The Sun.
London, England, 1861-07-24 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE July 23.

GUILDHALL.—A DOUBTFUL CASE.—George
Elverson, an old man who described himself as a
dog-doctor and cow-leech, was placed at the bar
before Colonel Wilson, charged with committing a
critg.inal assault u ..9f Emma Clancy,
wtdonli
The prosecutrix, who gave her evidence in a very
hesitating and conflicting manner, stated that she
called upon the prisoner at his house, 13, Middle-
street, Cloth-fair, about 11 o'clock on Monday
morning, to inquire if he had a fancy dog for sale,
as she wanted one for a gentleman. He asked her
to walk into his room, and as soon as she entered,
he locked the door. Witness then described the
nature of the assault, and stated that the prisoner
perpetrated the offence with which he was charged.
At the end of about half an hour from the time she
went into the room he released her, and as soon as
she got out she went in search of a policeman, and
after about two or three hours lost in that way,
she went to Mrs. Wickenden, a friend of hers, and,
acting on her advice, she went to the police station
and described how she had been treated by the pri-
soner, who was accordingly apprehended shortly
after. She stated that she screamed out as loud as
she could, but there was a little dog in the room
which was barking all the time and its noise
drowned her cries. ,

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The prisoner esid he had lived in the city for the
last 40 years, and although he had known the pro-
secutrix and her husband when he was alive, he
had not seen anything of her for some years past,
except on one occasion, when she asked him to
give her son, who was in custody at Clerkenwell
Police-court, a character, which he refused to do
on finding he was a reputed thief. The next time
he saw her was on Monday, when she said she
wanted to speak to him, and, on getting into
his room, she asked him to lend her 58., which
he refused. She urged her request, but he per-
sisted in his denial until she went away. There
were two little dogs in the room, and both of them
so quiet that the other persons in the house could
have heard any alarm that might have been raised.
The prosecutrix was a bad woman, and had pre-
ferred this charge for the purpose of extorting
money from him.
Colonel Wilson said the evidence of the prosecu-
trix was very inconsistent, and if she expected to
prove her case, she must have Mrs. Wickenden and
the gentleman who asked her to find a dog for
him, in attendance. On the other hand, if the pri-
soner wished to avoid being sent to Newgate for
trial, he must bring forward thepeople in the house
to prove that no disturbance took place, and that
no alarm was raised in his room at the time sworn
to, for that purpose he remanded the prisoner, and
accepted the bail of two respectable tradesmen in
the sum of £lOO each for his appearance.

BOV. S=ET.-MOBBING THE BARON DE
VIDIL.--John Crowther, a street hawker of prints,

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pamphlets, &c., was charged with making a dis-
turbance in 8.,w-street, on the previous afternoon
(Monday), when the Baron de Vivil was being re-
moved in a cab from this court to be conveyed to

Nev; gate, upon his committal for trial on the charge
of attempting to murder his son.
It appeared from the statement of Sergeant Has-
pinall, F 1, that the prisoner had been engaged,
amongst the crowd assembled in front of the court,
offering for sale copies of a print purporting to be
a representation of the attack by the Baron on his
son. Though he had done an excellent trade in the
course of the afternoon, he still had a portion of his
stock left when taken into custody, and these,
though not directly connected with the charge,
were produced in court as property found in his
possession. The design was remarkable for its con-
sistent inaccuracy in the main features and in all
the details. The figures have evidently been drawn
by some one who has never seen either the
Baron or his son, though it must be admitted
that the portrait of the former is not much more
unlike him than any other person. This cannot
be said of the counterfeit presentment of the
young man, who moreover is represented with
moustache and imperial, which he does not
wear; and without whiskers, which he does wear.
The youth is represented as tall, and of largo
frame, whereas he is small and slight, and rho
father is made much smaller, though in fact, with-
out being a tall or big man, he has considerably the
advantage of his son in height, muscular develop-
ment, and apparent strength. The inaccuracy is
kept up in matters of costume. The Baron, who,
andfrtohme
as the public are already informed, wore a while
youth, who wore a black one, appears with a white
hat,
with
onc. Bad as the original was, the prisoner deserves
some credit for an artistic addition, having drawn
koo
ne indicatenw a
hiss
beingea t bloodpal
ialcde , flowing
a sin the fromthe
eac
bha 1
3iws wound.
the young man's temple to his coat sleeve, and sup-
posed being
paint represented
irregular
streak a b lack
descendingo: ;
As to the charge itself, Haspinall stated that- as
dvii,ffihiccualtNyvaisnfokreceeldrinopgenthbeym
con-
fusion was created by various persons pressing for-
ward to see the baron, and ihe police had much
thePh s
baron
at
artpolice
thebae back.
mob, A butfter theee
start, a rush was made at the vehicle,
masuacbhoutt
the door of
closed it again, and after considerable delay the cab
was got away. The prisoner was one of those who
were seen rushing through the crowd in the direc-
tion of the cab before the door was opened. When
desired by the police to stand back he refused, and
they found it necessary to remove him in order to
restore order.
Mr. Corrie (to the prisoner)—Why, you are an
old ffiend of mine. You have been often here, I

prints'ot wu akrnn o' tf‘hreyrsoeau,l e
think.
The Prisoner (bashfully)—No,—irisy;
sir. Tother, sir. Bagnigge-wells-road." (Laughter.)
llieginthwesaeittiliggs.
Mr. Corrie—Clerkenwell Police Court ?
The Prisoner—Yes, sir ; only for sellin' some of
these 'ere things (pointing to the prints).
Mr. Carrie—Well, I think you are sufficiently
punished by being locked up all night. Yeti
may go• Ce
rl
ienr kg
The Prisoner—I sell 'em, sir ! It was theprinter
liableeßo unrst Burnaby
constables
lye commencedat
penaltynh de Cfl
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prisonerseosfff e
in soldto tthheemgatoolemees.rlooaminttsoogldivtehea7 receiptyet. (A ~)
His " stock" being restored to him he w
for" taken
it, and
ta
or
hi immediatelyre.

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Bread-street ..., , ..........
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Broad-street
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Cripplegate Within
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Peele's Coffeehouse, Fleet- st.
American Stores, Fenchurch-
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22d July, 1861.

THEATRE•ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
Lessee, Mr. J. B. Buokstonc.
THIS EVENING, the performances will commence with
a new Ballet, BACCHUS AND ARIADNE. Miss Fanny
Wright, the Leclercqs, Mr. Webster, &c.
After which, a new Comedy, entitled MY LORD AND
MY LADY ; or, It Might have been Worse. Mr. C. Mathews,
Mr. Andrews, Mr. Buckstone, Mrs. Charles Mathews, Mrs.
Wilkins, &a
Followed by COOL AS A CUCUMBER. Mr. Charles
Mathews.
To conclude with TURNING THE TABLES.

gent obswever's recollection. Leader of the Great
Whig Party. Prime Minister during six years
consecutively. Maker and destroyer of Adminis-
trations. Chief and subordinate of Lord PAL-
MERSTON. Colleague and antagonist of Lord
DERBY. Leader—now of the Whig-Radical Op-
position—now of the Whig-Tory, or at any rate the
Whig- Conservative Government. Biographer of
his famous ancestor Lord WILLIAM RUSSELL.
Author of the long unread, because really
unreadable tragedy of " Don Carlos." Author
too, of an unknown Novel, the very name of which
has long since been obliterated from recollection.
Friend of THOMAS MOORE, and of how many others ?
—it might almost be said, without exaggeration, of
nearly all his illustrious contemporaries. Reformer
—of how many of our national institutions?—but
pre-eminent amongst them all of our municipal
institutions, and of our whole complex fabric of
popular representation. Admirable always as a
Debater. Rarely great, but really sometimes great,
as an Orator : whenever, that is, as Sir BULWER
LYTTON has sung of him in his satire of the New
Tiwon, whenever—
" Languid Johnny glowed to glorious John."
The catalogue, here, might readily, of course, be
yet further extended. But—we pause, we hesitate
to adventure further upon its extension. And this,
not merely because the reduplication of Lord JOHN
RUSSELL'S manifold claims in this way
upon the national attention would, if much
longer persisted in, come to be regarded in all
probability as at once tedious and superfluous—
tedious by reason of being superfluous—but because
as we advance nearer and nearer to our own time
the gloss of those once all-shining titles to popular
consideration would, in all likelihood, be found to
be sadly dimmed and obscured in its lustre. We
' might readily, of course, overleap, as long since
• nobly expiated, the still incomprehensible, momen-
. tarp declaration for Finality ! But, if we were to
, come down much further in the record of the career
of this eminent statesman, we should infallibly run
the risk of stumbling over the inopportune reminis-
cence of his fatal Essay—once upon a time—it was
at Vienna—as a Diplomatist. Besides, in scanning
the official career of Lord JoHN RUSSELL, as a
statesman, it would be absolutely impossible not to
recognise, again and again, throughout its annals—
(and those annals, remember, are literally pait and
parcel of the history of the British Empire)—it would
be absolutely impossible not to recognise perpetu-
ally through the record of Lord JOHN'S ministerial
existence, justification upon justification of one of
Mr. DISRAELI'S wittiest flashes of irony, " A Con-
servative in Disguise ? It is a Whig in Place !" If
there were needed any single and all-sufficient de-
monstration of the accuracy of which saying, by the
way, that conclusive and definitive illustration of
the perfect truthfulness of Mr. DISRAELI'S
witticism would be adducable, of course,
upon the instant by a simple reference to that inane
hiatus or political gap revealing a total absence of
all reforms whatever, good, bad, or indifferent, the
melancholy, dull dead-level of those five or six
years during which Lord JOHN held supreme power
as chief of a so-called Liberal and Reforming Ad-
ministration. Yet in spite of any such deplorable
incident—we all of us know full well, we all of us
remember with the very liveliest gratitude what
large and glorious and imperishable claims Lord
JOHN RUSSELL has upon our regard in his charac-
ter as A Reformer. With him—uttered by his lips,
cherished in his heart, championed by his energy,
guarded by his intelligence—" Civil and Religious
' Liberty" has been no empty phrase. Nobly has
he " many a time and oft " fought the good fight.
Eloquently has he, time and again, vindicated
those lofty principles. And it is when viewed in
this light, it is when regarded in the
recollection of all his words and acts, of all his
memorable sayings and doings as a great and illus-
trious Advocate of the principles of Civil and Reli-
gious Liberty throughout not only the remotest
parts of the British Empire, but of the whole civi-
lised world, that Lord JOHN RUSSELL has good
reason, in very truth, to glory in his title as A
Reformer.

It is intimated that simultaneously with, or at
any rate immediately after, the noble lord's entrance
into the House of Lords as Earl RUSSELL—Land
never, all things considered, has a Great Servant
of the Crown and of the Country more worthily
earned the coronet of an Earldom]—" Lord JOHN"
will receive, as additional evidence of the Royal
Favour, the Star and the Blue Ribbon of the Garter.
But already—without any need of the magical
accolade from the Sword of State in the hands of
the Sovereign—Earl RUSSELL may take his place
among the peers of the realm with a brighter star
than even that coveted star of the Garter, his own
fair fame as A Reformer. Taking his place there
not for the purpose of closing, but rather of con-
tinuing his career as a Legislator, a Statesman, and
an Administrator. Continuing his public life there
upon a loftier, though a less prominent stage in the
double arena of Parliament. The transference of
Lord JOHN from the House of Commons to the
House of Lords, his own transformation from a
patrician Commoner into a Peer of the Realm,
while gratifying, and even, to some
extent, consolatory to himself, now that
he is advancing in years and not far short of
having attained the dignity of a septuagenarian—
must at the same time and in an especial manner be
replete with poignant regrets and many sorrowful
and long-lingering recollections. The grey-beaded
statesmanlooking back over this lapse of nearly half
a century must have experienced a certain reluctance
in severing those popular ties binding his own
political fortunes directly with those of the People
of England—ties first linking them together when
young Lord JOHN first entered the House of Com-
mons in 1813 (before the close of the great
wars of NAPOLEON) as Ivr,.
for the borough
of Tavistock. Forty seven
or eight years
as one of the national representatives—as
member for Tavistock, as member for Bandon
Bridge, as member for Stroud, as member during
these last twenty years consecutively, from 1841 to
1861, for the City of London—nearly half a century
thus past by Lord JOHN RUSSELL as A Member,
latterly as foremost; among The Leaders of the
British House of Commons, cannot, we may
feel perfectly assured, be brought at length to
a conclusion without awakening sentiments of pro-
found emotion in the heart and intellect of this
eminent man. Now that he is quitting the scene
of so many of his triumphs—triumphs political and
Parliamentary, oratorical and Administrative—we
can only remember all the good he has done for
these who, like himself, exult in the title and
revere the rights appertaining " the world o'er "
to every Free-born Englishman. Honourably
and laboriously has Lord JOHN earned for himself
that comparative rest which will henceforth,
during the remainder of his life, be secured to him
by his seat in the house of Lords as Earl RUSSELL.
And long may he enjoy it!

Congress does not intend to have a long see-
king. There is, we believe, one provision against
it very efficient in America—they are paid nothing
for 41A extrA Session. will net, beweTer, be