The Sun.
London, England, 1857-08-27 00:00:00

POLICE INIVILLIGELVCS.-Aug. 26.

MANSION-HOUSE. -,-FRAITD. —Charlotte Knox
Crws, who hid been reman led upon the charge of
having forged a receipt for the payment of 51. 7s. 4d.,
with intent to defraud the Eist India Company,
was ag ►in brought before the Lord Mayor for fur-
ther examination.

he depositions taken at the former examination
were read over. They were to the effect that the
defendant beCame entitled to a pension in 1842, as
the widow of Robert Trotter Knox, a brevet cap-
tain in the service of the East India Company, that
she was only eotitled to the receipt of such pension
during her continuity of widowhood ; that in Oc•o-
-awnasa that inlrrfrieom that date she had, as
l
at Ant werp to a Mr.
bo;rb,olrnBsos' shes Cross,
theretofore, received her pension quarterly at the
East India House, making, the usual declaration of
widowhood, and sighing her name to the rcceipt
and other official documents, -' Charlotte Knox
Knox."
The defendant, who said she should reserve her
defence, was then fully committed for trial.
DISEASED MEAT. —Mr. Thomas Hough an I Mr.
William Innocent, the former a butcher, and the
latter a farmer residing at Whatton, in Notting-
hamshire, appeared to answer to a summons which
eherg,d thorn with having unlawfully sent 27
lambs' carcasses to Newgate-rnarket for sale, the
sail carcasses being unfit for human food.
Mr. Sorchbury, frOtn the office of the City soli-
citor, attended in supp)rt of the prosecution, which
was, instituted by the Lord Mayor ; and Mr. L3WiS,
jun., appeared for the defendants.
Mr. J. Bufratp, station-mas'er at A4octon, in
Nottinghamshire, said—On the evening of Friday,
the 14th inst , Mr. 110%h inquired of me if I had
got a box waggon to convey some carcasses of msat
to Lo:.don. 1 told hira I had. On the following
morning four packages of meat were brought to the
station. The defendant Hough w:.s there. Is 4W
the addresses on them, and believe those produced
t) b 3 the sam'. Hough paid the carriage of ilynn,
and put his name t ).the consignment note. I asked
him if he had bought the carcasses, and he said be
had not, but was merely sending them for Mr.
Innocent. The packages were sent to London by
the 50 minutes past 11 train; and should 11tve ar-
lived in London at a quarter past two on Mond ty
morning.
Cross-examined by lir. Lewis—The meat was
was brought abut half-past 8 on the Saturday
morning. We have a train for London at three
minutes past 9 in the morning, but that train was
nearly three hours late that morning in consequence
of the floods. The defendants are resjaectable per-
sons.

J. Bate, a carman in the service of the Great
Northern Railway, proved delivering the packages
to Mr. Bon: or, a meat salesman in Newe-ate-mar-
ket, between three and four o'clock in the morning
of the 17th in t. The packages smelt very bad.
Mr. T. Bansor—l am a meat salesman in New-
gate-market. I was at my premises at 4 o'clock
on the morning of the 17th inst., and found four
packages of meat lying in the street next our pre-
mises addressed to U 9. The smell that arose from
them was very offensive. Two of the c Arc ises that
had slipped out of one of the packages were in a
Very bad condition. They were lambs dressed as car-
cases usually are for market. I did not know froin
whom they came. I directed them to be unpacked
in my.presence. The careases were all in the same
condition. I had the whole placed in the cellar in
order that the iuspector of meat might see them.
They were perfectly unfit for human food. Mr.
Pocklington, the inspector, came; and on seeing
them condemned theln. The next day I received
from my clerk the card produced, with the words,
" From Thomas Houob," written upon it. I have
been in tie trade upwards of 40 years, and have
had much experience in it. The carcases were in
an almost putrid state from long packing. Meat
so packed, had it been kited in the usual manner,
might have been bad on the Monday morning.
Some meat that I received from other parties on
that morning was deteriorated in value 2d. and 3d.
per pound from the effects of the weather. I be-
lieve the lambs in question were fit for human food
at the time they were dressed. If the lambs had
been drowned, and had been afterwards well bled,
they would have been, if in fresh condition, avaq-
able for human food ; they would also have Leon
wholesome human food.
Cross-examined by Mr. Lewis—The smell from
the carcases was very offensive, on account of. the
weather and the close packing. There was a
good deal of lightning, and that affects meat very
much. If the carcases were in such a state as to
bleed copiously after being taken from wa'er, the
effects of the immersion would not prevent the'r
bung available for human food. If they had been
dead an hour and a half or two hours, I think they
would nothave bled.
Mr. Pockliagtou, one of the inspectors of meat,
said--I have had much exPer:Ollce 44 my bu4inQas,

GUILDHALL. —RIVAL INTERPRETERS.—Mr.
Charles Albert, an interpreter, attached to the me-
tropolitan police courts, appeared upon a summons
to answer a charge of using abusive and threatening,
language towards Professor Karel Pieterter Reo-
horst, a member of the same fraternity.
The Professor, on being sworn, said—l am a
translator of languages. I am appointed inter-
preter at the Central Criminal Court by the Lord
Mayor. The defendant insulted me in March last,
but I let it pass. He, however, insulted me again
dur'ne, the last sessions at the Old Bailey, and
called me a dirty, nasty fellow, and a Dutch Jew.
He also called me a lousy fellow, but that was in
German, because be could- not find a French word
for it. (Laughter.)
Alderman Hale—Did he abu!e you in English ?
The Professor—He spoke in German, French,
and English, and said he had writ en to the magis-
trates at Marlborough street Police-court, request-
ing them not to bind me over to attend at the Old
Bailey because I was an ignorant fellow—(laughter)
—and that I did not understand either English,
French, or German. This took place downstairs,
and afterwards, when I was :in the New Court,
interpreting in a case before Mr. Prendergast, the
defendant was in court with several friends, and
told Mr. Hemp, one of the clerks of the court, that
I was not interpreting truly, upon which Mr.
Hemp informed the judge to that effect, and said
that the defendant could do it better than I—
(laughter)—but Mr. Prendergast said I cauld do it
well enough, and told me to g ) on, and to omit all
the gestures and. action so peculiar to the French,
because 1 was interpreting French, and I imitated
the gestures of a Frenchman to give expression to
the interpretation. (Laughter.)
Alderman Hale—What have you to say to this
charge, Mr. Albert ?
Mr. Albert, having handed up a certificate of his
capabilities as interpreter, signed by all, or nearly
all of the metropolitan magistrates, said—l am not
appointed interpreter to any court, but I am re-
cognised the same, and engaged as such at all the
metropolitan courts. But notwithstanding that,
that, the Professor has thought proper to write t
the magistrates to inform them that he is appointed
interpreter at the Old Bailey, and desiring them
not to bind me over to attend. I was bound over
in tbree cases l►st sessions, and while I was there I
heard several counsel finding fault with the Pro-
fessor's interpretation, and remarking what a
scandal it was to have a man performing such an
important office, who not only interpreted the
evidence contrary to the intended effe3t, but did
not properly understand the language.
Alderman Hale—l quite understand this case. I
cannot bind_ you both over to keep the peace, but
if you, Mr. Albert, will give me your word as a
gentleman that you will not annoy the Professor I
will dismiss the summons.
Dismissed accordingly.

CLERKENWELL. CIIA.RGE OF BIGAMY
AGAINST A SURGEON.—George Medden, aged 44,
very gentlemanly attired, residing at 40, St. Paul-
street, Islington, carrying on business there as
~urgeon, was placed at the bar before Mr. Tyrwhitt,
charged with feloniously intermarrying with Mrs.
Mary Ann Taylor, his wife Sarah being then and
still alive.

Mr. Clarke attended for the prosecution, and
Mr. Thomas Wakeling for the prisoner.
From the marriage certificates, it appeared that
the prisoner had been three times married, the first
time being in 1842, at St. Mary's Church, St.
Marylebono, in the month of March, the second to
the complainant, Mrs. Mary Ann Taylor, in Nov.
1845, at St. John the Baptist's, Hoxton ; and the
third by licence, in the March of the present year,
at the parish church of St. Pancras, the whole of
the wives being now alive. The prisoner, accord-
ing to the statement of Mr. Clarke, was formerly a
shoemaker, and in 1845, went to measure Mrs.
Taylor for a pair of boots, but whether he fell in
love with her feet or her money, he could not tell ;
but certain it was, that they gat married, and his
utibriunate client bead been " done" out of between
830/. and 9001. Shortly after they were married,
Mrs. Taylor ascertained that the prisoner hid a
wife then living. and upon speaking to him oa the
subject, be said "it was all right," and that be
should shortly obtain a divorce." Finding that
he di I not obtain a divorce she left him,
he agreeing to allow her so much p?r month,
but that had not been properly carried ou'. When at
the pol Le-station, last night, on the first wife sneak-
ing to the prisoner, and asking him if he knew her,
he replied—" Yec, but I thought yeti had been dead
some time ago ;" to which she laughing, said—"No,
I am worth ten dead ones.".

Some slight evidence having been gone in'o, the
wives all being in court to give evidence,
Mr. Clarke applied that the case should be re-
manded for a few days, for the purpose of complet-
ing the case.
Mr. Tyrwhitt said he should remand the case
until Saturday next, and would accept bail for his
appearance, taro sureties in the sum of 10/, e
-The necessary bail being put in, the prisoner
was released.

MARYLEBONE.—SEaIouS CHARGE.—Charles
Ross was brought up on remand charged on suspi-
cion of hafng caused the death of Elizabeth Brown,
with whom he had cohabi►ed, by strangling her, at
his lodging in Star-street, Paddington.
Mr. Broughton asked Sergeant Hughes, 13 D,
if he bad any additional wAnesses to bring forward,
and he replied in the nega`ive. In answer to an-
other question he said that an inquest had been
held upon the body, and that the verdict was to
the effect that deceased had met with her death by
strangulation, but that whe. her by her own hands
or by the bands of another, had not to the jury
been sworn.
The pria:mer was discharged.

- LAMBETH.—POCKET-PICKING. —Th 03. Rust, a
genteelly dressed youth of 16, who forms one of the
stiff of Messrs. Staples, was placed at the bar on
the following charge :

Sergeant Copping, of the P division of police,.
depose that, on the prezeding evening, while on
duty on the Railway platform of the Crystal Pa-
lace, where there was a great conc-iurse of people,
he bserved the prisoner active among the crowd.
He (Copping) in consequence kept his eye on him
for some moments, and distinctly observed that he
had put his hands into the pockets of several, and
itnmerliately after doing so he wiped his fac 3 with a
handkerchief. Observing, that these handkerchiefs
were different in pattern and appearance, his
suspicions were wrongly confirmed, and he made
several efforts to secure the prisoner. His (the
prisoner's) dexterity was such as to avoid apprehen-
sion for a considerable time, but he at last secured him
and in different pockets and various parts of his
person he found no less than eight handkerchiefs,
all of which were of a superior description, and evi-
derrly tho3e worn by gentlemen. He al-o found
in his possession a metal railway pass, by which he
discovered that he was one of the lads employed by-
Messrs. Staple, refreshment department of the
Crystal Palace, and was paid 4s. a week and his
board, together with a free passage to and from the
Crystal Palace by railway.
Mr. Elliott observed that there could nct b 3 the
least doubt from the evidence that the prisoner bad
stolen from different persons at the railway station,
and he very.much feared the present was not his
first or only offence of the sort, else he could not
have acted with such tact and daring, and he should
therefore commit him to the House of Correction,
Wandsworth, for three months' hard labour.

. ,
GREEN WIC H. --THE LATE MURIDEROTTS AT-
TACK ON BOARIS AN AMERICAN VESSEL:—Benjamin
Craig, second mate of the American ship Charlotte,
wag 1,401.14 ht up on remaild char4ed with -yiolentlor

At the last sitting, M. Chales presented a series
of 60 new theorems, all relating to curves of double
curvature of the third order, viz., such as are pro-
duced by the intersection of two cones of the second
order, and in general those that a plane cannot
meet in more than three,points, two of which may
be imaginary.—M. Delesse presented a geological
map of the subterranean strata of Paris, compiled
from observations made at various excavations,
chiefly those executed at different points by MM.
Degousee and Mulct. In a paper annexed to the
maps, M. Delesse gives an account of the various
layers constituting the soil of Paris. Chalk forms
the bottom of the basin in which the tertiary soil
of the capital. is depcsited. Next follow plastic
day, calcareous strata, sand, &c. The strata of
gypsum have nearly disappeared, and are now
only to be found on the northern and north eastern
sides of Paris.—M. Bertsch exhibited photographs
of objects magnified by the microscope. Among
them were globules of human blood magnified 500
times, crystals of sahcine viewed in pelarised.
&c.—The secretary announced the arrival of a copy
of the lunar tables constructed on the Newtonian
principle of universal gravitation, by P. A. Hansen,
being a donation from the British Admiralty,—M.
Leverrier communicated further observations of the
4th comet, by various as•ronomers, viz., by Dr.
Peters, at the Dudley Observatory, Albany (US.) ;
by Father Secchi at Rome, by M. Bruhus at Berlin,
and by M. Littrow, at Vienne.—M. von Villar•
ceau sent in further corrections of the parabolic ele-
ments of the same comet,—M. Maisonueuve com-
municated an account of a most dangerous opera-
tion, the abstraction of the whole lower jaw bone,
executed by him with complete success on the 36th
of June last. His patient, a girl of 18, was per-
fectly cured at the end of a fortnight, with scareely
any visible deformity.—M. Herpin sent in a paper
on the application of anwithetic agents to the de-
struction of insects in corn. M, Herpin admits
that anaesthesia or stupefaction takes place when
carbonic acid,_ for example, is introduced into a re-
ceptacle filled with grain ; but this, he contends, is
not sufficient to kill the insect ; a complete asphyxia
must be produced to effect that. In corroboration
of this asset tiora he sta. es that a number of weevils
wqich he had kept completely immersed in alcohol
at 18 degrees for several days, revived and
escaped from the saucer as soon as the alchol was.
dried up by spontaneous evaporation. In order
effectually to destroy the insects which infest corn,
he recommends ammonia in a gaseous form, which
may be very economically produced by mixing sal
ammoniac with quicklime. The members of a com-
mittee fora monument to Dr. Jenner to be erected
in Frar:ce had addressed a letter to the Academy
requesting its' patronage for theirun'lertaking.—M.
Elie de Beaumont, one of the perpetual secretaries,
communicated a letter which he had received from
M. Elides Deslongcbatnp., in which the writer an-
nounced that large quantities of natural phosphate.,
which might prove valuable for agriculture, exist
on certain points of the Straits of Magell in. The
discovery was made some years ago by a Havre
Beaman, who, on landing there, was surprised to find
the coast allcovered, not with stones or pebbles,- but
with an immense quantity of fragments of bones of
all sizes. He picked sonic up and brought them
home. The bones appeared all to belong t amphi-
bious animals, such as phocm, morses, &c. It is not
Unlikely, the writer thinks, that large deposits of
bones may be found on the numerous islands with
which the Straits of Magel:an are studded and as the
bones ofthe animals allude I to are superior to guano
as manure, it might be desirable to ascertain the fact.
—M. Tison submitted an apparatus of his inven-
tion for the distillation of gas, consisting of a re-
tort which, instead of being fixed, is impressed
with a rotatory motion. The advantages of this
apparatus are that the accumulation of tarry mat-
ter is prevented by the rotation of the vessel, so
that the distillation of the coal is complete ; that
the retort itself lasts longer, because, instead of
receiving the action of t.e fire at one point only,
the rutatory motion exposes each part of the bot-
tom in turn to the heat of the furnace ; and that, in
case of accident, the retort may be removed for
repair without pulling down the masonry. A letter
• was read from M. Hericard Ferraud, on the sub-
ject of an earthquake felt in 1776 in a coal-pit near
Bayeux, the chief pint of interest being that the
shock was more violent at the bottom of the mine
than at the surface. , This shock occurred 21 years
after the Li,ben earthquake of 1755, and 20 years
before that felt at Littry on the 25th Jan., 1796.
M. Quetelet, perpetual secretary to the Academy
of Sciences of Brussels, wrote to propose the re-
sumption of the, great plan of uniform meteorologi-
cal observations which hal been agreed upon by a
scientific conference before the breaking out of the
Eastern war. This conference had wet on the
invitation of the United States, and consisted of
delegates from most of the maritime nations of the
world ; the chief object was to establish a uniform
-system of meteorological observations at se,., in
order to ascertain the direction of the winds and
currents' of the ocean. When the Eastern • war
broke out these observations we e in a great mea-
sure interrupted, the nations which hail been among
the foremost promoters of the plan being precise'y
those engaged as principals in the war ; neverthe-
less, the naval officers of some powers continued
their observations. M. Quetelet believes that the
time has come when the original plan might be re-
sumed, and solicits the co-operation of the Academy
of Sciences of Paris.