The Sun.
London, England, 1859-06-30 00:00:00

THE SUN, 'LONDON, THUTISDA-in EVENING, JUNE 30, 1559

troops no blame rests. " What," say the French'
even a rank far above the common soldier,
" What, do we care for your flags and your flowers,
your illuminations, your clapping of hands, and
ringing of festive bells on our arrival? Are all the
clamour:. and plaudits you raise at our approach
meant 1;o express your joy at the good fortune that
brings so many victims to be immolated to your
cupidity ? to be fleeced and flayed and all but
quartered alive by all possible contrivances of
cheatery and extortion ? We come into this coun-
try to give our dear lives for you ; there is no sacri-
fice of private affections, no hardships or danger
we have not endured or are unwilling to encounter
for your sakes. We open our pursestrings ;we
beg where we could take ; we ask nothing we are
not ready to pay justly and handsomely for. Yet
every trifle we want we must win from you at the
end of a long, wrangling, and chaffering battle—a
battle in which we are but too sure to come off
losers, whatever strength and ingenuity we put
forward in self-defence.'
These have been and are the bitter complaints of
the French all along our march from Florenee to
this place. So it was to some extent in Piedmont.
Also from Susa to Genoa. These complaints are
echoed by all truehearted Italians among the intel-
ligent and disinterested classes. But a dealer,
great or small, is everywhere the same. He has no
country, all is fair in a bargain. He will equally
" do" friend or enemy, oppressor or liberator.

being free from mauvaise honte he is rarely awk-
ward. The nil admirari is a well-known charac-
teristic of the French soldier, and is not less con-
spicuous in this Italian campaign than it was in
many previous ones. I fear that the Zouave's pic-
turesque costume and reputation for dash. and dar-
ing procure him an undue share of the favour of
the fair and of the good things now going in Milan.
The less picturesque and degourdi soldier of the
line does not seem to drive in barouches on the
Bastion, and eat ices in the gardenof the Cafe Cova.
Even the cavalry, generally well looked upon by
women, seem elipsed by quei Zuavi. As for the
Turcos, who are dressed just like the Zouaves,
except that they have blue petticoats instead of red,
and who enjoy the advantage of presenting a great
variety of tint, varying from a dingy lemon to a
shiny jet, I fear they are decidedly neglected.
After the Foreign Legion and Turcos, it is the
Zouaves who have the preference for dangerous
service, for which they are ever ready. Some of
the Austrian prisoners seem to have been particu-
larly struck at seeing Zouaves come into action with
their pipes in their mouths. When heated by fight-
ing and by an obstinate resistance, some of these
Franco-Africans become merciless in their mood,
and it would not be surprising if some of the tales
that have been told, about wounds not being always
a protection to a fallen Austrian, were founded in
fact, although the instances may be few, and such
butchery would certainly not be tolerated by the
officers, did they know of it. A friend of mine was
talking to a Zouave officer on the field of Maleg-
nano, soon after the 'fight and when the wounded
and dead still lay about. A Zouave was making
suspicious movements in the neighbourhood of a
wounded Austrian, " Dites done, mon capitaine,"
he at last exclaimed, " on dit qu'ils tuent non blesses
la bas." And, at the same time, he handled a knife
and cast ominous glances at the Austrian. The
officer suspected his drift, and apostrophising him
as an animal ! ordered him away. But whatever
examples of fierceness and blood-thirstiness may
occur when the blood is still hot from combat and
every angry passion roused, I believe that not a
doubt can be raised as to the general kindness
shown by the French to their prisoners.

that her husband was of unsound mind. By an ex- lings, but refused to say by whom he was robbed.
traordinary ex parte proceeding, for the mortgagers He did not accuse his brother constable at that
could not be represented there, a commission of time, but merely said he should go to the police-
lunacy was obtained, and Mr. Watts was found to station in Kennington lane.
have been lunatic since 1822. More extraordinory Police-constable 127 P, said that on the night
evidence upon which to find a man lunatic had before, he was informed that a man was running
never been submitted to a jury. The person whose about the Swan Tavern without hat or coat on, and
sanity was to be impeached was formerly a gentle- like a madman ; and some time after he found the
man farmer, entitled to a small estate of about £350 prisoner lying against a wall, asleep. He awoke
a-year, at Speen, near Newbury, in Berkshire. He him, and told him to go home, but instead of going
was now resident at Camden-town and was in very towards Chapel-street, Brixton, he proceeded to-
good health, and therefore could be called by the wards Chapel-street, Stockwell.
defendant. It was true he was 70 years old, but John Clifton, a waiter at the Swan Tavern,
that was of small consequence now-a-days when Stockwell, said he (complainant) was so drank that
persons of great age filled the highest office in the he was falling about, and broke a pane of glass in
State. (Laughter.) Mr. Watts married, in 1816, a the tavern by falling against it.
person of the name of Barnes, who was a little be- Mr. Elliott observed he had heard quite enough
neath him in position, and who was an extreme].) to satisfy him that there was not the slightest
extravagant woman, and had led him into the ne- foundation for the charge, and at once dismissed
cessity of raising money by the mortgage deeds now the complaint.
in question. He was informed that she was an ex-
tremely violent woman, and had led her husband a
wretched life. They had eight children, but they
had all died bat one. The first deed impeached
was dated 10th December, 1834, and it was signed
under these circumstances :—ln 1834 Mr. Watts
applied to Mr. Hockley, a solicitor at Guild-
ford, who was since dead, to raise £3,000 by way of
mortgage upon the estate. Mr. Snook advanced
the money, and a mortgage deed was executed.
Mr. Deacon, the town clerk of Southampton, had
been for some time acting as attorney for Mr.
Watts, and he had become indebted to Mr. Haw-
kins, a client of Mr. Baker, of Andover, to the ex-
tent of £2,200, for which a promissory note had
been given. It was alleged, on the other side, that
Mr. Watts never received the money for which the
mortgage was given on the 10th Dec., 1834, but he
should be able to prove that out of that money Mr.
Hawkins's note for £2,200 was paid. Mr. Hawkins
had also, in addition to the note, a deposit of Mr.
Watts's title deeds by way of equitable mortgage ;
and therefore it was necessary that the £2,200
should be paid in order to obtain the deeds. The
mortgage deed was ultimately executed at South-
ampton, though the pecuniary part of the business
was settled at the Bear Inn, Reading, and Mr. Cole-
brook, a surgeon at Southampton, a friend of the
attorney's, happened to be called in to attest the
execution of the deed. The whole matter had been
the subject of long and expensive litigation, and on
one occasion Lord Langdale decided that there was
nothing to impeach any one of the deeds except the
one to which reference had been made, end he added
that he would have been satisfied with that if any
medical man had been engaged in the transaction.
The gentleman who then had the affair in hand
was not acquainted with the fact that Mr. Cole-
brook, a surgeon, was there. The next deed im-
peached was dated the 23d April, 1834. and that
was another mortgage for £430 money lent by Mr.
Hazlitt, a coachmaker, at Southampton, and a client
of Mr. Deacon. The next deed in question was dated
the 25th January, 1836, at which time Mr. Deacon
had ceased to be Mr. Watts's solicitor, and Mr.
Watts had employed Mr. Halford, of Salisbury, in
that capacity. Mr. Snook was a client of Mr. Hal-
ford, and he agreed to advance £5,300 upon mort-
gage, out of which sum the £3,000 and the £4OO
mortgages were paid off. The witnesses who
attested the execution of that mortgage would state
their surprise when they saw Mr. Snook take off
his coat and waistcoat, cut open the back of his
waistcoat with a pair of scissors, and take out of it
£5,300 in notes, so that he actually carried his
banker on his back. (Laughter.) Mr. Snook was
a shrewd man of business, and he was not likely to
lend his money to a man who was not competent to
execute a deed. Of the £5,300 it would appear that
Mr. Watts paid the greater part of the balance which
he received into the Newbury Bank, though in the
course of a year it had all disappeared. In May,
1837, there was a further charge on the estate for
£3OO. Mr. Snook died prior to 1842, and upon his
executors filing a bill to foreclose the mortgage the
defence of insanity was set up. In 1840 Mr. Watts'
difficulties increased upon him, and he was in Read-
ing Gaol from that year until 1842, and the officials
would say that there was not the slightest ground
for saying that he was insane. He was told there
were two facts upon which the defendant relied as
showing insanity. Mr. Watts was rather proud of
having a nice hand, but on one of his forefingers
there was what was called a deer's foot nail, the
nail being divided down the middle. He was
twitted by his wife about this nail, and he in con-
sequence not only cut the nail off but a piece of
the finger with it. The other fact relied on was
that he had wilfully damaged one of his eyes. It
was true that Mr. Watts had been subject to occa-
sional fits of epilepsy, but it would be shown that
there was no pretence for imputing insanity, and
indeed it would appear by many documents that he
was a shrewd man of business.
Evidence was given in support of plaintiff's case
during the remainder of the day, and it was ru-
moured that the matter was likely to occupy seve-
ral days.

WORSHIP-STREET.—TIIE THIEVES' HOME IN
WHITECHAPEL.—SamueI Bromley, a well-known
and convicted thief, was charged on remand with
stealing two gold watches and other appendages,
value in all £ll2, from ladies while passing in the
open day along the Whitechapel-road.
Theparticulars of these separate offences appeared
a few days since, and evidence was now called in
corroboration of the ladies' testimony. One of the
witnesses, a married woman, added that she had
been threatened by some costermongers and street
fruitwomen with violence, if she attended to give
evidence.

The prisoner, in answer to the charge, replied in
a lachrymose tone, " I'm very innocent."
Mr, Hurlston (the chief clerk) having completed
the depositions, observed to the magistrate—Since
these cases have been under your notice, sir, I have
made myself acquainted with the immediate vicinity
of George-yard, Whitechapel, the scene of so many
daring robberies, and a more intricate place, after
entering it, I cannot well conceive ; for the numer-
ous turnings, windings, and passages, in one sense,
more resemble a maze than ought else ; in truth,
the spot is a most intolerable and dangerous one,
from which, but for the constable accompanying
me, I probably could not have safely emerged.

Mr.D'Eyncourt—The only apparent service that
can be rendered is by having a great number of the
police there. All charges of robbery from the im-
mediate neighbourhood I shall send for trial.
The prisoner was fully committed for trial at the
Middlesex Sessions.

THAMES.—EXTRAORDINARY AND UNFOUNDED
CIIARGE.—Thomas Chalington, a respectable-look-
ing man, of good address, a commercial traveller,
in the employ of a respectable house in the City,
residing at 23, Plummer's-row, Whitechapel, was
brought before Mr. Yardley, charged with inde-
cently assaulting Sophia Charlotte Simpson, a girl
aged 11 years.
The complainant, a diminutive girl, who appeared
much younger than she really is, stated that she
was living with her parents, 47, Oxford-street, Step-
ney. On Tuesday night she was seated on the step
of a door, near the Effingham Saloon, Whitechapel-
road, and was putting on her bonnet, when the pri-
soner came up and put his arms round her neck, at
the same time saying, " Come along with me my
dear." She replied to this invitation, " No, I would
rather not," on which he directed her to rise,
and took her down several streets, and knocked
at the doors of several lodging-houses and asked
for a lodging for the night. All the people he
asked for a lodging refused to receive them, and he
took her up and down several streets, with his arms
round her neck, when two men interfered, and he
said, " Good bye, good bye, my dear." The men
said, "What are you doing with this child P" on
which the prisoner pulled his coat off and chal-
lenged them to fight. The men knocked him down,
and then gave him into custody.
In answer to questions by Mr. Yardley, the girl
said that the prisoner offered her 6d., and took her
by the hand.
The prisoner in defence, with a manly simplicity,
said that the girl had been telling falsehoods, and
that he had never entertained any evil design upon
the child. He saw her upon the step of a door
crying, and from motives of humanity, and with a
view of befriending her, inquired if she was in dis-
tress, or had been ill used. The child replied that
she had no home to go to, and that her parents had
turned her out of doors. He said if that was the
case he would give her 6d. for a lodging, and went
to several lodging-houses with her for the purpose
of ensuring her safety, but none of the lodging-
house-keepers would admit her. He was about to
consult the police inspector at the station-house,
when two fellows came up and interfered with him.
He took no liberties with the child, and his inten-
tion was to benefit her and provide her with a
lodging for herself.
Inspector Griffin, of the K division, said the com-
plainant was a very bad girl. He had often seen
her roaming the streets at late hours, and sent her
home.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—June 29.

Mr. Yardley asked the girl what caused her to
be out so late on Tuesday night. She began cry-
ing and evaded the question, and upon the magis-
trate repeating it, and insisting upon an answer,
she said she ran away from her father and mother,
and intended to stop out all night.
An old woman here stepped forward, who said
—This girl was brought home at one o'clock this
morning. Her mother is at work in the Kent-road,
and her father is a labourer. They often leave
this girl and two other children for several days.
Mr. Yardley said that nothing could be more
disgraceful than for a man in the position of the
prisoner to take advantage of the wayward fancies
or irregularities of the girl, and attempt to seduce
her. The girl had given her evidence in such a
manner as to lead to the belief that the prisoner
had some evil design upon her. He was of opinion
that she had not told the truth, and that she was
very properly described by the inspector as a very
bad girl.
The prisoner said that imprisonment would be
too good for him if he had attempted to take im-
proper liberties with such a child.
Mr. Yardley—Yes, you are quite right. Im-
prisonment would indeed be too good for you if you
had attempted to take advantage of a child like
that.

CLERKENWELL.—ATTEMPTED MURDER OF
A WIFE THROUGH JEALOUSY.—John Bates, aged
29, a shoemaker, residing at 9, West-street, Somers
Town, was placed at the bar before Mr. Tyrwhitt,
charged with unlawfully cutting and wounding his
wife, Fanny Bates, by stabbing her in the face
with a knife, at Eyre-street-hill, St. Andrews.
The prosecutrix, who appeared in the witness-
box with her face bandaged up, said that she had
deen married to the prisoner about seven years, and
left him about four months since owing to his ill-
usage. On the previous night the prisoner came to
her residence, and outside the house made use of
very disgusting and filthy language towards her,
and also threatened her. She went to the door to
see if she could appease him, and when she was
turning away he stabbed her in the face. The
knife went through her cheek into her mouth. She
bled a great deal, and was taken to the hospital,
where her wound was dressed. She had one child,
and the prisoner had before abused her.
James Hawks, a low-looking fellow, having been
sworn, said that he cohabited with the complainant,
and had done so for some time. The prisoner came
to the house and abused the complainant on Satur-
day last.
The prisoner said he should like to ask his wife
some questions.
Mr. Tyrwhitt told him that his time was past.
He would go for trial, and then he or his counsel
could ask what they liked.
Police-constable Taylor 226 G, said that he was
in the station when the complainant and the priso-
ner were there. The prisoner said he was sorry
for what he had done. He stabbed her with a
shoemaker's knife, and when he had done it he
threw it away. Search had been made for it, but
it could not be found. The wound, the doctor told
him, was about an inch in length, but was not

The prisoner said his motives were quite mis-
taken by the persons who interfered with him. He
wished to obtain shelter for the girl for the night
to keep her out of harm's way.
Mr. Yardley was inclined to believe the pri-
soner's statement and discharged him. He directed
the old woman, who appeared interested about the
girl, to take charge of her, and to tell the parents
they must prevent her roaming the streets at un-
seasonable hours.

WESTMINSTER.—A SAD AFFAlR.—Avices
Green was apprehended on a warrant by Knowland,
one of the summoning officers of the Court, charged
with a very serious assault upon her husband, and
also with.threatening his life.
Complainant, a hairldresser, in Churton-street,
Pimlico, said that on Tuesday evening his father,
who was on a visit, was waiting for his tea, and
upon complainant going into the kitchen, he found
his wife pulling to pieces a watch timepiece, to
aggravate him, as he supposed, because his father
was there, to whom she had a great antipathy. Ho
told her to get his father's tea, but she refused and,
said his old father should not be in the house,
He told her if she did not get the tea he would not
allow her to remain in the house, and accordingly
pushed her outside the door, when she seized him
in a very tender part of his person and held him
so tightly that he screamed with pain, and nearly
fainted, and had been since obliged to wear ban-
dages. After committing this assault she ran into
the other kitchen, took up a knife, and, rushing at
him, said, " I will do for you, Harry, I will do for
you ;" but the lodgers interposing, his life was saved.
She then called out " Murder" and the police came,
but would, not take the charge, and complainant
gave her ss. fur her night's lodging—as he did not
consider his life was safe—recommending her to see
the magistrate in the morning. They had been
married three years and a half, and bad one child.
Mr. Arnold remarked, she had come to him that
morning, and said that owing to her bad temper
she and her husband had had a auarrel, and he bad
turned her out of doors, but she had said nothing
about the assault_ _

dangerous.
Mr. Tyrwhitt having given the prisoner the
usual caution, asked him what he had to say in
answer to the charge ?
The prisoner said he had been married to his
wife for about seven years, but out of that time he
had only had three years of a quiet life. His wife
was a good woman until that fellow (Hawks) came
to visit. She had had connexion with him four
years ago, but he never suspected her. He had
spoken to her about it, but he did not know what
to do.

Mr. Tyrwhitt told the prisoner he must have a
very thick head after what he had told him. He
had better not say anything, for what he was say-
ing showed that he went to the house with a mali-
cious fee' in g.
The prisoner said that his wife went to Exeter.
He sent the money for her to come back, but in-
stead of returning to him, she went to her
paramour. The man Hawks had threatened to
take his (prisoner's) life on several occasions.
Mr. Tyrwhitt said it was a case for a jury, and
fully committed the prisoner to Newgate for trial.
The prisoner, who seemed very downcast, was
then removed.

LAMBETH.—UNFOUNDED CHARGE OF FELONY
AGAINST A POLICE CONSTABLE.—A police constable,
stationed at Brixton, who has been in the P divi-
sion for upwards of twelve years, and whose con-
duct during the whole of that time has been with-
out the slightest reproach, was charged with
robbing Michael Hogan, a jobbing gardener, of his
watch and Gs. in silver. _ _

Henry Joseph Martin, living at complainant's,
added his testimony, which was somewhat at vari-
ance with complainant's. He said he heard Mr.
Green ask his wife to get the tea, and she said she
would not. A slight scuffle then ensued, during
which they got to the end of the passage, and wit-
ness saw her commit the dangerous assault spoken
of. Complainant turned pale, but did not scream.
Complainant immediately pushed her into the
kitchen, right along the dresser, when she took up
a knife and said, " I will, Harry, I will,"'but put
the knife down again directly, he believed. Com-
plainant then again asked her to get the tea, and
pushed her about again, when she called " Murder"
and " Police," and a crowd collected round the
door.

The complainant said that on the night before he
was returning from Stockwell to his residence, in
Chapel-street, Brixton-road, when he met the ac-
cused and asked him to have half-a-pint of beer,
and they had some words about it. lie then pro-
ceeded towards a watering place, and was followed
by the prisoner, who drew his staff, beat him about
the head most unmercifully, and robbed him of his
watch and all the money be had in his pocket. He
saw the prisoner again that morning, and called on
another constable, present, to take him into custody,
but he would not, and the prisoner hurried away.
In reply to the questions of the magistrate, the
witness said he had drunk some beer, but he was
not drunk, and knew very well what he was about
at the time he was attacked.
Inspector Emmerson, who was present to watch
the case, informed the magistrate that the complain-
ant had been so drunk as to be falling about, and from
all the inquiries he had made, and the information
he had received, he had no doubt his worship would
find that there was not the slightest grounds for
the charge. He then called
Benjamin Smith, 213 P, who said that at 'four
o'clock on that morning, while in conversation with
the accused, the complainant came up to them and
said lie had been ;01)0 of his watch and six shil-

Mr. Arnold said it did not appear from the wit-
ness's testimony that the police had been called in
either while complainant was suffering the acute
pain he spoke of, or because he feared she would
take his life with the knife, but rather because she
would not get the tea or leave the house.
Complainant only said, the witness must be
slightly mistaken.
The defendant, a very pretty, lady-like woman,
and to all appearance a mere child in years, said,
with the tears in her eyes, and in a tone of truth-
fulness, that when her husband came into the back
kitchen she was merely looking at the timepiece, as

it had not gone lately, and told him, in reply to his
question, that she was setting it going, as he took
his watch out with him, and she could not know the

time of day. He asked her to get the tea, and she
said she would not while his father was there, as ho
had broken the peace of their home, and caused all the
disturbance that had happened between them. Upon
her refusal he swore that he would make her, and
dragged her by the hair of her head from one room
to the other, where his father was sitting, who im-
mediately said, "That's right, Harry, serve her out,
the . If she were my daughter, I'd throtle
her." She then said, "I cannot bear this any longer,
nor will I," and siezing the knife, said, " I will, I
will," meaning no harm to her husband; and the
thought striking her at the moment what a horrible
thing she was going to do, she threw down the
knife on the instant. She had witnesses who could
prove that her husband behaved to her in a shame-
ful manner. The lodgers where they lived before,
and those in Churton-street, all knew what his con-
duct was to her. He did not black her eyes, nor
strike her much, but ill-treated her in every other
way, and every word he addressed to her contained
some cruel insinuation, threat, or saying. It was
only last Sunday he said, "If you are with child
again I hope (using a horrible oath) you may not
come through it," and frequently told her she was
the curse of his life. As regarded the assault, she
said he would swear anything to have her out of
the way.
Defendant was remanded till Tuseday, upon bail,
which she procured, and
Mr. Arnold said she was to have the charge of
her child, but he would not recommend her to live
with her husband tr eanwhile ; and on the com-
plainant making some demur about keeping her,
the worthy magistrate said he must not let his wife
starve.