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in (Aland°. s-street, but I was not then asked to stop
there. It was a huge hoUse, but my uncle had a
large family—l eanuot say how many
.children,
and he also had a governess. I spoke to Mr.
Wiekings, my solicitor, and to Mr. Cunliffe, my
father's executor, about my father's affairs, and I
was told by them that my father died in debt,

but I do not know how or why he was in-
debted. I do not remember Mr. Cunliffe tell-
ing me that he was obliged to swear my
father's assets under £3,000, but I wished to know
from him where my father's property was gone,
and how it.had gone. I believe Mr. Wickings to
be a gentleman very high in his profession, and I
recollect having heard that Mr. Wingate, of the
firm of Wingate and Co. and solicitor to the exe-
cutors, had investigated the accounts for the execu-
tors, and that there was not a penny for any one.
I believe Mr. Wingate also to be a very respectable
man in his profession, but to the best of my recol-
lection he did not,show me, a balance-sheet. I have
had the story dinned into my ears, not only by the
two solicitors, but by Mr. Cunliffe, one of the exe-
cutors, that they had looked into the accounts and
found that there was not only not any property left
by my father, but that he died largely in debt.
That account had been dinned into my ears for the
last ten years, but I was not satisfied with that
answer.

A Juror—That is right.
The Lord Chief Justice—That, Mr. Bovill, is not
the question which we are trying.
The Foreman of the Jury—That is the point, my,
lord. We have not had any evidence, not one par-
ticle, to establish the insanity of the plaintiff ; it
has not been shown—not at all—and unless the
defendants can adduce something different we can-
not much longer stand this.

The Lord Chief Justice—lt is quite right that
they should confine themselves to that.
[Mr. James here put in the will of plaintiff's
father, wherein he bequeathed, amongst other be-
quests, a sum of £5,000 to him, not of the, money
or estate of the firm, but property unconnecfed with
it ; and the will appointed plaintiff's uncle James a
trustee, for the purposes of the testator's will.]
This closed the examination of the plaintiff.
Mr. Charles Read was then examined by Mr.
James, and he said—l am a fellow of Magdalen
College, Oxford.

Mr: James—Yes, my lord, and author of White
Lies, and Never too Late to Mend, well-known
tales that appeared in the London . Journal.
(Laughter.) How long have you been'acquainted
with Mr. Fletcher ?

Mr. Read—l became acquainted with him shortly
after he came out of the asylum; and he has since
been dependent upon me and upon the Rev. Mr.
Gibbons for his support. He told me he had large
claims to property, and I told him to put the matter
in Chancery, and recommended him to submit his
papers to Doctors Routledge and Dixon, the latter
of whom is author of " Fallacies of the Faculty."
(Laughter.)
Dr. John Morgan, examined by Mr. Lush, said,
_ .

I visited Mr. Fletcher in the lunatic asylum, and
expressed my opinion that he was not a fit subject
to be confined in such a place. I visited him again,
and on that occasion I discussed his case with Dr.
Wood,•and told him I thought it was hardly a case
for a lunatic asylum. He gave me the history of
his attacks. I wrote to Colonel Fletcher, his uncle,
who is defendant in this action, shortly after my
first visit on the subject, and detailed the circum-
stances of my visit, saying that I thought, although
there were some things that might render it desir-
able to have medical supervision, yet I thought
that might be better done, under the care of a
medical man in the country than in a lunatic asylum.
The letter from Dr. Morgan to Colonel Fletcher
was heie put in, and in it he said he was not aware
of Mr. Fletcher having been addicted to drink.
Having expressed an opinion that he believed care
would bring him about, the letter concluded by
saying, ho believed, in his conscience, Mr. Fletcher
was not a subject for confinement in a lunatic
asylum.

Colonel Fletcher's. answer was also put in, and
stated that he had first heard of his nephew's state
of mind from a medical man, in Orchard-street,
who once attended him. The letter then referred
to the epileptic fits which Mr. Fletcher was sub-
ject to, and said, looking at all the circumstances,
he (Colonel Fletcher) should, were Mr. Fletcher his
own son, have taken the same course in relation to
him, in placing him in an asylum; and as to not
removing him from Dr. Wood's asylum, that was a
step which he should take the responsibility of
upon himself.
The Lord Chief Justice—lt was more in refer-
ence to his habits of hard drinking, and to the
attacks of epilepsy which such habits were calcu-
lated
to bring on, than to his state of mind, that
I alluded when I said I thought it advisable ti at he
should be placed under some careful medical super-
vision in the country ; but as related to his state of
mind, I never saw anything in it that could induce
me to think his case was one fit for D. lunatic
asylum.

Mr. Bovill—Those fits that you speak of were
not epilepsy at all.
The'Lord Chief Justice—What do you call them?
Mr. Bovill—Well, really I don't know. (Laugh-
ter.) I think they call them maniacal. ; To wit-
ness—ln your opinion, what is the state of his
mind?

Dr. Morgan—From the evidence you have heard
here to-day from him T think you can form a cor-
rect opinion. (Laughter.)
A Juror—That's good.
The Lord Chief Justice—Did Dr. Wood describe
his case to you ?
Dr. Morgan—Yes, he described it very clearly to
me, in a manner leading me to suppose that the
plaintiff's ailment was rather one of nervous affec-
tion than of disturbed mind.

The trial was adjourned at this stage of the
Proceedings, and will be resumed to-morrow (this
aay.)
The plaintiff was five hours and a half under ex-
amination.

CRIIIIINAL COURT, July 7.

NEW COURT:
(Before Mr, Justice (Wightinan.)

John Bardoe, 32, seaman, was indicted for cut-
ting and wounding Charles Oliver, with intent.
Mr. Metcalfe and Mr. Gent prosecuted ; Mr.
Sleigh, instructed by Col. Hughes, the Secretary of
the Asiatic Home and Strangers' Friend Society,
appeared to defend the prisoner, a quiet and intel-
ligent-looking negro.
Mr. Metcalfe, having briefly stated the case,
called

Mr. Maggi, who said that he was in business as
a shipchandlor at 21, Minories. He had a customer,
one Captain Coppelo, a native of Genoa, and about
the end of April he came to him and bought some
goods, and then said that he had a black seaman,
whom he had left sick on board the Dread-
nought hospital-ship, and that he wished to have
him again ; he asked him if he would let the negro
come to his house, and stay until the Guinea,
another vessel belonging to Captain Copello, came
to the port of London, and then, if the seaman had
no objection, ship him on board that vessel.
About the end of May the prisoner was brought to
the house, where he was told he could stay if he
liked, and not otherwise. The prisoner asked him
if he was a slave, and witness said "No," and if he
suited him he might stay. He did so for a few
days, at the end of which he became ill, and refused
to come out of a room which he occupied, saying
that he was too ill, when witness wanted him to do
so, telling him that he wanted to take him to the
hospital, but he refused, and barricaded the door of
the room. He would not take any food. witness's
wife used to attend to him.
By the Judge—lt was when I told him that I
wanted to take him to the hospital that he said he
would not go.
ve mY
wife
j . had been there.
Cross-examined—l know a boarding-house for
black seamen in Ratcliff-highwa,•
I have nothing
it.tcoapdtoaiwnitchopeilo wasb elie I
intimate with me. He used
to dine at my house. T
- served him. He never told
me that the prisoner was
heard him say that his slave. I had never
have said so. No one hetold
had bought him. I might
board the Dreadnou me so. I never went on
ht
g
Two men were show.
those men there. nto witness.—l never saw
house with as' The prisoner was brought to my
it. The pa e signed
.paper. My clerk went about
interpreter p
to Captain
signed by a man who acts as an
not speak
English. I can speak a little the dialect
which he understands. I should not have put him
on board the vessel unless he wished to go. I have
said I could
put
him on board, but would not unless
he would go. The Guinea had come into port about
the time
I wanted to
get
him away from my house.
She lay in the docks ; that is not far from the
Minories.
By a Juror—The prisoner used to live in my
house.

.This witness at the end of almost every answer
said that he should not have sent the prisoner on
board the vessel unless he wished it, and that he

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country:
Eliza Maggi, the list witness _ it
the prisoner being brought to theirhae,-.„„...na sh
used to employ him about the house. She-used to
take him food, but he would not take it, or come
out of the room. She wanted him to go to the hos-
pital. She sent for a cab, and then he barricaded
the door. She thought him mad, and sent, to the
relieving overseer; that was on the evening of the
27th of May. The door of the room was afterwards
forced, and prisoner then-cut his way through ti.e
roof.

This witness admitted she had been to the board-
ing-house spoken of to see if the prisoner could be
received there, but denied that she had made any
arrangements for them to take him. She had heard
at that house that such men as the , prisoner might
be bought in his own country for two and six-
pence, but she never heard that he had been bought
or offered for sale at Genoa. She sent two cabmen
up to him to get him to go with them to the hos-
pital, if he pleased. When he got upon the roof she
said she would give 10s. to any one who would
fetch him down. Her retnaining evidence went to
show that when the poor fellow got on the roof a
regular hunt took place, and, to use the words of
one witness, he was " started" from his hiding-place
with various missiles, and a large crowd assembling,
the p
aego up, and after the pro-
secutor,had struck at him, first
c Ci werety
constable, asked
with his staff and then with an inspector's stick, he
got out on the roof, and prisoner, who had a knife,
attacked and stabbed him in a great many places;
he was then surrounded and beaten before they
could get him off. the house. He was then taken
into custody, and, as one of the constables said, pre-
tended to be insensible. The statement of the pri-
soner when at the Mansion-house, that he had been
sold to Copello, who tried to sell him again, was
then put in and read. He there stated that he had
been hunted by so many that he thought he was
again going to be taken back to slavery.
Mr. Sleigh made a most energetic appeal to the
jury, contending that the interference of the police
was not strictly legal, and that the prisoner had
only acted in his own defence.
The learned Judge, in summing up, commented
upon the manner in which Maggi and his wife had
given their evidence, and, pointing out to the jury
the unhappy condition of the prisoner, told them
that if they thought the prisoner had done no more
than he thought was necessary to protect himself
from being taken on board ship to be .returned to
slavery, it was their duty to acquit him.
The jury immediately returned a verdict of not
guilty, which was followed by a loud • and hearty
burst of applause, which was not rebuked by his
Lordship. _

His Lordship said that the society-
.had acted
most praiseworthily in taking up the prisoner's de-
fence, and that the City had done their duty in
prosecuting'the case.

- Mr. Sleigh said it was through the exertions of
Colonel Hughes that the defence had been got up.
The foreman of the jury said they had no doubt
but that it was intended to kidnap the man.

GREAT NORTICULTURAL GARDEN AT

13ROMPTON.

One of the most important meetings which ever
the Hortichitural Society held took place yesterday
in the rooms of the Society of Arts, John-street,
Adelphi, for the purpose of considering the accept-
ance f'rom the Royal CornmissiOners of the Exhibition
of 1851 of% an offer of 20 acres-of land between
Brompton and Kensington-gore, for the purpose of
constructing a horticultural summer and winter
garden in that highly influential locality. The chair
was taken by the Earl of Ducie, and among the
noblemen and gentlemen present were the Duke of
Leinster, Sir John Ramsden, Mr. Heywood, Sir
Peter Pole, Mr. Wentworth Dilke, Mr. Cole, Mr.
H. G. Bohn, Mr. Pownall, chairman of the Mid-
dlesex Sessions, Colonel Challoner, Dr. Conolly, Dr.
Hogg, &c. The noble chairman- having opened the
proceedings by a brief re:iew of the history and
decline of the society, and the necessity of some-
thing being done to resuscitate it by obtaining a
more commodious plot of ground in the immediate
vicinity of London than that at Chiswick, called
upon Dr. Lindley. He stated the conditions upon
which the Commissioners would grant the land to
the society, which were as follows :—Between the
two roads already named there is a plot of ground of
about 20 acres, and it is proposed to convert it into
a horticultural establishment, having summer and
winter gardens, with Italian arcades, at a cost of
£lOO,OOO. The Commissioners agree to provide
£50,000 and the Horticultural Society £50,000.
The society will not be called on to pay
any rent except on the following conditions :
After the society has paid all the expenses, which
will include interest at 5 per cent. on £50,000 deben-
ture stock, and £l,OOO a-year for the management of
a portion of Chiswick grounds as an experimental
garden, any surplus that may be left will go for rent
up to a certain point. Should the profits reach the
sum of £2,000, the society claim that as rent, or any
smaller sum ; but should there be small profits, or
no profits at all, the Commissioners will be content,
and every year's income will satisfy the rental
claims. Should, however, the profits go beyond
£2,000 a-year, the super-surplus is to be equally
divided between the Royal Commissioners and the
Horticultural Society. The lease to be granted for
31 years, after which period the whole of the pre-
mises revert to the Commissioners. Dr. Lindley
explained the plan of the proposed -garden terraces,
and directed the attention of the meeting to a series
of very beautiful drawings and photographs of the
proposed designs. Mr. W. Dilke read a long list of
the nobility and gentry of the surrounding locality
who expressed their desire to render every pecuniary
support to the scheme. The matter was very fully
discussed, and the Council of the society was em-
powered to carry on the negotiations, and the fol-
lowing letter was read from his Royal Highness
the Prince Consort, which elicited the most enthu-
siastic cheers, and also one from the Royal Com-
missioners containing the proposed terms :
" Buckingham Palace, July 7.
"My Lord,—l have received the Commands of her Ma-
jesty the Queen, and of his Royal Highness the Prince
Consort, to inform you that in the event of the plan being
carried out for the establishment of the garden of the Hor-
ticultural Society of London upon the estate at Southlien-
sington, belonging to the Royal Commissioners of the
Exhibition of 1851, it is the intention of her Majesty and
of his Royal Highness to make donations towards the exe-
cution of this undertaking of £l,OOO and £5OO respectively.
It is also the intention of her Majesty, should it be in
accordance with the rules of the society that parents
or persons not yet of age, to place the name o
Highness the Prince of Wales and the younger forhice children
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Royal
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Princes and
r
guardians should purchase life memberships
have
aamv furthertPhrempecieeesseusreupeof ianthoermliisntgofyehurfe
ledmembers.rep
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rised by her Royal Highness the Princess Frederick Wil-
liam become likewise h of Prussia, Princess Royal of England, to announce
the intention of her Royal Highness a
life member. thait e
" I have the honour to be, my lord, your lordship's most
obedient humble servant,
" The Earl Ducie, &c.

"C. B. PHIPPS."

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bberegmnEeAdDervin,EagßotTdoi SBfEeemerideiNrisTio.Ylf stock. Two years of unremitting
care and attention have enabled its inventor to take high
ground as a benefactor to these interests ; and notwithstand-
ing the many drawbacks, the malevolent shafts hurled
abmainst it and its probable utility, the food, from its admitted
value, will become a necessity to the agricultural interest.
saving
es preyed, first, that it effects a considerable
azgriein the
consumption of provender • secondly, that it
produces health and vigour in all animals subjected to its
influence : and lastly, increases in a remarkable degree an
early development of fat. Mr. Thorley, originating this
singularly efficacious food, aimed at a compound calculated
to supersede, to a certain extent, the tedious and expensive
mode then prevailing of fattening stall-fed beasts. In this
he happily succeeded ; and success prompted a very natural
desire to improve upon the invention, so as to make it ap-
plicable to every description of domestic animal. The Eng-
lish farmer was slow to encourage its use, and manifested an
unwillingness to rely upon its efficacy, fancying be possessed
in the produce of his farm, ample materials whereby, to feed
and fatten his cattle at a cheaper rate than by the employment
or addition of artificial food. The tests to which this food has
been subjected have proved its perfect admissibility as a cheap
addition to the natural produce of the farm ; inasmuch as in
all cases a subtraction of one-third may be safely submitted
to in the usual food of animals ; and that the produce will be
realised, and rendered marketable in two-thirds of the time
usually consumed in developing fat ; it, therefore, becomes
apparent that a certain saving is effected by Weir application
of Thorley's Compounded Food. It is believed that the present
unprecedented low price of wheat has induced its very rue:
ral use, in preference to any other of the usual article!seat
food ; it is, however, much questioned whether wheat
nourishing and proper food for the working horse,.certainlybesidesFood,
it is not for cows or pigs. Mr. Thorley'
, is a tonic
mixed rth their other
panosdsemsseireangetihneg advantage
phlyageieeaolf
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the health
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and gentle stimulant, and whennpowe
great consequence, since it
theirisanordinary
food is lost, conse-
quent contained in
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beneficial
condition
restoring to good working horses which. have
in
organsq uet ; uponit w the
will
or become weak from disease, or are
been over-worked,
naturally of a feeble constitution. In cows its effects are
doubtedLindeed almost marvellous, nearly doubling the
undoubted impaired
be f
yield of milk and.butter, whilst it at the same time enriches
the quality of both. In pigs its fattening qualitiea are still
more remarkable, displaying in a few weeks its manifest
superiority over every other kind of compound or manu-
factured food adopted in the feeding of swine. Such has
been its marked success, that at all our great cattle shows,
Royalty, noblemen, and others who have fed thei r cattle
on Thorley's Food, have invariably carried off the p rincipal
prizes, whilst cards of commendation have been warded.
The patronage of Royalty, of our principal nobility, the
clergy, and of our leading agriculturists, must prove a
great incitement to this gentleman to pursue hi a onward
course ; and he may confidently rely, rin prod .ucing so
highly-favoured a compound, on a continuall9 u of such
high and4istinguished patronage.