The Sun.
London, England, 1868-09-02 00:00:00

MADAME RACHEL'S BAIL.

On Tuesday, according to notice, bail was to appear at
Judges' Chambers for Madame Rachel ; but, as will be
seen by the subjoined report of the proceedings, there was
another disappointment.
On the summons being called on, Mr. G. Lewis, jun.,
addressing Mr. Justice Willes, said that he had six notices
of bail served on him, and on one occasion only had the
proposed sureties put in an appearance. On the present
occasion, though twelve was named as the hour for appear-
ing, it was then WO o'clock and no bail had appeared. Th•
prosecution by all these delays was put to a great expense,
and it appeared, he would not say_ maliciously, but ver^

tiously.
JusticelVilles said the better planwould be to get an crier
from the Central Criminal Court to make the application
before a magistrate. Mr. Justice Blackburn was quite right,
if he (.Justice Willes)' might presume to say so, in
directing the bail to go before Mr. Tyrwhitt on a former
occasion, and the magistrate was also right in refusing to
accept it, as he had no order before him.
A clerk from Messrs. Roberts's office, who appeared for
the defendant, said they were prerared with one surety,
but of course he was no good without the other.
Mr. Lewis said that one of the proposed sureties had
been refused by the Recorder on a former occasion, and
Madame Rachel had been committed for perjury.
Mr. Justice Wines thought that such a remark ought
not to be made, as it was calculated to prejudice the case.
From what he read in the papers, it appeared that the
jury had disagreed, and such being the case he
thought that they (the prosecution) ought not to
be so very particular. Madame Rachel might apply
for bail every hour of the day if she chose, but the diffi-
culty was to get a judge to accept it. If the sureties had
offered themselves, he would have gone into the worth of
the bail. As it was, he would recommend an application
to a magistrate, though of course the defendant could
apply at Judges' Chambers.

The family of the Bishop of Durham has sustained
a severe domestic affliction in the death of his eldest
daughter, which took place it few days ago at Auckland
Castle. The deceased lady, who bad been ill for some time
was thirty-six years of age.
A letter from Geldie Lodge, Braemar, says that on
Thursday last that locality was visited with a severe snow
storm, which lasted some hours. The cold was intense, and
the tops of all the hills were covered with snow to a consi-
derable depth. A violent gale of wind from the north-west
prevailed for 48 hours.
THE Pooß FARMERS.—The Wilts and Gloncesto
Standard reports that a gentleman farmer purchased
2,000 lambs at Bs. Gd. a head about four weeks ago, owing
to the owners not having feed for them, the grass being
everywhere burnt up. After he had had them in his pos-
session for about a fortnight he was offered £1 a head for
the 2,000—a good profit for the fortnight's keep.

The Archdeacons of Armagh and Dublin have
addressed a letter to the archdeacons of the other dio-
ceses of Ireland, proposing that an address be presented
to the Primate and the Archbishop of Dublin, request-
ing them, in conjunction with the other Irish b: hops, to
apply for the Royal permission that the customary writs
issue for convening the Convocation of the Cl ureh of Ire-
land
.at the same time that writs shall issue for the pro-
vinces of Canterbury end York.

Yesterday at Chambers an application was made to
Justice Willes to stay proceedings as against an insolvent
who bad executed a composition deed for the benefit of his
creditors. The learned judge refused the application, on the
ground that there were no particulars in the affidavit, and
for all ho knew the man in question might be worth suffi-
cient to liquidate his debts. The solicitor replied that if
a man offered a shilling in the pound, and hi:
creditors resolved to accept it, nobody else had and inte-
rest in the transaction. Ilis lordship took a reverse view of
the case, and remarked that, if a man had .ClOO in his pos-
sesion, and executed a deed by will, his creditors would not
receive the whole of that sum, and they imagined that the
man paid away the whole of his money. In his (Justice
Wines) opinion, he was guilty of a great fraud.

SPEAKING UP FOR THE PROFESSION.—A fellow
named Alexander Wilson, brought up at Marlborough-
street Police-court on Tuesday on a charge of stealing,
described himself as a " turf reporter." We know every
turf reporter in the metropolis, and there is no such person
connected with the press. It used to be a common custom
for every vagabond to describe himself as a betting-man,
and now it would seem that blackguards like this Wilson
are about to disgrace a profession by dubbing themselves
haphazard as turf reporters, because they have no visible
or apparently honest trade or business. Wilson has already
suffered three months' imprisonment, and we trust that he
will get another term if only for his impudent assumption
of such a title.—Sporting Li; e.

ACCIDENT ON THE GREAT EASTERN RAILWAY.—
On Tuesday morning an accident took plate on the Great
Eastern Railway, within three miles of Brentwood Station.
An express train, which leaves Brentwood Station at
about 10.15, had proceeded on its way some distance to-
wards Romford, when the axletree of the luggage van
broke clown. The result was a series of most violent con-
cussions and bumps, and as at the spot where the break•
down occurred the line runs on the top of a steep enr
bankment, there was great danger of the train going over.
Fortunately the engine was stopped before any further
mischief was done. A down train took the passengers
back to Brentwood, whence they were forwarded as soon
as possible to their dett4uatlcaa. ProtridentiAlly n 9 one
Lad roairauxiorientipillict

SUSPECTED MURDER OF A POLICE
CONSTABLE. ea-;

A police-constable of the G division of the metropolitan
police and a warrant officer of the Worship-street Police-
court has met his death under circumstances which, np to
the present time, are surrounded by the gravest suspicions
and shrouded in mystery. The deceased's name was
Charles Clay, 268 G. On Wednesday last he discharged his
usual duties, and the following day attended at the Mid-
dlesex Sessions in a case wherein a man named Lambert
was charged with fraud. That case, however, was
adjourned for the attendance of a material witness, in search
of whom the deceased, in company with a cab proprietor
named Hurren, is known to have gone to Stoke Newington
the same evening. From that time till about half-past
eleven at night his time is unaccounted for. At that hour
he was discovered by a person unknown stretched insen-
sible on the ground in Norfolk Gardens, Shoreditch, a
place infested by thieves and convicts of the lowest and
most desperate character—a terror to that part of the
metropolis; and on examination it was found that he had
sustained a severe cut at the back of the head, and two
bruises in the face, one of which was between the eyes,
and the other on the left cheekbone. A constable's atten-
tion having been called to him, he was placed in a cab and
conveyed to his home in Lever-street, Goswell-road. On
the following morning he had rallied a little, but not
having reported himself at the station a messenger was
sent after him, and he then returned himself as on the
sick list and unable to attend to his duties, but saying not
a word respecting the manner in which he had come by his
injuries, and soon afterwards, relapsing into insensibility,
he gradually sank from that time, and died at half-past
nine o'clock on Monday morning ; not one syllable
having during the intervening time escaped his lips that
afforded the slightest clue as to what had happened. The
deceased was only in the 35th year of his age, generally
esteemed at the police-office, and leaves a wife and three
young children wholly unprovided for. The immediate
cause of death is stated to be effusion on the brain.
Norfolk-gardens lies in the eastern portion of the district
covered by the G division of police, and over which the
decease had control as warrant officer at Worship-street
Police-court. On several occasions he has, in face of the
threats of the thieves and roughs which infest the gardens,
entered houses therein and arrested offenders who were
" wanted." About five weeks ago the deceased visited
Norfolk-gardens, about two o'clock in the morning, and
removed from thence a man who was charged with being
concerned in stealing a case of tea from a railway van,
and he, after examination at the police-court, was sen-
tenced to six months' imprisonment with hard labour.
The prisoner, it appears, was a member of the " Norfolk-
gardens Gang," and the deceased, on more than one occa-
sion, has been heard to express a fear that at some
time or other he should meet with foul play at thebands of
some of the coterie, in revenge for the conviction of their
associate.