The Sun.
London, England, 1850-09-18 00:00:00

GIRLS.

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Elizabeth Emma Brasier
Catherine Sophia Kirk 14,511
Mary Jane Mid:am
Louisa Mason 12,373
Sarah Ann Blackwall
Elizabeth Penney
Julia Ann Ninham
Elizabeth Wells
9,538
Eliza Helen Weeks
Emily Cousins Rowley 7,334
Ju' ia Upperton
7,242
Elizabeth Maria Stiff 6 985
Louisa Elizabeth Barlow
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lizabeth Chance Coombes
Emily Day
Clara Ann Hutchins 977
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Sarah Walker Penny
Mr. FINDLEY then declared the first twelve boys, and
the first thirteen girls on the list duly elected, who, he
stated, would be received into the Institution on the first
of October next.

The business of the day having been then con.
eluded, the meeting separated.
[We shall give a fuller report to-morrow.]

THE ONE THOUSAND MILES MATCH.-Searles,
of Leeds, still continues his walking match of one thousand
miles in the same number of hours, at Tranmere. He has
begun each mile at the commencement of each hour, 012 d
yesterday appeared as free from fatigue as when he jawed
on Monday week. Owing to difficulty of watching him
during the night on the round course enclosed near Trainmen,
Hotel, he walks along the turnpike-road in company of two-
men, one of whom is engaged to watch his progress, and see
that each mile is performed. He lives well, is in robust
health, and sleeps well, especially in the night, when not en-
gaged in walking. He performs each mile in nearly the
same space of time, generally twelve minutes, though some
hare been accomplished in ten minutes. The odds are, how-
ever, against him by two and three to one, and several
wagers have been at two to one, taken by himself within tfie
last few days.—Chester Chronicle.

THE FRENCH ADMIRAL, BARON MACKAIL—Spe•
cial orders from the Admiralty have been received at Wool-
wich,:Chatham, Sheerness, and other ports, directing the
authorities to allow the gallant ex-Minister of the French
Marine to view the dockyards, and to pay every attention
to this distinguished officer. Admiral Mackau, we believe,
is the only French officer living who, in a fair fight and on
equal terms, captured an English brig-of-war.—Herald.
THE WEATHER.—At the Royal Observatory,
Greenwich, the mean reading of the barometer was above
30 in. on every day of the past week; it was highest on
Sunday and Monday; the mean of the week was 30.171 in.
Ihe mean temperature of the week was 55.3 deg., and less
than the average of the same week in seven years by 4.4 deg.
The mean temperature was less than the average during
the whole week. The wind blew generally from the north-
east.

Lord John Russell was one day last week observed
in front of Mr. Nlaule's house at Birnam, enjoying himself
Nvith his children in sending up paper balloons into the air,
and chasing them over the lawn.—North British

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, Sept. 17.

(Before the CHIEF COMMISSIONER.)

IN THE MATTER OF CHARLES HARVEY WEIGHALL.

The insolvent, formerly a tailor of Conduit-street,
and now an artist of some celebrity, came up for his
discharge.
Mr. Cooke supported ; Mr. Sargood opposed, on
the ground that the insolvent had vexatiously defended
an action brought by the detaining creditor, Mrs.
Levi, of 131, Strind, on a bill of exchange for 401.,
payable seven years after date.
It appeared from the examination of the insolvent,
that the bill was drawn upon him by his brother-in-
law, Mr. John William Edwards, and he alleged that
his defence of the action had been advised both by his
solicitor and friends on principle. They were willing
rather to incur the risks of a heavier loss by defending
an action upon it than paying the money for 9n unjust
claim. About the time that the trial taok place he
had pledged nine paintings, of the value of 2001., to
blessrs. Bayley Brothers, of the City, for the sum of
50/. He had been engaged by the proprietors of the
Panorama of the Nile Exhibition, in the Egyptian
Hall, to paint the figures and animals in the pano-
rama, but he had no interest in the exhibition.
J. Giles, clerk to Mr. Charles Lewis, solicitor, of
the Albany, attorney for Mrs. Levi, produced the
record, showing that the insolvent had put in no le's
than 17 pleas to the action, and that the costs of the
plaintiff in obtaining a verdict had been 1101.,
whereas, if the action bad been undefended, the costs
would have been no more than 81.

The witness was subjected to a severe cross-exami-
nation by Mr. Cooke, from which it appeared that he
knew nothing himself of the circumstances attending
the trial. Mrs. Levi was Mr. Charles Lewis's mother,
and the bill was endorsed by Mr. Lewis to Mrs.
Levi. Mrs. Levi sometimes advanced money upon
bills for her son. Mr. Lewis left for Edinburgh last
night, ani the clerk who was present at the trial was
not in that court. Did not know that Mrs. Levi
discounted bills when it was necessary to have an in-
nocent holder.
Mr. Cooke contended that there was no case of
vexatious defence to go to the Court in the absence of
Mrs. Levi, Mr. Lewis, and his clerk. Perhaps Mr.
Sargocd, in their absence, would volunteer his ser-
vices touching the innocent holding of the Bill.
Mr. S irgood : All I know is that I am an innocent
holder of my brief.

The COMM ISSIONER—And you have received con,
sidsration for it, no doubt.—(A laugh.) I have no
doubt but you are one of the most innocent parties in
the ea e. Can you seriously ask me to remand fur a
vexatious defence in this else without producing the
witnesses who are acquainted with the facts ?
SAIIGOOD—If the Court thinks that they
ought to have been here, I cannot say more than that
my client ha, been put to an unnecessary expense of
a hundred pounds.

Mr. COOKE—I Wish it had
_been five hundred

pounds.

- The CounT then declared the insolvent entitled to
hii discharq.
Mr. SARGO,)D asked that Mrs. Levi might be ap-
pointed ...ssi4nee cf. the estate.
The Cos;mts,sroNEß-7dt required an effort of the
Learned Gains.l to, manta thii request. Mr:. Levi
will not tra a propr person to discharge thcacdwies.

IN TUE MATTE 2 GF WILLIAM TOON.

The iasohrent, of lioibora-hill, applied fur
Mr. Hughes oplio:ed; Mr. Sargood sup•

p.)

It snyeftroil that the insolvent had held 85 shares
in the 17,.11 Diemen's-Land Cmupcny, upon which he
20?. ehare. IL had lost the shares, but
if h had ri;t, they were- of no value to the creditors.
There wa•:,a cAll of N. per share due upon them, and
with that call paid, the shares were selling at only
303. per share. He had received rent for a house at
Regent-park,- formerly occupied by
Mr. Romeo Cotes, and recently let at 110/. a year.
He could not recollect whether be had received any
rent since January last, as he had been under the ne-
cessity of borrowing money upon his receipt notes.
Mr. HUGnEs—Receipt notes • What Rre these ?

11;le Insolvent—Suppose that I W 1.13 in want of
money, I should come to you, Mr. Hughes—(Laugh-
ter)—and give yoenly receipt for rent coming due to
me. and you would maliq an advance upon them.
cousussioNea decided that the insolvent must
produce the. detaining,creditor, to prove the existence
of a debt, as he admitted his. arrest to have been a
friendly one. He must also produce a small cash-
book.

An adjournment for a short period only was ordered
for these purposes.

IN THE MATTER Or JAMES STRIDE.

The insolvent hat kept an office in the Strand fur
the sale of tickets of admission to the concerts at
Exeter Hall, &c. He had also kept a betting-office
in Bow-street.
Mr. LUCAS applied that, the_,: insolvent might be
liberated on bail.

His ll9Noua said that he hattaly thought, in a case
where debts bad been contracted in about six months
to the amount of about 700/., for which consideration
h2d been received, beides several thousand pounds
for which no consideration was alleged to have been
given, that he ought to accept bail. Seeing, how-
ev‘er, that there was one loss on the part of the insol-
vent to the amount of 4001. entered in his Schedule,
in consequence of the insolvency of Mr. Stammers,
proprietor of the Wednesday Evening Concerts, bail
would be accepted.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.
OLD COURT.
Ann ilrearthy, 26, and Jane Hades, 38, were in-
dicted for stealing five sovereigns and twelve shillings
from the person of William Stephenson M'lntyre.
Mr. Cooper prosecuted ; Mr. Parry defended
M'Carthy, and Mr. Ballantine appeared for the other
prisoner.
The prosecutor, who is a Scotchman, and who de-
scribed himself as a commission-agent, and as having
formerly been a superintendent upon the Eastern
Counties Railway, deposed that on the night of the
20th of August, about eleven o'clock, he was in
Whitechspal on his way home, when he met the
prisoner ealeCarthy, who accosted him, and asked him
to treat her. He told her he had no objection to do
so, but he would not go to a public-house, and she
then said she would take him somewhere else, and he
accompanied her to a coffee-shop in Somerset-street,
Aldgate, and she took him up stairs into a bed-room
and shut the, door., She then put her hand into his
waistcoat packet and took out five sovereigns and
some silver. He gave an alarm, and the other
priscner and several other persons came up
stairs eel iwo the room,- and 'Liles went close to
him end put her arm round his neck and
over .his face, 'a;:,} in en instant dui beentile insen-
sible, and did -rot recover his recollection until
th,, CAlowiz,l4 mnre.ini.r, betWcen six and seven o'clock,
whyn li, ..f.Ateel 1-.lthstlf lying in a place called Lady
Llko"s-grove,. al-y,ut a mile from thus coffee-house
wi.ere the rubbery was committed. The prosecutor:
added that he disgois,,d hiintell, and walk,:d about the
neighbourhood or several evenings in the expectation
of meeting with the prisoners, but failed to do SO ;
and at leegth he was taken to the coffee-shop by a
policeman, end he there saw both the prisoners,
and recognised them as the parties who committed
the robbery.
_Mr. PARRY cross•exemined the prosecutor with
Considerable severity, end elicited from him that he
was a married man, and that at the time this occur-
rence took pace his wife was lying dangerously ill
at home, in the charge of a nurse. He also said that
he did not know that M'Carthy was a street-walker
at the time she accosted him, although, of course, he
said he did not believe she was a virtuous woman,
end he declared that his only object in accompanying
her to the coffee-house wai to give her some refresh-
ment, which he considered she stood in need of in her
unfortunate position, and that he had no improper in-
tention. He likewise said that upon one occasion
he had been charged before a magistrate with being
drunk.
The counsel for the prisoners commented in strong
terms upon the conduct of the prosecutor, and urged
that it was clear he had told a palpable falsehood in
asserting that he had gone to the coffee-house with
9e prisoner M'Carthy solely for the purpose of giv-
ing her some refreshment, and they said that this
being the case the jury ought not to give credit to
any portion of his testimony. They also remarked
upoa the frequency of these cases of robberies alleged
to have been committed by the influence of chloro-
form, or some other agent of a similar description, at
the present time, and it was urged upon the jury as
being very probable that married men, and persons
in the position of the prosecutor, who found
themselves in the predicament of accom-
panying a prostitute to a place of this de-
scripuon, would be very glad to excuse them-
selves to their wives, or other persons, by trumping up
a story about chloroform. The Learned Counsel also
remaeked upon the circumstance of the prosecutor
being discovered at such a distance from the Owe
,sphere the robbery was alleged to have been com-
mitted, and the extreme improbability of his having
been dragged through the streets by two women in a
. state of insensibility, without the circumstance at-
tracting the attention of the police ; while, on the
other hand, if he was drunk and unconscious of what
he was about, which they suggested was most likely
the truth of the matter, nothing was more likely than
that he should have staggered to the place in question
and have there fallen insensible.
The jury-, after deliberating a short time, returned
a verdict of Not Guilty.
James Brooharan surrendered to tele his trial upon
a charge of stealing' 671. el., the moneys of
of Charles Anderson ‘Vorsiey Pelham, Earl of Yar-
borough.
' Mr. Cletbsen prorcuted ; Mr. Parry was for the
defsece.
eaeWilliam Fewkes, b....use stewatd to the Noble
I:oo,4eposed that the prisoner was hall portPr at his '

THE, SUN,

town residence, No. 17, Arlington-street. On the
314 of July witness wis about to p-oceed to the Isle
of Wight, when the prisoner told him that a sum of
671. 143. 63. was required for the payment of rates
and taxes on the following Saturday, and he gave him
that amount. The prisoner went away on the 7th,
and did not return till the 9ch of August, and witness
then put some questions to him respecting the money,
and he said he had been to Brighton races, and that
he had been robbed of every shilling of it.
By Mr. PARRY—Prisoner had been eight years in
the service of the Eail of Yarborough, and he had
repeatedly entrusted him with money to a consider-
able amount. He appeared very much distressed
when he related the story of his having been robbed,
and said he hsd been obliged to state in whose service
he was at the railway station at Brighton, and to beg
a free passage back to London. The money he gave
the prisoner was part of the proceeds of a cheque for
2,0001., drawn by Mr. Williams, the Earl of Yarbo-
rough's land steward, but he did not know from what
source it was derived.

The different rate and tax collectors were then
called to prove that the prisoner bad not paid the
sums which they were entitled to receive from the.
Noble Earl.

Mr. PARRY, at the close of the case for the prose-
cution, submitted that there was no evidence to sup-
port the allegation in. the indictment, that the money
belonged to Lord Yarborough.
The COMMON SERGEANT ruled that the evidence es-
tablished that net.

Mr. PARRY then addressed the jury, and he con-
tended that as the case stood they would not be justi..
fled in coming to the conclusion that the prisoner had
stolen the money of Lord Yarborough, particularly
when the fact might have been clearly established by
calling the Noble Earl himself, or at all events his
steward, Mr. Williams. He then commented upon
the other facts of the case, and the probability that
Iwthe prisoner had told the truth when he represented
that he had been robbed at the races, and he concluded
by earnestly urging them, in a case where a man had
always borne a good character, to give him the bene-
fit of any reasonable doubt they might entertain, and
say that he was not guilty of the charge made against
him.

The COMMON SERGEANT then summed up, and the
jury deliberated for sometime, and, from•an observa-
tion made by one of them, loud enough to be heard,
it appeared that they were discussing the point
whether the money had been proved to belong to the
Earl of Yarborough.
Mr. CLARKSON interposed, and requested the Com-
mon Sergeant to direct the jury upon this point, as it
was one solely of law.
The COMMON SERGEANT said he had already told
the jury that in law the money was properly described
in the indictment as being the property of the Earl of
Yarborough.
The jury then again deliberated for a short time,
when they inquired whether they were bound to re-
turn a verdict of guilty or not guilty.
The Common SEEGEANT said—Certainly.
The jury again turned round, and :n a few minutes
gave a verdict of guilty, but most strongly recom-
mended the prisoner to merey, on account of his pre-
vious good character.
Hi was s-ntenee,l to be imprisoned and kept to
hard labour for 5-ix inowhs.

POLICE IN'fELLIGENCE.
GUILDHALL.

Elizabeth Williams and John MO ram were brought
up, charged, the firmer with steeling a silver watch,
guard, key, and seal, vidne 3f. 10s , from the person
it Janes Itriberts, and the letter with assaulting the
prosecutor, fur the purpose of aiding and abetting the
female in committing the robbery.
The prosecutor said that he was walking along
Victoria-street between eleven and twelve o'clock on
Saturday night last when, he met the prisoner Wit-
liams, who stilled him to accompany her home. He
a.ked her where the lived. Before she had time to
reply a man crossed the road immediately behind, and
struck him a violent blow under the left ear. The
man then ran away in the direction of Saffron-hill.
On perceiving the approach of two officers in plain
clothes, prOsecutor retained his bold of the female
until they arrived, when he gave her into custody. He
gave a description of the man to the constables, who
soon after apprehended the prisoner. On feeling his
pockets he missed his watch, with a seal and key at
tached to the guard. Toe watch was found in the
female prisoner's hand.
Both prisoners were fully committed for trial.
•. BO W-STREET. •

William Christie was charged with stealing 221.
103. in gold, the property of Mr. William Henry Cole,
wholesale druggist, No. 101, High Holborn.
The prisoner had been in the service of Mr. Cole
for upwards of ten Sears as light porter, and implicit
confidence was placed in him. In October last, while
the clerks and other servants were upstairs at tea, the
prisoner who had been left in charge of the ware-
house, went into the counting-house and took from
r the desk, the key of which was accidentally left in the
lock by the cashier, gold to the amount of 221. 104.
There was a large sum of money in the desk, but he
only appropriated the above sum. The prisoner ab•
sconded from his employment the same day, and
nothing was hoard of him, although a strict search
was made, until Tuesday, the 31 inst., when he was
apprehended in New Bartholomew Fair, held in the
Chalk-road, by a police-sergeant of the E division.
He at first denied that his name was Christie, but he
afterwards admitted that it was, and that he had been
in the employ of Mr. Cole. The prisoner's wife was
heard on one occasion to say that her husband had
stolen 221. 10s. from his employer's shop, and that he
had absconded with the money.
The prisoner was fully committed for trial.
MAIIYLEBONE.

John Edwards, an omnibus driver, was placed at
the bar before Mr. Long, on the charge of having
caused the death of a little girl, named Jane Abbott,
aged six years,

I\lr. James Seymour, 4, Richmond-street, South-
wark, deposed that on the previous afternoon, at four
o'clock, he was passing along Carlisle-street, Porte
man-market, when, jest as an omnibus, driven by the
prisoner, had turned the corner of the street, the
child ran off the pavement directly under the horses'
legs ; she was knocked down, and the two near wheels
of the vehicle went over her head, thereby depriving
her almost instantaneously of life.
Mr. LONG—At what rate vas the prisoner going ?
Witness—At a very moderate rate, Sir ; and it Was
quite itnpossible for him to have prevented the la-
mentable occurrence, as there was no time for him to
pull up. Witness was quite satisfied that the death
was entirely accidental, and that no blame whatever
was attributable to the prisoner.
Another witness, nerned Page, corrohoruted the
above evidence. He lilted the little girl from the
road, and conveyed her to the house of a surgeon, but
b:,fore he arrived there she was dead.

Mr. LeNG felt satiblied, from all he had heard, that
the death was purely accidental ; but as an inquest
must be held upon the body of the deceased, it was
his duty to require security for his (prisoner's) being
forthcoming- on a future day. He was bailed, himselt
in 50/., and his employer in the like amount, for his
re-appearance at the court on Friday next.

LONDON,