The Sun.
London, England, 1850-04-11 00:00:00

M. Dondayne, who gave his evidence in Frac!),
I then sworn., He said he lived, on the 19th Fehrusrp;
Ne. 10, Arundel-place. Oa the morning of tint tleY4
was aierrned at a noise in the house The door of
room iu emeh he was sitting with his wife was fort
d
open, and the inspector and two constables in ni
clothes, with a Fri chman, entered the room, and '0
inspector seized hires by the cellar, and said be,!,
'there fdr he purpose of assisting in his extraditiono;
the country. The inspector showed no warrant or of,,
authority fur this proceeding. His room was searched,
if he was a robber. lie was taken into the street , held by the arm while being conveyed to Vine-str
station•house, and was locked up in a small cell in to
station-house. He remained in durance about elg,
hours, and during that period he was not taken betb:„
,
magistrate, nor before the Conanaissioners of
About live o'clock in the afternoon he was told he ellg
leave the station-house.
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Cites, -examined—Was a tailor, and carried on businoo
formerly at St. 'Omer. Did not pay his debts before
quitted France; but had time been allowed he shi,
have been in a condition to pay his creditors. Lefiri
Omer on the 28th June, 1849. Brought away o°,l
goods, but left a deal of property behind in big bola%
St. Omer, sufficient he considered to pay his debts. 'l,l
not know whether he was a bankrupt in France, ttle,l4l
it ass probable since he bad left be had been WWI,
bankrupt. Had received no intimation of being a boll
rupt before he quitted Fiance.
Mr. Hardwick did 'not want this sort of evi.a eO(4
He wished to kuuw what the authorities of St. OVA
e
thought of the proce,dius of the complainant; evlie'Pl
his acts anieuuted, accordingr to the French law, I°
fraudulent bankruptcy.
fct
Mr. Ablest said this would not alter the meet it
nothing in the international law would justify tie
spc ctor in the proceedings he bad adopted.
Mr. HARDWICK sa d it might have an effect 00
character of the charge, if it could be shown thatAl
inspector had acted on some document, which el or
possibly presets a justification for taking the comp's°
into custody.
Mr. Wontner said he was prepared to show the MO
rity under which the inspector acted. St
Mr. Ablet; said, if it should turn out thero
sufficient authority, he hoped the circumstancesof
necessary violence would have their proper weight.
Mr. Wontner said, according to the law, if a en
rupt absconded from France and secreted himself in tip
country, on a requisition to the French Ambassador,
s,
.application would be made to the Foreign Minister Po
and the polite would then be invested with authority r,
assist in the extradition of the bankrupt. A requisiP:o,
in the present case, had been sent to the proper salvo
rides, and the Foreign-office had sent a notification 4
the police, and on this notification the inspector
acted. When the complainant was taken into custody
Mr. Jardine inspected the papers relating to the FrObs
process, and, finding one document was wanting,
ndej
was of opinion the complainant could not be ha
over to the French authorities until that link was 5„414
plied, and the complainant was in consequence releelf
from the custody of the police. He would further slyrja
that the French courts had, since this transaction, two
demned the complainant to five years' iasprisenraeoto
his conduct with reference to his bankruptcy. He os
quite sure that the court, under all the circumstsevio
would see that the inspector had done no more thane
duty in acting on the notification to the police in d
resting the.coznplainant ; and, with respect to the ell'"i°,l
of improper violence, he would only refer to the gerl,ol
good conduct of the inspector, and the character lie r
always borne since he joined the police.
A French notary from St. Omer proved that be cloo
g
over to this country with official papers, deaisou„),,
the extradition of' the complainant as a fraudulent bs"9iff
rupt. The papers were lodged at the French erobe'
and Lord Palmerston'e notification was immediatell°o4
tained. After the notification was obtained, wirdi
applied to Inspector Whall to take the compttOile
into custody. Witness went with the inspector 0.,10
complainant's lodgings, and gave the complainant
1p
the custody of the inspector. Afterwards proceedogo
Bovt-street, and one of the magistrates told hiel,tl3ool,
was a paper deficient, and on this account he did Dpi
take the complainant back to France. Was pre'oo
during the arrest of the complainant, and could stn
that no violence was used by Inspector Whall. abet
The official document was then put in, toge`,D,
with a copy of the sentence of the French court on
'
complainant.
Cross-examined—Had power to execute a erirloil
process. The notification was in the name of 4)100
D Jndayne. Know the complainant to be 0,
person referred to in the notification, though he noir b.
t
sumed the name of Charles Dundayne. Was certate..ts
complainant was a bankrupt when he was taken I"
'custody on the 19th of February.
Mr. Ablett contended that the inspector had eXerfiril
his duty in acting on the notification, in place or
est
applying for an English magistrate's warrant. Tlie:e
tification was addressed to a police magistrate, and swop
gistrate was applied to after the arrest; but, in the lot
sence of a material document, the magistrate would
re;
grant a warrant. The inspector might have eonsidtie
he was only doing his duty, but he contended our y
nicipal laws did not justify the proceedings of the
spector.
Mr. HARDWICK said the whole matter turned 01 to
question whether the requirements of the law had' 1'4,130
complied with in the arrest of the complainant." ld
Act of Parliament was very complicated, and it ei."iy
hardly be expected that police-officer would be fait
master of its details. It appeared that an irregol6",b,
had been committed in the first instance by
del
French officer, who applied for the assistance of
del
police to take the complainant into custody, 11%e,
the authority of the notification from the Forec
office, instead of first obtaining a warrant fr_los.
magistrate. It was natural to suppose that a P°lao
officer should believe he was justified in acting
request of a French officer, armed with a notifioeo;
from the Foreign-office, but as the law required thetvio,
application for a warrant should be made in the firi;eol
stance to a magistrate, it would be better, to Pre'io•
irregularity for the future, if the police wereemade
iy
quainted with this provision, so that they might utet:,.(l
with all the stepeot a somewhat complicated Act oft&
liament. Under the circumstances of the ease,l",")
sidering that this was the first case of the kindle "'ea
a police-officer bad been called upon to put the into-0,
tional law into farce—considering also that the C°ol
plainant was clearly identified as the right persone '‘oo
that he bad been subjected by the French court to it,
years' imprisonment in the galleys as a fraudulent tot
rept, he thought it was impossible to say that the 01110
had neglected or violated his duty. With respect 10„e.
charge of undue violence, that bad been sufficientilLo
gatived by the evidence of the French officer, and Le
also opposed to the well-known character of the leer
tor. The charge therefore must be dismissed. sk°
Mr. Beresford, the superintendent, said be would
ioi
it known in his division that constables were not to 911,0
foreign police, unless a magistrate's warrant wet'
produced.

LAMBETH.
1
DARING ROBBERY BY ALLEGED AGENCY OF rfll
REFORM.—Yesterday Jane Knight was finally axial',
'
before Mr. Elliott, on a charge of being concerned viyi
two other pF rsons, not in custody, in robbing Mr. Cher,.
John Cowell, a young gentleman, residing in Queell.
row, Walwortb, of three sovereigns and a half. , .1,41
From the evidence of the prosecutor it appeared t'of
on the night of Monday week, between the horsed
eight and nine o'clock, while on his way home he stoPPf,
at the end of a small street leading out of the :1111°,5"
road, and when returning into the Albany-roaaJ,bo
W
prisoner came up to him, thrust her arm itt his.
asked him what he would stand to drink. He rePhel
nothing; and was endeavouring to get rid of her, !tc-ad
two men came up, and addressing the prisoner, des} es
she would leave the gentleman alone. Both the °al
appeared in a hurried manner, for the purposeo 14.
the prosecutor thought, of ridding him of the Po%
soner and her importunities; but instead of "Ihis
so, one of them placed a woollen rag to ao,
faCe, which instantly deprived him of utterance. '"„j
however, struck out with his hands at the party, P7O
received himself from one of the men a violent blog,h'e
the pit of the stomach, which instantly felled him
ground and deprived him of recollection for some 02";
ments. On recovering, he found that his assailants met,
gone, and so ill did he feel, that it was with some died
culty he could make his way home, and he was condo
to his bed for several days after. s of
The statement of the prosecutor as to the identitYo
the prisoner was corroborated by two constables, 0,
bad seen her both going towards and coming away ft°,4
the place where the robbery had been committed, I"
the prisoner was fully committed for trial. of
Wiliam Hodges, a bricklayer in the employment
the South-Western Railway Company, was fully CO of
mitted for trial on a charge of stalling 211bs. weight be
lead, their property, and which he had removed *ogle
roof of a house adjoining one he had been sent to repPl

IRTHS.
Dorset
On the sth inst., at the Rectory, Melbury Abbas, D°-.
the lady of the Rev. 11. T. Glyn, of a son.
On the Gth inst., at Faringdon, Berks, Mrs. G. F. Cro
of a son.
On the 6th inst., at Heath-house, Stepney, Mrs. Bunllsl3an
of a daughter.
On the Bth inst., at the Rectory, South Kelsey, f.incolfi.
shire, the wife of the Rev. L. Parkin, of a daughter. e.
On the 9th inst., the wife of F. R. Jones, of Westbourn
villas, Westbourne-green, of a son.
On the 7th inst., at Walton, the lady of Captain Pl':
IL T. Thompson, lart.,of a daughter.
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On the 7i h inst., at Heatheote•street, Mecklenbtirb
square, Mrs. G. Johnson, of a daughter.
On the 7th inst., in Eaton-square, the lady of GAO°
Gladstone, R.N., of twin daughters.

1141tRIED. Of
On the 4th . inst., at Tamworth, James Dalton, r,04,10
Fillingliam•manor, to Anna Maria, second daughter 01'
late R. Woody, Esq., M. U., Moat-house. Tamworth. '
On the 9th inst , at St. Peter's, Stepney, Thomas, seco
son of the late T. Barker, Esq., of Layton-hall, near °'cor
mond, Yorkshire, to Elizabeth Hannah, second daughter
T. N. Wilkins, s., of Coborn-street. ow-road. tile
On the 2d inst.E,q at St. Michael's Churßch, in the City' Rev. Robert Mandeville Rodwell, rector of NaWcastle, to_
Mary, third daugh er of the Bishop of Limerick.-

DIED.
On the sth inst., at Tenterden, aged 82, Vandelure
Esq., formerly captain in the Kent militia. 10
On the 7th inst., in Upper Norton-street, Marylebone;cm, .
Cornell, Esq , one of the chief clerks in the office of Woo
Forests, and Land Revenue.
'
On the 7th inst., at the Palace-green, Kensington, Eliza
beth, the wife of J. H. Good, Esq., aged 62.
On the 7th inst., at Brighton, Martha, relict of the it—e°'
E. Green, rector of Burford, Salop.
On the 7th inst , at Bedford-square, aged 52, A. CamPJ
Esq., late principal officer oilier Majesty's Fisheries, Londe,.,
On the 9th inst., iu Sackville-street, Prout, OLv
F.R.S.. aged 6-1.
On the Bth inst., at Denmark-hill, Surrey, Thomaslr'
Mel.or, Esq., aged 81.

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iq'suid, :11,- Ptecinet of the Savyy, in the cotuaY
bicialuez, Thursday, April 11, 1850.