Meath, Lord Powerscourt, and Lord Monck ob-
tained prizes, was held in Bray, under the direction
of the Rathdown Horticultural Society, a society
carrying on its transactions very much on the plan
of the Royal Horticultural Society of Ireland. At
Kildare a cattle-show took place on the previous
day, and at Maryborough another agricultural dis-
play was opened a few days since. The mainte-
nance of such displays is considered of special value
in Ireland, from the immense importance of every-
thing bearing on the agricultural products of the
country ; also from their presenting a common
ground on which every class may meet without ap-
pearing incongruous, and on the basis of a mutual
interest compete fairly in producing a perfection
useful to all.

Mr. Joy, Q.C., and Mr. Chatterton, Q.C., are
understood to have stated their intention of coming
forward for the Parliamentary representation of the
University of Dublin, should Mr. Walsh, the Irish
Attorney-General, be called on to resign his seat
through any appointment consequent on the filling
up of the vacant Mastership of the Rolls.
Sir A. C. Weldon's sister, a young lady, lost her
life while driving on Wednesday in the neighbour-
hood of Mountrath, owing to the animal, attached
to a phaeton in which she was seated, running away
with and finally upsetting the vehicle. She survived
the injuries Fihe thus received but a few hours.
A circular from Colonel Wood, Inspector-Gene-
ral of Constabulary, has been issued from his office,
Dublin Castle, announcing that the regulation
granting increase of pay to the Irish constabulary
had come into operation, and would date from the
Ist of April last.

BIG BOQUET FOR PATTL—During the perform-
ance of the Barber of Seville, a few days since at
Ilomburgh, Miss Alice Riggs, of New York, sent Patti a
boquet larger than a corn basket, and which the pretty
singer was unable to carry, and had to get assistance to
remove it from the stage,