The Sun.
London, England, 1859-06-07 00:00:00

SUMMAR

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MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.—June 6.

The June General Sessions commenced this morn-
ing at the Guildhall, Westminster. In consequence
of lamented death of Mr. Pashley, Q.C., the
Assistant-Judge, Mr. Pownall, chairman of the
bench, opened the court, and the following magis-
trates were present :—Col. Dickson, Mr. Fletcher,
Mr. N. Gould, Mr. Simpson, Mr. T. Miller, M.P.,
Mr. Marshall, Mr. Charman, Mr. A. A. Goldsmid,
Mr. Lang, Mr. Woolsey, Mr. Stacey, Mr. Hasley,
Mr. H. Harwood, Sir J. Tyler, Mr. White, Mr.
Hogarth, Mr. Bodkin, Mr. Baylis, Mr. Wyatt, Mr.
H. Maude, Mr. Brooking, and Mr. Bashford.
There were 65 prisoners for trial.
Mr. Pownall said he occupied the chair in con-
sequence of the death of the late Assistant-Judge,
wbo, as lately as Tuesday week, presided in the
court, and had to quit the chair through the illness
which carried him off in a few days. Mr. Pashley
had presided over the sessions a little more than
three years as the successor of the late Mr. Sergeant
Adams, who so long and so ably presided over the
sessions, and to say that he was a worthy successor
of that learned gentleman was paying no mean
compliment to the memory of Mr. Pashley, whose
loss they had now to lament. The late Assistant-
Judge was a man of great learning and experience,
and as a judge he administered justice carefully
and mercifully ; and with respect to appeals, of
which a great number came before the Court, he
was pre-eminently qualified to deal, the best part
of his professional life having been devoted to that
department. With respect to the gentleman wbo
had been appointed by the Crown to succeed Mr.
Pashley, he had only to say, that he had long prac-
tised at these sessions, and had long enjoyed the
esteem of the bench, of his professional brethren,
and of a widely-extended circle of friends—he
meant Mr. Bodkin. and he would congratulate the
bench and the public upon the appointment of
one so well qualified in every way to fill the
office. There hild been complaints of the arrears
in the appeal list ; but he trusted that in future the
cases would not be entered unless ready for hearing,
and that they would be either disposed of finally, or
struck out of the paper at the sessions for which
they were entered, and not adjourned from time to
time, as they had been, causing great delay and.
inconvenience to those interested in them, particu-
larly parishes. He had only further to say, that
the appointment of Mr. Bodkin, as assistant judge,
was, in every way most satisfactory. A better selec-
tion could not have been 'made ; and he begged to
congratulate his brother magistrates, as their chair-
man, on Mr. Bodkin's elevation.
Shortly before 12 o'clock the Chairman said, cer-
tain formalities, which it was necessary should be
gone through, were not completed, and he thought
it would be most suited to public convenience if the
Court adjourned until to-morrow (Tuesday.)

ENGLAND AND WALES.
1859. 1857.
LIBS• CONS. LIES. CONS.
Boroughs *2ls *l2O 227 107
Universities • • 4 .. 4
Counties . 51 107 57 101
SCOTLAND.

_
Boroughs — 23 23 ••
. •
Counties
IRELAND.
- -

Boroughs 2l 18 20 19
University 2 .. 2
Counties 3l 33 35 29
356 299 376 278
Liberal Majority 1857 98 Liberal Majority 1859 57
(*lncluding the double return for Aylesbury,)

ENGLISH BOROUGHS.
(Aylesbury—a double return—excepted.)

POPULATION.
100 Boroughs, with 162 Members, returning Liberals.. 5,237,192
54 108 „ 1 Liberal and 1 Conservative 1,695,836
44 „ „ 64 ~ Conservatives........
From the above it will be observed that, dividing the population of the 54 Boroughs
which return " one and one," the aggregate numbers represented by Liberals and Con-
servatives in the English Boroughs are as follows :
LIBERALS.
162
51

CONSERVATIVES.
64
54 847,918

118 1,393,776

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In Scotland Aia, the Boroughs, comprising an aggregate population of 1,048,353, have
returned Liberals,

that had been taken from the person of Mr. Chas.
De Wolf, a French gentleman, was brought before
the Hon. G. C. Norton, for final examination.
The prisoner, it will be recollected, in the first
instance made a violent struggle to get away from
the grasp of Coaker, the officer, but finding his
efforts unavailing he tried the dodge of assuming
the consequence of an injured gentleman, and
refused his address at the station. Since his exa-
mination, however, his real character has been
discovered, and when placed at the bar his manner
was very different indeed to that which he assumed
on Thursday last.
Coaker, 36 L, said the prisoner, as he admitted
after the examination on Thursday last, lived at 11,
Laburnam-terrace, Hackney-road, and from making
inquiries there he found that he had, before
removing there, resided in a house the whole of
which had been occupied by notorious thieves ; and
further, that the adjoining house to where he at
present resided was a common brothel.
An officer belonging to the N division of police,
and other constables, spoke to the fact of the pri-
soner being the constant companion of the most
notorious thieves ; and it was further stated that his
wife had been committed for trial from this court in
the name of Davis, for a daring omnibus robbery,
for which she was sentenced to 12 months' hard
labour at Wandsworth.

Mr. Beard addressed the Court in defence, and
dwelt a good deal on the fact that none of the offi-
cers called had been enabled to say his client had
been tried for any offence.
The prosecutor, having recovered his valuable
watch, expressed some reluctance to prosecute, but
hoped the magistrate would deal summarily with
the case ; and prisoner having pleaded guilty to the
offence, was sentenced to four months' hard labour.

WESTMINSTER. MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR.
Elizabeth Field, a woman of unprepossessing ap-
pearance, was placed at the bar, before Mr. Paynter,
under the following circumstances :
James M'Curry, builder, 7, Upper Dorset street,
Belgrave-road, said that yesterday morning he
was sent for by Mrs. Wilkes, of 30, Besborough-
street, Pimlico. On arriving there he found
the water closet stopped, and finding the',usual
process to clear it ineffectual, proceeded to a
further examination, when he ascertained that the
cause of obstruction was parts of a dead child. He
searched the bottom of the drain, to see whether
he could discover the remainder, but did not, nor
was it likely, as there was a heavy fall, and any
would soon be swept away into the Thames.
Mr. George Pearse, surgeon, 10, Regent-street,
Westminster, said he had examined the remains of
the body of a child found by the last witness. It
was a male infant, born at the full period; the right
leg and left arm had been cut off; the head had
also been severed from the body. It had been done
with a knife.
Mr. Paynter—Can you say how long the child
had been born ?
Mr. Pearse—Upwards of a fortnight.
Mr. Paynter—Can you say whether it had been
cut while in life ?
Mr. Pearse—l cannot; it is so decomposed.
Mr. Paynter—Can you say whether it was born
alive
Mr. Pearse—l cannot ; besides the head being
dismembered, there is a cut across the face. The
head has been opened, and the brAns removed.
In answer to other questions, Mr. Pearse said he
had examined the prisoner, who bore no appearance
of having been recently confined. She told him that
she was a widow, and had had four children; some
linen had been shown to witness which bore marks
of having been in use at a recent delivery.
Ralph Rolls, sergeant of the B division, said that
prisoner was a servant at Mrs. Wilkes' house. After
the remains of the child had been found witness was
sent for, and prisoner was called up by her mistress
and told what she was charged with she made no
reply and preserved strict sildhce after being given
into
Vincent, housemaid to Mrs. Wilkes,
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was called, but gave her evidence with great seem-
ing reluctance and with so an
consequent upon it, that themmaygicsotnrattreadiscetvineorasl,
times reminded her that she was on her oath and
mustin g tell
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19th nit., whilst her mistress
aas out, prisoner com-
plainedgreat deal of press.
of being ill and sent for young, said that on the
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went to her bedroom, estserw
where sheo neduentwhneell
somreemgailn, she
some time. On that da witness saw a great quan-
tity of prisoner's
linen clean near her bed, and sub-
sequently saw it much altered in appearance. Wit-
ness had thought prisoner was in the family way,
and told her (witness's) mother. Her figure was
much altered after the 19th.
Mr. Paynter asked how it was that she had not
mentioned the circumstances she had detailed to her
mistress.
'Witness replied that she did not like.
Mr. Paynter told her tat she, ought to have
done so, as concealment in such a case rendered hero
r
as guilty as the prisoner; he, however, ma
allowance for her age, 16.
Prisoner, who said nothing, was remanded for a
week.

The Elba, with the Dardanelles-Alexandria cable
on board, was at Alexandria on the 25th, preparing to lay
the line to Candia, which will complete the link between
London end Men.