The Sun.
London, England, 1859-08-27 00:00:00

The matter then dropped, and the parties retired

LAMBETH.—ONE OF THE BENNETT QUACK 1
DOCTOR GANG.—William Charles Allen, a young
fellow, who described himself as a medical student,.
and who appeared, in discharge of his bail, to meet
a complaint.preferred against him on a former day,
of assault and riotous and disorderly conduct in
Westminster-read, at an unseasonable hour of the
morning, was again charged before the Hon. G. C.
Norton, with being concerned with two persons
named Wailers and Edwards in defrauding several
persons by representing themselves as doctors, and
undertaking to cure all conceivable diseases, while,
like their former associates, the Bennetts, the stuff
they dispensed as medicine was of the most dis-
gusting description.
Mr. Benjamin Thomas Jones, of 75, Mount-
street, Grosvenor-square, who had been the prose-
cutor in the caste of Dr. Wafter's, and Edwards, his
confederate, identified the prisoner Allen as one of
the persons he had seen at Dr. Wafters', in Mount-
place, Westminster-road, and as the individual to
whom he had paid ss. on his first visit. On the
.apprehension of \\ratters and Edwards the prisoner
absconded, and though Inspector Young had spent
much time in endeavouring to trace and apprehend
him, he managed to keep out of his reach. He was,
however, included in the indictment with his com-
panions, and a true bill was found against all
three, and on the Bth of July last Waiters and
Edwards were tried at the Old Bailey, convicted
and sentenced to 18 months' hard labour each.

The prisoner, who offered nothing in defence to
the charge, was remanded to give time to obtain a
copy of the bill of indictment as found by the
grand jury, preparatory to his being sent to take
his trial at the Central Criminal Court.
Mr. Jones informed the magistrate that it was
by mere accident he saw the prisoner, his attend-
ance at the court being for a different purpdse than
that of giving evidence, and he had not the
slightest idea of meeting Allen. He then brought
to his worship's recollection the fact that, on last
Saturday week, he had waited upon him respecting
the expenses he had been put to in prosecuting to
conviction the former prisoners, Wafters and
Edwards—no less a sum than £6l 35., while all
he received for his expenses was Li 45., when his
worship kindly expressed a strong hope that the
medical profession as a body would not allow him
to-be at a loss, but would subscribe a sum sufficient
to hold him harmless. The press had as kindly
noticed his worship's expressed opinion in reference
to his case ; but he was sorry to say that, with the
exception of the £5 so very generously subscribed
by Dr. Smith, of the National Ear Institution,
Pall-mall, he had not received more than £3. He
had waited, he said, on a number of gentlemen
holding high stations in the medical profession,
to solicit their subscriptions, but the reply of these
gentlemen (though they spoke of his exertions
in the matter as most deserving and entitled to
their thanks) invariably was, that the fee for re-
gistration was so high that they could give no
more, that the registration fund amounted to at
least £50,000, and that his losses should be made
good from that fund or by the public.
Mr. Norton said he was very much surprised and
disappointed at the result of so reasonable and
just an appeal to the liberality and generosity of
a profession so liberal and respectable as that of
the medical community, as he had hoped from the
very kind and proper notice taken of the case by
the press that the appeal would have been at once
liberally responded to. _ _ _ _ _ _

Mr. Jones'said that had he had the least idea
that he should have to pay so exorbitant a sum for
the prosecution of the parties, he should not have
undertaken it, and the offenders would have es-
caped. The matter had placed him in great diffi-
culties.

Mr. Norton was decidedly of opinion that the
Medical Council should pay Mr. Jones out of the
large sum they had received for fees.
Mr. Smith here said he did not think the regis-
tration fee fund was so much as £50,000, but it
might be half that sum, and it was possible that
the Council might still act on the suggestion of his
warship,

Mr. Norton hoped they would do so, as it was
only just, and if they did not, he felt satisfied a
generous public would not see Mr. Jones at a loss,
and all he could say was that he would be happy
to receive subscriptions for the purpose. -

THAMES.—STEAM NAVIGATION UPON THE
THAMES.— THE SMOKE NUISANCE ACT.-Mr.
John Walker, the master-of the steam tug called
the:Tam o'Shanter, belonging to the Caledonian
Steam Towing Company, appeared before Mr.
Selfe, upon an information and adjourned sum-
mons, which charged him that while he was in
charge of the steam-vessel Tam o'Shanter he did
unlawfully use in the working of the said steam"
vessel on the river Thames a certain steam furnace
not constructed so as to burn or consume its own
smoke.

Mr. Hosack, barrister, prosecuted on behalf of
the Government ; Mr. Sltigh, harliter, instructed
by Mr. Forsyth, a solicitor, of Lombard-street, de-
fended Mr. Walker.

Mr. Hosack said the summons was' taken out by
Mr. Evans, superintendent of the Thames Police,
by direction of the Secretary of State, and that an
amended act, the 10th and 20th Vic , cap. 107, was
passed in July, 1856, which enacted "that all
steam-vessels plying to and fro between London-
bridge and any place on the river Thames 'west-
ward of the Nore-Light -shall be subjected to the