The Sun.
London, England, 1857-11-26 00:00:00

RAILWAY 'HOSTILITIES AT MANCHESTER. i THE LATE

The disruption of the working agreements be-
tween the L,.ndon and North-Western and Man-
chester and Sheffield Railway Companies threatens
to involve legal and parliamentary 'proceedings of a
serio as and protracted character. Ile fact became
publicly known yesterday that the London and
North-Western Company had placed a couple of
city policemen at the junction of the South Junc-
tion and Altrincham line with their own, to pre-
vent pasiengera from getting out of the trains of
the latter company on to the London-road station,
under pain of prosecution. A lady travelling over
the South Junction line yesterday morning to
London-road station, on alighting to cross the
station and change carriages for Stockport, was
stopped by these policemen, and compelled to
give her name and address before she could ob-
tain egress from the South Junction terminus,
and when she had given her name and address she
was informed that she would be prosecuted for tres-
pass. To understand this strange proceeding to-
wards the public, it is necessary to go into some
few particulars regard:lige the construction and
management of the South Junction and Altriucham
line. The line was constructed in 1846, and com-
mences at Bowden, Cheshire, 8 miles west of Man-
chester, and forms a junction with the London and
North-Western line at London road station, Man-
chester. The cost was 788,0001. The entire shares
were held by the North-Western and Sheffield
Companies and the Earl of Ellesmere, but the latter
subsequently sold his share, and the capital is now
held in equal portions by the two railway companies
named. It is ender their joint management, each
company appointing three of their own directors to
the board, and this board nominate one of the direc •
tors of each company alternately, for a fortnight at a
time, to act as chairman. The line belonging jointly
to the two companies, it will be naturally asked why
one of them should undertake to obstruct the traffic
To understand this it is necessary to explain that a
new line commencing at Garston Docks, near Li-
verpool, and passing through Warrington and
Lymm in Cheshire forms a junction with the Al-
trincham line at Timperley between Bowdon and
Manchester. The traffic over this line and the Al-

tlincham line is worked by the Sheffield Company,
and has been for the last 18 months, and it is to
obstruct thisportion of their traffic that the proceed-
ings alluded to have been instituted by the North
Western board. About a fortnight ago they sat 200
men at workto rip up the platform at London-road
where passengers from Warrington, Altrinchaw,
and other places west of Manchester were set
down, and they have now formed a siding for empty
carriages where. it stbod, on crossing which any
passenger is warned that he will be prosecuted for
trespass. Their clam'! for doing this is founded on
the belief that at the time of the construction of the
South Junction and Altrincham line the latter com-
pany neglected to get a formal transfer of the land at
the point of junction from the London and North-
Western Company. Upon this point application will
be made to Parliament to define the rights of each
company, and in the meantime proceedings are
taking in Chancery -to stay the obstruction. An-
other quarrel between the North-Western Com-
pany and the Sheffield Company arise out of
the rights of the latter to a joint occupancy of
the London-road station itself. The Lond in-road
station was originally built by the North-Western
Company for the joint use of the two companies,
and the Sheffield Company have used it for 17 years
under an agreement by which they were made
tenants in perpetuity, the agreement being made
binding by parliamentary powers. In all expenses
since the Sheffield were made joint tenants for alter-
ations of the station, the latter have joined. But a
few years back a working agreement was made be-
' tween the two companies, by which, for the sake of
economy, the traffic of the station was worked by
the North-Western Co., the latter company appoint-
ing the booking-clerks, porters, and other servants.
This agreement was made only from year to year,
and terminable by either company on three months'
notice. The arrangement was made in 1854, and
in June, 1857, when the rupture occurred between
the two companies, and the Sheffield, in conjunc-
tion with the Great Northern, commenced a com-
petition for the London traffic, notice was given to
the North-Western for the termination of the joint
working of the station at the end of three months.
In fact, the Sheffield Company claims to be placed
in their former position as joint tenants of the
station. This the North-Western Company have
hitherto refused ; and on this ground as well as on
the rights of 'the South Junction line, proceedings
are taking in equity, until Parliament can bo
appealed to to define the rights of each company
in the station.—Daily News.

THE MODEL WIFE IN 1857.

(Prom Punch,.)
She dwells in fair Belgravia's halls,
Sweet Fashion's peerless Queen,
An all her soul, in fetes and balls,
Is in her Crinoline.
Her " jupon," like the Nassau globe,
Cremorne did nightly see,
Flaunts its inflated gauzy robe,
Or swirls tempestuously.
And thus expaniing more and more,

She fluctuates in-ber walk,
Sub Wing Swan and Edgar's corps
With undulating talk.
She names a time, with kindling eye,
When, soaring through tho air,
Sweet maids, balloon-like, up shall fly,

To call in bldud-land-squa-re.
When Pam, in peg-top breaks array'),

Shalt Dizzy take to see
The realm of fogs whose mists pervade
His speech at Aylesbury.
When airy Dowagers shall skim
Upborne on hoops of steel,
Quiriug to old-eyed cherubim
In an " Excelsior" reel !
When Hyde Park dames aloft shall glow
In surging skirts and frills,
Leaving poor manhood hole below

To cash their little bills.
Her husband's purse is small—but no !
What though her form be slim—
Her jupon still expands, -and oh !
The difference to him

EMBEZZLEMENT.—A young man named Josiah Foo

18 years of age, occupying a situation in the light dues
department of the Customs at Southampton, wa+ yester-
day placed at the bar before the borosgh magistrates,
charged with embezzling 1701., the moneys of her
Majesty. The prisoner was remanded till Saturday.
ENGLISH NEWSPAPERS IN PIEDMONT. —The Turin
papers contain an announcement that the Post-office
authorities there have just made arrangements " to afford
the public ready means of procuring, by way of subscrip-
tion, and at a moderate cost, the most ii.fluential periodi-
cal publications printed in London." A list of the prin-
cipal daily and weekly London newspapers, such as the
Times, Daily News, Sun, and others—with the price at
which they may respectively be obtained by subscription
for three months, six months, or a twelvemonth, in-
cluding the cost of postage and delivery, is officially
published ; and it is intimated that subscriptions may be
received at every post-office,in return for which the
newspapers will be supplied ree of all other charges.
DErOBTATION OF PAIIPERS.—The Belfast journals
bitterly complain of the number of Irish paupers now
arriving en the quays of that town from England and
Scotland. The Belfast Mercury says: —"The deportation
of paupers from England and Scotland to Belfast still
continues, and the prebability is, the number of destitute
creatures who are thus transmitted here will be con-
siderably on the increase this winter. It appears that
during the last six or seven weeks, commencing with the
LA of October, and ending the 19th instant, betwen 200
and 300 people received temporary relief from the bands
of Captain Msßride. If these people bad not been aided
in their distressed circumstances it is difficult to say how
many of them would have remained a burden on the Bel-
fast Union, but it is exceedingly likely that many of them
would even now be in our workhouse, as the poor law
requires that immediate relief shall be administered in all
cases of destitution. Of the cases relieved by Captain
M`Bride we shall particularise a few, as the facts regard-
ing them are worthy of notice. One man was sent here
by the parochial authorities of Manchester, after hav-
ing lived in Manchester for a -period of 25 years. Re
was sent back to Liverpool. Fourteen of the poor
people, though belonging to Dublin, were landed at
Belfast, and here abandoned, without a farthing to - sup-
port them. Capt. M‘Bride forwarded them to Dublin.
In one day 10 destitute creatures arrived from Glasgow,
having been departed from Edinburgh, and four out of
the number were sent back to Glasgow. Of the four
there was one man who had lived 32 years in Scotland ;
and the three others were women, and had lived 24,46,
and 14 years respectively in that country.
ARREST OF A SHARPER.—The gendarmes of Angers
received information a few days ago that a strange? to
the town was hawking jewellery about for sale, at a price
below its real value. They found that he was lodging in
an hotel under the name of Duprat, and they called on
him to produoe his paisport ; be at once presented one
which purported to have been given by the French Con-
sul-Genera. at Barcelona, and which bore numerous
visas. But the gendarmes saw that it was forged, and
they arrested the man. They afterwards discovered
that hfs real name was Vincent, and that he had been
condemned by default to ten years' hard labour
for a robbery of jewellery, committed at Limoges.
His effects at the hotel were seized, and amongst
them were found a number of false passports iu various
languages, books such as hawkers of jewellery are re-
• quired to keep, bearing visas and stamps of mayors and
commissaries of police, seals and stamps of several coun-
tries, and one of the Prefecture of Police at Paris ;
about 50,000 f. worth of jewellery, a large quantity 01
stale and female attire, and lastly, a collection of tools
r engraving seals and stamps. As the man is an en-
gr aver by trade, it is considered very probable that he
hail himself engraved the stamps and seals, From the
large stock of articles seized, it was thought that he
must have accomplices,—and as the day after his arrest,
two persons, strangers to the town, called to ask for
h they were arrested, though they pretended that
th ey had only called because they had hoard he had
fon u.d I dog which rhos 11a4 iWits

RAN GFOR, D.

(From the Times.)
This nobleman, who previous to his elevation to
the peerage was better known in public life by his
patronymic of the Hon. George Sydney Smythe,
1 M.P., died on Monday last at 13radeate-park, near
Leicester, the seat of the Earl of Stamford and
Warrington, in his 40th year, having been born in
April,lBlB, at Stockholm, during his father's embassy
there. Lord Strangford was educated at Eton and
St. John's College, Cambridge, and filled the office
of Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs
from January to July, 1846. He was first elected
to a seat in Parliament for Canterbury in 1840 or
1841, on the retirement of Lord Albert Conyng-
, ham' now Lord Londesborongb, and continued
with others to represent that city as a Liberal Con-
servative' so-called, down to the general election
of July, 1852, when, with Sir William Somerville
and Colonel Romilly, he was beaten in the contest
which then ensued. The deceased nobleman was
the seventh Viscount Strangford, and only suc-
ceded to the title so recently as the 29th of May,
1855, on the deaths of his father. With the bulk
of the Peel party he eventually gave in his adhe-
sion to the principle of free-trade, though in Feb.,
1842, he spoke and voted against Mr. Villiers's
mol ion for a total repeal of the Corn Laws. He
defended the Maynooth Grant, and spoke against
the Ecclesiastical Titles Bill. Like his father, who
acquired some credit by his English version of the
smaller poems of Camoens, he was an author, and
published "Historic Fancies," and numerous fugi-
tive contributions to the annuals of the day. He
had also some reputation as a political journalist;
but was, perhaps better known to fame in his earlier
Parliamentary career for his connection with what
was called the "Young England" party some 12 or
14 years ago, of which he and Lord John Manners
may be said to have been the principal disciples, if
not the leaders. His style of speaking in the
House was characterised by much smartness and
originality, which always commanded the attention,
if it did not influence the judgment of that assem-
bly ; but he spoke seldom, and at last so rarely did
he take any part in the debates that he came almost
to be forgotten as a public man. After his eleva-
tion to the peerage he took no share in the discus-
sions of the Upper House. It will be recollected that
in May, 1852, the name of the deceased Viscount,
with that of Col. Romilly, was brought more pro-
minently than perhaps agreeably before the public
in connection with a duel which they fought in the
vicinity of Weybridge, arising out of a speech made
by Lord. Strangford a short time previously at
Canterbury, in which he alleged that Colonel
Ronsilly had entered into a cabal, or made use of
some :unfair means, for the purpose of injuring him
in the estimation of the electors of that city.
Colonel Romilly considered that the allegation, the
truth of which be denied, and some other expres-
sions in the speech far exceeded the license of a
political contest, and called on Lord Strangford
(then Mr. Smythe) to retract them, which he re-
fused to do. A hostile meeting followed and an
exchange of shots, in which no harm was done to
either. A few months afterwards Lord Strangford
lost his seat for Canterbury, and with that event
his political life may be sai i to have terminated.

(Front the Morning Herald.)
The Right Hon. George AUgustus Frederick
Percy Sydney Smythe, seventh viscount Strang-
ford in the Irish peerage, who died at Bradgate-
park, the seat of the Earl of Stamford, near Lei-
cester, on the 23d inst., in his 40th year, as re-
corded in our columns yesterday, was a nobleman
who formerly gave high promise of celebrity both
in the literary and the political world, in which his
father, the sixth viscount—the translator of Ca-
nteens, and many years our ambassador at the
courts of Constantinople, Lisbon, Stockholm, and
St. Petersburgh—shone so conspicuously.
The peer whose decease we have now to chronicle
was far better known to our readers, and we may
add, to fame also, as the author of " Historic Fan-
cies." He was born at Stockholm during his
father's embassy there, April 16, 1818, and was the
elder of the three sons of the sixth viscount, by
Ellen, youngest daughter of the late Sir Thomas
Burke' Bart., of Marble-hill, county Galway, and
widow of Nicholas Browne, Esq., of Mount Hazell,
in the same county. He was educated at Eton and
St. John's College, Cambridge, where he graduated
M.A. in 1840. Early iu the following year he was
elected M.P. for Canterbury, and during the last
few months of Sir Robert Peel's administration in
1846 held the post of Under Secretary of State for
Foreign Affairs. He succeeded to the title and
estates, as sixth viscount, on his father's death in
May, 1855 ; but since his accession to the peerage
he had taken no part in public affairs. His lord-
ship was a grandee of Portugal of the first class,
and held a seat in the House of Peers as Lord Pen-
shurst—a title which, as we learn from Hardwicke's
" Annual Biography," was coo en by the sixth lord
in or der to mark his descent from the wife of the
first Lord Strangford, daughter of Robert Sydney,
Earl of Leicester, to whom Penshurst Castle be-
longed, and neice of the memorable Philip Sydney.
It was only about a month ago that his lordship
was married to Margaret, daughter of J. K. Len-
nox, Esq. Lord Strangford's only surviving sister
is the wife of H. J. Baillie, Esq., M.P. for Inver-
ness-shire ; and the Irish and English peerages
have devolved on his lordship's only surviving
hi-other, the Hon. Percy Ellen Frederick William
Sydney Smythe, born in 1825, who was educated
at, Merton College, Oxford, and has held, we be-
lieve, one or two diplomatic appointments.

A subscription has been opened in Paris in favour of
the suffirers by the dreadful fever which has been for
some time past desolating Lisbon.

WORKING MEN'S CHRISTIAN UNION.—The annual
meetng of this association took place last night, in the
Spatields Lecture-hall, Exmouth-street, Clerkenwell,
Mr. Hanbury, M.P., in the chair. Addresses were
delivered by the chairman, the Rev. Dr. Weir, and
other gentlemen, and the 'secretary read a report from
the committee of management. It appears that the
association was established about 12 months ago for the

pr ,motion of religious and mental improvement among
working-men. The means by which the members pro.
pose to effect that object are Bible classes and devo
tional meetings, classes fur mutual improvement, lee;
tures, and a reading-room and library. The operations
of the association also embrace the distribution of tracts.

One grand feature of the movement is that it was begun
and is carried on by working-men, and, although the
Earl of Shaftesbury, the Earl of Chichester, Sir E. N.
Buxton, M.P., and other distinguished personages, were
stated to be patrons of the institution, it did not appear
that they took any part in its management. At present
the association is a purely local one, being confined to
Clerkenwell, but, as was stated by the chairman, hopes
are entertained that in course of time its operations may
extend over the whole metropolis, or at least that it may •
lead to the establishment of similar societies in the
different metropolitan districts. Hitherto it has been
attended with marked success. The Bible classes and de-
votional meetings have drawn together a considerable
number of wurking men ; the lectures have bees exceed-
ingly popular, while the class ter instrnctioa in writing
and arithmetic has proved increasingly attractive. The
funds of the association are in good condition, but the
library is still very small, and perhaps the movement
co Jld not be aseistod in a more effective manner than by
donations of books.
ABSCONDING OF THE SECRETARY OF THE BLACKBURN
PHILANTHROPIC BURIAL SOClETY.—Coasiderable excite-
ment was caused in Blackburn on Monday by the
rumour, which proved correct, that Alexander Emmett,
secretary to the Blackburn Philanthropic Burial Society,
had absconded, taking with him a considerable sum of
money belonging to the society. Mr. Townley, the pre-
sident, called a meeting of the board of directors, and
Messrs. Eaves and Whittle (the auditors), and the trus-
tees, arranged for the future conduct of the society. Se
far the defalcation has been found to exceed 1001.
Emmett had drawn the money on the previous Wed-
nesday, and had neglected to pay the money over to
the treasurer. On Thursday ho went to Manchester,
and on Friday wrote to an officer of the society saying
that be would be engaged on the society's business in
Manchester up to Saturday night. Oa Sunday, however,
he did not even make his appearance, but his wife re-
ceived a note from him, dated and posted at Glasgow, in
which he stated that he was about to proceed to Port
Natal, and that should any attempt be made to capture
him he should use his "revolver. A meeting of the
board of directors was held on Monday night, when
Messrs. E. Whittle and W. Eaves were appointed joint
secretaries proton., and ordered to investigate the books,
and report thereon at a subsequent early meeting. The
society extends to Darwin, Accrington, Clitheroe, Has-
lingden, and all the neighbouring towns, and has upwards
of 60,000 members. The funds of the society ate
deposited with the Liverpool and Manchester District
Banking Company. The loss will not affect the stability
of the society. A warrant has been issued for the ap-
preheroston of the delinquent.
FORGED POST-OFFICE ORDERS.---The Cottil je2' dti
Gard
short time since
arespectably-oonificeoyenetoar idanetsr
dressed
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lowing
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lag :
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he
teeol f
carry r
ea tg
et
theteor
Pofomst
the inspector-general, who had just arrived at the house
of the mayor. The post mistress was deceived by the
plausible address of her visitor, and without hesitation
gave him the book, which was afterwards restored to
her minus about 40 of the leaves. A few days ago, at
Nistnew, an individual called at the shop of a watcle.
maker, named Nordoff, and said be wanted to buy a
number of watches for a brother, who had just
a regular
stset uuplianr
business in a neighbouring town, and selected
ooket-book a post-office
the purchaser drew from his pi
assortment of watches. When the bill was made out,
order for 1,000 fr.,
anticipation of the
payable to M. Nordoff in h
which he had been drawn out,
oc-
currence the order was ac
conclu-
sion of the baroin, and altceoputgehd, aarnadthetrhounguosoudasl opde-
livered. M. Nordoff did not present the order for pay-
ment until the following day, when to his surprise he
was informed that the order was a forgery. M. Nor-
doff was requested to accompany the clerk before the
procureur-
general, but that functionary saw at once that
the watchmaker load been duped

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LAW INTELLIGENCE.—Nov. 25.
their attention on thepresent occasion were of the
that the facts to which he should have to bespeak
VICE-CHANCELLORS' COURTS. I most astounding character, and would develop a
(Before Vice-Chancellor Stuart and Mr. Justice 1 fraud of a most enormous description, in which
Creswell.)i
•
; fraud, n the result, he believed they would
BROOK V. BROOK.—MARRIAGE AT ALTONA BY A , entertain no doubt that the whole of the prisoners
BRITISH. streJECT DOMICILED LN ENGLAND WITH had deliberately engaged themselves.ft Thleinhdiacntd-
A DECEASED WIFE'S SISTER. ment was preferred under a- s eof the
12th
Sir F. Kelly, in reply, said he would confine 13th of Victoria, which declared it to be a felony
for any person, after he had been made a bankrupt,
himself strictly to those arguments which had been
urged on behalf of the Crown.\ to embezzle or Conceal any of his effects with a
General had relied on some passages
The tlicc,iTtohre-
view to defraud his creditors, and he believed that
Queen v. Chadwick." He (Sir no case had ever been brought forward under this
at the outset that this Court would e i ly)Presumed
not
Bench, and statute in which so gross and enormous a fraud bad 1
F . Koverr overrule
the decision of the Court of Queen's
been committed as in the present instance. The
bad therefore assumed that a marriage between a
but prisoner John Marks appeared to have carried or I
as
deceased wife's sister was prohibited by law ; the business of a coachmaker for a good many yea? a
'
reference had been made to that case he should not in Long-acre, and also in Bell-street, Paddingto n,
scruple to arraign the decision of that case if neces- and he seemed to have enjoyed some considera: ole
sary before the court of ultimate
down that amount of 'credit among the persons with whom ILe
at ~tote of Henry VIII. had laid it that no did busines., and he had a brother at Melbourr Le
marriage was invalid_ except such as was contrary who also carried on the business of a coachma kff r,
to God's law. "The. Queen v. Chadwick," how-
ever, proceeded on a repealed statute of Henry and with whom he bad a sort of corresponding
agency. The prisoner • Samuel Marks likewis_ ti,
V 111.,. but left untouched the moral and social carried on the business of in
a coachmaker
question. Long-acre, in partnership
He, for one, must therefore impugn the with the other pri-
validity of that decision. The question was not
soner Simmons, whose daughter he had mar-
now,
rigid and he believed there could
now, however, as to the validity of a marriage of a be very little
deceased wife's sister in this country, but as to such doubt
a marriage in a foreign country, where it was valid that the bankruptcy, and the subsequent
proceedings that were taken to defraud the credi_
by law. There was not a single case, except the tors, were concocted originally by Simmons, and
The
Sussex peerage case, where a marriage celebrated in
that he was the principal agent in the matter. T
a foreign country, where such marriages were valid, learned counsel then proceeded to state that John
was not held to be valid here, though there had Marks was declared a bankrupt in May, 1857, and
always existed courts in this country with juris- he said he should prove that for several months
diction to impeach such marriages. This was a before this period he had obtained an enormous
remarkable circumstance, that no such case had q fur
of goods from different tradesmen,g giving
ever occurred. The Sussex peerage case—the only bills at and five months' date, which,
ocourse,iv
cods
exception—was a singular one, depending on the he had no intention ever to,pay, and those
language of the statute. It was a personal statute, were dealt with by all the prisoners, and g
concealed
and was tantamount to a statute enacting that the at different places under very extraordinary cir-
Duke of Sussex should not be able to contract ma- cumstances, and a greater portion of them were
t, imony without the consent of the Crown. It was eventually consigned to ,Sydney. The whole cf
as much a personal statute as the statute by which the prisoners would be distinctly proved to have
the sovereign became of age at 18 instead of 21. taken a share in thus disposing of the property,
To hold that such a statute could be defeated by and the proceedings would leave no doubt that de-
warily crossing the Channel would be absurd. liberate perjury was resorted to in order
having,tocarry
Mr. Justice Cresawell—ln the King v. Lolley did out the fraud, the prisoner John Marks
any question arise whether the second marriage in the course of his examination before the Court
Ives good or bad—in a word, was a man treated as of Bankruptcy distinctly denied, upon his oath, that
a felon without discussioa ? _ . he was in possession of any property except that
Sir F. Kelly—That case las determined on the which was given up at •the time of the bank-
question of the validity of divorce—viz., whether ruptcy, although he must have known that pre-
en -English marriage could be dissolved in a foreign perty to the amount of many thousand pounds had
country, and it was held it could not. been removed, and secreted after the bankruptcy,
Mr, Justice Cresswell—a man is guilty of felony evidently with the intention, that when that had
if he take asecond wife, his first wife living. _ Had blown over the property _should _be disposed of,
he married a eecon.dwife in Scotland, it would have and the proceeds divided among them. The
beeu good ; then, according to your argument, he result of the examination, into the affairs of John
might haencome to England with two lawful wive.% Marks showed that he was deficient several thou-
Sir F. Kelly—There was no doubt there might sand pounds in his cash accounts, and that pods of
arise a conflict of laws, but the question was not the value of nearly 15,0001. were entirely unac-
the inconvenience, but whether thecasehad arisen. counted for. A considerable portion of these goods
The report of Lolley's cases gives the argument, but was subsequently recovered through the informal
does not state the reasons of the judgment, which -then that was given by a man named Molloy, who
was merely that an English marriage could not be had been in the service of the prisoner John Marlo.,
dissolved by a foreign tribunal. All •we claimed and this property had been sold and. divided among
here was the power of foreign courts to legalise the general body of creditors, but they had still
acts done within their jurisdiction -which - were been defrauded to a very large amount through
net contrary to moiality. He repeated tbere the proceedings of the prisoners. He should call
'WAS not a case in which a marriage celebrated this man Molloy before them as a witness, and he
abroad was regarded on any other point-than would detail the course that was taken with the
ou the one, vie., was it legal there? The Attorney- goods that were obtained by the prisoners ; and,
General had contended that the legalisation of a although he undoubtedly stood in the position of
marriage in a foreign country was as to the form an accomplice, yet, when the jury found that
and ceremony of it, but that, though true, was by he was corroborated in many essential particu-
ne means the limit of the proposition. To say that lars, he believed they would entertain no doubt
the jurisdiction did not extend also to the personal that he was speaking the truth, and his evidence
capacity of the contract and all other contracts was would be almost Conclusive against the prisonera.
to cenfound the language and meaning of all the Evidence Confirmatory of the leartled counsel's
authorities. In the case of May v. Ross (3 Espi- statement having been addduced,
nesse) Lard Edo et" eld that a contract, though the Sergeant Parry then urged thet his client could
question was personal, must be determined by the not be convicted as a principal under the present
law of the country where it was entered into. In indictment. He called the attention of the Couet
De la. Vega v. Viaena (B. and Ad 284) the same to the section of the statute under which the charge
principle was laid down, and the remedy must be was preferred, and he contended that the offence
pursued according to the laws of the country where could only be committed by a person in the position
the party was. of a bankrupt, and that any other person whO
Mr. Justice Cresswell—Suppose a promise to might assist in the removal of property did not
marry a deceased wife's sister in Denmark, would stand in the position of an accessory before the fact,
th:s Court enforce it ? and could not under the recent statute be convicted
Sir-F. Kelly—That would raise a difficult ques- as a principal.
tion as t 6 specific performance. Mr. Justice Coleridge "asked if he was to under-
The Vice-Chancellor—Sir F. Kelly, we have not stand that the learned sergeant contended that any
come yet to bills for specific performance to marry. person who so acted could not be convicted of any
(Laughter.) offence?
Sir F. Kelly—lf the contract were to marry in Sergeant Parry said that his objection certainly '
Denniarka he could see no objection to the action. went to that extent, but if there was any omission
-Mr. Justice Story's " Conflict of Laws," section 103, on the part of the Legislature the prisoner was en-
laid it down clearly that the lex loci must prevail t titled to the benefit of it.
but not to weary the Court with authorities, he would Mr. Huddlesten took the some objection in bee
refer to the only class of cases within his know- half of his client. He alio urged that.under the
ledge depending on prohibition in a parent State bankrupt law a 'ocus penitentice was allowed to the
of marriages between different classes of persons. bankrupt until he had passed his last examination,
There were several States of the Union where and as John Marks had not passed that examine-
marriages were prohibited between white men.and tion, for all that appeared to the contrary, he
black women, but in some States such marriages might have made a full cli,elosure of the whole of
were lawful : and yet the test has always this property, and then there would have boon an
been considered to be, was the marriage valid by end to the present inquiry.
the law of the State where it was contracted ? The The Court having intimated that the learned
learned counsel then referred to the case of "Read- counsel for the prosecution need only direct his at-
ing v, Smith" (2 Haggard Con.), to show that such tention to the point whether the prisoner Samuel
was the test in this country. Ti 2 e same theory was Marks and Simniens could be convicted as principals,
to be found in Scrirashire, v. 9. The next case was Mr. James said it appeared to him that this ob-
,‘ Harford v. MOrris," which he bad not referred jection was entirely unfounded, and that it was
to, because it had been overruled; but it did not quite disposed of by the section of the 7th and Bth
beer out what had been sought to establish thereby. of George IV., which enacted that any person who
Then came the case of "Middleton v. Janvenn ;" incited or aided another in the commission of any
but the same principle was. acted on there. There felony, whether at common law or created by sta-
was, therefore, no single exception to the rule that tute, should be considered as an accessory before
the validity of a marriage depended on the validity the fact, and in that capacity might be convicted as
by the laws of the country where it was celebrated. a principal.
In the case of " Monro v. Monro," which had Mr. Justice Coleridge, after a short consultation
been cited (7 Cl. and Fin. 782), it was held that the with his learned brother, said the Court was at
law of the country where it was celebrated deter- present of opinion that the objection was not a
mined its validity, and the law of the domicile re- valid one ; but, as it was a question of consider-
gulated its consequence • therefore, any question able importance, they 'would give the point further
of dit'orce or alimony, bad such arisen in this case, consideration, and they 'would reserve the question
would have depended on the law cf England. In if it should become necessary.
" Birkwhistle v. lorry" the same principle was Serjeant Ballantine then proceeded to address
acted on; It might be that the Attorney-General the jury on behalf of the prisoner John Marks, and
I olieved that these marriages were incestuous, but be contended -that the evidence did not support
it was too much to denounce these marriages, which the specific charge brought against him under the
millions of virtuous, Christian, and religious per- present indictment. He said he would not deny
sons believed t:, be innocent. We must remember that he had acted recklessly and imprudently, but
that these marriages were lawful throughout the it appeared tohimtbatthe evidence failed altoge- her
whole of the Protestant States of the continent of to show that he had committed the vary serious
Europe and of America, and even throughout offence contemplated by the statute, and he said he
Roman Catholic countries_ subject to dispensation. felt assured that but for the prejudice introduced
Meyer there was a case in which a question ought into the case by the evidence as to the disposal of
to be Considered calmly, it was orie where thepater large quantities of other property which had no-
Patric came into one alter own courts to take away thing to do with the present charge, the jury
from the children the property earned by the labour would ,not for a moment thick of convicting him.
of their parent. HO now came to the real question Serjeant Parry and Mr. Huddleston next ad-
at issue, that the marriage was valid here if valid by dressed the jury for the other prisoners. They did
the law of the country where it was celebrated, but, so very briefly, and the principal point they ap-
of course, with the qualification that it must not be peered to rely upon was the fact that Samuel
contrary to morality or Christianity. This country Marks and Simmons appeared to have made a claim
would not recognise polygamy, on the ground that to a considerable amount upon the estate of the
it was immoral. No case had been cited in which other prisoner after his bankruptcy, and they eon-
thia country had refused to recognise the validity of tended that all that they had done was to endeavour
other laws. We ought, therefore, to beware how to get a preference in the payment of their claim ;
we made laws at
_variance with those of civilised and they saidthat, although this was undoubtedly
Europe, and spreading ruin, desolation, and de- very
wrong and improper in a commercial point of
gradation among thousands of families. He now view; yet that such a proceeding did not come
c tine to the question whether the Act of William, within the scope and intention of the Act of Par-
e . tended to the colonies—would it extend to Ire- liament, and that if the jury believed this to be the
land before the union ? There was no doubt of the real state of the case they ought not to convict the
power of the Legislature to make laws, but it was prisoners.
settled that a statute did not apply to Ireland un- Several witnesses were called to speak to the
less4reland was named (7 Coke, " Calvin's Case"). character of John and Samuel Marks, and they
The learned gentleman then cited " The Attorney- sated that they had known them a gnat many
General v. Stuart " (2 Merivale), centeieing a note years, and they had 'always conducted themselves
from Blackstone's weomilentarie,," to the effect in an honourable and respectable mariner.
that the laws of England only extend to such co- Mr. Justice Coleridge then summed up the whole
lollies as are named. We bad colonies which had
of the . evidence with great care and impartiality,
formerly belonged to countries by whose laws these
and the
jury after deliberating a short time in the
misted this question was to be governed by he sub- box, expressed a wish to reeire. They left the
strict construction of the language of the LP court at ten minutes past 5, and at a quarter to 6
gisla- the
o'clock they returns I into court and gave a verdict
tare, without reference to opinions of individuals
of
guilty
on certain passages of Scripture, an 1, tried by that
test!, the marriage could not be impeached. g • prisoners
Mr.Jaares said thatet all the
as- he nude. rstood their lord-
The ViceaChancellor said it was too important a ships only reserved for further consideration tbe
cpostion to be determined hastily, and ha should, point raised by Sergeant Parry, whether the pri-
therefore, with the advice and assistance of Mr. sonata S. Marks and Simmons could be convicted
Justice CCesswell, consider his judgment.
as principa's, he proposed to let the other indict-
merits stand over until this point had been decided.
. The prisoners were then called up for judgment.
Mr. Justice Coleridge, in passing sentence, said
that they had . been found guilty, upon evidence
which was perfectly satisfactory, of the commission
of a crime which no one could doubt in a great
commercial country was a crime of the highest
gravity, and required to be visited by very severe
punishment. By the bankrupt law, so soon as a
man became bankrupt the whole of the property be
pos •/sed became the property of his ci editors and
was to be equally divided among them, and it
was -quite clear that this law was a perfectly
just oue.' From whatever cause the bankruptcy
arose, the creditors were entitled to have
all the property that remained divided be-
tween them, and the least the bankrupt
could do was to Live up such property honestly
in return for the immunities that-he afterwards
and any one who endeavoured to em-
bezzle such property embezzled the property of his
creditors,
and was properly held to be guilty of
ferny.evot 11 undergo A
questionfurther
consideration,
s ill proceed to p , ihdaerdatbioene7 seised which
but he should
Belt-once, for if that point
would not be carried out,their n
afativleoyurwotled seatsuffe
rnncee i
should be decide-al.'s
hardship by the course h was taking. I I fectly clear that a great and gross fraud tit awl asbPeeern"
lotohmkeed all'and h
carefully at and
t facts to see
, brother
tehla
dby
his learned
whether they were justified in making any
uilaany diistiine- ,
st et,
lion in their cases, but they had.hf
Ois -over any grounds for making such diincti
If they had been inclined to speculate
_upon the ,
matter, they might perhaps have considered it pro-

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURX—Nov. 25.

OLD COURT.
(Before Mr. Justice Coleridge and Mr. Baron
Watson.)
John M
, , _ arks, 36, Samuel Marks 24, and Abra-
taara.einzukamfteenrs;_ 40, were indicted' for felony, for
ciarea and adihoudrstit-nanied prisoner had been de-
coaled and on4b4 a bankrupt, unlawfully con-
above the value of e-110cert.ain portion of his effects
. ~ kith intent to defraud his
creditors.
There were severparlisootnheerr,similar indictmentsthey for
felony against the
creditors theto dera't.nntd
wil h a conspiracy were ellar-fed
b ►ukrupt by secreting and enalbezhzlitel of
t ty of his effects after his nankrupteg a large Tian_
Larediffasprdecially. 1
M?. Edwin James, Q. C ,
was
rot
to r:..)nduct the prosecution, with Mr.
Pol Ind, and Mr. Wilkinson ; Sergeant Ballantine.
appeared specially, with Mr. Robinson, for John..
Marks; Sergeant Parry was specially retained for
Simnel Marks ; and Mr. Eluddle,ton, Q. 0., was
4K-> specially retained, with Mr. Sleigh, for the
prisoner Simmons.
„:rhe case that was proceeded with charged the
cPretr.ner John Marks with having unlawfully se-
t 1 ty...eolfasnadekenibezzled six pianofortes and a quan-
with intent to cheat and defraud
his creditorstug'
arks- anc k,alicl- the other prisoners, Saints I.
ircy
as r
.nc.bra_ham Simmons, were charged
jwithlaidino,rl iPalsk in the first and.second degree,
feno P, and ass sting him to commit that of- 4

i%lr. James, in opening the ease to the jury, said

ie was wider bable that S'
,ens, on account of his position, and
VIA i. --„,2r ibtedly the oldest of them, had taken
the ra:•13" " iinal part in the transaction, but they
-vi°43.11 Dente
"1r ..ct upon any speculative opinion, and
th
ent! lice would therefore be the same upon
them, J. His lordship then concluded by ordering
ea of the prisoners to be kept in penal servitude
for eight years.
1

her, 'on which was written "Fugitive Slaves from
America," and the younger carried a money-box in
which was a shilling in copper money. When be-
fore the magistrate they in the most artless, manner
stated that they were fugitive slaves, having last
fall escaped from a plantation in Kentucky, and
found their way to Philadelphia, in the free State
of Pennsylvania. They were then sent to Greenock
by some benevolent person, with the view of get-
lino% into some sort of service. Being unable to
obLin employment there, they came to London,
and, faring no better, they had resort to an appeal
to the kindness of the English people. They then
told Mr. Burcham that they most likely could gain
a livelihood if they had the means of purchasing
wool for knitting caps and gloves, which they had
"frequently done in America. Mr. Burcham then,
b:lieving that there might be some truth in their
story, granted them a trifle from the poorbox
enable them to buy some wool, when they left the
court, expressing their gratitude. Since then his
Wo:ship had received several small sums from be-
nevolent individuals for their use, and

The
_prisoners, and particularly Eimmons, who
appe gyred quite astounded at the sentence, were
then r•ernoved from the bar.

NEW COURT.
(Before the Recorder.)

Henry Zachariah Jervis, 52, clerk, was indicted
for obtaining by false pretences from Sarah Parker,
the sum of 505., with intent to cheat and defraud.

The jury found the prisoner guilty, but recom-
mended him to mercy.
Prisoner—l am innocent, but God's will be done.
The Recorder said, but for the recommendation
he should have passed a severer sentence than he
was about to do, and that was 18 months' impri-
sonment and hard labour.
The case lasted until past 8 at night:

Yesterday morning they attended for the pur-
pose of showing their small stock of knitted caps
which they had been enabled to make up through
the kindness of his Worship.
Mr. Burcham told them since they were before
him on the last occasion he had not only received
several small sums for their use, but letters from
variou person!, soma of whom were of high dis-
tinction, offering to take care of them and place
them in comfortable situations. He had also re-
ceived an anonymous letter which did not speak
very, highly of their characters, so that he had
thought it might be necessary to make some in-
quiries about them before he answered the letters
of those willing to assist them. He inquired where
they now reided.
The elder girl said that they had removed from
Bishopgate-street to the house of Mr. Smith, 10,
Wentworth-street, Whitechapel.
Mr. Edwin (ehief clerk) informed his Worship
that: Wentworth street was full of low lodging-
houses' similar to the Mint in this district.
Mr. Burcham (to the girl)—Do youknow Crown-
court, Wentworth-street ?

THIRD COURT.
(Before the Common Sergeant.)
David Rees Davis, 47, schoolmaster, pleaded
guilty to having obtained by false pretences the
sum of V. 4s. from Pascoe Grenfell and others, and
also the sum of 1/. ls. from Edward Budd.
The Court sentenced the prisoner to six months'
imprisonment.

John Sankey, 27, police-constable ; Matilda
Ross, 18, spinster • Wm. Burnett, 26, labourer;
and Ellen Mills, .225, widow, were indicted, Bur-
nett and Sankey for stealing property valued at
5001., the property of Rosabella Robertson Aik-
man, Ross with aiding'and abetting in the commis-
sion of the said felony, and Mills with having felo-
niously received part of the said property.
Mr. Orridge appeared for the prosecution, and.
Mr. Thompson for Sankey.
The learned counsel having stated the case, called
Mr. Aikman, who stated that the prosecutrix in
this case was his mother, and being an invalid was
not present. The house from whence this property
was stolen, 68, Portland-street, was hers. About
three years ago witness obtained, upon application
to the Marylebone Station, the services of the pri-
soner Sankey, who was a constable in the D divi-
sion, to take care of the house. , The kitchen was
allotted to him and his wife, and the furniture,
plate, and other property were kept locked up in
the other rooms, and the whole left in the care of
Sankey. Witness used to call occasionally when in
town at the house for his letters. All the rooms,
excepting thefront drawing-room, were kept locked.
John Robertson Aikman, another son of the pro-
secntrix, gave similar evidence of the possession of
the house by Sankey, adding that on the 22d Oct.,
from some information which he had received, he
went to the Marylebone Police Station, and from
thence to his mother's house, when he found that
the prisoner Sankey was not there, and that the
rooms had been broken open, and property, consist-
ing of plate, linen, jewellery, and watches, amount-
in value to about 5001., had been taken. He
identified the travelling trunk now produced as his
sister's property.
George Robinson, a marine store-dealer of East-
street, Marylebone, said that on the 3d Oct. Sankey
took a lodging at is house for the prisoner Ross,
and used to come occasionally to see her. Upon the
20th of that month Ross left the place in a cab,
and he saw nothing more of either of them until
they were in cnitody. He found the travelling
-hunk identified by the last witness in the room
which Sankey took after Ross had left.
Sergeants O'Brien and Pearce, of the D division,
proved examining the house of prosecutrix, and
found that the different boxes and drawers had been
forced, some of them with a jemmy, and also that
at the time Sankey absconded he was upon the sick
list.

• Ga4—Yes sir, we lodge in a house there at the
back of No. 101. We have a room there, and piy
balf-a-crown a-week for it.

Burcham—Does any one else live with you
Girl—Oh no, sir.
Mr. Burcham—Have you a Lther and mother in
E agland ?
Girl—No, sir ; my parents were slaves, and one
of them died about 18 months ago, We were about
to be parted and sold; when by the kindness of
some persons we were enabled to escape to a free
StAte.

Mr. Burcham—ls there a coloured man living in
the same house with you I
Girl—No, sir; there is one living in the same
court, but he has a wife and a large family. We
have knitted some caps and sold some, and what
remains of our stock you can inspect.
Mr.. Burcham examined their small stock of
knitted caps, which they had carefully placed iu a
box,' and asked whether they had sold many.
Eldest Girl—We have sold several, sir, and these
are all we have left. We have not sold one to-day.
Mr. Burcham—Do you know the name of the
vessel you came from America in ?

Girl—Yes, air, the bi.gYan She left Phila-
delphia last spring.

Burch-am Who defrayed the expenses of
your psiage to Greenock ?

CriilL--Some free coloured persons in Phila-
delphia, sir.
Mr. Burcham told them that an officer of the
Mendicity Society had promi-ed to make inquiries
respecting them, but he had failed to attend before
him to make his report. However, they appeared
to have made an attempt to obtain their livelihood
by industry, therefore he hoped that their story
wai true. Under those circumstances he should
order them to be paid ss. out of the benevolent
contributions to enable them to go on for a few
days. On Monday next they might call again,
when, if their Story proved correct, no doubt they
would be taken care of.

T. A. Browne, chief superintendent of the Cork
constabulary, stated that upon the morning of the
lstlof Nov., he
.went to a house in Middleton, county
•f Cork, where he found the prisoners Ross and
Sankey in bed. He told the man to get up, and
asked his name. He said " William," andthat be
was making a tour of pleasure. Witness told him
that he suspected that he was the person answering
the description of Sankey. The prisoner seemed to
laugh at-the idea. Witness then desired to look at
his luggage, and, having stripped the canvas cover
off a box and examined its contents, told him he
should take him into custody. The woman Ross
then took a watch from her neck and gave it to
Sankey. Witness also found a gold pin and bracelet
in the room. The prisoners were then taken into
custody, and brought to this country.
The watch, bracelet, and pin were identified as
part of the property stolen, and also a silver purse
found upon Ross when searched at the liarylebone
station.

The girls thanked his Worship for his kindness
and withdrew.

THE ASHOVER MURDER.

ASHQVER, TUESDAY.
This morning at 9 o'clock the inquest on the body
of James Simpson, farmer, of Aehover, who was
brutally murdered on Friday, the 13th inst., was
held at the White Lion Inn before Mr. Busby, the
coroner for the district, and a jury of 15 persons. •
Mr. W. G. Fox, the chief constable of Derbyshire,
was present. The police have made great efforts to
secure the murderer, and several suspicious charac-
ters have been apprehended, but they could not be
identified by those who saw a person in company
with the deceased a short time previous to hid be-
ing murdered. Last night a man named Richard
Hodgkinson was apprehended at Matlock on sus-
picion. He has a dog, and on the day of the mur-
der a man was seen near the place with a dog, which
he set at some children as they were returning from
school.

Sergeant Potter, 16 D, said that being upon duty
at the station after Sankey was locked up he, at his
(Sankey's) desire, went to the cell where he was.
Sankey.then said he would tell the truth, as he
had been deceived in two men whom another man,
named White, had introduced to him ; that they
took him out and made him drunk ; -that he fell
asleep ; that they went out for more drink, when
he thought they let some one in. When he woke
and found the place had been robbed he took the
things fuund upon him from the drawing-room, and
put them into the travelling trunk, intending to
come to the station and make a report, but fearing
that the robbery would be put upon bis back, he
took the woman and went off. Upon last Thurs.
day week witness went to Earl-street, Seven Dials,
and after breaking into the front garret of a house
there found Burnett and Mills in bed. They
denied having any of the stolen property on then],
but from Mills's- hand a gold watch, part of the
plunder, was taken. Some linen was also found,
together with skeleton keys and a " jemmy" fit ting
the marks-alluded to upon the drawers.
The jury acquitted Ross, finding the others
guilty.

Hannah Simpson was the first witness called.
She saideraly husband left home on Friday about
10 minx es past 11 in the morniog. He had his
watch, purs., and half-a-crown. It was a steel drop
chain, an i the watch was a silver one, with double
case.. I don't know the maker's name. The chain
was about nine inches long, with a seal to it. The
key WAS s'eel, and bent. I have wound the watch
up three times since we have been married. The
seal was a middle-sized one, with glass in, but I
don't know the colour. The face of the watch was
gave
watch " and
white, and the figures were black, and it had a loud
click. lam certain I should know the watch and
chain again.
againisai, " Mauer,watch
Thed
I put it in his trousers' pocket. He said before he
started, "Mother, have you a sixpence 7" I said
" No ; I have half-a-crown," He said, " That will
cb." - The purse I gave him, with the half-a-crown
I avkee him just
i'fl just before he
in it, was a brown one, with a leaden clasp to, and
one in the inside.. There were three compartments
in the purse. I saw my husband put the purse in his
trousers' pocket just before he left. I don't know that
he had any other money upon him. I put him
some bread and cheese in his pocket, and he had
nothing else in his pocket that I know anything of.
When he was brought home in the evening I was
present, but did not see his pockets smirched.
Those who searched them asked me what he had,
and I told them. He went to Alfreton market,
intending to meet Mr. Rogers. Re took 1141 b. of
butter in a basket to sell at the market. The
lehtter was wrapped in two cloths, which are not
missing. He was also going to Alfreton market t) 1
bargain for the sale of some cheese and two fat
pigs. All my husband's clothes were about him
when he was brought home, except the handker-
chief, which contained the bread and cheese. There
seemed to be nothing injured about his clothes. He
never spoke at all after he was brought home. He
was not a man to scrape acquaintance with any per-
Fon on the road, as ha generally studied Scripture.
In the morning my husband said, " What groceries
shall you want ?" I said, " 21b of sugar, vies, and
can llts." The .butter sold for Is 3id per lb. The.
basket was brought to me the same night. It con-
tained the two cloths he had taken the butter in.,
21b of sugar, llb of rice, llb of midi. s, 2oz of tea ;
a copybook and a sl de for the little boy, a pair of
black worsted stockings, and two pennyworth of
swets, which were in his basket for the children,
and two ounces ot mustard. The contents of the
besket would be worth about 4s. 80. The rice
was partly spilled on the road.
Thomas Rogers, 'Summercotes, grocer--I: saw'
the deceased on Friday last about 1 o'clock in the
market place at a Melon. I had not met him .there
by appointment. I told him I would give him an
answer that day about some pigs and cheese which
we were birgainin„o- for. He had a basket ot but-
ter, containing 1141 b. which I bought at ls. 3id.
per lb., and I paid him- 14s. 10d. Ttie &cea=ed
did: not pull out any purse, but put the money, in
his pocket. I could not say which pocket. I b ar-
gained w.th him tor two pigs and about three cwt.
of cheese, which he was to deliver on the following
Friday, when I was to pay him for them. I did
not pay him then. I - was in his company about a
quarter of an hour. He went away, an! I did not
see him any more after I hid paid him for the but-
ter. The last time I saw deceased was about 2
o'clock. I agreed with him in the market for the
butter and cheese about 1 o'clock. I told him to
take the butter to my room in the castle yard, and
I would meet him there after I had bought some
more butter its the market. He went with liS but-
ter and waited till I came, which would be abut
2 o'clock. I p ,id deceased in my room with silver
and copper. Ho went away out of the room a 3 soon
as ho received the money, and I did not see him
__!__

Sankey was sentenced to six, 4nd Burnett and
Mills to four years' penal servitude.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—Nov. 25.

MANSION-HOUSE.—On Saturday last four
children named Quill, who had been found in a
shockingly destitute condition begging in Old
Broad street, were brought before the Lord Mayor
by a policy-cons able. The Lord Mayor, learning
from the constable that their father was in confine-
ment ou a charge of felony, and that their mother
sent them into the street to beg, ordered a sum-
mons to be issued to compel her attendance, and
desired the constable to take the children to the
union.

Yesterday the mother was in attmdance, and the
const Ible said he had been makiog further inquiries
into h. r character, and found she was in the habit
of getting drunk with the money which the children
obtainkl by begging. He had also ascertained that
she had taken her children out of the union.
The Lord Miyor—Why did you not let your Chil-
dren remain in the union ?

Quill—l'm too fund of them to ba partad from
them. .

The Lord Mayor—Why don't you go to the
uoionyourself ?

Quill—Because I should be parted from them
there.

The Lord Mayor—Sa that you, are prepared to
sacrifice the lives of your four children by sending
them into the streets in this inclement weather to
beg, rather than they shall be in the union, where
they will be properly clothed, warmed, and fed
during winter. You would rather expose them and
see them die by inches in the streets, iu order to sup-
port you. Of course you do not want to go to the
union, because you know you cannot t, et drink
there. That is the greatest punishment to you.
You ought to be thankful that there is such a place
where your children can. be taken care of during
the winter. Do I understand that you refuse to let
• them go there ?
Quill (crying)—Yes, my lord ; I won't part with
them. It I was deprived of my children I should be
dead. .

The Lord Mayor—Another week or two's expo-
sure in the public streets will certainly d-stroy one
of your children at least, and then you will be sent
to the Old Bailey for trial. If any one of them is
found either begging or destitute, and the case is
proved, I shall commit you to prison for a trona.
Emanuel Solomons, who bad been tsvcs re-
manded, charged with having stolen a bracelet value
80 guineas from the shop of his mistress, Mrs. Mary
Sumnei, a jeweller, carrying on business in Church-
row, ,Houndsditch, waragain brought up.
Mr. Lewis sad he was not in a condition to
c'arry flip ewe against the prisoner any further.
Mr. Solomon submitted that no case whatever
had beer. made out against his client
The Lord Mayor said that althcugh.there were
many suspicious circumstances connected with the
prisoner's conduct, there was not sufficient evidenca
to justify his detention. He would therefore be
discharged, but would he liable to be again appre-
hended in the event of further evidence implicating
him iu the robbery being obtained.

SO UTHWARK.—A report appeared a few days
ago respecting two remarkably good-looking young
coloured girl,, who were brouglit to this court by
Police-constable 85M, charged with soliciting alms
in Blackman-street, Borough.
It appeare I that they were dressed very
n atly in light coloured clothing, such as is
usually worn by female sl Ives in the Southern
States of America, and walked by the side of the
kerb, the elder sister carrying a placard in front of

,
agair.
Joaeph Boar,
of t'te Rattle Ashover, farmer's
servant to Mr. John Gladwir, Overton park-7.
Oa Friday, the 13:h I met tt e deceased in
Alfrcten market. I did Nov.,ot go with him to Alfre-
ton. The deceased and I left ALreton market to-
gether about 3 o'clock in the afternoon. The de-
cels(d had a basket on his arm, but I don't know
what it contained. I did 'not notice whetbe: 11,3
had a watch 'with him, Wo walked about three
miles, and parted at Oyston-Ird'. We went fron.,,
Alfleton by the George Inn, and c tme
d.
Alfreton-hill,ll, by Shirland and Migham, and to n d
off to Oyston-hall. Deceasei then tutnel to
the right, which Was his road home, and I came
by Oyston along the foot road to Wool'ey. Oyston-
hall is about three miles from where th 3 deceased
live It wanted 20 minutes to four by Oyston
a
,clock when we parted. It was not dark or foggy.
W cb.(l not notion anybody ,
following us on t J

road. The deceased was quite sober, and had not
had anything to drink. I asked the deceased at
Oyston-hall to go the road I was going, which
would have led to his house, to see Mr. Stanley ;
but he said he should see. Mr. Stanley on Monday,
instead of going by Stanley's house. The road he
took was the nearest to his own house.

Joseph Fletcher, of Ashover-hill, coalmaster—l
was coming from my colliery, which is called Atton
colliery, on Friday, the 13th. It is about a mile
and a quarter from the deceased Simpson's house.
In going from nay colliery to my house I pass by
the junction of the roads at Ashover-hill-top on the
left band side. I left my colliery about a quarter
past five on Friday afternoon. I think the distance
from my collery to the junction of the roads is about
one mile. I left my colliery to go home, and when
I came up withinl2 yards from the junction I saw
an object lying in the cart rut on the ground, but
cuuld not distinguish what it was. The object was
a few paces past the junction, on the road leading
to Simpson's own house. There are some gorse
bushes on either side of the road. I had not heard
any previous report of firearms. I heard the de-
ceased groan. I was then on the other road leading
to my own house, and when I heard the groan I
stepped over the gorse to him. I found a man
lying lengthway in the rut, with his head laid in
the direction of his own house. I thought it was
some person tipsy, or that he might have been
thrown off his horse. I knelt down and. smelt, but
I could not perceive that hs; had bad any liquor.
I then saw blood on his temples, and felt very
much alarmed. I raised- a cry for assistance, when
my son Iram and a young man- named Cress-
well came up within five or ten minutes after-
wards. I was pacing about for five or ten
minutes till they came. up. I spoke to the de-
ceased, but he did not answer, and continued
groaning. I put my arms under his shoulder
and lifted his head on the bank. I did not examine
the gorse, nor hear any_ footsteps before or after-
wards, nor any voices. -I noticed a basket which
lay a yard from the deceased, which appeared as
though it had fallen from his arm, and a portion of
the contents was strewed abou'. I sent my son
and Cresswell to Mr. Bassett's for a light, and told
them to go to Mr. Skidmorje surgery. It was not
very dark, but so dark I could not seethe deceased's
face. It was a foggy night. As soon as my son
and Cresswell had gene Joseph Marriott came up
and looked at deceased, when he said "I think it
is the man on the hill." Shortly after Mr. Bas-
sett aad Mr. William Bassett came with a laden,
which was applied to his face, when I recognised
him as the bAy. of Mr. Simpson. We then sent
for a door, which was brought very near 6 o'clock.
We laid him on the door and carried him to his
house. I and William Bassett took one end and
Cresswell and my son at the other: When the light
came I saw a wound near the left ear, which was
bleeding. • The flesh under the ear and the back of
it and the shirt collar wee* blackened, as if with
powder. He never spoke at all. His waistcoat
was unbuttoned, each side thrown open, and one
button in the front of his trowsers was unbuttoned.
His hat was lying close by the side of his head.
There were no marks of dirt on the clothes. I did
not notice any marki of a struggle. After he had
been taken home I left for half-an-hour. I am in
the habit of passing this junction once or twice a
day on my road to and from the colliery—about
half-past four in the afternoon. I pay my men at
the colliery on a Saturday afternoon, and I am not
in the habit of carrying much money about me.
I employ about 40 or 50 men. None have left my
employ since this affair. I go to Chesterfield once
a week, sometimes on a Friday and sometimes on
a Saturday. Igo to the bank for money to pay the
men, which I carry with me to my house. It was
not my intention to have gone on Friday, the 13tb,
and I never stated to anybody that it was. I pay
about 461. in wages weekly, but the average would
be 501. per week. Sometimes on my way from
Chesterfield I call at the colliery, but I don't pass
these three lane ends. I generally walk the whole
way. I passed that way twice on the 13th of No-
vember, but did not see any person.
John Bassett, Ashover-hill, printer—On Friday
evening about 5 o'clock, I was in my field, which is
about SOO yards from the junction of the three
roads at Ashover-hill-top. While there I heard the
report of a gun or pistol in the direction of the
hill-top. Heard no voices nor footsteps. The re-
port startled me. It was not dark, but dusk.
There was sufficient light to recognise anybody on
the road. In about a quarter of an hour after I
heard the shot I went home. Afterl had been there
half-an-hour Iram Fletcher came to me and said,
" My father has found a murdered =it on the road
and you must bring a light." My nephew, Herbert
Wray, and he started with a lantern, and. I followed
them to the junction of the roads. I o.w the man
lying in the road. He was carried home on a door,
bleeding all t e way. I- picked up the basket and"
the hat, and carried them to his house.
Mr. P. Skidmore, Asbover, surg,.on—l saw the
deceased lying in the lane about half-past 5 o'clock,
near the junction of the roads. Mr. Fletcher and
Mr. Bassett were present. I noticed a wound on
the left temple. It was apparently a gunshot
wound. There was a good deal of discolouration on
the left cheek from powder. lie was bleeding at the
time, and was in a perfect state of collapse when I
arrived. I did not notice his dress being disturbed
or soiled. I did not examine his clothes. I ordered
his removal home, and he was taken thither on a
door. The deceased was got hoine about 6 o'clock
and I attended him until his death, which took
place about half-past 8-t he same evening. I after-
wards made a post mortem examination of the body
on Saturday evening. I found, considerable con-
gestion of the brain' and two wounds, a smaller and
a larger one, and considerable extravasation of the
blood, resulting from the wound. I extracted from
the wounds a bullet and some swan shot, which had
penetrated the skull, and the bullet was lolged in
the middle lobe of the brain. The shot was fixed in
the middle lobe. Both bullet' and shot had penetrated
thaskull. The bullet and shot being there caused
death. He could not possibly have lived. The shot
Went upwards and inwards from the external
wounds. The shot must have been fired from the
left hand side of the deceased, and the gun or pis-
tol must have been-lower than the wound, but in
close proximity to the head. I should think the
gun or pistol must have been half a yard from the
deceased when the shot was fired. I can't say
whether a gun fired from that distance would not
have shattered the-skull more. I gave the bullet
and slug into the possession of Sergeant Gorham,
of the police.
By the Chief Constable—l extracted all the shot
from the head. There were no external marks of
violence on the body.

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Mr. Wm. -Jackson- Marshall,- surgeon,- of Mat-
lock—l first Fa w the deceased on Saturday night,
the 14th of November, about,? o'clock. On the left
side of the face and neck, on the left ear, and- on
the external membrane of the left eye, there were
black marks of powder. In front of the left ear
there were two circular-vi,ounds, which penetrated
the skull. Did not notice 'any other marks of vio-
lence about the body. The same evening I per-
formed a post mortem examination with Mr. Skid-
more. On removing the integuments in the neigh-
bourhood of the wounds there was a quantity of ex-
travaiatecl blood, the texture of the temporal mus-
cles was broken up, fro,m the openings made in the
bone through the middle lobe of the brAin. The
bullet had passed through the integument, over the
I idge of the temporal bone, through the middle lobo
of the brain to the upper and back part of the pos-
terior lobe, which was dark, and in which I found
some shot. I havo no doubt the bullet and shot
caused the death of the deceased, and he could not
possibly h tve lived. I think from the direction of
the wound that the person firing the' gun or pist-1
must have-been kneeling on the lft side of Simpson
and somewhat in front of him. The shots pene-
trated opposite the orifice of the left ear, and were
found at the back part of the head, showing that
;he shot went upwards and backwards. I think
pawier will blabicen paper two or three yards off.
I think if it had'been. a gun the shot would have
gone through the brain, had there been a proper
charge of powder. I am sure textrauted every shot
from the brain:

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William Barker, labourer at a brickyard—l work
for Messrs. FletchEr and Cheethanr, at the _Alton
Colliery. On Friday, the 13th of November, a
s'ranger came into the brick Yard about 2 o'clock
and asked me for a knife.. He had some bacon,
which he threw on the fire: I lent him the knifes,
and he brought -it back and thanked me. He
asked me if Mr. Fletcher was about. I told him
he was not. He said " Ohl" and went away m the
direction of the Fabric.. I saw him for a quarter of
an hour or 20 minutes. He was a tallish man-5
feat 8 or 9 inches,' very dark complexion, and his
Lair was not very stort.
He had a pair of cotton
_
trowsers on, dark pilot jacket, with the nap much
worn, two patches on his sleeve, one of which hung
out. Ho had no whiskers, and appeared to ba
about 39 years of aie: Ile had something under
his Ift arm, under his coat; but I did not
sae what it was. He had a black cloth cap, with a
peak on it. I .did not notice his waistcoat, but
should know hint' again if I should see him. My
brother-in-law the man was a person who did
not like work. His fiands were whits ; inked like
lady's hands. He was marked with smallpox ;.nd
slim mad .. His hair -was dark. I have not seen
the man since n'r before. I did not notice his
eyes. . - .
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Dennis Gorham., sergeant of. police, Ashover—
Oa rAurning froth Aifreton Fessions on the 13th
inst. I was informed that a man had been shot on
the hill-top. I went to my Toting% where I saw
a man named .Joseph 4ohneß, who. said he was
waiting for me. I wort with Holmes to the ,junc-
tion of the roads, and with the aid of a lantern, I

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