The Sun.
London, England, 1861-10-26 00:00:00

Accidents will occur, and it is because they are un- 1
avoidable that they occur here.
Mr. Somerville stated that his instructions from
the owners of the concern were to do everything
that the ingenuity of man could do to save risk to
str
life or to the concern. It Wh.s his constant study
uctions, and he
how best to carry out those in
went through the houses daily fazd ran the same
risk as the men did.
The jury found that the !deceased i:ad come to
their deaths by an accidental explosion of the house
where they had been engaged.

EXTRAORDINARY AFFILIATION
CASE.

(Before Edward Wanklyn, Esq., R. B. Harvey,
Esq., William Pennington, Esq., and C. P.
Stewart, Esq.)
This was a charge of perjury arising out of the
evidence of Elizabeth Geraldine Stokes, the daughter
of a schoolmistress of Eton, Bucks, in a case of
affiliation brought before a bench of magistrates on
the Bth inst., a warrant having been issued for the
apprehension of the prisoner on Tuesday last, on
the application of Mr. William Rawson Turner,
solicitor, of 16, Water-lane, Great Tower-street,
London. Mr. Bruce appeared for the prosecutor,
and Mr. Voules for the prisoner. The following
evidence will explain the particulars of this re-
markable case;which was brought before the above
bench of magistrates at Langley yesterday (Friday.)
William Rawson Turner deposed—l am a soli-
citor at 16, Water-lane, Great Tower-street, Lon-
don. I attended at Slough in answer to a summons
on the Bth day of October, 1861. I heard the evi-
dence then given by Elizabeth Geraldine Stokes.
She stated that on the 14th of August, 1860, I
travelled with her to London by the 12.25 up train
from Windsor. She also stated that on arriving at
Waterloo Station I took her over the bridge to the
Strand in a cab ; that while in the cab I admini-
tered something to her which produced insensibility,
and while in that condition I had connexion with
her. She also stated that this took place between
two and four o'clock in the afternoon ; that I left
the cab to post a letter, and did not return to her.
She also stated that the result of that connexion
was the birth of a child on the 9th of May follow-
ing. She stated in answer to Mr. Preston, in cross-
examination, that was the first child she had had.
I recollect the 14th October, 1860. On that day,
between twelve and two o'clock, I called at the
office of Mr. Holmes, Southampton-street, Blooms-
bury-square. I afterwards met Mr. Thomas
Turner, my brother, aud lunched with him at the
corner of Museum-street`, about two o'clock. I was
not near Waterloo Statim on any part of that day.
I never saw Miss Stokes, the prisoner, until the 16th
or 17th of July in this year. I swear that the charge
she brought against me is utterly false.
Thomas Turner, depost"d—l am brother to Mr.
W. R. Turner. I am a ship agent in the City. I
recollect the 14th of August, 1860. I had an ap-
pointment in Bloomsburs, and I went there with
my brother about 11 o'c lock. I lunched in Hart-
street or Museum-stree t with my brother, Mr.
Holmes, Mr. Wilson, and another gentleman. We
remained there till past 2 .o'clock.
Cross-examined—l do not keep a diary, but I
have gathered it from various memoranda.
Phillip Lovegrove deposed—l was present on the
Bth of October inst. I took the notes of the evi-
dence given on that occasion by the witnesses
against William Rawson Turner, and now produce
them. The prisoner stated that she went to Lon-
don by the 12.25 train on the 14th October, 1860,
with Mr. Turner, and that he was the father of her
child, born on the 9th of Mav, 1861. She also
stated in cross-examination, " this is the first child
I have had."
The mother of the prisoner, at a former examina-
tion, admitted that her daughter had had a child
by another gentleman four years ago ; when the
affiliation case was dismissed.
The magistrates considered that no case of per-
jury was proved.
Case dismissed.

FROM TILE GAZETTE OF LAST NIGHT.

FOREIGN-OFFICE, OCT. 25.

The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. John
Young as Consul at Belfast for the United States of
America.
DOWNING-STREET, OCT. 24.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint Thomas Blanch
Stephen, Esq., to be Deputy-Collector and Landing Sur-
veyor for the Island of Ceylon.
BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, OCT. 25.

II; Right Hon. the Loicls of the Committee of Privy
Council for Trade and Plantations have received, from the
Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a copy of a Portu-
guese decree authorising, until the end of next April, the
importation of wheat, rye, barley, and oats at the same duty
as national grain when cleared for consumption. The same
decree further states, that after expiration of the prescribed
time the grain referred to may be still admitted, provided
it be shown to the satisfaction of the Government that such
grain left direct for the ports of the kingdom with the rea-
sonable expectation of arriving within the period in ques-
.
bon.

BANKRUPTS.
Samuel Bowen, glass dealer, West Bromwich. •
John Jerram, hosier's assistant, Nottingham.
John Schofield, bootmaker, Nottingham.
James Masey, builder, Weston-super-Mare.
Charles Miles, innkeeper, Frome Selwood, Somerset.
Robert Tait, clog maker, Skipton.
Barnett Harris, cabinet maker, Kingston-upon-Hull.
John Edwards, tailor, Gray's-ion-road.
William Pritchard, carpenter, Acton, Middlesex.
Joseph Sawyer, licensed victualler, High Holborn.
Thomas Franks, baker, Kentish-town.
Bernhard Horwitz, importer of foreign goods, Newgate-
street, City.
George Bolt, sailor, Paddington.
John Clark, carman, Lambeth.
Charles Whitley, toolmaker, Manchester.
John Marshal Young, merchant, Manchester.
Joseph Simister, baker, Manehester.
John Clarke, Glossop, tailor, Derbyshire.
Edwin Done, hessian dealer, Manchester.
Joseph Walton Barnes, fire-brick manufacturer, New-
castle-on-Tyne.
George M'Caughie, commercial traveller, Trafalgar-tor-
race, Kingsland.
John. Richard Richards, grocer, West-street, Bermoni-
seys
Roger Hogan, tailor, Upper Marylebone-street.
John Jenkinson, shoemaker, Wellington-row, Bethnal-
green.
Algernon John Hearne, printer, Queen's Prison.
Robert Clayton, trader, Queen's Prison.
Edward Curteis, cole merchant, Bloxworth, Dorsetshire.
Barnit Levi and George Levi, watchmakers, Liverpool.
Joseph Radcliffe, ale and porter merchant, Liverpool.
George Warhurst, ironmonger, Leigh, Lancashire.
William Quarmby, bookseller, Ashton-under'Lyne.
John Stevenson and Robert Stevenson, cotton manufac-
turers, Walsden, Lancashire.
William Jones, fancy stationer, Prospect-place, Mile-
end-road.
William Carden Jones, Queen's Prison.
James Oilier, painter, Little Marylebone• street, Margie-
bone.
Samuel Rowbotham, physician, Queen's-road, Chelsea.
James Welch, builder, City-road.
Robert Arthur Scarsfield Gregg, schoolmaster, Woo-
burn-park, Bucks.
Thomas Greville Potter, dealer in lamps, Oxford-street.
Charles Thomas Foster, licensed victualler, Fashion-
street, Spittalfields.
William Burrows, jun., furniture dealer, Upper Nor-
wood.
Henry Salmon, tobacconist, Haymarket.
Joseph Lee, news-agent, Billiter-square, City.
Antonine Dufaur, pauper, Queen's Prison.
Robert Bird, plumber, Ashford, Kent.
John Giles, licensed victualler, Ringlestone, Kent.
Thomas Bennett, sewing machinist, Poultry, City,
George Hammersley, Gloucester-street, Clerkenwell,
grocer.
Charles Farrar, manufacturing chemist, Moor-terrace,
Park-road, Old Kent-road.
Henry Clarke, engineer, Vernon-place, Bloomsbury-sq.
Augustus Crabb, watchmaker, Knightsbridge.
George Godfrey, grocer, Brompton-terrace, Brompton.
Wm. Newman, attorney-at-law, late of Dyer's-buildings,
Holborn.
Henry Jas. Braham, commission agent, late of Thavies •
inn, Holborn.
Wm. George Snow, carrier's clerk, Pomona-place,
Staines-read, Hounslow.
James Regent Ross, commission agent, Horsomonger-
lane Prison.
Robert Plaster, builder, Baropton, Oxfordshire.
Richard Webber, baker, Harwich.
Samuel Green, clerk, Dalston, Middlesex.
Thomas Thorn, clerk, Kentish-town, Middlesex.
William Obadiah Clark, baker, Poplar.
Edward Westbrook, grocer, Hanley, Staffordshire. -
Charles Tunnicliff, draper, Tamworth.
Joseph Williamson, manager of ironworks, Chilvers
Coton, Warwickshire.
Joseph Bicknell, merchant, Queen's Prison.
James Knott, glass manufacturer, Atlas Glass Works,
Emerson-street, Bank-side, Surrey.
Reginald Chauncy, retired officer, E.LC.S., Sussex-
street, Pimlico.
Martha Augusta Arthur Richards, spinster:, Queen's
Prison.
George Hutson, licensed victualler, King ,street, Regent-
street.
Owen Parry, mining agent, Whitecross-street Prison.
John Lawton, foreign agent, Mount-street, Middlesex.
Richard Render, draper, Wilmington, Durham.
SCOTCH BANKRUPTS.
Alexander M'Tavish, farmer, North Knapdale, Argyle.
Alexander Forbes. Rangag, Latheron, Caithness.
John Pillans, spirit merchant, late of Hamilton.
Lindsay Berry, saddler, Maryhill.
John Henderson, carter, Glasgow.