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THE SUN LONDON, TRU SDAY EVENINI4, SEPTEIVIBER 19, 1861.

SURRjy SESSIONS.

(Before Mr. Tilson.)
John Taylor, 45, was indicted for unlawfully ob-
taining from C. Croft, by means of false pretences,
a number of drain pipes worth £33, with intent to
cheat and defraud Mr. Jennings, engineer and manu-
facturer, Holland-street, Southwark.
It appeared from the evidence of Mr. Croft, the
manager to Mr. Jennings, that on the 27th ult. the
prisoner came to their factory and stated that he was
a builder, and had purchased several houses in the
St. George's-road, for which he required a large
quantity of drain pipes. He referred to Mr. Horton,
a boiler maker, and said he had a wharf in the Bel-
vedere-road. Witness did not suspect anything
wrong then, neither did he make inquiries about
the reference, but allowed him to have goods to the
amount of £33. When the last load went in on the
2d inst. histsuspicions were aroused, and, upon in-
quiry, he found out that it was all false what the
prisoner had stated, and that he had sold the pipes
for half their value as soon as he got them in his
possession.

Inspector Bocking, T division, said he had known
the prisoner for some years as a swindler. In April,
1858, he was sentenced to four years' penal servi-
tude for similar frauds, there being no less than
seven indictments against him. About six months
ago he was liberated with a ticket of leave.
The jury found him guilty, when
The Deputy-Chairman sentenced him to 6 years'
penal servitude.

Edward Thomson, 34, described in the calendar
as a clerk, was indicted for breaking and entering
the dwelling-house of T. Ottaway, with intent to
steal therein.

The prisoner, who pleaded guilty, had been pre.
viously convicted of a similar offence.
The Deputy-Chairman sentenced him to 10 years
penal servitude.

- Mary orth, 28, was indicted for steal-
ing at Egham a silk dress, value £5, the property
of W. Jemmett, and another dress, value £5, the
property of Richard Roberts.
This prisoner was connected with Thomson, but
as she had acted under coercion from him the jury
acquitted her.

NEW COURT.
(Before Mr.' Johnson.)
THE GE.ANBY-STREET RIOTS.—Thos. Harvey, W.
Buck, and James Pulbrook, costermongers, were
indicted for unlawfully, with divers other persons,
riotously and tumultuously assembling together in
Granny-street, Waterloo-road, Lambeth, and there
creating a great riot and disturbance.
Mr. 0. B. Harrison prosecuted, and. Mr. Lilley
and Mr. Oppenheim defended the prisoners.
The particulars of these disgraceful riots have so
recently been reported under the Lambeth Police-
court news that it will be unnecessary to go into any
details.
It appeared from the evidence of Sergeant
Stephens, L division, that on Sunday night, at 11
o'clock, a great riot took place in Granby-street be-
tween the costermongers and the brothel-keepers
and thieves residing there. On going to the spot he
found that the windows of 71, Granby-street, had
been smashed, and the best part of its contents
thrown out into the street, a saucepan falling on
the head of a constable. It required an extra force
of constables to quell the riot, and eventually the
prisoners were given into custody.
The main evidence against the prisoners rested
on the testimony of Mrs. Leach, a notorious brothel-
! keeper, and a female, whose husband was undergo-
ing penal servitude. They were cross-examined by
the defendants' counsel, and some disgraceful facts
were elicited, which ended in a verdict of acquittal.
Henry Rosenberge, W. Jones, Henry Williams,
and James Turney were next indicted for a similar
offence at the same place.
Mr. Lilley, instructed by Mr. Edwin, prosecuted;
Mr. Thompson defended Rosenberge and Jones, and
Mr. Oppenheim defended the others.
The defendants in the last case were witnesses
against the prisoners. The latter were notorious
bad characters, and had previously attacked the
costermongers in a public-house. They were fol-
lowed into 71, Granby-street, and then a general
row commenced.

Mr. Thompson here said that he had consulted
with the learned counsel for the other prisoners, and
with their advice they all withdrew their plea of
not guilty and pleaded guilty. He (Mr. Thompson)
thought that the ends of justice would be met, and
a repetition of such riotous conduct prevented for
the future, on the Court calling on the pri-
soners to enter into recognisances to appear and
receive judgment when called upon.
Mr. Johnson considered that such a course was
preferable, and he hoped that such disgraceful
scenes on Sundays would never occur again. The
riots in Granby-street had really become a by-
word, and they must be put a stop to by the strong
hand of the law. The prisoner must enter into re-
cognisances to come up for judgment whenever
called upon.
The prisoners, having obeyed the orders of the
Court, were liberated,
Joseph Pratley, police constable of 291 M, was
indicted for 'committing an indecent assault on
Mrs. Charlotte Ann Fawdon, the wife of a leather-
dresser, residing in New-street, Bermondsey.
Mr. Baker Jones prosecuted, and Mr. Lilley, in-
structed by Mr. Edwin, defended the prisoner.
The prosecutrix, a very respectable middle-aged
female, who had brought up a large family in Ber-
mondsey, said that she had known the prisoner
some time, owing to his being the constable in a
case in which she was a witness. On Tuesday night,
the 27th nit., she expected her two daughters up by
rail from Leatherhead. Consequently, about ten
o'clock, she was proceeding towards the London-
bridge Terminus to look after them, when she
passed the prisoner on duty in Bermondsey-
street. He spoke to her, and asked her where
she was going to, and on her telling him, he
said it was on his beat, and he would go to ti e rail-.
way and inquire for her. They accordingly went
there, and found the train had come without her
daughters, and when they descended from the rail-
way she gave the prisoner money to get a glass of
ale. After that the prisoner asked her if she had
seen the ruins of the late fire in To.oley-street.
She said she had not, when he said, " Come along
with me, and I'll show you, as it is on my beat."
She foolishly accompanied him, and when at the
back of the ruins he indecently assaulted her. She
ran away from him, and proceeded to the station-
house in Bermondsey-street, and asked to see the
inspector, when she was told he was not in. The
prisoner came up at the time and pushed her away.
Witness was perfectly sober, and when she got
home prisoner told her husband what had occurred,
and on the following morning they went to the
station-house and lodged a complaint against the
prisoner, who was taken before Mr. Combe at the
Southwark Police Court, and committed for trial.
The complainant was severely cross-examined by
Mr. Lilley, but her evidence was not in the least
shaken. She denied most strenuously having been
in the least under the influence of liquor at the
time. In fact, she was perfectly sober, not having
drunk anything except tea that evening. She
would not have gone with the prisoner to the ruins
of the late fire, only she knew him to be a married
man, and expected him to be well conducted.
Mr. Lilley then addressed the jury in an eloquent
manner for the prisoner, contending that there was
no evidence to corroborate the testimony of the pro-
secutrix, and they ought to be careful before they
convicted any person on her sole statement. The
prisoner had been in the police some years, had a
wife and family, and a character for honesty and
sobriety.

The 'Chairman summed up the case very care-
fully, and,

After a short consultation, the jury retnrricta
-re. diet, of s
The Chairman observed that the prisoner had
been justly found guilty of a very serious offence,
and he should not be doing his duty to the public
unless he passed a severe sentence on him, namely,
twelvemonths' imprisonment with hard labour.
This case terminated the sessions at a very late
hour.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE, Sept. 18.

MANSION-HOUSE.—James Cornwall and
Judah Davis surrendered themselves to undergo
their final examination upon a charge, the former
of stealing a quantity of parchment deeds, the pro-
perty of Messrs. Cox and Son, solicitors, of Sise-
lane, and the latter of receiving the same, knowing
them to have been stolen.
It will be remembered that the prisoner Cornwall
was in the employment of the prosecutors as junior
clerk, and in that capacity he had access to the fire-
proof room, in which deeds and all valuable securi-
ties were kept. On the 26th July Mr. Cox hap-
pened to go to a box to get a deed, and noticed that
a number had been removed, and on furtlaer exami-
nation he missed altogether between 400 and 500
deeds. He questioned the prisoner Cornwall, and
after at first denying all knowledge of them he ad-
mitted that h' had stolen them, and had sold some
of-them to ',:iie prisoner J)avis, who is a marine-store
dealer. Dior about 2d. per lb. The defendants have
beera remanded from time to time, in order to trace
one missing property, being admitted to bail on each
occasion.

Mr. Wontner, who appeared for the prosecutors,
said that all the deeds had at last been recovered,
although it had been very difficult, as some had been
brought from France, Bavaria, and some from Bel-
gium. Such being the case, as the defendants had
given all the information in their power, Messrs.
Cox did not wish to proceed any further against
them, if his lordship thought they could with pro-
priety withdraw from the prosecution.
The Lord Mayor said, taking that into conside-
ration, as the defendants had done all in their power
to repair the mischief they had caused, he thought
he should be justified in discharging them.
The defendants were accordingly allowed to leave
the court.

John Uslinson, 14, Wormwood-street, watchmaker,
was summoned before the Lord Mayor to answer a
complaint made by a young man named Slater,
charging him with detaining a watch worth 505.,
which the complainant had left with him to be re-
paired.

There have been numerous complaints at this
court of a similar character against the same party;
and although a great number of summonses have
been issued against him he has never yet made his
appearance. Applications for summonses are being
continually made in which the complainants have
left watches and different articles of jewellery to be
repaired, and have been unable to get them back
until a summons has been issued against him.
The complainant Slater stated that he left the
watch some weeks back, and had called for it a good
many times, but had always been told that it was
not done.

The Lord Mayor made an order for the restitu-
tion of the watch, or payment of its value, 505., and
ss. for the complainant's loss of time, and 2s. cost
of the summons, or in default one month's impri-
sonment.

GUILDHALL.—HE WAS AND HE WAS NOT A
DESERTER.—Benjamin Edgington, a young man
about 20 years of age, was placed at the bar before
Alderman Salomons, charged on his own confession
with being a deserter from the 45th Regiment of
Foot.
City police-constable 267 said he was on duty on
Holbern-hill on the previous evening, when the
prisoner came to him and stated that he was a de
serter from the 45th Regiment of Foot.
The prisoner now stated that he was not a de-
serter, but he had stated that he was to the officer
in order that he might be sent to prison. He had,
he said, been travelling through the country, and
had been taken up at Farningham on suspicion of
being a deserter from the 45th Regiment. He then
convinced the magistrates that he was not a de-
serter, and they discharged him, at the same time
telling him that if he gave himself up as a deserter
again he would be liable to three months' imprison-
ment. He had made the confession to the officer
in order that he might be sent to prison.
Alderman Salomons asked him whether he had
ever been in the army, for he looked as if he had.
The prisoner said he had not, but he had been in
the 2d Tower Hamlets Militia, and was in it when
it was disembodied. He then travelled down into
Wales, and had since been going about the coun-
try on the tramp. He was about to proceed to
Kent to the hop-picking when he was taken up at
Farningham.

_
Alderman Salomons did not feel satisfied that he
was not a deserter, and therefore remanded him for
a few days, and ordered the officers to communicate
with the commanding officer At Aldershot.
The prisoner was then removed.
SCANDALOUS CONDUCT OF AN UNDERTAKER.—
Charles Morris, a poor man, residing at 12, Little
Surrey-street, B lackfriars-road, applied to Alderman
Salomons, after the night charges had been disposed
of, for his advice and assistance under the following
distressing circumstances.
The applicant stated that last Sunday week his
daughter, 7 years of age, died of dropsy, and in con-
sequence he went to an undertaker for the purpose
of burying the child in Bow Cemetery. This man
agreed that if the applicant paid him down 10s,, to
pay for the ground in the cemetery, he would wait
a short time for the remainder, 28s.,untilhis friends
could raise the amount by subscription. On Mon-
day last the interment was to have taken place, but
on arriving at the cemetery it was discovered that
the ground had not been paid for, and that, conse-
quently, the child could not be buried. After making
every effort, ineffectually, to induce the authorities
at the cemetery to allow the funeral to take place,
the corpse was obliged to be brought back to town,
and was deposited at the undertaker's premises,
with the understanding that he (the undertaker)
was to pay the money for the ground, and bury the
body this day (Wednesday) without extra charge.
The previous night, however, the undertaker brought
the corpse to the applicant's mother-in-law, in Snow-
hill, and endeavoured to thrust it into her house,
but she would not allow him to do it, and he was ,
obliged to take it back to his own place. He then
threatened to take it this (Wednesday) evening to
the mother's, in Blackfriars-road, and leave it there;
and if he did it would be the death of his (Morris's)
wife, who had, in consequence of what had occurred
been prematurely confined. He therefore wished to
know what he should do under the circumstances.

Alderman Salomons said it was a very sad case,
and very disgraceful conduct on thes part of the
undertaker, but he did not know how he could
assist him, as the magistrates had no power in such
a case. He thought it was a case for the parish or
else for the Commissioners of Sewers.
Morris said that no delay ought to take place in
whatever was to be done, for last night the body
burst, and was now in an advanced state of decom-
position.
Alderman Salomons considered that it was dan-
gerous to the health of the community, and that the
most prompt mode of proceeding would be to apply
to the West London Union, and the authorities
there would undertake the immediate interment of
the child.

Groves, an officer of the court, was then sent with
the applicant to the West London Union, where
they saw Mr. Phillips, the master, who at once
called the attention of Mr. Webb, the relieving
officer to the nature of the case. Mr. Webb imme-
diately proceeded with assistants, Groves, and the
applicant to the undertaker's house, where they had
to witness a scene of a most revolting character.
They found that the coffin containing the child had
been placed in an underground cellar that was not
only low and filthy but was also swarming with
rats. They removed the poor child's remains to the
West London Union, where they were placed in
the dead-house, and the interment will now take
on Friday.
The father came back to the court to tender his
sincere thanks to the worthy alderman for his kind-
ness in assisting him under his distressing difficulty.
He also stated that Mr. Chas. Butler, a respectable
undertaker of Farringdon-street, had agreed to bury
the child in a decent manner.

Alderman Humphery, who was on the bench at
the time, told the applicant that he had a remedy
against the undertaker in the county court.
The applicant thanked the worthy magistrate
and left the court.

BOW-STREET.--VALUE OF THE NEW POST-
OFFICE BANKS.—Henry Ricketts, a lad of about 18
years of age, employed as cowman by Mr. Bannis-
ter, of Silver-street, Golden-square, was charged by
Henry Fairhead, an elderly men, in the same
service, with robbing him of £2l 10s., being the
greater part of 30 years' savings.
Mr. Lewis, of Marlborough-street, appeared for
the prosecution, and Mr. Abrams, of Bow-street, for
the defence.

Henry Fairhead deposed—l am in the employ-
ment of Mr. Bannister, and have been for 27 or 28
years, The prisoner and I have occupied a room
together at No.l Cottages, Upper Gower-mews, for
about seven months. I was carman and he was
cowman in the same employment. He earned 18s.
a-week. I had b saving money
all the time I
had been in Mr. Bannister's. I last saw my money
safe last Sunday three weeks, when I put on a new
pair of trousers, and put the money from the pocket
of the old to the new. I last counted it about nine
weeks ago. There was -yea ill sovereigns and half
Tney were all discoloured and dark
from being so long carried in the pocket. I used to
keep the money in the watch pocket of my trousers,
and at night I used to put the trousers across the
back part of the bed, On Wednesday last I missed
£2l 10s. out of the £32. I missed it by noticing
that my pocket felt light, which induced me to
count the money. I have lent the prisoner money
' at different times, la., 2e., and 3s. at a time as he

wanted it, from the time he came to last Wednesday
week. I remember his bringing home a watch and
chain about six weeks or two months ago, and tell-
ing me he had been to Chislehurst to fetch his watch.
He said he had left it there for a person to mind for
him, who had let him have a little money because he
was hard up. On Sunday night week he brought
home a new coat, and said it had cost him £1 14s.
On Wednesday I saw a half sovereign in the hands
of the landlady. She put it on the table and he
took it up. It was a very dark one, as every one
present noticed, and he was told of it. He said he
took it in payment of his wages from Mr. Bannis-
ter, who was then present, and denied that he had
given him half a sovereign at all, saying he always
paid his men in silver. The prisoner then said that
he must have taken it at a public house near the
Middlesex Hospital.

Cross-examined—When I looked at my money
last Sunday three weeks I did not count my money,
but it looked right. I thought I had got about
what I ought to have. I has quite £32 all the
time the prisoner was sleeping with me. I always
used to feel my pocket at night to see that my
money was there, but not to count it. I had only
looked at my money twice during the nine or ten
weeks since I counted it. The money was very dark.
Mr. Corrie said there was very little in the point
as to the colour of the money. On looking at some
sovereigns be had received but the previous day, he
found they were quite as dark as that now pro-
duced (part of prosecutor's money).
Cross-examination continued—l told the land-
lord I suspected that the prisoner had robbed
me, and the same evening I told the prisoner. He
used to get up at a quarter of an hour before me.
I got up at a quarter past four. I could not swear
that my money was not safe when I got up. I do
not know that he was in the habit of buying clothes
from a tallyman, but he told me he bought the coat
of one. I kept the money rolled up in the bag,
without any strap, or string, or buckle.
Matilda Rarey—l live with my husband, who is
a watchmaker, at Castle-street, Oxford-street.
About two or three months ago I first saw the pri-
soner. He came to our shop and bought a silver
watch and chain for £3. He paid me with three
sovereigns. I noticed that the coin was rather
dirty, but we often have dirty money. A week or
a fortnight afterwards he came to have it regis-
tered, and I believe he bought a gold watch, and
partly paid for it. I afterwards delivered it (the
gold watch) to him upon his paying me 155., the
balance of the price.

Catherine Peale—l live at No. 1, Cottage, Upper
Gower-mews, with my husband, who is carman to
Mr. Bannister. The prisoner has lodged with me
for about seven months. He was to pay me 2s. 6d.
a-week for washing and lodging, but I could never
get my money. He was never out of my debt, and
gave me much trouble. I used to ask him for the
money, for when I told my husband to ask him for
it he used to say he would, and sneak out without
asking him. (A laugh.) The first week he came
I lent him money to carry him over the week, and
afterwards I lent him money occasionally, till I
found I had so much trouble to get it that I would
lend him no more. A fortnight last Saturday he
paid me up what he owed me, 55., and gave me half
a sovereign to take care of for him, and I kept it
till last Wednesday, when he took it again.
Another cowman, in the service of a different
master, deposed that about three weeks ago he saw
the prisoner in a public-house with gold and silver
money in his possession.

Bannister said he was at the cow-shed in the
mews where the prosecutor lives, when the latter
charged the prisoner with robbing him. The pri-
soner said he received the half-sovereign produced
by the landlady in change of a sovereign which he
had received from witness for wages about a month
back. It was true that witness had paid him a
sovereign on that occasion. The prisoner did not
say he got the half-sovereign from witness.
Mr. Abrams was about to offer some remarks on
the case, but

Mr. Corrie said it was unnecessary. It was clearly
his duty to discharge the prisoner. The attempt
to identify the money by the fact of its discolora-
tion was a complete failure. He (the worthy ma-
gistrate) had in his purse money which he had only
received the day before, and which was still more
discolored. As to the purchase of the watches, they
appeared to have been paid for by instalments,
which was nothing supicious in a lad earning 18s.
a-week, and besides, all that t ok place prior to the
period at which the money was last examined by
the prosecutor, and found to be safe. The prisoner
must be discharged, and he (Mr. Corrie) would re-
commend prosecutor to put his savings for the fu-
ture in the Post Office Savings Bank.

MARYLEBONE.--CHARGE OF MANSLAUGHTER.
—FATAL FIGHT.—A man who give the name of
Phillip Allard, horse-keeper, was placed at the bar
before Mr. Yardley charged with having caused the
death of a man named Daniel Rance, aged 41, a
coachman, residing in York-terrace-mews.
Charles Pusey, a middle-aged man, and who de-
scribed himself as a coachman, said—l left my home,
in the same mews as the deceased, last evening, and
called upon him. He told me he had been mending
his children's shoes, and I invited him to have
a drop of beer with me. We went to the
Buffalo's Head, in the Marylebone-road, and
Rance got into conversation with a skin collector.
Shortly after prisoner, in company with another
man came in, the former carrying a child on his
shoulder. He was singing something about" In the
Strand," and making the child say " Oh, oh."
After he had finished he came up to me and said,
"If I had not been an elderly man he would strike
me and double me up," for, as he said, insulting him
last Saturday evening. Rance came and I told him
that he was wrong in saying that I was there from
six to seven last Saturday night, when prisoner put
his fingers in deceased face and called him a liar.
Upon this Rance struck the prisoner OR his eye
(both of his eyes were blackened) and they com-
menced struggling together.
Mr. Yardley—Where was the child at this time ?
Witness—He had taken it off his shoulder before
this.

In continuation witness said—They began to fight,
and closed together, when Rance came down under-
most by the parlour door. An oyster-dealer who
was present caught up the prisoner, and after pull-
ing him into the parlour, shut the door, whilst
Rance got behind my back. Shortly after the pri-
soner came out of the room, and met Rance, when
they commenced fighting again. They had another
round, when one got his foot on to the first stair of
the staircase and the other on the second. Here
they struggled till they both tell, when Rance's
head went against the wainscot with very great
force. I pulled Rance up, and he went behind me,
when prisoner wanted again to fight him, saying,
" Come along, I will go at him again," on which
Rance said, " I am done," and within a second or
so of his saying this he fell down as if in a fit.
Mr. Yardley—After he got up this last time, and
before he fell down as you say in a fit, was anything
done to him ?

Witness—No, your worship.
Mr. Yardley—Was there after he fell ?
Witness—No, sir, there was not—not the slightes'
thing.

Witness continued, and said—We picked him up
and placed him partly on my knee and the knee of
another man, when we noticed his eyes fixed, and
his mouth had dropped. I called for water, but
found that he could not swallow, and I then bathed
his face. The police came, and a cab being pro-
cured, he was conveyed to the Marylebone work-
house, and I went to the station with the prisoner.
Mr. Yardley—When ynu picked him up did he
appear to you to be dead ?
Witness—l thought he was dead, for he shoWed
no signs of life.
Mr. Yardley—How were they matched as regards
size and strength ?
Witness—They appeared to be equally matched.
Prisoner—He was both stronger and stouter than
me. _ _

—Elizabeth Tackson said she was housekeeper to
Mrs. Dymes, landlady of the Buffalo Head, and
proved seeing the prisoner commence quarrelling,
when the deceased made use of very bad language.
She also confirmed last witness's evidence as regards
the fight.
Mr. Fuller, house surgeon to Marylebone Work-
house, deposed to the deceased being brought there
quite dead, but warm. He had made an external
examination that morning, and found bruises about
the head and on the right eye. He could not tell
the cause of death, as he had not made a post-mor-
tem examination of the deceased, which he should
have to do before the inquest.
Mr. Yardley—ls there any one here to identify
the body of the deceased ?
Inspector Braddick, D division, said there was
not at present, but he could take one or two of the
witnesses, and have it identified in about five
minutes.

Mr. Yardley said he would not trouble him now,
as he should remand the prisoner till Saturday, in
order to have the medical evidence complete,
and
then evidence of identity could be given.
The prisoner was then remanded till Saturday.
CHARGE OF ASSAULT.—NO PROTECTION FOR
LICENSED VICTUALLERS.—Sampson Edwards was
charged with assaulting Mr. W. J. Smith, land-
lord of the King and Queen, Paddington-green, and
his barman.
Mr. Smith said—At ten G'clock last night
there was a noise in my concert-room and
I went upstairs to see What was the matter,
when I found the prisoner fighting with my
waiter. He was very violent, but after some
trouble he was ejected from the house. He
then pulled ós. from his pocket, telling me
he bliould like to fight me five rounds for

that sum, but I of course declined the challenge,
upon which he struck me forcibly upon the breast.
My barman interfered, when prisoner attacked
him and threw him forcibly down upon his back.
He (prisoner) had, as I understood, conducted him-
self in an indecent way towards a female in the
room.

Mr. Yardley—Had you known the prisoner
before ?

Mr. Smith—No, sir, he was a stranger to me
until last night.
Mr. Yardley—ls your barman here ?
Mr. Smith—He is, your Worship.
Sohn Pierpont (the barman)--I observed the pri-
soner and my master scuffling outside the house,
and I rushed in between them, when the prisoner
attacked me and threw me down.

Sergeant Bewley, 349 A, stated that he was
called to the house, and that the landlord gave the
prisoner into custody.
Mr. Yardley—What for ?
Witness—For assaulting him, your Worship.
Mr. Yardley—Did you see any assault ?
Witness--No, sir.
Mr. Yardley—Then you had no right to take the
prisoner.

Witness—Although I did not see an assault, your
worship, the barman showed me His coat, which
had been torn and damaged owing to the violence
with which he had been laid hold of and thrown
down by the prisoner.
Mr. Yardley—Did, you observe any marks of
personal injury?
Witness—No, sir.

,
Mr. Yardley—Then I consider that the prisoner
was unlawfully taken into custody. He is, there-
fore, discharged, and I shall in all future cases of a
like nature adopt the same course.
Mr. Smith then left the court, evidently impressed
with a conviction that licensed victuallers had not
that protection afforded them to which they ought
to be entitred.

MARLBOROUGH-S TREET.—VITRIOL
THROWING.—Henri Bourmar, a French lad, was
brought before Mr. Beadon, charged with throwing
a quantity of vitriol over Bridget Murray, and
thereby seriously injuring her.
Mr. Edward Lewis, of Great Marlborough-street,
on behalf of the Society for the Protection of
Women and Children, attended to prosecute.
The complainant said she lived in service at 46,
High-street, Bloomsbury. She was passing through
Rathbone-place on an errand that morning, about
ten o'clock, when she saw the prisoner, who was an
entire stranger to her, coming down the street with
a bottle in his hand. Thinking that the bottle con-
tained gin, she said to him jocularly on passing,
" Is it not nice ?" The prisoner immediately threw
a portion of the contents of the bottle in her face,
and over her dress. Feeling a burning sensation,
she screamed, and a bystander told her she had been
burned with vitriol, and advised her to follow the
lad and give him into custody. She did so, and
the prisoner was taken to the station-house with the
bottle in his possession, which, when examined, was
found to contain vitriol.
The complainant produced her clothes and bonnet,
which were much burned. She also stated that she
went to a surgeon, who applied remedies, and in
particular attended to one of her eyes, the sight of
which otherwise would have been endangered.
The defence was, that the complainant had jeered
the defendant, who, being a foreigner, was naturally
much angered, and might have spilled a small por-
tion of the vitriol over her without intending anY
serious mischief.

The complainant denied having done anything
more to provoke the prisoner than she had stated,
and asserted that the vitriol was thrown over her
designedly.
Mr. Freeman, of Upper Charlotte-street, wit-
nessed the throwing of the vitriol; and knowing
from the appearances of the girl what the stun
was, he went after the prisoner and secured him.
Another witness, named Gattie, also saw the
prisoner throw the liquid wilfully over the cow'
plainant.

Mr. J. Brown, of Cross-street, chemist, proved that
the bottle contained muriatic acid. The injuries
sustained by the complainant were no doubt pro•
duced by this kind of corrosive fluid.
The prisoner was fully committed.

COUNTRY MARKETS.

HULL-SEPT. 17.

At our market to-day we had a good supply of English
wheat, which was taken off freely at is per qr advance
on the currencies of last week. Foreign, with a limited
sale, at is higher. Malting barley met with a fair de-
mand, and grinding samples were in rather improved re-
quest, and realised fully late prices. Oats more inquired
after, at a slight advance. Beans and peas rather dearer•
Linseed trade firm.

Wheat....old white....per qr ... 50s Od to 66s Od
Old red . „ ........ 40s Od to 48s Od
New white .. „
New red .... ,
Dantzic,_Konb , &c. old white 54s Od to 63s Oa
Dutch, Belgian, and French. 50s Od to 58s Od
Baltic and Hamburg, red s4s Od to 55s Od
St. Petersburg and Riga, old 46s Od to 48s Od
Barley.... English malting 32s Od to 36s Od
Grinding 3os Od to 32s Od
Saal and Oderbruck
Holstein and Danish 528 Od to E4s Od
Grinding
Oats English, old
Archangel and Riga,
,per st osll32fdtotoosl3lo3d
Friesland and Dutch osd
Swedish and Danish oBl2kd to 05133
Beans ....English, old, per qr. 4Bs oa to 50s Od
New pigeon 42s Od to 44s Od
New tick

Egyptian 3Bs 0d to 40s Od
Peas Foreign breakers
Grinding
Tares .... Spring. —s Od to —s Od
Indian Corn
Linseed, feeding s2s Od to 56s Od
crushing
Linseed cakes (Hull) £lo 0 0 to £lO 10 0
Foreign! BlO oto 9 0 0
Rape cakes 6 0 oto 6 5 0
Bones 415 oto 5 0 0

NEWARK.

.SEPT. 17.

A good show of wheat from the growers to-day, and if
fair trade, with a large attendance.

White wheat, new, 60s to 64s Barley, grinding.. 28s to 30S
Red do. 568 to 60s Oats, old, . 3os to 34°
Old white sss to 60s New do 24s to 26s
Red do. 45s to 548 / Beans.. 44s to 510
Barley, malting.... 368 to 42s / Beans, new 37s to 400
Peas, ....a6s to 40s.