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London, England, 1857-09-18 00:00:00

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TESTIMONIAL TO DR. LIVINGSTON.

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could have done i though, I think, in. every speech
I have made I have maintained that time is an
essentialelement in the development of the resources
of a new country. When I spoke at the Society of
Arts I did not state that vessels should be sent by
the Zambesi, asthey could only get a cargo of hippo-
potamus flesh, which, though it made good pork, was
not exactly what they were in search of. A single
merchant of Manchester, Mr. Clegg, about eleven
years ago began to distribute cotton seeds among
the missionaries, and about seven years ago he
began at a loss to purchase cotton. But this
year he obtained about GOO bales of cotton, and
next year he expects to get at least 1,000
bales. (Hear, hear.) He sends out cotton gins
to the natives, who are delighted to get them ;
and if the same process be carried on by the. Cotton
Association of Glasgow and Manchester, in the
course of several years it will have a material and
most beneficial influence on the market, and I hope
that it will relieve the American slaveholders from
the necessity of having slaves. The natives are
exceedingly anxious to engage in commerce. The
learned doctor then proceeded to say that the ac-
complishment of this desire had been hitherto frus-
trated by the intervention of various warlike tribes,
who opposed by every means their exit from
the centre of the country to the sea. Some
time ago, after the path was opened, the central
natives were much delighted to reach the sea, which
they had been told formed the limit of the world.
They said they had travelled with their father un-
til the world said to them, " I am done ; there is
no more of me ; there is only sea in front."
(Laughter.) Although, on retiring from that ex
pedition from the centre to the sea, I came without
any goods, the natives received me with great
kindness and courtesy, for they felt that,
though I brought them nothing, yet I had
conferred on them a great favour by dis-
covering the path. As to the cotton, they pro-
duced it merely to supply their wants, and they
had no artificial wants. Commerce shows to us
that we are dependent upon others ; but with the
heathens there is no such thing. They like to be
independent of everybody else, and they like to de-
press others. I believe that the restriction upon
trade in our own country was but a remnant of
heakhenism, but it has now been happily removed.
(Laughter and cheers.) I should like to state that
the Portuguese Government treated me with the
grettest kindness, and I shall ever remember their
kindness with gratitude. When I arrived among .
ahem-from the centre of Africa, on my way west, I
NM nearly naked, but they clothed me, and I re-
ceived equal kindness on the east side. This might
be in part due to some despatches which Lord Cla-
rendon had sent, but I believe it was in great mea-
sure dictated by their own kindly feelings. No w,
several parties have asked me to form commerc'al
companies, but I have always declined to do so.
(Rear.) I have always said that at present the
forming of companies would be premature, 'and that
the thing must be begun in a small way. The Por-
tagnese are on the outskirts of the country on both
sides, and I think it would only end in go d feeling'
if we consulted with them, and invited their co-
operation. (Hear.) There can be no doubt that
they would derive the greatest. benefit by the ex-
tension of commerce with Africa ; but they have
been for ages on the outskirts, and unable to de-
velope the resources of the interior. Indeed Ido
not think they know them, or they wouid not be
sending to Mozambique, a distance of 900 miles,
for that which they could get by travelling 100.
Most of the houses of the Portuguese settlers are
composed of stone and mud, and in a few instances
the verandahs are supported with lime. When I
came down the Zambese I found three varieties of
marble—one pink colour, another white, and the
third a dirty yellow. Had the Portuguese known
there was lime within 100 miles of them, certainly
they would not have travelled 900 miles for it ; per-
haps the reason for not having made this and other
discoveries was because of the tribes to which I

GLASGOW, Wednesday.—ln terms of the unani-
mous resolution of the Town Council, passed a few
months ago,"the freedom of the city of Glasgow was
this day presented to Dr. Livingston, the African
traveller. The presentation took place at 1 o'clock
in the City-hall, which accommodates 3,500 people,
and alike from the celebrity of the traveller, and
from his being a native of the district, the event
created an unusual degree of excitement, and the
hall was crowded-in every part by ladies and gen-
tlemen.
Dr. Livingston, on making his appearance with
his two boys, was received with a round of enthu-
siastic cheering. He was accompanied to the plat-
form by the Lord Provost, magistrates, and mem-
bers of Council ; by Mr. W. Buchanan and Mr. R.
Dalglisb, the members for the city ; Sir E. Cole-
brooke, M.P. for Lanarkshire ; Sir J. Anderson,
M.P. for Stirling burghs • Sir A. Alison,the his-
torian ; and by many other distinguished citizens
and members of the clergy of all denominations.
The LORD PROVOST on rising was received with
greet applause. When the cheering had subsided his
lordship spoke as follows :—We are met here ladies
and gentlemen, to present the freedom of the city of
Glasgow to Dr. Livingston. Dr. Livingston, your
return to this country afteran absence of more than
15 years was marked at the time by an extraordi-
nary feeling of surprise, wonder, and gratification,
not only by the learned, but by every class who
can sympathise with the long and persevering
industry and suffering you have so heroically borne
while travelling through and making researches as
to the present state of Southern and Central Africa.
That country has now been surveyed and mapped
out by your almost individual exertions. A land
hitherto hidden and unknown has been opened up
and made patent to the philanthropist and the
merchant. The various races that inhabit those
immense tracts of a darkened wilderness have by
you been made acquainted with the white man—
been, by your Christian and benevolent commu-
nion, led to reciprocate kindness, and to desire
to be on friendly intercourse with the other peoples
of the world. I say your return has been hailed by
all, and signal marks of honour have been heaped
upon you in high quarters in the metropolis, as
well as in every other part of this coutry. But I am
sure I speak the feelings of this large assembly
when I say that this district and city feel a par-
ticular pride and interest in your great achieve-
ments. (Loud cheers.) From your being one of
ourselves, born among us, educated at our univer-
sity, we laim you already as a citizen, and we con-
sider your great work as the effort of one whose
name will hereafter be associated with the many
extraordinary men who have been benefactors to
the human family and an honour to the place of
their birth. (Cheers.) Sharing in this feeling, sir,
and in the hope thrt you would visit us before again
leaving this country, the Corporation of Glasgow
unanimously resolved by some public demonstra-
tion to express to you personally their admiration
of your career, of your self-sacrificing industry
heretofore, and, as a stimulus to your future opera-
tions, to present you with some special mark of
their approval. (Loud cheering.) There was some
doubt how this could be most effectually done, but
there was no difference as to its being merited in
the very highest degree. (Applause.) It ultimately
was resolved that the greatest honour in our power
was to offer you the freeedom of this ancient city,
which I now do by presenting this golden
b )x, which contains your burgess ticket. [The
Lord Provost was loudly cheered on presenting the
box]. His Lordship proceeded—l am sure Sir, it
is unnecessary for me, and before this enlightened
and brilliant assemblage who arepresent to witness
and approve this act of the Council, to attempt to
narrate the manner of your life in the bush for the
long and interesting period of your bygone travels,
of your hairbreadth escapes, your almost super-
human perseverance, your personal sufferings in
the cause of Christianity, in the extension of civi-
rzation, and in promoting friendly intercourse with
Vie newly-discovered races that inhabit Central
Aft ica, and of your devotion in again offering your-
self for the further prosecution of this great and
noble work. (Cheers.) Our wish is that, with
assistance horn this country, you may be enabled
to renew your labours, so as to give confidence
and assurance to the chiefs and others who
so kindly treated you when in need that you are
the accredited agent of one of the greatest
nations on the earth, and come again among
them to redeem your former pledges of a renewed
and enduring friendly intercourse. The great names
that have preceded you in this honour of citizenship
—Lord John Russell, Lord Macaulay, Lord Pal-
merston, Lord Elgin, and Sir Celin Campbell—
will, I hope, sufficiently prove the desire we have to
rank you among the foremost men of the day. It is
not a little curious to mark the high and important
positions all ofthose illustrious individuals have been
called to in the service of their country since they be-
came citizens of Glasgow. We hope, Sir, that the
like good fortune is in store for you, and that your
life may be long spared, and that the sphere of
your usefulness may be further extended, so that
the renown of our city and your own fame may be
increased by the labour, usefulness and humanising
.mitts or eus yvuugursb IMO Lora Fro 'mat,
resumed his seat amid loud cheering.)
Dr. LIVINGSTON, who on rising was received with
loud applause, then returned thanks. He said—
My Lord Provost, 1 cannot well express how
deeply I feel the honour that has just been
conferred on.me. I have now received the freedom
of this great commercial city, close to which I was
born, and at the schools of which I was nurtured.
The honour is enhanced very greatly by being con-
ferred in the presence of such a company as I have
now before me, and likewise by being conferred in
presence of some of my old professors, one of whom
most kindly corresponded with me all the time (10
years) that I was in Africa. (Applause.) It is
also conferred in presence of many who, like my-
s-lf, have gone through a hardy training in youth,
and now occupy a position that was not expected
of them. Sibiquana—for I tan always speak better
whin I get back to African themes—Sibiquana, a
chief who performed a most important part in open-
ing up the new country by preceding me in the line
of discovery, and conquering a large tract of terri-
tory—he conquered a people who had the curious
propensity to ornament their villages with the skulls
of strangers. And had not this chief opened up
the line of discovery among them it is very proba-
ble that, instead of my addressing you to-day, I
should have lost my skull in those villages. He
not only opened up the path, but introduced the
language in which my father-in-law was making a
translation of the Bible. The chief having done so,
the people found the path comparatively. smooth.
It was the life-long desire of this great chieftain to
have intercourse with the_ white men. He went,
first of all, a long way to the west and a long way
to the east, and afterwards came 200 miles south
to meet me and Mr. Oswald and our party. A
fortnight after that he died, having become sick
almost immediately on reaching us. We felt very
much the position in which he had left his people,
and we went and spoke kindly to them, advising
them not to separate, bat to support us. They
answered, " You must not have any fear that we
impute to you the death of Sibiquana ; and as you
had kind intentions towards the father, you must
entertain just the same towards his son." Now, I
have somewhat the same request to make to you,
ladies and gentlemen. Here are my two sons (the
learned Doctor presented to the meeting his two
EMS, fine little fellows, and continued amid loud

have referred to being in the way, and indeed I do
not believe that they would have allowed a stranger
to pass through them as I did but for the circum-
stance of the chief, Sibiquana, having opened up
the way for me. And now that we feel a want of
cotton, and now that a new field has been opened
up, 1 look upon it as quite a Providential devel T-
alent, and we ought to direct our commerce so as
to influence in its course those great evils which
exist among our friends across the Atlantic. There
is no difficulty in the way of religion among the
African tribes. Those of the north are more reli-
gions than those of the south, bat we have no
Mahomedanism. I saw it stated in a newlaaper

that we could not have any intercourse with the
people of the East because of their Maliomedan'sm.
Now, it does not prevail at all, and we have
not a vestige of the Christian religion at all.
The only thing like a vestige—shall I say of
the Christian religion I—is the manner in which
the ladies ador❑ their heads, so that tID it
hair is like the glory round the head of the Virgin.
We found e, number of staves building boat, who
call themselves Mahoniedans on Saturday and Chris-
tians on Sunday, so that they have two Sundays in
the week. (Laughter.) This arrangement is because
they want two days' play. Perhaps the working
men of Glasgow may improve upon this hint. In
iss, that I see su great interest taken
in this country, not only by a solitary Vidual in
Manchester, but by Glasgow and Manchester, these
two powerful commercial cities, I have the greatest
hope. Still, I look up to Providence and pray that
this great attention directed to Africa may lead to
the commercial and spiritual elevation of countless
thousands of its inhabitants. I have again to
thank you heartly fur the honour you have done me
in coming to see this presentation, and I have to
thank the Lord Provost, magistrates, and town coun-
cil with all my heart for voting me this testimonial
of their appreciation. I shall always remember it
with the utmost gratitude, (The rev. gentleman
sat down amid immense applause )
Mr. W. BUCHANAN, M.P., said he had to re-
quest that the mee.ing would join with him in ex-
pres.iog thanks to the Lord Provost and magistrates
for giving them an opportunity of hearing Dr.
Livingston. (Cheers.) He was sure they all agreed
in the sentiments so well expre sed by the Lord
Provost. It was a fitting occasion for the c)rpora-
tion to come forward and testify the admiration
which not only they them=elveß, but all the mem-
bers of the community felt i❑ reference to the ex-
ertions of Dr. Livingston in the cause of civilization
and of Christianity. (Cheers.)
The LORD PROVOST briefly acknowledged the
compliment, and the immense assemblage separated.
On the same evening another splendid assem-
blage met in the City Hall, the Lord Provost in the
chair, when Dr. Livingston was presented with a
pecuniary testimonial, amounting to 2,oool.—the
result of a subscription raised by the citizens of
Glasgow. The proceedings were of a very interest-
ing character.

The Russia n Government has decided that the Ger-
man language shall be no longer taught in the public
school at Irkoutek, but shall be replaced by the Engli-h
language, which, considering the trade with America,
is thought more requisite in that part of Russia.
ROBBING A CIIIIRCEL—A boy named Coudert, living
with his parents at Langeac, in the Haute-Loire, was
7 years ago caught in the act of taking money from the
poor-box of the church ; but as he was only 7 years of
age, he was not prosecuted. Oa the 26th of May last
it was found that in the night a hold had been formed,
partly by burning, partly by cutting in the bottom of
the poor-box, and that the money it contained had been
taken away ; and it appeared the thief had secreted him-
self in the church on the previous evening and been locked
in, that he had taken some wax-candles from the vestry,

,
. .
and warm applause)--1 intend soon to return to bad ignited them at the lamp which is alwai;
my old sphere of labour, but I leave my sons kept burning before the altar, and had then employed
among you, and whatever kindness you may have them to burn the hole in the box, which hole he had en-
felt towards myself, I beg of you to transfer a larged with a knife. Young Coudert was immediately
portion of it to them. (Applause.) lam very laugh suspected, and it turned out that be had disappeare d from
delighted to have this opportunity of speaking a his parents' house. He was sought after, and was caught
at some distance from the village on the roe 1 to Puy. His
little on the subject of the productions of the new
country. I had the honour some time ago of ad- trousersdenti
.alienw ere spottedwith .adnrd,phsehofaiwianx
his
hich
kbad evi-
dressing a meeting at Manchester, and, in answer whicll.T.,eresta
fromine acandle,
stained a ith smoke. His guilt wlsapsotel2netc9les:::
to a number of questions al to the prospects of that and beside-, on being vestioned, he admitted it. He was
part of the country as exemplified in the produc- brought to trial for the robbery bef, re the Tribunal of
Lions that we find in abundance in it, I will men- Correctional Police of Brioude, and ordered to be de-
lion now a few of the products to which I did not tained in a house of correction to the age of 21. A few
at that meeting allude. One of the products is days ago an appeal again It this decikion was presented
Its
the wild grape vine, of which there are three to the Imperial Court at ion), by hi; parents, on the
varieties, none of them at all good to eat in their ground that he ought to have been acquitted, as having
.uncultivated state, but capable of great improve- acted without discernment ; but the court confirmed
rnent.. In Manchester I also omitted to refer to the judgment.paivEarisemENT.l—The greatest happiness of a journalist
the Angora goat, which I am told (for I did'not is to introduce to his readers some new discovery calculate
myself see it) is also found in the country. The to benefit that vast portion of our fellow-creatures which
long silky wool of the animal gives it the ap- has the strongest claims upon our sympathies. It is with
pearance of walking without feet. I mentioned at this feeling that we call the attention of invalids to the
following extracts from Du Barry's interesting Report of
the meeting I allude to that cotton is cultivated
ConsstiwpiattioonutlllNeedir:oiuse ofß iil?odusigeastnidolliTyeisyceopsmpial)a,iiFalsatudoeunz,
more or less all over the country. I believe that a
Christian community is. a missionary community ; Asthma, Consumption, and Debility, by Du Barry's Reva-
end' that, although we are not all required to go leuta Arabica Food. Cure No. 180.—Twenty-five years' ner-
vonsness,
constipation, indigestion, and debility, from
forth as missionaries to the heathen, yet we can in-which
I had suffered great misery, and which no medicine could
thence the commerce of the world in this great city remove or relieve, have been effectually cured by Du Barry's
il merchant
prances, in such a way as to effee food in a very short time.—W. B. Reeves, 181, Flect•street,
a.-ross the At .
Christianising result.. They have a great deal of London. Cure No. 1,784.—N0t expected to live six days
power, and
iianbtoicli.eTeehetilemyenriiacaynsaiadretnhoetirailfrsileanvdes- longer, I was cured by Du Barry's admirable Health-restoring
Arabica Food.—Magdalena Purvis, Moillit, Scotland. Care
holders ormsLpypeorittehrs of the slave system. They ale No. s,46l.—Sixty years' partial paralysis, affecting one-half
working, of my frame, and which had resisted all other rem,:dies, has
for the obeli ion of slavery
in America ; but we em,
..laveholders of that are gieatly dependent on ill i yielded to Du Barry's Health-restoring Food, and I now Con-
sider myself a stranger to all complaints excepting a hearty old
circumstancesav?
itself to the friends of liberty tlailanutAwienehric
cotton—a state of thing,oiiti nent for our supply of age.—Wm. Hunt, barrister-at-law, King's College, cambridge.
does not commend Supported_lomistr byDrtesAtimndoziwalsurfroo.mptrhesheoelreiaburadte.d Professors . 1
Dr, w
lir
ze
r,. DDrr.. Harvey
in Great Britain. (Rear.) Aor liberty el
outse.ves in this re-
got int" a Dr. Campbell ;. Dr. Gattikei:
peculiar combination ofLord Stuart de Decies; the Dowager Countess of Castl,--
stuart ; Major-Gen. Thomas King, and many other respet ta. le
roc on 1• In Africa, persons, whose health has been restored by i_ t . . t, after all other
however, We have large cotton fields.
spect, and can hardly help
Le me not means of cure had failed. Suitably packed with full lo-
be understood as propos•ng that large speculations struetions. In canisters, 11b, 2s. 9d. ; 21b, 4s. fitl. ; 511,
for A have always , 11s ; 121 b, 225. The 121 b canisters are sent carriage free;
2n receipt of Post-Ofice order,--Barry Du Barry, 4 Co'.,
rsehcoonmldmbeendeendgatimede,
once,
dneethat ill.?
development of African civilisation must be a slow q 7, Regent-street, London. IMPORTANT CAUTION against the
iaandatsa
one. The Times lately tot kup this point in a voty for Sir Wigrasm
ofp,swpeuriwouosolmirtaintitoends
ant-- :—The ri.ce-Chancel.
proper way, and gave it more prominence than I !tlt March, 185,1 against Alfredg Hooper N j_tue_wit en thi.
0111, for imitating
Da Early ' Ite 'al
-- 'Y 5 v cute Arabica Food.

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CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURP.—Sept. 17.

Anne Donovan, 18, was indicted fur feloniously
stabbing and wounding George Gymar, with intent
to murder him.

Mr. Bodkin and Mr. Clark .conducted the prose-
cution.

The prosecutor in this case is a police-constable,
and it appeared that while ou duty in the neigh-
bourhood of Drury-lane he had occasion to take
an idiot boy to the workhouse, and while so en-
gaged the prisoner and a number of other disorderly
characters interfered with him, and his hat was
knocked off, and as he was picking it up he accident-
ally struck the prisoner a slight blow on the face, and
she appeared very angry, and uttered threats against
him. Having taken the boy to the workhouse, he
returned to his duty, and the prisoner met him,
and, as it appeared, without any provocation,
made a most savage attack upon him with a knife
and stabbed him in the face and other parts of his
body, at the same time making use of the most
fearful threats, one stab in the eye being accom-
panied by the exclamation that, if she could not
have the constable's life, she would have his
eye out.

The prisoner, when called upon for her defence,
said she was drunk and did not know anything of
what had happened.
The jury found the prisoner guilty of wounding
with intent to do grievous bodily harm.
Mr. Bodkin informed the Court that the prisoner
had been convicted of serious assaults upon the female
turnkeys of different prisons in which she had been
confioed, and she had also been repeatedly convicted
of riotous conduct and assaulting the police.
Mr. Justice Crompton, after observing upon the
aggravated character of the offence, said the police
must be protected in the discharge of their duty, and
sentenced her to penal servitude for ten years.
The prisoner, on leaving the dock, exclaimed, with
great violence, " I'll never do it—l'll never do it !"
William Edwin James Hillyar, a resp ectable look-
ing lad who surrendered to take his trial, was indicted
for felony in having unlawfully uttered as true and
genuine a forged certificate of baptism, with intent
to defraud..

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to gat up and follow the prisoner until he was taken
into custody.
The prisoner was found guilty-and sentenced to
five years' penal servitude.
Thomas Johnson, 38, tailor, was indicted for re-
ceiving a quantity of silk, valued at 3001., the pro-
perty of George Cresswell, knowing it to be stolen.
Mr. Ribton, Mr. Sleigh, and Mr. Orridge. ap-
peared.
The presecutor in the case is a silk mercer and
draper in Great Russell street, and upon July 30
his place was broken into, and between three and four
hundred pounds worth of property stolen. Upon
the 22d)of August Inspector Mackenzie and Sergeant
Smith went to the lodgings of the prisoner, in De-
vonshire-street, King-square, where they found
one piece of silk of a peculiar pattern and length,
which had been stolen from the prosecutor, and
with this there were also some bills of the prosecu-
tor's, which the prisoner took from the police, and
destroyed by crushing them to pieces in a basin of
water. In the same room was found a quantity of
burglar's implements, and also a memorandum re-
lating to some silks and other property, evidently
that stolen from the prosecutor.
The jury found the prisoner guilty, and he was
sentenced to six years' penal servitude.
Tue grand jury having found true bills against
Captain H. Thorne and T. D. Evans, who are out
upon bail, for a libel upon the Hon. F. W. Cado-
gan, deputy-chairman and one of the managing di-
rectors of the Submarine M4grietic Telegraph Com-
pany, an application was made to postpone the
trial until next session.

Mr. Serjeant Parry, with whom was Mr. Robin-
son, for the defendants, said the grounds upon
which he now applied to postpone the case until
next session where the ab=ence of many very mate-
rial witnesses whom they had been unable to sub-
poena, they being upon the continent, and also to
give the defence time to consider whether they
should raise a special plea.
Mr. Ballantine, with whom was Mr.. Bodkin, said
that although the prosecution were most anxious to
have the- case tried, he should not after the state-
ment of.his learned friend, oppose the application,
but expect, if a special plea was to be pleaded, that
due notice would be given to the prosecution.
Mr. Serjeant Parry slid that thil prosecution
should have at least four days' notice of the course
intended to be taken by the defendants.
After some conversation the trial was fixed for
the second day of next session, and the defendants
not having been called upon to surrender, the bail
taken before the magistrate who committed the
i case remains undisturbed.

Mr. Petersdorff and Mr. Sleigh conducted the
prosecution on behalf of the Admiralty ; Sergeant
Ballantine was specially retained for the defence,
with Mr. Lilley.
Mr. Petersdorff, in opening the case, said he re-
gretted that the duty devolved upon him of prefer-
ring a charge of so serious a description against a
young man so respectable as the prisoner and his
family undoubtedly were, but the authorities of the
Admiralty, feeling that a very mischievous offence
had been committed, had no alternative but to in-
stitute the present prosecution as a warning to all
whom it might concern, that they incurred very
great danger by committing an act of a description
that was now the subject of inquiry. He then pro-
ceeded to explain that by an order in council, which
indeed was likely to be of a very beneficial charac-
ter, all persons applying for appointments in the
civil service of the Government were required
to undergo a certain examination as to their
fitness, awl there were other regulations to be
complied"with, one of which was with reference to
the age of the applicants ; and with regard to ap-
pointments in the Admiralty the youngest age at
which any clerk could be 'appointed was 17. An
application had, it appeared been made to the Ad-
miralty for an appointment for the prisoner, and
he was directed to attend at the Admiralty for the
purpose of undergoing the usual examination, and
he did so on the 27th of July. Upon this occasion
he signed a paper by which he stated his age to be
17, and he at the same time produced a certificate
of baptism and the certificate of the registrar of
birtlr, &c.,, by which it appeared that he was born
on the 22d of May, 1840. The gentleman to
whom he gave the documents discovered imme-
diately that they had been tampered with, and
that the date originally entered was 1842, and that
the 2 had been erased and a 0 substituted. The
defendant attended-onasubsequent day and under-
went his examination ; bat upon all the facts coming
to the knowledge of the Board of Admiralty, they
felt it to be their duty to direct that the present in-
dictment should be preferred.
Mr. West, a clerk in the Admiralty, proved that
the defendant was recommended for rn, appoint-
ment, and that the usual letter was.sent, requir-
ing him to attend and be examined. Ho said he
believed that the application for a situation was
originally made by the prisoner's father. By one
of the regulations of the Commissioners, no person
was eligible for an appointment is the Admiralty
who was under 17 or over 25 years old.
By Sergeant Ballantine—The connexions of the
defendant were highly respectable. His father was
an offic.r of rank on board the Agamemnon.
Mr. Humphris, the senior clerk in the Civil Service
Commissioners Office, stated that the defendant cline
to him, by appointment, and he asked him to fill in
written auswtra to der tain questions, and he did so,
and one of the answers he gave was, th it his age
was seventeen at his last birth day. The defend-
ant then handed him two papers, one purporting
to be a certificate of baptism and thaothor a rogia

Jean Baptiste Vavassuer, agent, was indicted for
obtaining by false pretences from John Milligan
and another 216 yards of Alpaca, value 241.
Mr. Metcalfe prosecuted, and Mr. Ribton de-
fended.

The prosecutors are warehousemen, and the pri-
soner had gone there during the absence of the
senior manager, and stating himself to be an agent
in Harp-lane, in conjunction with another man
obtained the goods in question, which he said he
said he wanted to send m a sample to Germany,
but pawned upon the same for half their value.
He was convicted and sentenced to 12 months'
imprisonment.

Ch4rlotte Knox surrendered to take her trial for
obtaining money from the East India Company
by means of false pretences.
Mr. Sergeant Ballantine and Me. Maule prose-
cuted, and Mr. Giffird defended.
Mr. Ballantine opened the following C3S3 to the
jury. The defendant was the widow of Captain R.
Walter Knox, formerly of the East India Comp my 's
service, and in 1842 became a pensioner upon Lord
Clive's Fund for widows, which would cease upon
11.-n- re-marriage. This she had done in 1855, but
had gone on receiving the pension down to the
present year. The defence about to be set up was
a singular one, if true. The second marriage was
not denied, but it was said that the second husband
being then a married man, it was no marriage
at all.

Evidence was then given to show that down to
January, 1857, she received her pension as Mrs.
Knox, but that in October, 1815, she wad married
at Antwerp to one Ric!ia,rd Osborne Cross, and had
lived with him at Berkhampstesd as his wife.
The Recorder said the difficulty was iii identify-
ing- the defendant with the register of marriage
from Antwerp.
Mr. Ballantine—Mr. Cross is in court.
Mr. Cross then got into the witness-bor.
Recorder—You cannot examine him.
Mr. Ballantine—No, but my learned friend can
examine him.

Mr. Giffard (to Mr. Cross)—Were you married
previously to your marriage with this lady ?
Witne<s—l was, but did not know that my first
wife was alive. I had not seen her from 181:3 un-
til 1 ttely. I saw her last Sunday fortnight in
Brighton.
Mr. Thalantine—You are sure of that
-Wituess—She is now iu court.
The learned sergeant said that after had trans-

pired ho should withdraw from the prosecution.
He, notwithstanding these circumstances had been
told to the company, thought they had acted pro-
perly in bringing the matter here.
The Recorder sail it was a very proper case to
be brought here.
The defendant was then discharged.

ter ~t b:L alb, and 117 looked at them and saw at
once that the dates had been altered from 1842 to
1840. He asked the prisoner if he was aware that

the certificates bad been altered, and he said he
was, and he accounted for it by stating that Mr.
Hatchard, the clergyman, had made a mistake in
the date, and that the documents had been sent
back to him, and that ho had made the alteration.
Witness told him that he could not give credit to
his statement, but he persisted in stating that it
was true, and he afterwards said that he supposed
his father knew something about it.

By Mr. Sergeant Ballantine—ih e appointment
the defendant would have received was a temporary
clerkship. He could not say what salary he would
have received, but he would have been liable to be
discharged at any moment.
The Rev. Mr. Hatchard, the Vicar of St. An-
drew's, Plymouth, where the prisoner's family re-
sided, proved that the date of the certificate of bap-
tism h.td been altered from 1842 to 1840.
By Sergeant Ballantine—He hid known the pri-
soner from his cbildho id, and always considered
him a very good boy, and his family were highly
respectable.

John Dennis, a person connected with the West-
mins' er Police Court, proved that the prisoner told
him that he was only fifteen years old.
Sergeant B.illantine made a most eloquent and
feeling appeal to the jury on behalf of the prisoner.
He called their attention to the peculiar nature of
the charge, and said he hoped he should be able to
induce them to come to the conclusion that they
were nokbound, upon the evidence laid before them,
to come to a conclusion that the lad at the bar, who
up to this moment had never had the slightest stain
cast upon his character, had committed the offence
that was sought to be established against him, and
of which, if he should be convicted, the result must
inevitably be to blast the hopes of the remainder of
his days. He then proceeded to argue that there was
no evidence to show that the prisonerkuew the state-
ments in the documents were Mee, and add that it
was much more probable some older person than
the prisoner should have been guilty of the fraud,
if any fraud htd been in point of fact committed,
than that he should have been the guilty party.
The Rev. Mr. Chambers, the muter of .the Royal
Naval School, was called as a witness for the defence,
and he stat,:d that the prisoner had been under his
charge for five years, and that no complaint had
ever been made against him.
Mr. Baron Watson, iu summing up, said that, of
course, it was a very painful th'ng to convict a lad
likethe prisoner of so very serious an offence as the
one charged in the present indictment; but, unhap-
pily, iu courts of justice they were too frequently
called upon to deal with painful cases; but he and
they were bcuud to do their duty according to the
evidence before them; and if an offence was made
out, they would be doing an injustice to the corn-
rnunrty, and would not be properly performing
the duty they had undertaken, if they die
not return a verdict to that effect. The
learned judge then observed upon the great
importance of sustaining the integrity of instru-
ments such as certificates of births, &c., and said
that the question in the present case was whether
it was established that the prisoner had uttorel an
instrument as a certificate of b tptisin the contents
cif which he mu-t have known to be ?else. If this
fact were made out to their satisfaction, th .y were
beund to return a verdict of guilty, but if they
Pntert tined aly reasonable doubt upon the subject
they would of course give the prisoner the benefit of
Viet doubt and acquit him.
The jury, after deliberating for a considerable
time in the box, expressed a wish to retire. They
left the court at six o'clock, aed returned at seven,
when they gave a verdict of Not Guilty.
There was a burst of applause when the verdict
was delivered.

THIRD COURT.
(Before Mr. Prendergast, Q.C.)

Thomas Holland, a respectable-looking man,
said to be a tt.acher iu a Catholic school, was in-
dicted for feloniously assaulting Hannah Peake.
Mr.-Austin prosecuted, Mr. Ribton defended.
The prosecutrix, a somewhat singular-looking
young woman, 24 years of age, and whose intellect
seemed to be impaired, sAid that she lived with her
friends at North Hyde, near Islewortb, and that
upon the evening of the 22(1 of August the pri-
soner, whom she had once or twice spoken to came
no, and having shaken bands with her at the gate,
forced her along the passage into the 13a* kitchen,
and then assaulted her in a very gross manner.
She struggled violently, and her screams brought
Ler little sister into th 3 kitchen. The prisoner got
up and ran away.
The Commissioner at great length interrogated
the witness to ascertain whether she had in any
way been a consenting party to any freedom th tt
might have led a lad like the prisoner to imagine
that further liberties would not have been resisted,
but she denied that she had.

Mr. Ribton briefly cross-examined the witne3s to
the same effect, but she strongly denied having
given priioner any cause for his conduct towards
her.

Two children, the sister and cousin of the prose-
cutrix, proved coming into the kitchen and seeing
the assault committed ; and prisoner offered them
a sovereign not to say anything about

Mr. Ribton having briefly addressed the jury,
The Commissioner summe I up, co Mille ntaig
upon the evidence.
Whilst the jury were deliberating the Commis-
sioner interposed several times, and pointed out
different points in the case, commenting further
upon them.
Mr. Ribton, with much warmth, protested
against such a course being pursued when a eise
was closed. The case during the early part had
bean nearly taken out of his hands by the bench,
and from the tone in which he, the Commissioner,
had made remarks upon what he had elicited from
the prosecutrix.. He, the counsel, thought the Com-
missioner entertained an opinion that there was
*carcely any case, and therefore said little to tha
jury, and now he fouud the jury in their delibera-
tions interfered Wits by remarks from the bench
adverse to the prisoner.

The Commisaioner denied that he had taken the
else out of the council's hands, or that he had in-
terfered with the matter in any way to call fur the
remarks which had. bean made upon his conduct.
Mr. Ribton repeated his objections to the course
which had been pursued by the Commissioner
throughout the whole trial.

After some further remarks from the bench,
which provoked immediate replies from the counsel,
the scene, happily for the dignity of ju t:ce, was
brought to a close, the jury found the prisoner
guilty, and he was sentenced to one month's im-
prisonment. _ _ _

Henry Webb, 43, hairdresser, was indicted for a
burglary in the dwelling-house of Matthew Henry
Hammond, and stealing property to the value of
701. Ano. her count in the indictment charged him
with receiving the property, knowing it to have
been stolen.

Mr. Orridge prosecuted, and Mr. Phillips and
Mr. Sleigh defeng.ecl. •

NEW COURT.
(Before the-Recorder.)
William Weaver, 20, tAilor, Wa I indicted for
robbery, with violence, upon liflijamin B'alresly,
and stealing from him his watch and guard.
Mr. T. Salter prcs:cuted, and Mr. Sleigh de-
fended. •

The facts of the ease have appeared in the police
reports within the last few days. -
The jury found the prisoner guilty of receiving,
and be was sentenced to four years' penal servitude.

SIIICIDIC FR031,14 OSS OF CHARACTER.—Last evening
Mr. C.. 1. Carttar 'neld an inquest at the Forsters' Rail-
way Tavern, Fore lit-hill, on the body of Mary Ann
P.pe, 23 years of age, who had lived in service at Car-
shalton. On Wednesday evening deceased and the
mother and father of deceased's mistress, arrived from
Carshalton at Sy,:ren ham about ten o'clock. Mrs. Rush,
die mother of cleci lased's mistress, had been to Car-
shalton, and found deceased had been stealing several
sums of money, O.i being promised forgiveness, de-
c aged contented, whereupon Mrs. Rush brought her to
Sydenham to her friends with the intimation that she
elieuld not give her et character. Deceased slipped away
from Mrs. Rush, aud a little after five o'clock in the
morning the dead In idy of the young woman was taken
from the canal. Th o jury returned a verdict that de
ceased destroyed hei licit* while labouring ander mental
txeitemont.

It appeared that the prosecu'or, a lad 16 ye:ir3
of age, was about 9 o'clock in the evening standing
at the corner of Milfoid-lane, Strand, when the
prisoner came up ran 1 asked him to come down the
Fine and he would show hid' something. Upon
ih2ir getting some cli..tance down some man, appa-
rently drunk, ran against the proFecn'or, up m
which pris ,n; r and two °then knocked hiin down,
and stile his watch, Prosecut r, however, managed

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