The Sun.
London, England, 1859-01-10 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 10, 1859

boat throwing a ball 841 b. a distance of 3,500 yards
and, lying as a speck upon the water, would thus
prove herself a very disagreeable antagonist with a
vessel much her superior in size and number of
guns. Of these vessels we possess not one, against
more than' 200 in the service of England, and very
nearly as large a number in the navy of France.
Holland herself counts 36, and Austria 20 of such
vessels, and they are now building in the port of
Ferrol, in Spain. The French gunboats are con-
structed on a more uniform model than the Eng-
lish, and are, doubtless, of at least equal efficiency.
The English West India squadron now contains five
of these vessels, and we have reason to believe that
a larger number has been despatched from France
to these waters.

Of the bomb-vessels and floating batteries brought
into being during the Russian war, and the former
of which, at least have established their character
as a new and most dangerous vessel of war, we re-
serve an account, with an examination of the naval
personnel of the different nations, for another occa-
sion, contenting ourselves now with summing up
the results of our first inquiry, in regard to the
actual steam force of the world—and omitting all
reference to the sailing ships, as not to be con-
sidered in dealing with the future of our navy—

Line-of- Steam _
Battle. Frigates. Sloops, &c. Gunboats.
England 52, 19 156 200
..... _ _

France
Holland 1 4 7 36

Austria
United States
Spain — 2 15

We leave these figures to carry their own lesson.
In any sudden naval encounter with the world, or
with any strong naval power, we can now count
immediately upon exactly 18 vessels, of a class
available for the modern warfare of the seas. To
this‘force, from the vessels now in course of con-
struction, or capable of completion in an efficient
sense, might in six months be added one-half as
many more. But of the two extreme terms of naval
efficiency, the steam-liner and the. gunboat, we have
not a single unquestionable specimen. And yet we
talk of going to war with a first-class naval power!

to the duties and responsibilities of those who abuse
their power over their fellowmen to so frightful a
purpose. But one thing we would urge. So long
as peace is preserved the Emperor Napoleon may
claim with some justice to be master of his own
position and the destinies of Europe; but the
moment he plunges into war that position is gone.
The power and the predominance will be, not to
him, but to those who, with resources unexhausted
and reputation untarnished, stand by, the specta-
tors of the quarrel. The destinies of the belli-
gerents will be placed in their hands, and from
them France must ultimately accept what terms
they may please to impose. Is the Emperor of
the French prepared to exchange the one position
for the other ?

CELEBRITIES AT CANNES-LORD
BROUGHAM.

CANNES, Jan. 2.—Were the men of England,
France, and Germany called upon to elect three
representatives who should personify high mental
power, wisdom, pure philanthropy, and patriotism,
their choice could not possibly fall upon more
worthy objects than on the three distinguished men
whom circumstances have brought together in this
petty town. I speak of Henry Lord Brougham,
who radiantly stares time out of countenance ; of
Alexis de Tocqueville, laid low by disease, but daily
parrying with greater vigour the assault of the fatal
scythe • of the Chevalier de Bunsen, who has de-
serted his favourite retreat and abandoned his
beloved occupations in order to bestow his entire
attention and affectionate care on the stricken
friend.

It is mighty consoling to reflect, while roasting
my legs in a capacious fireplace (for in the " genial
climate" of Nice, Cannes, 'Brc., it is colder out of the
sun than in the Hebrides), that were some awful
convulsion undreamt of by Babinet of the " Institute"
or by " Moore's Almanac," to sweep away every
vestige of civilisation in the course of this night,
the world would be perhaps the gainer by the event.
The three practical philosophers cherished by Cannes
would speedily replace the rotten, selfish, strife-
creating network of institutions, which have trans-
formed the world into a bear-pit, by a glorious
system in which injustice, national hatred, intole-
rance, and lawyers should be unknown. It must
not be surmised that I doubt the capacity of Lord
Brougham to accomplish the task alone ; on the
contrary, his lordship would undertake and perform
it single-handed at the shortest notice. But the
calm judgment of Tocqueville and the benevolence
and piety of Bunsen would sober down the daring
flights of our great countryman and lend grace and
unity to the structure.
Lord Brougham is the loadstone that attracts
people to Cannes, and that the sun has something
to do in the matter is a fable invented by envious
minds. The sun has a great reputation to sustain
and would think twice before engaging with so
daring a rival. His lordship has rescued the place
from obscurity, and it is but fair that he should
have the exclusive credit of the action. The inha-
bitants, who derive advantage from the presence of
visitors, remember their days of poverty, and are
grateful to their benefactor. The grateful feelings
of the landed proprietors, who have built chateaux,
in many cases with borrowed money, under the
delusion that the entire British aristocracy would
compete for their possession, and who cannot suc-
ceed in disposing of their property, are perhaps less
acute. By thepoorer classes and the rural popula-
tion his lordship is beloved and also slightly feared.
Every season he returns more erect and youthful.
Strange tales are told at village festivals of his visits
to the fountain of youth, concealed in a certain
House of Lords, which can be entered only by the
display of consummate cunning. His popularity is
also augmented by a belief, founded probably on
the law reforms at work in England, that he passes
the days of his absence in exterminating " avocats."
With the children he is, of course, a favourite. In
days of old, mothers were accustomed to hush their
squalling brats to rest by the- invocation of some
dreaded name. Tamerlane, Atilla, Bogey the elder,
Black Douglas—all had their day of favour in the
maternal imagination. But on Lord Brougham has
devolved a more grateful and soothing mission ;
his name, pronounced•before the villager's cradle,
never fails to reduce the most unruly infant to good
temper—not by fear, but by sympathy. When every
measure has been exhausted by the persecuted
mother—when menace and cajolery have alike
failed—when the energetic method of lifting the
baby to the level of the nose, and allowing it to
return unassisted to the eartli, has produced only
additional annoyance—then does the maternal
parent recal to mind the spell evoked by the name
of the great Miler. In her unvarnished and, per-
haps, presuming language, she cries to the un-
happy infant, "Tienr,, bichette, si nous allions voir
le grandpapa ;" and, lo ! to storm succeeds
calm. The restive limbs subside into quiet, the
riotous howl is followed by a gentle crow, and the
tamed babe, holding out its little arms, pouts its
lips and embraces an imaginary Harry.
A minority, scarcely worth mentioning, asserts,
however, that his lordship is a magician, and con-
verses with dark spirits. This delusion arose
under the following circumstances, and perhaps
many a gloomy superstition that has tormented
poor humanity is founded on no more guilty pre-
mises :--" A wedding party returning to a village
from Cannes passed by the grounds of the chateau,
when suddenly the ears of the merry folks were
assailed by the most horrible sounds. The good
people crouched together in abject terror and awaited
events. Presently there issued from a shaded walk
into the full moonlight the well-known figure of
Lord Brougham. With vehement gestures he pro-
nounced an oration in a language unknown to mor-
tals. It was an excruciating concentration of the
most discordant sounds. One of the party, the vil-
lage schoolmaster, a man of lefirning, whispered
that milord Was whispering in the Chaldean tongue,
and was invoking the devil. Whereupon the
affrighted peasants took to their heels, pursued by
stones, which his lordship, thinking the disturbance
was created by some unfriendly cat, hurled in the
direction of their retreat. To this day the villagers
in question look with awe on the chateau and its
master. The simple fact of the case was this—his
lordship was merely repeating a speech in French,
a la Caledonienne, which he intended shortly to
deliver to the Paris Institute."
When Lord Brougham first established his win-
ter residence at Cannes, in consequence of the annoy-
ance he felt at the sanitary cordon raised by Nice
in the cholera year—he is said to have taken great
interest in the welfare of his poultry yard, and to
have gloried in the superiority of his breeds over
the native ones. He even encouraged a certain
amount of familiarity in his subjects which nearly
ended in a disastrous result—viz., in the acquire-
ment of an inveterate and undignified habit. His
lordship possessed not only a fine collection of Dork-
ings, Javas, &c., but also some presentable rabbits
—one of which, a strawberry-coloured bunny, with
fascinating ears, became, by its remarkable tame-
ness and sagacity, his particular favourite and
playmate. This rabbit was called" Johnny," after
an eminent legal friend, whom it has the honour to
resemble. We have all read of certain great philo-
sophers, composers, and authors who never appealed
successfully to their genius unless encouraged br
the presence on their shoulders of favourite cats,
owls, or poodle dogs, &c. We have modern instances
of this eccentricity, for, according to report, M.
Coste, the distinguished patron of pisciculture, ex-
periences difficulty in putting pen to paper without
having a leech in his waistcoat pocket, while M.
Cu cheval-Clarigny, attached to the rear squadron
of French journalism, finds, it is said, that a blind
ape, seated on his shoulders, lends additional bril-
liancy to his prose. Lord Brougham was menaced
with a visitation which the eccentric minds above-
mentioned sought for of their own free will. His
lordship, when seated in the evening at his desk,
became the object of much premeditated persecution
on the part of " Johnny,' who, presuming on the
above familiarity, was unhappy unless seated on
his master's shoulders, with a quill pen to chew.
But the master, being aware of the fatal conse-
quences which attend too imprudent a subserviency
to habit, checked the inclinations of " Johnny" in
their dawn, and withdrew from that favourite much
of the regard hitherto enjoyed by him. A terrier
dog, named " Smash," from the peculiarity of his
evolutions in the china closet, then succeeded to
the best graces of his master, and still enjoys them.
Were Lord Brougham to dispose of his chateau
and to desert Cannes, I do not think that the place
would long preserve its actual prosperity. By this
I mean to say, that in Cannes there is little to
tempt a man to purchase the numerous chateaux
which are for sale ; and that as the fame of this
resort was created by his lordship, so would his de-
parture affect its very existence. But it little matters
whether Cannes is destined to return to its primi-
tive obscurity or to expand into a great town. • One
thing is certain, this little point on the Mediterra•
nean coast will be contemplated with deep interest
in another century by the great Anglo-Saxon na-
tions; and pilgrims from beyond the seas will seek
the spot where dwelt the lion-hearted sage whom
no obstacle could vanquish and no failure dis-
hearten ; who strove against injustice, ignorance,
intolerance, and oppression, and who won the day
with the glorious weapons of eloquence, a dauntless
spirit and an unbending will. They will gaze with
reverence on the spot where laboured the strong
intellect, at an age when most men are stranded in
hopeless senility, in defence of the interests of the
British public : and, when reflecting on the gener-
ous qualities which adorned the master-mind—love
of truth, hatred of petty intrigue, and unswerving
fidelity in friendship--they will cherish in their
souls, with not less lave than admiration, the me-
mory of Henry Brougham.—Post

LAW INTELLIGENCE. Jan. 8.

COURT OF DIVORCE.
EVANS V. EVANS AND ROBINSON.

Mr. Huddleston said he had to apply to the
Court on behalf of Mr. Evans, that Mr. Robinson,
the co-respondent in this cause, which was
tried a short time ago, and a verdict given
in favour of the petitioner, be directed to
pay the costs of the proceedings instituted in this
Court by Mr. Evans against Mrs. Evans, and also
that the Court would pronounce a decree of
divorce.

Lord Campbell asked if the application for the
divorce was opposed.
Dr. Deane, who appeared for Mrs. Evans, said he
was not instructed to oppose.
Lord Campbell—Then of course that will form
part of our judgment.

Mr. Huddlestone said he had now, in accordance
with the 34th section of the Divorce Act, to apply
that Mr. Robinson be called upon to pay the whole
costs incurred by Mr. Evans in prosecuting his
suit in this court. The section alluded to laid
it down that where a co-respondent was accused
of adultery, and that adultery was proved, he
should bear the whole of the expenses.
Lord Campbell—What do you apply for ?
Mr. Huddlestone—An order, my lord, that Mr.
Robinson pay the whole costs. He (Robinson)
had put in an affidavit that he had already paid
the sum of £5OO and costs in the action tried at
Liverpool, and he did not think he ought to be
called upon to pay more. He (Mr. Huddlestone)
contended that Mr. Evans had been compelled
to institute the proceedings in this court, and there-
fore he ought not to be saddled with the costs after
a verdict had been given by a jury in his favour.
Mr. Sergeant Piggott opposed the application
on the part of Mr. Robinson. The action at
Liverpool, amounting, with the costs, to £946 155.,
he had already had to pay, and he did not think
the Court would order him to pay a second bill of
costs. The learned gentleman then cited a case from
the Law Journal, which he said differed very slightly
from that of Evans v. Evans and Robinson, and
there the co-respondent was not saddled with the
costs. The learned Lord Chief Justice of the Com-
mon Pleas, who delivered the judgment in that
court, distinctly stated that the case was an excep-
tional one, and ought not to be taken as a prece-
dent.

Lord Campbell said he had no doubt the case
alluded to by the learned Sergeant was rightly de-
cided, but there the judge merely laid it down that
it was not to forma precedent. If the learned
Sergeant had no other argunient to offer, he thought
Mr. Robinson ought to pay the costs incurred by
Mr. Evans.

Another learned gentleman followed Sergeant
Pigott, and said that as Mr. Robinson had paid the
costs of the action at Liverpool, and had a judgment
pronounced in his favour in the Ecclesiastical
Court, he ought not to be now called upon to pay
the expenses of the action in this Court.
Lord Campbell said that judgment was obtained
by perjury. Here he had the verdict of a jury
which he considered unimpeachable.
Mr. Baron Martin—And unimpeached.

Lord Campbell said he was clearly of opinion
that the costs of Mr. Evans in this court in obtain-
ing a divorce from his wife, ought to be paid
by Mr. Robinson. The verdict of the jury was
quite unimpeachable and in strict accordance with
truth and justice ; and, therefore, the costs must
be paid by the co-respondent.
Mr. Baron Martin said he entirely concurred in
the decision of the Lord Chief Justice. Mr
Robinson had brought the whole transaction upon
himself, and therefore Mr. Evans ought not to be
a sufferer.

The Judge Ordinary said he was of the same
opinion _ _

Judgment accordingly.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.—Ian. 8.

(Before Mr. Pashley, Q.C., Assistant-judge.)
Eliza Cook, 19, Jane Armstrong, 17, and Harriet
Fant, 17, were indicted for stealing a purse value
ls. and the sum of 18s., from the person of Mary
Allinson.

This robbery was committed in a very artful
manner. The prisoners went to the shop of the
prosecutrix, who is a milliner, 240, Tottenham-
court-road, on Dec. 18, and said they wanted to
purchase a bonnet. One was tried on Cook, and
while prosecutrix was arranging it on her head—
Cook purposely keeping her hands so engaged—
Armstrong picked her pocket of her purse. The
prosecutrix felt a tug at her dress, and looking
down saw Armstrong's hand withdrawn from the
pocket. Cook was detained and given into custody
—the others got away. She said she was a respect-
able married woman, and that she was quite unac-
quainted with the others ; but they were known to
be companions, and the constant associates of thieves
and other bad characters. No money was found on
Cook ; it was she who wanted to buy the bonnet.
Armstronc, was taken into custody by D 261, at 14,
Charles-street, Lisson-grove, when she said it was
" Miss Eliza's doings," and they would all three
go together. She then took the constable to where
Fant lodged, and she too said it was all through
" Miss Eliza; " it was no use denying it, they did
do it ; but it served her right for being with them;
she was drawn into it by others.
The jury found them Guilty.
Cook and Armstrong were then indicted for a
similar robbery committed upon Mrs. Torring, mil-
liner, Great Russell-street, Bloomsbury.
The prosecutrix stated that seeing in the news-
, papers a report of the examination of the prisoners
on the other charge, she thought they might be the
same persons who committed a precisely similar
robbery upon her on the 3d of December, and in
consequence she went, and on seeing them imme-
diately recognised them. As she was trying a bon-
net on one of them, the other picked her pocket of
her purse, which contained money. She was posi-
tive they were the same persons.
The prisoners as positively denied it. They
admitted they were guilty on the other charge,but
they assured the jury that on the day when this
robbery was committed they were selling fruit and
vegetables in the street.
Mrs. Terring said there was a peculiarity about
Armstrong's face which was unmistakeable, and
having missed her purse and money immediately
after they left the. shop (they made no purchase),
and knowing, from the fact of her purse being safe
just before they came in, that they must have taken
it, their features and appearance became impressed
more deeply upon her memory.
The jury found them guilty.
They were proved to be well known to the police
of the D division as bad characters themselves, and
the associates of others still worse.

The Court sentenced Cook and Arnistrong each
to nine months' 'card labour, and Fant to three
months.

(Before Mr. Creasy.)
Henry Kelly, 24, described as a musician, Emma
Kelly, 11, and Ana Wallace, 49, were indicted for
stealing portmanteaus from cabs in the streets.

There were three indictments against the pri-
soners, and, from. the evidence upon which the
charges were founded, it appeared that on the
evening of the 22d of December Lieut. L. P. Shaw,
R.M., unattached, arrived at the Waterloo Station,
and took a cab to Euston-square to proceed on to
Preston. His portmanteau, containing a uniform
coat and other articles, value about £ll, was
placed on the roof of the cab, but before the cab
got to Euston-square, it was gone. On the 23d of
October Mr. Phipson, the barrister, took a cab from
Waterloo Station, and placed his portmanteau and
some luggage belonging to a friend on the roof,
and when he gof to his friend's house in Albert-
road, Regent's-park, the portmanteau was gone. A
waistcoat which 'Wallace had pawned in Great
Queen-street, and. the ticket of which was found
upon her, was identified by Mr. Phipson, as having
'been in the portmanteau when it was stolen.
On the 3d of December Mrs. Bright, the wife
of a warder in the House of Correction, Coldbath-
fields, took a cab from Endell-street, Long Acre, to
Pentonville-road, and placed a box containing chintz
on the top ; when ~she got home that was gone. On
the 23d of December two constables of the A divi-
sion, named Joy and Dawson, from information
they had received, went to No. 8, Little Wild-street,
Drury-lane, and in the first floor front room found
the three prisoners. Wallace was the tenant of
that room. The co nstables took them into custody
on suspicion of having stolen property in their pos-
session, and, on searching, they found most of. the
articles stolen on file three occasions above stated.
Lieut. Shaw's portmanteau was found under the
table broken open, and his uniform coat, silver
spoons and forks, and other articles marked with
his name, were found on the bed. Henry Kelly
said two young men had brought the portmanteau,
and had left it. Wallace, Kelly's mother, said she
was not at home when the trunk was brought, and
the female, Kelly, whose real name was Tarrant,
and who had liwAl with Kelly, made a statement
to the effect that one evening, that on which Lieut.

Shaw's portmanteau was stolen, she was sitting
alone when there was a knock at the door, and on
her opening it two men brought in the portmanteau
in question, and asked for permission to leave it
until next morning. She said they might, and ac-
cordingly they did, and it was placed under the
table. When Kelly and his mother came home
and were told about it they had a great curiosity to
know what it contained, and as the men did not
come for it next morning they opened it out of
inquisitiveness, and while they were examining the
contents the police came and took them into cus-
tody. The box in which. the chintz belonging to
the prosecutrix Bright was, was found in the room.
Kelly declared it was his. Mrs. Bright was at
issue with him on that point. She positively
claimed it as the one stolen from the cab she hired,
and among the other property found were two
bags and a necktie, which Mr. Phipson was en-
abled to identify, besides the waistcoat, as his pro-
perty, and as having been in his portmanteau at
the time it was stolen. Kelly was believed to be
the actual stealer, and his mother and the young
woman he lived with were abettors, and aided in
the disposal of the plunder.
The jury found the prisoners guilty, and they
were ordered to be brought up for judgment at the
next sessions.

Mr. Horry and Mr. Gent were the counsel en
gaged in the case.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE, (Tan. 8.

MANSION-HOUSE.----Ann Connor, a middle-
aged woman, was brought brought before Mr.
Alderman Carter, charged with having robbed a
lad of a pair of boots under the fallowing circum-
stances.

James Daley said—l am 10 years old, and am
errand boy to Mr. J. Widdowes, a shoemaker. This
morning I was sent by my grandfather on an errand
over Blackfriars-bridge with a blue bag containing
a pair of boots, which I was to take to a customer
in Bear-lane, George-street, Blackfriars-road. Just
as I reached the foot of the bridge, the prisoner
came up to me, and asked me to go to a shop to get
her some work, promising me a penny for my trou-
ble. I went with her to a house opposite the end
of Old Fish-street, when she pointed out a shop to
me, and told me inquire for Mrs. Johnson's work,
and also for a last. She took my bag from my
hand, and told me to walk on while she waited for
me at a beershop which she pointed out. I was to
take the work to her there. I went to the shop
and inquired for her work, but was told they did
not know anything about it. I then returned to
the shop, but could not find her. I went along
Cannon-street crying, and the policeman asked me
what was the matter. I told him what had oc-
curred, and accompanied him to the station, after
which we went in search of the prisoner, and found
her in about five minutes in the street. The police-
man was only two yards from me when I pointed
her out to him, and he took her into custody. She
immediately denied that she was the woman, but
lam positive as to her identity. In the meantime
she had got rid of the boots and bag.
Alderman Carter asked the prisoner whether she
wished to put any questions to the witness ?
Prisoner—l declare that lam not the person at'
all, and I never saw the boy till he told the police-
man to take me into custody. When the policeman
asked him if he was sure I was the woman who had
robbed him he said he didn't think I was.
Policeman—This is not correct. When I first
asked the boy if he was certain she was the woman,
he said he was. The prisoner then contradicted
him, upon which I said, " Are you certain she is
the woman ?" and he replied, Yes, I'm positive
of it."

Several women, whose children have been robbed
in a similar manner by a person resembling the
prigoner in appearance, stood forward, and upon
the son of one of them (a lad nine years old) being
questioned, he said he was unable to speak posi-
tively to her identity, although a woman a good
deal like her had on the previous day stolen a parcel
from him which he had been sent by his master to
deliver to a customer. The mother had had to pay
the value of the stolen parcel to the master, and the
worthy alderman gave her 10s. out of the poor-box.
The prisoner was then remanded.
Shortly after the case had been disposed of the
policeman entered the court, and said he had ascer-
tained the prisoner had called at various places
which she had mentioned about the time the lad
Daley had accused her of stealing the bag contain-
ing the boots.

-The magistrate said that under these circum-
stances he would liberate the prisoner on bail, if
her landlady would become answerable for her
appearance on a future day.
The landlady, however, refused to do so, and the
prisoner was finally remanded.

WORSHIP-STREET.—DivoncE LAW SUPER-
SEDED.—EIiza Day, a delicate-looking female, with
regular features, was charged before Mr. Hammill
with having intermarried with Wm. Heyday, her
former husband being then and now alive.
William Heyday, an elderly person, residing at
No. 1, Dert-place, Old Ford-road, said—l am a shoe-
maker by trade, and on Christmas-day, 1857,
married this lady at the church of St. Margaret,
Haggerston. She had told me that she was single,
and as I wanted some one to look after four chil-
dren that I have, and sbe promised to do a mother's
part by them, why I took her for better for worse.
Well, all went on right merrily until this week,
when I was astonished at discovering from a friend's
information that she had another lord and master.
I told her what I had ascertained, bui she denied it.
Prisoner—Why you knew all about it from the
first. Didn't I say that I was married 14 years
since, and left my husband after four, and didn't
you tell me you liked me all the better for it ?
Prosecutor--Nothing of the kind ; you married
me in your maiden name of S. Nicholls. Do you
suppose I would have had second hand goods know-
ingly?

Tiisoner here asked bitterly—Pray what goods
do you deal in ? Second-hand goods, indeed !
Magistrate—When and where were you first
married ?

Prisoner—On the 7th of July, 1845, at a church
in the Commercial-road.

Magistrate—Why did you separate ?
Prisoner (coolly)—Well, you see we agreed to
do so comfortably. There was not any quarrel. It
was a change like. Both were agreed, and so no
harm was done—(laughter)—but, indeed this good
man knew all about it.
Prosecutor—Now' is it likely that a man with
£4OO would do such a thing ?
Prisoner—Four hundred; and where did you get
it, pray ? Answer me that, since you turn round
upon me.
Magistrate—ls your husband alive ?
Prisoner—l believe that he is, and pretty well,
I thank you; he is in one of the large brewers'
firms. (To the prosecutor)—Now, didn't I take
care of your children ?
Prosecutor—Yes, oh yes, you made a very good
mother—wife I mean—no woman better.
Prisoner—Won't you hear my father, sir ?—he
will tell you how it all happened.
Magistrate—Oh, yes, I will have his evidence,
certainly..
Joseph Nicholls was then sworn, and deposed—
This girl is my daughter, and was married to
.Charles Day at the time she mentioned. He was
a very agreeable sort of fellow, and when the sepa-
ration was proposed, he said, with all his heart, she
might.
Magistrate—Did he say any more ?
Witness—Yes, that he should be proud and
happy to see her married, and that he hoped she
would, because that would afford him a chance of
trying it on the second time himself. (Much
laughter.) I know he is alive, because I drank
with him the other day.
Mr. Hammill—Well, this is 'truly a very lament-
able state of things. Here are two persons mani-
festly indifferent as to the law on such important
matters, separating and marrying at their pleasure.
Pray is the prisoner's first husband wedded again ?
Witness—l can't say that. I don't know.
Officer—l have not any documentary proof of the
first marriage, sir, and must ask for a remand.
Mr. Hammill—Certainly this is doing away with
all occasion for the " Divorce Act."
The prisoner was then remanded.

SOUTHWARK.—Mr. Edward Scales, a manu-
facturer of the City, was summoned before Mr.
Seeker for unlawfully smoking a tobacco-pipe in a
second-class carriage on the North Kent Railway,
and assaulting one of the company's officers in the
execution of his duty.
Edward Griffin, an inspector of the North Kent
Railway, said that on the 20th of last month he was
attending the 11 o'clock noon train for Strood when
he saw the defendant get into a second-class car-
riage with a lighted pipe in his mouth. Witness
went up to him and told him to put the light out
and desist from smoking, as he was acting contrary
to the regulations provided by act of parliament.
The defendant refused to do so and still kept on
smoking, when he was compelled to enter the car-
riage and tell him to leave unless he left off smok-
ing. The defendant then struck him, and he was
obliged to have the assistance of a gentleman in the
carriage to remove him. The defendant must have
known that no smoking was allowed in the car-
riages, as placards were posted about the station as
well as in the former. The defendant acknowledged
having a lighted pipe in his mouth when he entered
the station, but it went out before he got into the
railway carriage.

Mr. Griffin denied that such was the case, and
:died

Mr, Johnson, warehouseman, of 23, Iroumonger-

lane, who said he was in the carriage when the de-
fendant came in. He had a lighted pipe in his
mouth, and continued smoking, although the last
witness told him to leave off, as it was not allowed.
He persisted in smoking, and abused the officer,
who was compelled to eject him with witness's
assistance, from the carriage. _ _

The defendant here said that there were four
other gentlemen smoking in the carriage when he
got in.

Mr. Johnson said that they left off smoking and
put their pipes away as soon as the officer told
them, but the defendant not only flatlyrefused, but
abused and assaulted the officer.
Mr. Seeker told the defendant that his conduct
had been very improper, and, as a caution to him
for the future, he would pay a penalty of 20s. and
costs.

The defendant, with some reluctance, paid the
money, and left the court with his friends.

LAMBETH. —Mr. Peacock, solicitor to the
General Post •office, attended before the Hon. G. C.
Norton, in compliance with the request of that
magistrate, and in consequence of a complaint at
this court on Thursday last, of a scandalous fraud
practised on the English public by means of some
letters posted at Hamburg, and on which a postage
of Bd. each is charged.
Mr. Greenfield, who was the complainant, was in
attendance, and handed to the bench a number of
the disgusting letters alluded to, which had been
received in his own immediate neighbourhood on
Thursday morning, and said there were many others
on which the postage had been paid, but the parties
to whom they had been directed, finding the filthy
nature of their contents; threw them into the fire.

Mr. Peacock observed that all he could say was
that the London Post-office had not the power to
prevent persons at Hamburg. posting letters ad-
dressed to different parties in this country, and
passing them through • the Post-office. On the
contrary, they were bound to deliver them as
directed, and the amount of postage was divided
with Hamburg and Prussia, through which the
letters had been transmitted.

Mr. Norton—lf I understand the complaint, it is
not so much regarding the postage as the vile
nature of the matter contained in the letters, and I
must say that more insane or vile trash cannot be
conceived.

Mr. Greenfield—Your worship is quite right.
Upwards of 150 of these disgraceful letters have
been delivered in my own immediate neighbour-
hood within two months, and I shall be very glad
to go any length, and do anything your worship
points out, to put a stop to so vile a system of fraud.
Mr. Norton—The evil is increasing to such an
extent that it appears to me the Government should
take up the matter, and I have no doubt that if
proper instructions were given to the English Con-
sul at Hamburg to inquire into the matter, the par-
ties posting these letters might be found out and
punished, and thus put an end to this disgusting
system of imposition and fraud. The letters I
find are all addressed in the same handwriting, and
therefore there could be no difficulty in detecting
the parties.
Mr. Peacock repeated that the Post office autho-
rities had no power to interfere in the matter, but
said he should place the matter, with the purport
of his worship's observations on the subject, before
the Postmaster-General, and he had no doubt his
lordship would give it his best consideration.

COUNTRY MARKETS'.

LIVERPOOL-JAN. 8

To-day wheat commands about 2d per bushel and 6d per
qr advance. The value of all other articles is unchanged,
but the turn in prices is in favour of holders.

CHELMSFC
At • this morning's market
a rather better character at al
currencies for best qualities.

IRD-JAN. 7.

the trade in wheat was of
L advance of is on last week's

Wheat, white.— .40s to 46s Peas, Partridge _448 to 460
red 38s to 42s White 41s to 430
Barley 34s to 418 Boiling 42s to 480
Chevalier ....378 to 158 Dun 44s to 460

Grinding 27s to 33s Beans, Tick ..388 to 405
Malt 70s to 738 Harrow Ticks 38s to 420
Chevalier 72s to 738 Mazagan 368 to 300
Oats 25s to 358