The Sun.
London, England, 1857-10-21 00:00:00

THE WATERLOO-BRIDGE MYSTERY.

LATEST PARTICULARS—(THIS DAY).
We regret to find, at the end of the thirteenth
day from the discovery of the remains on the but-
tress of Waterloo-bridge, that the investigations of
the police have led to no satisfactory result with
reference to the elucidation of this mysterious
murder—if murder it be—a doubt now generally
entertained by those who have paid any attention
to the circumstances in connection with it, not-
withstanding
the asseverations to the con-
trary of those who place more reliance on
the truth of medical science than on the
results of actual investigation and discovery of the
manner in which crimes of this enormity have
hitherto been revealed.
The non-identification of the carpet bag and
clothes, after the facilities given by the police, con-
firms the opinion expressed by us on a former occa-
sion, that this is not a murder, and every day's
experience but confirms that opinion.
Since the discovery made at Waterloo-bridge, a
number of most absurd statements in connexion with
the alleged murder have been published, and dis-
coveries of human remains have been made suffi-
cient
to create great alarm in the public mind, but
as yet no trace has been found of the missing head,
hands, and feet, which is certainly a remarkabie
circumstance, as tending to confirm the theory that
the remains were no portion of a foul and horrible
murder.
Yesterday afternoon the inhabitants of Barnes
were alarmed by the announcement that the thigh
of a human being bail been found floating up with
the tide, belonging to that of the man whose re-
' mains were found in the carpet-bag ; but the evi-
dence of Mr. Paynter before the Coroner distinctly
shows that that part of the frame is not missing.
It is, however, an ascertained fact that the thigh of a
full-grown male person was found floating up with the
tide, but on its examination by Mr. Pulling, he
stated his opinion that it had been subjectcSto a
chemical process.
The public exhibition of the clothes at Bow. street has been stopped, in consequence of the
number of idle persons it attracted to the station
to the impediment of the ordinary business of the
day. They, however, still remain at the station
for examination, by persons who really believe
they are able -to identify them, a statement ren-
dered necessary from the report that the clothes
were going on a provincial, and afterwards a con
tinental tour.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.—(This Day.

WESTMINSTER COUNTY COURT.
FORBLANQUE V. BUCKSTONE.
The learned judge (F. Bayley, H.q.) this morning
gave his decision in this case. It will be recollected
that the plaintiff forwarded a farce to the defendant, the
lessee of the Haymarket Theatre, for his approval and
acceptance. Some time afterwards Mr. Fonblanque
Note to the defendant from the country, to ascertain
whether the farce was accepted, but not receiving an
answer to his communication he Mlle to town to make
personal application for the manuscript. After some
time it was returned to him, and the present action was
brought to recover the expense of the journey to Lon-
don and the value of the work, which had been destroyed
by being so long kept by the defendant. His Honour
said he bai taken time to consider the case, and, after
a careful study of the whole facts, be thought that the
plaintiff bad a right to bring the action, but that he vra4
only entitled to nominal damages. The judgment of
the court, therefore, was ls. for the detention of the
farce, and costs.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE. (This Day.

WESTMINSTER.
ASSAULT IN viac MIDDLESEX HOUSZ OF CORREC-
TION BY A FEMALE PRISONER ON TAE MEDICAL
OFFICER, —Julia Crinin, a prisoner in the Middlesex
House of Correction, Millbank, was brouzlit up on a
warrant placed in the hands of Knowland, the suturnon•
ink,* officer of the court, charged before Mr. C. 0. Dayman
with committing an assault, on the 7th of Oat., on Dr.
Joseph S. Lewis, one of the medical offi ,ers of the pri on.
The complainant stated that on the clay in question,
the prisoner was on his sick-list, and he went to see her.
He was accompanied by one of the female warders. On
coming to her cell, he asked her if she was unwell, as
her name was on his list. She made no reply, when he
again put the question to her, and kquired her com-
plaint. She immediately mane use of a most filthy ex-
pression. Complainant remarked to her that if she had
no respect for him, she should have some retard for one
of her own sex (the warder). She then struck him on
his mouth, and attempted to come nut of the cell.
put hEr back and left her with the officer.
Mr. Dayman (to the prisoner) —Do you meats to ask
the complainant any question ?
Prisoner—No, sir.
Mr. Dayrnan—ls the warder present, who was with
you, to give evidence ?
omphainant—She is not; I did not think it necessary.
She will not attempt a denial of the charge.
Knovaand stated that when the prisoner, a, PhO was
leaving the gaol, was taken into custody by him, he told
her with what mho was charged. She then observed that
if Dr. Lewis was with him she would kuock his
rye out, and tear up his b-- umbrella.
Mr. Dayman (to the prisoner) —Have you anything to
say to the charge I
Prisoner—Nothing, sir.
Mr. Dayman—This appears to be a very unprovoked
assault on your part, and that there was not the slight-
est cause for the assault. I shall call upon you to enter
upon your own recognizance to kelp the peace for one
month, and in one surety of
.5/.
The prisoner said " Very well,"and in default of bail
was conveyed back to prison.

ANOTHER CASA OF CRU.ELTY BY
MERCHANT C.A.PT.AIN.

BosToN, Oct. 21.—Y,Isterday at the general quarter
sessions for this district, George Wright, captain of the
brig Stanley, of Whitby, recently arrived at this port
fro n Riga, was.indicted for several acts of cruelty to
James Day, aged 15, as apprentice on board the above
vesal, while on a voyage from Riga, to Boston. The
case excited considerable interest. Mr. York appeared
for the proseontion, and Mr. Toynbee defended the
accn;ed.

James Day, the prosecutor, said that ho was in the
Ur ion at Blything, in Suffolk, when he was sent to sea
by the board of guardians in November last on board a
schooner that sailed from Souther°ld. They went to
Hartlepool, when he was put on board another
ship, in consequence of being so small, and they
went from Norwich to lartlepool, when he
left the ship and walked to Whitby. He then
became acquainted with Mrs. Marshal, a lodging-
house keeper, through watching some clothes for her.
She had him bound apprentice on the 9tb of July to hie
present master, the prisoner, who gave her six shillin,gs,
and he believed he was bound for five years. The pri
soner was captain, who ordered him to go on board the
brig Stanley, and he went to a place close to Newcastle,
where the brig was loaled with gas, coals, and iron for
Stockholm, about the 21st of July last, she sailed to
Riga, and from Riga to Boston, with timber, He was
not allowed to go below, but used to sleep on dock, in
the longboat or galley, in his wet (Jetties. He became
very loose in Lie inside in consequence of being badly
fed. The prisoner used to be continually flogeing him,
and would heave any mortal thing at him. He let two
plates fall one day while in the cabin, off Elsinore ; the
prisoner struck him with a sharp piece of wood on the
head, part of a broken chest, the pear of which was then
visible, though it had been done three weeks. The
wound poured down with blood, on his face and
clothes. Warnes, the cook, helped him to wash it. On
Thursday, the Ist of October, just after leaving Elsinore,
on the passage home, he let the fire go out, in conse-
quence of which the prisoner said he would not let him
have anything to eat, and then tied him up. He tied
his hands behind hie back, his feet close together, rest.
ing on the deck cargo, and fastened a rope round his
neck, one end of which was attached to the main boom,
and the upper to the rigging ; he also tied a rope round
his forehead with a deep sea lead attached to it, weigh-
ing about 281b5., hanging down his back, which was
secured by another rope round his waist. The rope
round his neck was so tight that be could scarcely
breathe, and during this time the ship was under reefed
topsails, and she pitched very much. He got his feet
loose once, and the prisoner ropes-ended him and tied
them together again. He was thus tied up from sae
o'clock in the day to five in the evening, when Edwin
Renshaw, one of the crew took hen down by the
prisoner's orders. He could scarcely walk to the
cabin, in consequence of the treatment he bad received.
He bad breakfast next day at eight in the rimm-
ing, and had nothing else to eat until eight on the fol-
lowing morning, and by the prisoner's orders he walked
the deck all night. He was bruised all over from the
beating of the master. He bad a sore at the bottom of
his back from the deep sea line ehafieg it.
His testimony was confirmed by John Warnes and
James Martin, two of the crew, who spoke of the cruel-
ties which the boy had received. They added that if the
main sheet had given way the boy's neck must have
been wrenched off.
The Chairman, the Rev. Mr. Holdsworth, having
carefully summed up the evidence,
The jury found the prisoner guilty on the first and
second coents—ill-treating the lad whereby his life was
in danger, and assaulting him with intent to do bodily
harm.

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The Chairman then addressed the prisoner, and com-
mented upon his cruel treatment of the prosecutor. The
court felt bound to pass a sentence upon him of 18
months' imprisonment, with hard labour, in the Spald
ing House of Correction. The bench hoped that this
case would operate as a warning to masters of ships,
who, haring mo much power vested in them by the law
over their men, were required to exercise that power
with moderation, and not as pretext for oppreado,a
and tyranny.
Tim prisoner was removed to the gaol.

In the year 1747, upwards of a century ago, in the
21st year of the reign of George the Second, a reign
signalised by factious conspiracies and open rebellion—
before popular education had aided to humanise and
elevate the minds of the people, and social and political
reforms had ameliorated their physical condition, before
gas was invented, or oil was put to use—in the times of
dark streets, footpads, and highwaymen, when no
system
Motolce opposed restraint to disorder and pre-
venti crime, an act was passed entitled "An
Act for the Better Preventing Thefts and Robberies,
and for Regulating Places of Public Entertain-
ment, and Punishing Persons Keepingerly
Houses." The second clause of this r
pre-
mises—" Whereas the multitude of places of en-
tertainment for the lower sort of people, is another
great cause of thefts and robberies, tempting them to
spend their small substance in riotous pleasures, and
putting them on unlawful methods of supplying their
wants and renewing their pleasures ; " and after stating ,
these reasons, provides that "any house, room, garden,
or other place kept for public dancing, music, or other
entertainment of the like kind, in the Cities of London
and Westminster," without a license had for that pur-
pose from the last preceding Michaelmas Quarter Ses-
sions of the Peace, granted in the discretion of the magis-
trates, shall b 3 deemed a disorderly house or place.
The third clause provides that in case of breach of
either of the conditions of the licenses, it shall be for-
feited; and empowers the magistrates to revoke the
same. Introducing our observations with thus much of
the wisdom of our ance tors—and perhaps they were
wise in and for their day and generation—we propose
to consider a case in which the wisdom of 1747 has been
committed for purpose and fulfilment to the discretion of
1857—we mean the case of the Argyll Rooms.
The most p)pular of all the places of public resort and
entertainment in London was licensed by the magistrates
at the Michaelmas session of the year 1850, and from
that period until the sessions just terminated the license
has been from year to year renewed—that is to say, for
the period of seven years. Taking the statements of the
proprietor, upwards of a million and a-half of visitors
have attended his entertainments. Not a single case of
riot, disturbance, or even intoxication, has been wit-
messed within the walls of his establishment; nor has a
single charge of a criminal nature, not even a case of
common as,ault occurred. In fact, no charge of any de-
scription has ever been made against it.
We speak of our own knowledge when we say, that it
has always been frequented by as good male society as
London, or even England can furne-h ; and that it has
been, with such a class ofgentlemen, the favourite evening
resort and promenade. That the females we have seen
there have been respectable both in appearance and
behaviour; and that we never saw the slightest inde-
corum committed in the place. That so far as our
knowledge extends the public reputation of the
establishment fully corroborate it—the nighty enter-
tainments are conducted with as much propriety as in
any private ball-room. Indeed, in private balls we have
seen far greater cases of intoxication, which imputation
against his establishment the proprietor or the
Argyll Rooms repels. Under these circumstances
we insist, that no person can for a moment be
justified in denouncing, indiscriminately, the female;
who are to be seen in the Argyll-rooms as a bevy of
prostitutes.
Relying 'on the high and well-merited reputation of
his establishment, the proprietor applied at the late
sessions for a renewal of the license, and the board re-
jected his application. Ou what grounds ? Not that
music and dancing are improper amusements ; because
the same board granted licenses to about fifty other
inferior places in London, including many now ones, for
the express perpose of enabling the public to be provided
with the same recreation. Not that any conditions on
which the license was granted had been violated ; be-
cause the facts stated, in relation to the perfect
propriety with which the entertainments have always
been conducted, stand admitted. It may be un-
necessary to state, what is already well known,
that the music of the Argyll-roams is excelleat,
and the orchestra the first of its kind in
London ; that the rooms themselves are the most specie
ons, the most elegant, the best fitted for the enteitaic-
men ts given in them and, without exception, the finest
in the metropolis, and, we may say, in Europe ; that
the proprietor must of necessity have expended a very
large sum of money in making them what they are ;
that they are moat cvnvenieutly situated in a byc-
street, where the occasional and unavoidable impedi-
ment of a concourse of pers.:4li going to, and returdin from, a place of public amusement is not felt g, and
has never been complained of; that they have kept
iu permaheut and profitable employment comethiug
like a hundred respectable and industrious persons,
and must, therefore, have contributed largely to
the busiuese interests of the community ; and
that they are the only West-end place of public
amusement, where the entertainment of mutie and dolle-
n," w.s provided. Pn what grounds, then, aid the
Board of Sessions ex :reP,e this ex raordinary instance of
discretion ? Let us see if, in the opposing evidence,
anything can be found to justify it.
On the bearing of the case, a ikon of a report made
by one of the inspectors of polite, Inspector O'Brien we
believe, was introduced, and its author pu, into the
witness-box. Tnat report stated, that from five to seven
hundred prostitutes nightly frequented the Argyll
Rooms ;. which statement was supported by the v.., bal
evidence of the author, and two other inspectors, Tester
and Webb, who were callA fur that purpose. -
Now,
in the absence of all crone-examination to sift
and &bake that testimony, we insist that its unsparing
and indisce.inir ate cbaractcr, to any one gifted with ordi•
nary perception, disproves itself. Had these witnesses
personal knowledge of each and every one of the la,ge
number offemalo 3 whom they th us stigmatised? Were they
prepared to prove, we will not.say acs of prok titution, but
the reputation of a prostitute against each and every one
of them ? Did they watch them from their homes I Did
they track them back again ? Did they play the spy to
detect each and every one of them in her imputed vine.
tion ? Did they know each indiviJual name, each in-
dividual residence, of the whole number! Did they wit-
ne-s each and every one of them riotous, disorderly,
iotoxicatsd, indecorous in speech or action, either in
going to or returning from the Rooms ? Were they in
the Rooms, and all over the Rooms, these uliqu taus
inspectors, every and each succeeding night, to ascer-
tain that there were always therelthe same, "from five
to seven hundred females," and not only in numbers,
but in identity also ; and to satisfy themselves by irre-
fragib!e proof of the truth of what they stated. Did
they see at any time ten, or twenty, or fifty, or even a
hundred prostitutes there, and connect with them in the
common estimate the remaining four to six hundred ?
Then did they see such acts of familiarity,
common acquaintance, common and complete know-
ledge of each with the other and with
its to justify such a universal accusation. Because Tray
must be in bad company before he can be pelted as a bad
dog, and being in bad company means, not in a world.
which contains bad doge, nor under a roof where some
may have congregated ; but actually associating, frater-
nising, and in act and deed making himself one of them.
In brief, what was the specific and exact knowledge,
either as regards common reptuation or personal con-
duct, possessed by these inspect 're in regard to each
sand every one of this large number of females ? That is
the qiieetion, for specific and exact knowledge must be
the bases and the essence of' every statement to give it
weight as evidence. Finally, do police inspectors take
upon themselves, in detail and minutite, the- dutie.—
offices, we should rather say—which could' alone lead to
such knowledge ? We all know that they do not, and
we know simply that the thing is impossible.
Such thtngs have been heard and read of as swearing
down a fact, and all round a fact—dodges of all kinds
where the of • ct has been to evade or conceal the truth
—for there are consciences which at their convenience
will no more take hold on verity than a hand can grasp
a ball of ice larger than the compass of its grasp—
prejudices which add to it or take from it in proportion
with the force and bias of those prejudices—many modes
of testifying which are not truth, nor legal falsehood
either, because the malice is wanting, but grievant ors,
and this testimony is of the last description. It was
not fact, nor conclusion, nor inference, for no premises
were stated or existed from which such a conclusion or
inference could be drawn. It was simply a broad, gene-
ral, sweeping, uncharitable, impossible, and unsupport-
able assertion, which could not have stood the test of the
weakest analysis. It is probable that counsel enter-
tained this view of it, and therefore considered it nu.
worthy the pains of sifting by cross-examination. We
wish it had been otherwise—we wish that the witnesses
had been compelled to admit ignorance, if of only one in
the from " five to seven hundred," so that the poor
Argyll Rooms should not have stood an utter Gomorrah
in the sight of the three'inspectors.
And this evide .ce was the screw of the lever which
lifted the discretion of the Board of Magistrates to such
a pitch of enlightenment that they could see nought but
darkness and infamy in the favourite resort of aristo-
cratic St. James's. What was the other consideration
weighing with the Court—the point of support to the
lever ? The character of the Haymarket.
It was stated by the witnesses that at the time of the
breaking up of the Argyll its visitors distributed them-
selves about the Haymarket and neighbourhood, and
became a public nuisance. Was there on the bench no
one gentleman who in his day bad sown wild oats, or
who, perhaps, yearning for the wisdom which should in
due season mature into the discretion of the Quarter
Sessions, had, peradventure, looked en while ()there
pursued that unprofitable course of agriculture Was
there, we ask, no stroll one gentleman on the bench not
ignorant of the fact that the Haymarket, for years be-
fore those witnesses put on public livery, was the
same nuisance that it is at present ? And for the
neighbourhood in years long gone—Panton-square,
Coventry - court, Oxenden street, Panton - street,
James old perambulator of London does'
not remember them as they used to. be ? Fie n time
immem rlal the Mymarket has been the chief market
overt of those unfortunate women. They have esta-
blished themselves there by ancientcustom, to which "the
memory of man runneth not to the contrary." The fame
we state are patent, known to every one who knows
by
the West End of London
night,he tand its
d thra R.
Then there are the HaynaarkeeT
Theatre
Opera, and not far distant, before fireancontsuemetd
Covent-garden Theatre • and still Drury-lane, and the
Lyceum, and the Adelphi,'
'and the Holborn Casino, al,d Ji.ITECHAPEL.
many other places of The dense
'= amusement, each of which ruled inactive, as follows :—Beef, from
contributes its quota to swell the number of the
,prome "cid.t° _s 4d ; mutton, 3s 44 to 4s ed • veal, 3s 6d to
43' pork, 3s 83 to 5s 4d per Rlbs. by the carcass.
faders of the Haymarket. Of night-houses, cafe 4s
supper-rooms, and other places of resort, we say
nothing. In the name of common justice, then. -;
ny ACCIDENT 'ON THE SOUTH WALES LlM—Among the
have the Argyll Roams been singled out•
netai this casualties on this occasion Mr. William Price, of the
obloquy ? Were they fore& so ned, pr. •
itidied, and pre- firm of Price, Brothers, Bridgend, was severely out
condemned ?—for against theme'
opeiars--nothing directly above the eye, with bruises on the face aud other ins.
but evidence crumbling fr": 1 Rico- unremonableness ; iuries. • '

Toe magistrates of the Court of Sessions are, for the
11304 part, ignorant of the law, and were created, many
of them, to meet the exigencies of the Chartist agitation.
The propriety of conferring on these men arbitrary
po wt rs unlimited, or limited only by a discretion totally
inisconceived, will he fully discu eel. The great
personal interests at the mercy of such a tribunal, give
to this case an importance and prominence which cannot
be too seriously considered, and which we feel confident
must lead to a change in the law.

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.

CAMBRIDGE, OCIT. 20.
The Professor of Anatomy gives notice that he will
commence his course of 1-cturei on Comparative Ana-
tomy and Physiolocy on Monday, Oct. 26, at 1 o'clock,
in the Anatomical School. The lectures will be delivered
on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. Gentlemen
who propose to attend the lectures with a view to the
Profes-iorial Certificate which, by grace of the senate
(Oct. 31, 1848, an I March 21, 1855), is now required
under certain conditions for the degree of B.A ,
Honorary M.A., and B. C.L., must be provided with the
profes-orial ticket, for which they are requested to apply
to the Registrary or to their college tutor. The guide
to these lectures will be the Introductions to the Animal
Classes in Van der Hoeven's " Handbook of Zoology."
From the same Introductions portions will be indict..ted
as the subject-matter of the pass-exlmination.
The Regius Professor of Hebrew gives notice that his
lectures on Hebrew and -Sanskrit will commence on
Thursday, Oct. 22, and will be continued on Tuesdays,
Toursdays, and Saturdays, at the following hours :-1.
Hebrew—The Psalms, at 10 a.m.; Elementary, at 11
a.m. ; the grammar used is that prefixed to the profes-
sor's lex c,,n. 2. Sanskrit—Tho Ramayana, at 9 a.m. ;
Nala, at 12 a.m.

These lectures will be delivered in Trinity College,
and are free to all persona. Gentlemen wishing to atter d
are requeoted to enter their names at Messrs. Deightone,
Bell, and Co.

OXFORD, Our. 20.
In a convocation to be holden on Thursday, the 29th
inst., at 2 o'clock, it will be proposed to grant from the
University chest the sum of 500/. towards the relief of
sufferers from Indian mutinies.

In the same convocation the report of the delegates of
privileges on the subject of the oaths required to be
taken before the Vice-Chancellor and Proctors, by the
Mayor and Sheriff of Oxford, on their admission to office,
will be submitted to the approbation or disapprobation
of the house. (The report above-mentioned, together
with the case submitted to counsel and their opinion
thereon, will be laid on the table, in the Justice-room,
on Monday, the 26th inst., and two following days, be•
tween the hours of 2 and 4 p.m.)

MARKET NEWS.—(This Day.)

CORN EXCHANGE.
The supply of English wheat in to-day's market was
not extensive ; yet the demand for all kinds' ruled heavy
at Monday's decline in value. The samples were some.
what out of condition.
There was an extensive show of foreigh wheat. The
transactions were very limited, and prices were barely
supported.
Fine barely sold at Monday's quotations ; but
inferior
parcels sold at irregular prices.
The malt trade was heavy, and the qnotstions bad a
downward tendency. but no
The oat trade was in a singe state'
decline took place in value. not ocheaper.Beans, peas, and flour were dull, but
fhor
ert

ARRIVALS THIS WiAL. Ostg. , Flour
Wheat. Barley. Malt. 630
1,310 J 1,440 1,130
1700
14,/00 nob...
150 801-'

English
Irish

Foreign....

6,760 j 3,870

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BoßouGrt ROP.
Fine new hops are in fair request :),0 fun
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All other kinds are very dull.