The Sun.
London, England, 1850-07-17 00:00:00

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Stirling, January 25, 1850.
I have great pleasure in informing you that I had a trial to-day
of the 1%-inch gutta percha tube I had from you in December last,
in presence of a Committee of the Town Council, who were high v
pleased with the experiment, and have resolved to have 400 feet it
the same for attaching to our fire-plugs for extinsuishing fires, And
watering the streets in dry weather. lam of opins.on that no mate-
rial is so well fitted for the above purpose as the gutty percha, for
although our pressure is perhaps the greatest in the kingdom, being
upwards of 460 feet, not the slightest effect could be discovered on
the tube or joints, while the same pressure on our leather hose sends
the rivets in all directions.—l am, your obedient Servant,
" ANDREW ROBERTSON."
From JOHN TAYLOR GORDON, E sq., M.D, (heretofore Physician
to kis late MAJESTY and 11.R.P1, the •Dake of Cambridge, but
now retired),

(Corr.)
" 34, Somerset-street, Portman-sqtiare, London,
" April 10, 1850.
" Gentlemen,—Without references o the variety o useful and or
namental purposes to which gutta prcha is adaptedf , I consider it in
a sanitary point of view to be a most fortunatethe and important
bdis-
covery. I have already (from a sole regard to public
certified my decided approval of it for the under soes leef shoes, and I
have only to add that I find it equally well applied walking or dress
shoes and boots by your agents. As the supply of pure water is so es-
sential to health, and leaden pipes and cisterns are so
for objectionaand
ble,
I cannot too highly recommend the gutta percha tubing
lining.

" I am, gentlemen, your humble servant.
" J. TAYLOR GORDON."
(The above is the second voluntary testimonial)...
FROM DR. MURRAY, OF !LULL.
• ' (CoP,X.)
" Portland-place. Hull, March 28, 1850.
"Gentlemen,—lt is impossible to conceive of anything more in-
p. _I
jwuirtihougmsatnidtuddeesttruhecsivbesttietuttlitbenhoefaktguhttoaf the community than the nse
ofleaden pipes for the conveyance of water. The poisonous salts of
lead thereby communicated are Most finerha tubingduous and Wattlhave had
e. I hail
the leaden pipe of my own house removed and supplied by one of
gutta percha.
" I am, respectfully, Gen'lernen, your obedient servant.
"J. 5, URRAY, PR. 1)."
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By an award of the arbitrators, Mr. Hudson,
M.P., has paid to the Eastern Counties Company the full
amount of their claim for the sum drawn
onot by him while
chairman of the company,, in
connexi with an alleged
purchase cf scrip of the.Aiisbeach, St. Ives, and Cambridge
line, and for which, according to the report ot the investiga-
tion committee in April, 1849, no scrip could be found. The
amount to be refunded was 1,0001., with interest from the
date of the transaction.
TUE LAND or LIOBRTY.—Wre are informed that a
most infamous outrage was perpetrated on Saturday, by
several men, in the vicinity of the Lager Beer-vaults on the
Schuylkill, near Fountain Green. A coloured boy was seized
by the men in question, who were heating pitch in a large
kettle, and his feet and legs thrust into the boiling liquid.
They were scalded in the most shocking manner. Up to
last night the perpetrators of this inhuman outrage had not
been, arreatecie—fennsivanian.

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.
NORTHERN CIRCUIT.—York, July 15. •
(Before Mr. Justice CuesswELL.)
Augustus Holman and Joseph Holman were indicted
for having, on the 231 May last, at Leeds, forged and
uttered the acceptance of Miller, Mackay, and Co.,
of a bill of exchange for 418!. 16s. 6d.; also for
having, on thc 31 of May, forged and uttered the
acceptance of Roger Best and Co. for 3901.; and also
for having forged and uttered the acceptance of Mil-
ler, Mackay, and Co., for 3701., with intent to defraud
Messrs. Beck-At and Co.
.Mr. Overend and Mr. Hardy were for the prosecu-
tion ; Mr. Sergeant Wilkins and Mr. Hall were for
the prisoners.
Augustus Holman was the father of Joseph Hol-
man. He pleaded guilty to the three charges ; and
in coasideration of the youth of the otber prisoner,
and the fact that he was employed as his father's
clerk, no evidence was offered by the prosecution
against him. Witnesses were called, who spoke to
the good character of the older prisoner up to these
transactions ; but it transpired that his total .defalca-
tions will amount to nearly 4,000/. Top younger
prisoner was, at once liberated from custody.
William _Milner Hewitt, Benjamin Haste, and Tho-
mas Atkinson, were indicted for a violent and felonious
assault ton John Harrop, in the streets of Leeds, and
for stealing from his person a silver watch, a shilling,
and some other articles.
Mr. Overend and Mr. Middleton were for the pro:-
secutioU; the prisoners were undefended.
It appeared that the prosecutor hid been at the
house of a friend in Leeds on the night of the Ist of
July, and that soon after twelve o'clock he, accompa-
nied by his wife and another woman, were going on
their way to Holbeck over Leeds-bridge. They were
accosted by the prisoner Hewitt, and, he, having at-
tempted some rudeness to the women, a scuffle took
place between him and the prosecutor. On a eignal,
being given, three other men rushed up. Harrop ran
to some distance, and was pursued and knocked down,
and while he was lying in the road his watch-guard
was broken from his neck, his watch was taken, and
his pockets were rifled. Two men who were in the
streets witnessed the violence of the 'prisoners, and
aided in the pursuit. It was also proved by the police
that the three prisoners bed been seen together in
Kirkgate on the night in question.
The Learned JUDGE summed .up the evidence; the
jury returned a verdict of Guilty against each of the
prisoners, and the Court sentenced them severally to
be transported for ten years.

OXFORD- CIRCUIT.—Oxford, July 15.
CIVIL SlDE.—(Before Mr. Justice WILLIAMS.)
There were six causes entered for trial, of which
three were for special juries. The first was an action
of ejectment, in which the defendant did not appear to
confess lease, entry, and outset, and the plaintiff was
therefore nonsuited, and, as a consequence of the
nonsuit, obtained an order for delivery of possession
within a week. The second was an action for 491.
135., the price of some farming utensils sold by the
plaintiff to the defendant. The defence was that the
defendant bought the goods of a third party, and paid
him for them.' That party was called, and swore that be
bought the goods at an auction of the plaintiff's goods
for himself, and then sold them to the defendant, and
was paid by him for them; but the jury did not be-
lieve this tale, and found a verdict for the plaintiff,
the Judge expressing his approbation of the view taken
by them of the credit due to the witness.
DOE DES! WEAVING AND PINNOCK, GATHARD, AND
THIRTY OTHERS—THE CHARTIST LAND SCHEME.
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Air. Keating, Q.C., and Mr. Pigott, were counsel
for the plaintiff, and Mr. Gray for the defendants.
This was an action of ejectment to' recover posses.
sion of the land held by the Chartists allottees at
Minster Lovel, in this county.
Mr. Keating, in stating the plaintiff's case, slid
they were the devisees in trust of Mr. John Walker,
a farmer, at Minster Lovel, in this county, who died
in 1842, bequeathing his real property, which in-
cluded the land in question, to them as trustees for
the purposes of his will ; and the defendants were
members of the National Land Chartist Association,
or some such association, which Mr. Feargus
O'Connor started some time ago, and.who, as mem-
bers of that association, became the fortunate allot-
tees of portions of the property in question.' Mr.
Feargus O'Connor, in fact, never had the legal estate
in" his hand. He did not know whether 'they
claimed under Mr. O'Connor. He understood that
they disclaimed all connexion with him, and said
the laud was their own; but, in fact, they bad no
title. lie would prove the seisin and title of
the lessors' of the plaintiffs, and until he heard
what title the defendants claimed, it was unnecessary
for him to go further. Great numbers of the allot-
tees bad already very wisely given up possession, and
it was only against those who refused to do so that
the ejectment was brought.
Mr. James Long, an auctioneer, proved that the
late Mr. Walker was the owner of the land on which
the defendants' allotments were. In cross-examina-
tion, he said there were as many as 80 houses built
on the property, and that Mr. O'Connor paid for the
erection of them. Ile had been present at the sale of
the land by auction)
,when it was knocked down to
Mr. O'Connor.
F. C. Haynes produced, from the Archdeacon's
register, the will of the late Mr. Walker. Its execu-
tion was proved by another witness.
Mr. James Leek, of Witney, having been called for
the plaintiffs, in cross-examination stated he spoke to
Mr. Weaving in October last respecting those allot-
ments, and that Mr. Weaving said that all theinte-
rest due to him and his co-trustee had been paid to
them, and that this ejectment was not brought by his
wish or desire, but of Mr. O'Connor.
The plaintiffs' case having been formally proved,
Mr. GRAY declined to address the jury, and there
was a verdict for the plaintiff,.
An application was then made for immediate pos-
session.
Mr. GRAY objected that it was clear all the interest
money had been paid up, and that the plaintiffs had
brought, only a very small part of their case before the
Court.

His LORDSHIP said he would not interfere

WESTERN ClRCUlT.—Winchester, July 16.

CROWN COURT.—(Before RUSSELL GURNEY,
Esq., Q C.)
Sophia Wheeler ,Winter was placed at the bar,
charged with having feloniously intermarried with
Alfred Dodswell, her former husband William Winter
being alive.
Mr. Sewell conducted the prosecution, Mr. C.
Saunders defended the prisoner.
It appeared by the evidence that the prisoner, who
is a pretty, interesting-looking, young woman, was
married in 1837 to William Winter, a respectable
tradesman at Portsea. She at that time was very
young. She lived very happily with her husband for
seine years, and had several children by him ; but he
received an appointment which took him abroad.
There he remained for some years, when she became
acquainted with Alfred Dodswell, the son of a lieu-
tenant in the navy, residing at Portsmouth. He be-
came much attached to her, and eventually persuaded
her to marry him, telling her that the first marriage
was not a legal one, as she was a minor when it was
contracted, and under that idea she consented to
marry him. This was in 1848. They lived to-
gether up to May last, when William Winter, her
first husband, returned. The poor girl was then
made to understand that her first marriage was a
perfectly legal one, on which she refused to live
any longer with Dodswell, but returned to her first
husband, upon which Dodswell instituted the present
prosecution. These facts were elicited from him by
the Counsel for the defence, who, in his address to
the jury, commented most strongly on his conduct,
and contended that the prosecution ought never to
have been instituted, but that the poor girl was the
victim of the prosecutor throughout ; it was clear she
had no felonious intent whatever in marrying the
second husband, but had done so under the idea that
the first marriage was illegal.
The Learned JUDGE said every one who had heard
the case must regret that the prosecution had ever
been instituted; however, as it was before the Court
and jury, they must deal with it according to law,
and it was his duty to tell them that, in his opinion,
the legal offence of bigamy had been made out.
The jury, however, were not inclined to adopt his
Lordsh'p's view of the case, and acted on the prin-
ciple of doing substantial justice between the parties,
by Acquitting the prisoner.
The Learned JUDGE refused to allow the expenses
of the prosecution.
The prisoner throughout the whole trial was dread-
fully affected, and excited the greatest interest in a
crowded court.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MARLBOROUGII-STREET.
I,lr. Charles Gabriel, a person of very respectable
station, said to ha an architect, was brought before
Mr. Bingham, charged with having indecently ex-
posed himself in Kensington-gardens, with the intent
to insult females.
Mr. Parry and a solicitor attended for the defen-
dant.
William Sherlock, a park. constable specially ap-
pointed to look out for cases of indecency in the
parks, in consequence of the many complaints made
the case, and
to the Authorities, deposed to the facts of