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injure its insulation. This is a simple fact which
those least conversant with mechanics can easily
understand. Al the lowest computation the Atlan-
tic cable will stretch two feet per mile. At the
deepest parts where it must be laid six miles wid
be suspended at one time. What becomes of the
conducting wile during this elongation of 12 feet
It mustierther break or become attenuated. The
atter accident, we believe, will be as bad as the
lormer, for at present it will be most difficult to
get the current through 3,000 miles of 1-16th of
an inch wire, and quite impossible if either strain
or pressure reduce it in ary part to 1-24th or 1-32e1
of an inch diameter, as in electricity the weakest
part becomes the standard of the whole. We do
not mean to say that the present cable will not suc-
ceed, but the chances are against it, and it is al-
most certain that before it has been down 12 months
it will, like others similarly constructed, be per-
fectly useless. If it does answer temporarily it will
rot be due to the plan on which it is made, but
in spite of it. The first locomotives built answered
the purpose for a time, and were undoubtedly loco-
motives, though neither of these reasons would
justify a company at the present day in ignoring
recent improvements and having their engines
made after those bygone models. It is the same
with submarine cables. The present one, though
lighter, cheaper, and more flexible then the pon-
derous iron coils through which sharehelders have
lost hundreds of thousands irretrievably, is still
made on the same old principle of self-destructive-
ness. Why is not the new patent adopted which,
by the use of a large conductor, makes the core of
the cable its strength, and does away altogether with
the necessity for outside spiral wires ? By this
patent cheapness, lightness, increased conductibility,
I and therefore certainty of electric action, are in-
sured. Only by the adoption of plans like these
can the public ever hope for any extensive and use-
ful scheme of submarine communication. If this
Atlantic cable fails, what will be the result ? Why,
that another, or a somewhat similar one, will be
ordered immediately. Is it likely, then, that manu-
facturers will ever press upon the notice of com-
panies a very cheap cable certain to do its work,
when under the present system they make two or
three very expensive ones, often (as in the Mediter-
ranean) with no other result than that of benefit-
ting trade while making it, and depositing it when
made at the bottom of the ocean ? Shareholders
must look int() these matters for themselves. We
can only point the way, and it rests with them to
follow it. In conclusion, we may mention that it
is intended to work the c ible with Smee's batteries
—a most costly and troublesome plan. Morse's
recording telegraph, once a very valuable instru-
ment, though uow behind many recent inventions,
is to be used.

from abroad, and gives rise to massy disagreeable dis-
putes. This practice is the more indefensible, because
the very parties who thus dishonourably endeavour to
frustrate the purpose of a partial, rapid, and polite
search, are the loudest and most vehement in their com-
plaints if that search be minute or tedious."
After taking a general view of the customs de-
partment, the commissioners proceed to repce.;
more especially on the changes and improvements
that were introduced in 1856, which, in fact, com-
mences their annual report. After noticing vari-
ous tr;fling alterations in the tariff, improvements
in the arrangements for assessing sugar, and the
introduction of the patrol system on shore in sub-
stitution of boarding tide waiters, the report gives
the following particulars of the arrangements made
for the examination of passengers' baggage at Lon-
don-bridge, and their results :

REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONERS OF
CUSTOMS.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.-April 21:

COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH.

(Siaings in Banco, before Lord Campbell, and
(Justices Wightinan, Erle, acd Crompton.)
TICE VESTRY OF ST. PANCRAS V. MORGAN.

This was a special case, in which the question to
be determined was, whether, under the local act for
lighting and paving, the vestry of St. Pancras were
entitled to bring an action to recover an amount
claimed by them for repairing the road opposite the
defendant's house, the act providing that when a
claim of this kind was not paid the vestry might
distrain upon the person's goods.
Mr. M. Smith was heard on the part of the de-
fendant ; and Mr. Kean for the vestry.
Lord Campbell was of opinion that the action
could not be maintained, a specific remedy having
been devised by the statute for the recovery of the
money, and that judgment ought to be for the de-
fendant.

" For nearly three years it has been the practice to
acccommoda.te the through passengers from Paris to
London rid Dover, by the night mail, by allowing them
to have their baggage examined at the railway terminus
in London-bridge, instead of at the place of landing.
The packages registered in Paris were placed in 1 cked
vans, and continued in charge of the railway guard till
delivery in London, by which means the travellers were
relieved from all anxiety and necessity for personal vigi-
lance during the journey ; while, as the trains arrived
punctually ata fixed hour (7.45 a.m), little inconvenience
was entailed upon our officers by the arrangement. Early
in last year the directors of the South-Eastern Railway
memorialised your lordships, praying for the extension
of a similar privilege to the baggage of travellers
arriving in London from Paris, Amiens, and Boulogne,
by the special tidal train via Folkestone. It was obvious
this arrangement would entail upon the customs officers
a considerable amount of inconvenience, inasmuch as the
trains in question varied their hours of arrival every day,
and sometimes reached the terminus in the middle of the
night. But as it appeared that these trains bad become
the favourite mode of transit for passengers between the
two countries—the number of passengers from London
to Paris by the night mail in the six months ending 30th
November, 1855, having been 3,151, while these arriving
by the tidal trains was 41,788—it was thought proper to
concede the privilege requested, and arrangements were
accoedingly made, commencing on the Ist of August, by
which officers were in attendance at the specified hours to
examine the arriving baggage, while the directors of the,
railway facilitated the operation by the enlargement of
the building employed for the purpose.
" The number of packages be'onging to through pas-
sengers thus examined was in August 2,749 ; September,
3,970 ; October, 3,563; November, 1,538.
"The board were careful to order the attendance of a
sufficient number of officers to insure all possible de-
spatch ; and in Sept., when the system of examination
had been perfected, the number of packages on each
occasion averaged 159, and the time occupied was only
21 minutes.
"Early in Nov., however, the special trains from Paris
to Boulogne in connection with the tidal service ceased,
arid the South-Eastern Company followed the example,
and availed themselves, wherever practicable, of their
ordinary trains. The rapidity of transit was thus greatly
diminished ; and this circumstance, in connection with
the advancing season, so materially diminished the num-
ber of passengers,-that the railway company ceased to de-
sire, and your lordships deemed it advisable to discontinue
at the end of Nov., the privilege conceded in August.
" There can, we think, be little doubt that, while the
arrangement lasted, it was attended with considerable
comfort and advantage to the public ; but we submit, as
a matter for consideration OD a subsequent occasion, whs.
ther the same objects might not be obtained as effectually,
and with less trouble and expense, by the adoption of
some arrangement—which it appears to ns might easily
be contrived—for examining the registered 'through'
baggage at Folkestone (giving it precedence of the
effects cf other passengers) during the interval that
always elapses between the arrival of the boat and the
departure of the train—an interval which usually exceeds
that (21 minutes) which experience has shown to be
sufficient for the examination of the baggage at London-
bridge station."
The increase or diminution of trade and revenue
at particular ports is an object of great general, as
well as of local, interest, and on this subject the
commissioners report :
" With a view of showing the condition of trade and
revenue in each different district throughout the king-
dom, we have prepared a series of tables giving a con-
densed comparison of the produce of the revenue in
1855 and 1856, and of the more important articles in
which increase or diminution bad taken place in the
!atter year, with such remarks respecting the causes
of the fluctuation as seemed imstructive or sugges-
tive. These tables are full and complete, but
it is impossible to concentrate their substance into a few
sentences, or, indeed, to convey their information in a
terser form than that which they themselves present it.
They offer a most encouraging picture of the general ac-
tivity and prosperity both of the commercial interests
and of the community at large. Some of the increased
importation of the year is attributable to the cessation of
the war, and it is observable in nearly all districts. Be-
sides London and Liverpool, the most remarkable in-
crease of business has taken place at Hartlepool, Bull,
Folkestone, Gloucester, Susderland, Plymouth, and
Southampton, in England ; and at Greenock, Glasgow,
and Leith, in Scotland ; and perhaps timber and wood
goods are the articles in which the most universal in-
crease is reported.
"The accounts from Ireland are especially satisfactory.
There has been an increase in the revenue receipts at
every port, with three exceptions, and in these the aggre•
gate decrease scarcely exceeds 1,000/. This general im-
provement is by our officers unanimously attributed to
the flourishing state of agriculture, and the remunerating
prices of farm produce, which enable the cultivator of
the soil to indulge in the comforts and luxuries of life to
a far greater extent than formerly.
"It was deemed advisable in 1854 and 1855 to increase
the customs duties on four of the principal imported arti-
cles of consumption, with a view of providing means to-
wards defraying the expenses of the war. The taxes on
tea, coffee, sugar, and rum imported into Scotland and
Inland were severally augmented to an extent of which
the details rre given in the appendix. No more striking
illustration can be adduces; of the continued prosperity
and vast consuming power of the country than the very
trifling degree in which this augmentation in the tax af-
fected the use of the articles in question. The duty on
coffee was raised 33 per cent.; the utmost diminution of
consumption was only 6 per cent. The duty on tea was
raised 17 per cent.; the falling off in consumption was
not a quarter per cent. The duty on sugar was raised on
the average about 25 per cent., and the price of the arti-
cle in bond rose also upwards of 30 per cent. between
1854. and 1856 ; yet, the entire difference of consumption
in these two years was shi rt of 10 per cent. In all
three articles, it must be remembered, the duty forms a
very large proportion of the cost to the consumer."
At the conclusion of the report tlte commissioners
allude to the improvements which. have been already
effected, and to the further improvements contem-
plated in the statistical tables furnished by their
department ; noticing particularly that they have
substituted the real value of each atticle—carefully
ascertained from the most reliable sources—for the
unsatisfactory official values heretofore given.
There are many valuable appendices to the report,
stating in detail numerous facts connected with the
improvement of the customs department, and the
increased revenue and commerce of the kingdom,

The first annual report of the Commissioners of
her Majesty's Customs, prepared in compliance
with an order from the Lords of the Treasury dated
November 27, 1856, was presented to Parliament
shortly before its dissolution, and has just been
printed. The commissioners commence their re-
port with observations on the and formation
of the customs department, on the mode of collect-
ing customs, the appointment of the board, and on
the consolidatioes and reductions which have been
effected in the management since 1792, at which
period there were nine commissioners fur England,
five for Scotland, and nine for Ireland. The three
boards have since been consolidated into one cen-
tral body, and the number of commissioners has
been reduced by successive Treasury minutes to
six. Corresponding reductions have been made
in the subordinate branches of the department,
so that the number of offices abolished in the
ten years ending January 5, 1830, amounted
to 3,408, and the salaries thus saved ex-
ceeded a quarter of a million, and subsequent re-
ductions were made in 1849. These reductions are
represented to be not the most important of the
improvements that had been introduced in the first
part of the present century. " Formerly," the re-
port says, " a large proportion of the functionaries,
in every grade, from the highest to the lowest, owed
their appointment to political or local influence,
and not unfrequently received their offices as sine-
cures, or made them such." The report then pro-
ceeds to notice the reformation of that system, and
the recently introduced plan of appointments and
promotions as a great improvement on the previous
practice, and to point out the progressive advances
that has e been made in the efficiency and economy
of this branch of the public service. The reductions
made in 1830 are contrasted with the great increase
and value of the imports, which, in the quarter of
a century which has since elapsed, has increased
upwards of 163 per cent., while the number of offi-
cers employed has increased only 14 per cent., and
their aggregate salaries only 18 per cent.
The facilities and diminution of customs work by
digests and consolidation of the laws, by reduction
in the number of articles paying duty, and by other
arrangements, are dwelt upon by the commissioners
at considerable length, and then the report proceeds
to notice some of the practical results arising from
the facilities aff •rded tJ passengers in the examina-
tion of their baggage :
" The examination of the baggage of travellers arriv-
ing from foreign parts has constantly been a subject of
natural, but by no means always reasonable, complaint.
The customs authorities are often most unjustly blamed
for impediments and deficient accommodation, for which
they are not responsible, and over which, in fact, they
have no control. Railway and steamboat companies land
their passengers whero they please and on their own
premises, and all that the revenue officers can do is to
attend punctually and perform their functions expediti-
ously and civilly, in such buildings as the companies in
question have provided for the public—buildings often
no doubt quite inadequate for the purpose. The com-
missioners have, however, done all in their power to
obviate real difficulties and to meet reasonable wishes.
In many caes baggage is now examined ou board the
steamers, an experinieut which has perfectly succeeded,
and which is now extended (or in process of extension)
to the case of passengers arriving in sailing vessels from
long voyages, who can now take their personal effects
away with them at once, and pay the duties on such
articles as may be liable to duty in the baggage ware-
houses, and without the intervention of agent.. Travel-
lers, too, in possession of dutiable goods, and who are
merely passing through the country (say from France to
America via London and Liverpool), were formerly put
t some inconvenience ; this is now obviated by a very
simple arras gement, in virtue of which they pay the
duty as a deposit at their port of arrival, and receive an
order for its repayment at their port of embarkation.'
The great increase of the commerce of Great
Britain is shown satisfactorily by the maintenance
of th© customs revenue, notwithst.nding large re-
ductions in the duties. On this point, and on the
decrease of smug cling, the commissioners observe :
" Under the influence of the various circumstances
upon which we have touched in the preceding pages—the
eimplificaLion of the tariff, the reduction of duties, and
the facilities affersied to merchants and shippers—the
commerce of Great Britain has shown a marvellous in-
crease, and the revenue a still more marvellous elasticity.
Between the years 1831 and 1834, the first very exten-
sive steps were taken in the removal of prohibitions, and
the reduction and rernisAon of customs duties. These
were followed, in 1842 and 1844, by still bolder advances
in the same direction, and every successive year has seen
further progress, culminating in the vastly reduced and
sirnfolifled tariff of 1853. The net aggregate of these re-
ductions amounts to absre 10 millions. Yet, notwith-
standing, the customs revenue has scarcely varied for
the list 20 years, ranging steadily from 22 to 23 millions.
In 1835 the erieiti income was 23,149,0001. ; in 1855 it
was 25,482,000/

The other judges were of the same opinion.
Judgment accordingly for the defendant.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS.

(Sittings at Nisi Prius at Middlesex, before Mr.
Justice Williams and a Common Jury.)
BLAKE (ADMINISTEATRIX) V. RIISIITON-FATAL
ACCIDENT.

" In ordrr to produce such a result, it is obvious that
both the industry and the consuming power of the mass
of the nation must have augmented in an extra-
ordinary ratio. From the peace in 1815 to the year
1826 the increase of our commerce had been very trifling.
The entire imports, as measured by official value, showed
no great augmentation, but fluctuated about a medium
of 33,000,000/. The total export~ fluctuated in like
manner about a medium of 52,000,0001. They were
58,000,0001, in 1815, and 51,000,000/. in 1826. Fmm
that date, however, both branches of commerce toiik a
new start, and have never looked back. The foliuwing
table will give the meet remarkable picture of this in-
crease :

This was an action brought by the widow ofJobn
Blake, to recover damages for the depth of her hus-
band, as was alleged, through the negligence of the
defendant's servants. The pleas wore not guilty,
and that the deceased's death was not caused by
the negligence of defendant's servants.
Mr. M. Chambers and Mr. Joyce appeared for
the plaintiff ; and Mr. Hawkins was for the de-
fendant. _ _

It appeared that the deceased was 74 years of
age, and was a carman ; and on the 12th January
last he was walking across St. John-street, Clerk-
enwell, along which street one of the defendant's
horses was trotting at the rate of four or five miles
an hour. The horse struck the plaintiff and
knocked him down. He was taken home, where
he remained for some time, and ultimately died on
the 2d of February. The plaintiff had been put to
certain expenses in burying the deceased, for
doctor's attendanv, &c. Application had been
made to the defendant for some compensation, but
she had not received any, and the present action
was brought.
_

Several witnesses were called to make out the
plaintiff's case, but none were called for the de-
fendant.

Mr. Hawkins, however, addressed the jury, and
contended that the accident had not happened by
the negligence of the defendant's servant ; and if
the deceased had used due and ordinary care the
accident would not have happened.
The jury found a verdict for the plaintiff—Dana-
acres 501.

WESTMINSTER COUNTY COURT.
(Before F. Bayley, Esq.)
OLLIVIER V. THE EARL OF KINGSTON.

This was a judgment summons against defendant)
the Earl of Kingston, residing at No. 35 3, Park-
s' reet, Grosvenor-square, obtained by the plaintiff,
music publisher, New Bond-street, to show cause
why his lordship had not obeyed the order of the
Court by paying in thereto, for plaintiff's use, the
sum of 10/. 4s. On the hearing of the case in the
first instance his lordship, who was not present, it
was stated, had incurred the debt by the hire of
a pianoforte, and judgment going by default, au
order for immediate payment, with costs, was made,
and which order, not being complied with, the pre-
sent proceeding was adopted. .
The defendant, cn being called on in the usual
form three times, and not answering,
The Judge observed—Then his lordship is com-
mitted for ten days.

THE LATII EXPLOSION AT LUNDIJILL.

LUNDHILL, APRIL 21.
The drawing operations have been continued
since yesterday, and the water has now been so much
reduced that the cisterns will not fill at the bottom
of the shaft. There is still a considerable depth
of water in the " dip" levels, and men are actively
engaged in baling it into the cisterns, so that the
drawing continues, though at a slower rate. This
morning Messrs. Woodhouse and Elliott, twQ of
the mining engineers controlling the operations,
descended the pit, accompanied by the son of Mr.
Nicholas Wood, an'A also by Mr. Coe and several
other colliery vievarers, for the purpose of ascertain-
ing the state of affairs below, In consequence of
the reduction of the water they were enabled to
penetrate farther than the viewers who had pre-
viously cle.scended. At the conclusion of the ex-
ploration Mr. Woodhouse made the following state
meat to the representatives of the press :
Mr. Woodhouse said—We have been down the
pit to-day and carefully examined the progress that
has been making for drawing out the remainder of
the water and for the recovery of the bodies. We
found a very strong current of air running through
the parts of the mine we bare been able to explore,
without any appearance of fire. Indeed there
appears to be no fire in existence in the pit what-
ever. We were stopped in a complete exploration
by a fall of earth from the roof. This will shortly
be removed, and then the exploration will be com-
pleted. That done, measures for the recovery of
the bodies will be proceeded with. We do not
think that the recovery of the bodies can take
place very rapidly, but the viewers employed here
appear to be conducting their work very carefully
and properly, and are proceeding very diligently
and energetically, so that we hope before long the
whole thing will be complete.
In reply to your correspondent, Mr. Woodhouse
said—Our exploration was not sufficiently complete
to enable us to say beyond question that there is no
fire, but so far as we proceeded we found no ap-
pearance of fire. My opinion is that the fire is
quite extinguished, but that is and can only be an
opinion so long as the exploration is incomplete.
Mr. Morton, the Government inspector, said—
' The measures taken thus far are quite satisfactory
to me, as also are the Plans suggested for our future
operations. I have Joined and fully concur in
them.
The viewers are in tending to descend i'4,o pit
again this Tuesday evening for the purpe_e of pre-
paring, as far as pray ticabre, for future., ex
and it expected that more bodie-4 • Will ppl cal
or almti
or
bl
be recovered to-mo'frow (Wttlne_dday).

OFFICIAL VALUES. REAL VALUE.

Total Tow British and
Average Imports Exports Irish Produce
Of Three Imports
(iu nitillions). (in millions). Exported
*lBl4-15-16 ... 31-4 ... 53.8 (in millions).
4 • 2
1823-4-5 : ... 38.8 ... 55.9 ... 37.5
1833-4-5 ••• 48.1 ... 85.4 ... 42.9
1843-1-5 •.• . 73.6 ... 142.9 ... 57.0
1853-4-5 ... 121.6 ... 248.1 ... 97.2
* These years are taken because the records of ISI3 were

DANGER 01 CRIS GUNN.- On Wednesday afternoon a
servant was crossirkg the W ellingten-bridge, Dover, with
one child in her arms -and another by her side, when
two ladies, mawaifir,d 'by crinoline, rustled past, and
actually swept the jsittle toddler into the watf.r. Provi-
dentially, assist ;.nee bt in at hand, the ci lakld . was
rescued.

THE. SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, APRIL 22, 1857

Mr. Arnold felt there was too much reason to
fear that such was the case, and remanded the ac-
cused until this day, in the hope that his friends
might come forward, or that the police might learn
something about him.
He is described as a surgeon.
Benjamin Richardson, Thomas Woodworth, and
Emmanuel Barker, the first two privates of the
Scots Fusiliers, and the latter of the Coldstream
Guards, were charged with a series of desperate as-
saults and serious conflicts with the police.
It appeared from the lengthy evidence adduced
that Richardson conducted himself in a very offen-
sive manner in the private passaee of Mr. Hath-
way, a newsvendor, at 62, Tothill-street, when the ,
latter having quietly remonstrated with him, sexing
he was intoxicated, left him and went into his shop.
In two or three minutes afterwards the defendant
Richardson rushed into the shop, and, after drag- '
ging Mr. Hathway about until be had literally torn
all the clothes off his hack, swore he would split his
head open, and taking his belt off made a blow at
him with it. Mrs. Hathway, seeing the imminent
peril her husband was in, seized the belt, when the
defendant struck ber several blows about the head
with his fists. The police were sent for, and Rich-
ardson taken into custody, when the other defend-
ants and a third soldier, not in custody, came up
and attacked the police. An indescribable riot en-
sued, in the course of which the soldiers took off
their belts, and after a serious affray Richardson
was rescued, but was subsequently apprehended in
the neighbourhood. The other two defendants
having taken shelter in a public-house the police
waited outside till a guard was fetched from the
Wellington Barracks, whither they were taken in
custody, and produced at this court yestratday. On
their way to the barracks Woodworth rushed away
from the guard and again assaulted the police.
Richardson pleaded drunkenness as an excuse,
and the cehers said it was altogether a mistake re-
specting them, as they had not left the public-house
for hours before the guard came in and took them.
_ _

Mr. Arnold observed that this was one of the
most serious cases of the kind that had ever come
before him. As Woodworth and Barker asserted
they were innocent, he would remand the cis-, to
give them an opportunity of bringing evidence.
He, however, remarked that Barker was proved to
have assaulted the police on his way to the barracks.

WORSHIP-STREE r.—William Wick, a thick-
set bargeman, was charged with the following scan-
dalous outrage
Mrs. Fanny Badcock, landlady of the Marion
Arms at Hackney, whose head was bandaged, her
voice almost inaudible from exhaustion, and who
was obliged to be seated and supplied with water
during her examination, stated :—On returning
home on Saturday evening I noticed some very
improper conduct going ou between the prisoner
and some women who were standing in front of the
bar. I had noticed the same conduct between them
before I went out, and now expressed my surprise
to my husband that he should not have checked
it. The prisoner used some disgusting language, and
asked me what business it was of mine. I had not
spoken to him, but now told him he had much bet-
ter
go home to his wife, and threatened if he did
not desist to tell her of his behaviour. The pri-
soner on that called me two most disreputable epi-
thets, and feeling exa,perated at them I threw at
him a tint pot I had in my hand, but which did
not strike him. He then called me by more dis-
gusting appellations, and I threw another pot and
a tin can at him, but neither struck him, and, if
they had, they could not have hurt him. I was
then turning to enter the bar-parlour, when the
prisoner seized a quart pot, which was standing on
the counter with some porter in it, and flung it
at my head with such force that it cut my tem-
ple open. I sniggered against the bar, felt my-
self instantly covered with blood, and on reaching
the house of a neighbour entirely lost my senses.
I bled very much and was taken to a surgeon,
who dressed the wound, but I still feel very weak
and exhausted, and intend on leaving here
to go to the hospital. My husband was present all
die while, but did not interfere for my protection,
as the prisoner and he are always together.
Sergeant Townsbeud—Her husb Ind treats this
woman very badly, and has himself been charged
with assaulting her. He is not here now, and sa,d
he should not trouble himself about it, and that he
wished the prisoner had killed her. On her being
conveyed to the surgeon's he said that the tempo-
ral artery was cut through, and that it was surpris-
ing the woman was not killed on the spot. He
could scarcely stop the blood, and thought erysipe-
las was likely to supervene.
Mr. D'Eyncourt—As she wishes to go to an hos-
pital, let it be so, as it may be better for her, but
see that she is conveyed there in a cab.
Williams, 102 N—l was called to a house in
Pritchard-row, where I found the complainant
smothered in blood. I told her husband, and he
said it served her right, and that it would be a—
good job if the prisoner had killed her. I then
went to the house of prisoner, who looked out of
the window, but refused to open the door, and
upon my threatening to break it open swore he
would shoot me. I directly after heard the noise of
a ramrod being forced into a gun, and a female
voice saying, "For God's sake don't." I thought
it not safe to enter, hut watched outside, and he
promised to surrender next morning, if I came fur
him.
Sergeant Townshend—l afterwards got admitted
by an old lady and took the prisoner, who admitted
the assault, but said the prosecutrix had attacked
him first, and that he was intoxicated. In the
room I found the gun I produce, which I believe to
be loaded, but cannot get it unscrewed. Powder
comes out at the nipple, and I can feel the shot, I
think, with the ramrod.
John Rawlings, a labourer, gave a smiler ac-
count of the transaction, but said that one of the
pots thrown by the prosecutrix struck the prisoner
on the arm. He was standing about nine feet from
her, picked a pot up, threw it at her, and struck
her on the head in such a manner that "she bled
wonderfully, all down her bosom and on to the
counter. She appeared not to know what she was
about after that. Prosecutrix was in a passion when
she threw the measures at the prisoner, which she
did one after the other ; but, of course, a woman
could not throw them with such force as a man."

A certificate was put in from a surge ,n named
Morgan, describing the injuries received by the
prosecutrix, who was conveyed from the court in a
cab ; and the prisoner was remanded till that day
week, with liberty to put in substantial bail, the
magistrate at the same time giving directions that
the woman's husband should at the next examina-
tion bo in attendance.

SOUTHWARK.—Elizabeth Liberty, the wife
of a respectable mechanic, was charged with steal-
ing half-a-sovereign, the property of Mary Ann
Williams. The complainant, a widow, residing at
8, George-street, Blackfria,rs'-road, said that the
prisoner and her husband lodged in the same house.
On Saturday afternoon, between four and five
o'clock, she took a half-sovereign from a caddy in
her room for the purpose of paying for something,
when she went down stairs and spoke to the pri-
soner on the kitchen stairs. She then accidentally
dropped the half-sovereign from her baud, when
the prisoner stooped down and picked up some-
thing, which she did not give to witness. She ae-
cordingity looked on the floor, and not finding her
half-sovereign she asked the prisoner for it, when
she said it was only a penny that she had dropped
herself. The prisoner bad no mosey on Saturday
morning, but after witness lost her half-sovereign
the went out, and on her return paid her Is. Gd.
She also had other money about her.
On cross-exarninaton by Mr. Solomon, witness
said sIiC.W(.IB positive that it was a half-sovereign she
dropped, and she had never promised to say nothing
more about it if she had her money. She was
positive that the prisoner picked up her money.
Sarah Ann Fensom, the female searcher at the
station house, said she had searched the prisoner,
and found Bs. 11d. on her.
Mr. Solomon contended that his client was too
respectable to commit such a paltry theft, but
Mr. Comb() committed her for 'Vial, accepting
bail for her appearance at the next sessions.

LAMBETH.—AIfred .Berney, a smartly-dressed
young man, with a showy pair of mustachios, was
charged before Mr. Elliott with plundering his em-
ployers.
From the evidence it appeared that the prisoner
had been for some
years a shopman and confiden-
tial servant to Mes-rs. Simpson, Maule, and Co.,
.practical and manufacturing chemists in an exten-
sive way of business in the Kennington-road, who
treated him with great liberality. The extrava-
gance of his habits, as disclosed to the firm, gave
rise to considerable suspicion as to his honesty, and
the consequence was that Sergeant Coppim, a de-
tective of the P division of police, was consulted in
the matter, and he soon put the question of It's
honesty to the test. lie marked a half-sovereign,
and two shillings and a sixpence in silver, and seut
a woman to the shop of the prosecutors to purchase
articles to that amount. After the goods were
purchased and paid for the till was examined, and
it was then discovered that the prisoner had poc-
keted the half-sovereign and put only the silver
into the till. When the half-sovereign was found
on the prisoner he at once admitted it, and said it
was his first offence, though there was every reason
to believe that he had carried on his system of plun-
der to a considerable extent. His conduct was
considered more reprehensible from the fact that it
was not many weeks since a porter in the service
of his employers had been committed to Wands-
worth House of Correction for six months for rob.

4t^the preserit mothent, and his impression was that' bin them, and this circumstance, it was thought,
',E; was of unsound mind, should have acted as an example to him.
_

The prisoner pleaded for Mercy, and was ser-
tenced to six mouths' hard labotir.
Mary Ann Brown, who stood remanded from Sa-
turday last on a charge of burglary and robbrry at
the house of Mr. Budd, in Lioaatreet, New Kent
Road, was again brought up. It appeared that' be-
tween 2 and 3 o'Olock on the Saturday miming rhe
proseautrix was awoke by the noise created by the
prisoner's drawing a chest from under the bed. on
which. she (proseeutrix) lay, and the prisoner was
t.ken into custody with a quantity of property tied
up in her possession.
The evidence of the witnesses was taken, and the
prisoner was fully committed for trial at the Cen-
tral Criminal Court.

From the London Gazette of Last Night.

COMMISSIONS SIGNED BY LORD-LIEUTENANTS
County of Stafford—Lieut.-Col. James Horton to be.
Deputy Lieutenant.
2d Regiment of King's Own Staffordshire Militia—Lieut.
Frederick Alfred Augustus Whyte has been permitted to
resign his commission.
Royal Wilts Militia—Ensign Alfred Wyndham to be
Lieutenant, vice Paton, appointed Quartermaster ; Ensign
Thomas Edward Pinkett to be Lieutenant, vice Robinton,
promoted.
Royal South Gkucester Light Infantry Regiment of
Militia—Thos. Lyford Champion, Gent., to be Ensign.
Southern Regiment of Nottinghamshire Yeomanry Ca-
valry—Henry Charlton Staunton Esq., to be Cornet, vice
Lowe, promoted ; Henry Beevor;Gent., to be Cornet, vice
Clowes, promoted.