The Sun.
London, England, 1857-10-30 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE.--(this Day.)

To-day COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.
The bankru
THE ROYAL BRITISH BANK-IN BE H. J. CAMERON.
bankrupt, but owing to the pressure of other business
was appointed for the last examination of this
was not called on at the hour appointed, 12 o'clock.Pt
msnagtr of Royal British Bank, and is one of the parties
, it will be remembered, was general
indicted with some of the directors.
No accounts having been sled an adjournment must
necessarily take place.

IN RE CHANDLER.
This bankrupt was a surgeon in Rotherhitbe and a
shareholder of the Royal British Bank, and to-day was
appointed for the choice of assignees.
Mr. Link later appeared on behalf of the assignees of
the Royal British Bank, and stated that the bankrupt
besides being one of the shareholders was also indebted
to a large amount to the Royal British Bank ; it was
therefore desirable that some gentleman of great experi-
ence in accounts should be appointed assignee, and he
therefore proposed Mr. J. Paul, of the firm of Messrs.
Paul and Turner, to be assignee.
His Honour concurred, and Messrs. Pettis and Co.,
Bat,inghall-street, were appointed assignees accountants
to the estate.

No preliminary amounts has as yet bean prepared;
but it is said that the debts are very heavy, and the
assets small.

IN RE CATIIR.
This bankrupt was a maltster, at Hertford, and to-day
came up to pads his last examination on accounts pre-
pared by Mesirt. Butler and Canniogs. The failure is
to a very large amount. After a long investigation the
case was adjourned for the bankrupt to explain a defi-
ciency of about 2,6001. in June, 1856, as the assignees
considered that there could not have been a deficiency at
that date, but for 10 years bankrupt had not kept a
cash-book or proper ledger.

A meeting IN AE ADAMS.
was appointed to examine this bankrupt as
to the statement made by Captain Johnstone yesterday,
but stood over.

CRIMINAL COURT—(This Day).

OLD COURT.

:Before the Lord Chief Baron, Mr. Baron Martin, and
Mr. Jnatice Willea.) .
TEE QUEEN'S PRISON MURDER.

Antonio de Salvi was placed at the bar charged with
the wilful murder of Mr. Robertson in the Queen sßench
Prison. The prisoner put in a plea of antre foes acquit
—that he had been put in jeopardy for the same offence,
and ought therefore not to be tried for the murder. To-
day was appointed for hearing the arguments on each
aide in reference to the plea previous to the pri•
aoner'a being put upon his trial for the charge of murder.
Mr. Bodkin and Mr. Clarke, appeared for the prose-
cution : Mr. Jamee, Q C., Mr. Sergeant Parry, and Mr.
M9dahon, M.P., appeared for the prisoner.
Mr. Bodkin said the Court was aware that the pri-
soner stood indicted for wilful murder, and had in
answer or bar to that charge put in a plea of autre foie
aquit ; that had been demurred to by the Crown, and
he (Mr. Bodkin) had to submit to their lordships' that
the prisoner's plea was bad in law, and no bar the ver-
dict. The averment in the plea should be identical
with the charge, but in this case it was omit-
ted. It appeared to be conceived by the plea that
the intent to murder was a necessary ingredient in the
commission of murder, but it was not so, and there were
numerous instances where murder bad been committed
without any intention on the part of the parties charged
to commit murder.

Mr. James contended that the prisoner bad rightly
and correctly pleaded to this indictment. The plea
sets out the prisoner's acquittal on an indictment
charging him with wounding with intent to mur-
der, and he (Mr. James) had to anbinit to their lord.
ships that that offence arose out of the same
transactions as those on which the indictment for
murder was founded. It was clearly laid down in alt
the authorities that where there were two charges
against a prisoner, though not precisely the same in
point of degree, an acquittal on one was an acquittal on
the other. The murder with which the prisoner was
now charged, it was admitted by the prosecution, arose
from the same blows and transaction as the charge of
wounding with intent to murder, of which he was ac-
quitted ; and, therefore, the charge of murder against
the prisoner, as a murder resulting from the same
wounding of which he had been acquitted, could not be
tried, and the prisoner put again in peril.
Mr. M'Mabon followed on the same side, quoting a
number of authorities in support of the prisoner's plea.
At the conclusion of a very elaborate and learned
argument,

The Lord Chief Baron, after consulting with the other
learned Judges, overruled the plea, and the ;Almoner
was accordingly put upon hie trial on the charge of
murder, a mixed jury of Englishmen and foreigners
having been sworn.
Earl Granville, in whose service the prisoner formerly
was, as valet to his lordship, was accommodated with a
seat on the bench, and appeare i to take great interest
in the proceedings.
Evidence was then called in support of the charge,
the facts in connection with which are so well known
from their frequent publication as not to require repet:-
titan nn thiq _

Mr. E. James made a powerful appeal to the jury,
quite equal to anything of the kind ever beard within
the walls of the Old Court. Io the course of his
address he alluded to the prisoners former trial,
conviction and sentence, and his acquittal on the
count in the indictment on the former trial-
of wounding with intent to murder. The death
of Robertson arose frona. a bl:),r inflicted by
the prisoner. No one could doubt but the act was
devoid ~f any design or premeditation on the part of the
prisoner. It was the result of a sudden transport of
passion, unjustifigble, no doubt, but under the circum-
stances he trusted the jury would consider the sentence
passed on the former occasion a sufficient expiation
for the offence, or at all events if they thought otherwise
that they would not consign him to the scaffold, but find
him guilty of the minor offence of manslaughter,
Several gentlemen were called and gave the
prisoner an excellent character for mild and gentle man-
ners ; amongst them, Dr. Manuinz, formerly Arch-
deacon of Winchester. Earl Granville, who attended
the court to speak to the prisoner's character, was
obliged to leave early, to attend a meeting of the Cabinet
Council.

The learned Chief Baron having summed IV,
Earl Granvil:e, who ha'l returned in the meantime,
was then called and gave the prisoner a good character,
observing that he occasionally shovel* when in hie ser-
vice, quickness of t-mper.
The jury returned a verdict of manslaughter.
Sentence deferred.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE. (This Day).

OBSTRUCTIMNOARTLHI3OpR
R
bloated, coarse-looking woman, was charged before Mr.
Bingham with being drunk, and using obscene language
in the public streets ; and two fashionably-dressed young
men, Richard Rayne,
olosG.lLlTaßviEniEs t
Wiggins,
and Robert Langtrey, the latter 1
of the Trafalgar-hotel, C ckspur-street, and both de-
scribed in the shares-sheet
as of no occupation, with
obstructing the police and attempting to rescue the
female prisoner from custody.
Policeman C 30 stated that he saw the female prisoner
between 12 and 1 a.m. in Titchborne-street, at the corner
cf Windmill-street. Seeing A gentleman passing the
worse for liquor, she, also in the same state bat in a less
degree, followed after him, took hold of him and drew
him into Jermyn-street. Witness remonstrated with her,
when she made use of very bad and obscene language in
the bearing of passers-by. Proceeding now to take her
into custody, the gentleman baying extricated himself
and got away, she suddenly threw herself down and
mere no policeman should take her. A mob of per-
sons, caused by her conduct, collected, among whom
were the male defendants. Rayner; remarked to his
conapanion—" Here's the police at it again !" and the
other answered, witness having hold of the woman—
" Let's take her away—get her into the public-house."
Witness warned them not to interfere, telling them she
was in his custody. So far, however, from this inducing
them to desist, Raynes exclaimed—" Your custody, who
are you 1" and, calling upon Langtrey to lay hold of her
arm, she all the while coistinuing her vile and abominable
they obstructed him the more, and drew her
public house previously indicated, when Rayne'
tl language, n
the
ge,
again called upon his friend to pull her io. Witness,
from whose held the woman had been taken, hereupon
clutched her again by her arm ; the male defendants,
thhortohwng
in every
arms round his neck in order to rescue they way they could, still impeded him, Raynes
woman from his custody, in which they ,would have
succeeded but for assistance arriving, when they were
all three captured and conducted to the station.
When asked if they had any defence to offer
to the charges, the female prisoner—(evidence having
been given that she was known to the police as "an
unfortunate, or "loose woman," or one of that far too
said she was
nuonwmeirnokuseeopliansgShe bad been gay, but was now vir-
e, "nymphs of the pave")—
tuons. The gentleman she followed wait, she added,
the person she is I.ved with." She begged to inform the
magistrate, in conclusion, that she had been "all right"
for four months.
meßetaYnweillsBsidhis friend
behappeLnead at the time spoken of, to
Langtrey by chance. They
had certainly been indulging a little over the glass, but
were not drunk-00Y a little elevated—and thus the
affair occurred. He was extremely sorry at the figure
they now cut, and the thoughtless conduct which had led
to it—regretting their interference with the constable.
He had only just arrived in town from Belfast. He
should know better in future. Langtrey likewise ex-
pressed his sorrow for his imprudent conduct.
Mr. Bingham' addressing the woman prisoner, said,
whether she bad ceased her former disreputable course
of life for four months or not, the language it was proved
she had uttered was disgusting in the extreme, which
could only be used by the lowest of either sex, and sen-
tenced her to 14 days in the House of Correction. As
regards the male defendants, be would strongly advise
them to be cautious how they exercised their Quixotic
feelings again in the streets of town OR behalf of such
persons as the woman by their side, and should inflict on
them a fine of 20s. each, and he hoped this would really
, prove a caution to them in future.

We are r. juiced to state that the Earl of Aberdeen,
whose sudden indisposition, on Saturday last, created
much alarm and uneasiness in the minds of those
who were hastily summoned to his Lordship's side,
is much better. The alarming symptoms which mani-
fested them saves on Sunday have passed away, and his
lordship is not only out of all danger, but is progressing
faster even than might have been expected towards
recoy.ry,—Court Circular.