The Sun.
London, England, 1844-11-13 00:00:00

The Queen's Advocate appeared on behalf of Mr.
Clowes, and Dr. Adams for Mrs. Clowes.
A mass of affidavits were read on both sides, for the
purpose of first supporting an application on behalf of
Mrs. Harriet Clowes for a restitution of conjugal rights
by her husband, Mr. Edward Clowes, the son of Mr.
Clowes, the well-known and extensive printer, which ap-
plication was met on the part of the husband with a
charge of adultery against the wife, in consequence of
which he claimed exemption from the discharge of any
conjugal obligations. Such was the aspect under which
the case now came before the Court, but circumstances
superinducing this allegation and counter-allegation
spread over a period of nearly five years. The following
is a brief statement of all the main facts of the case as
stated in the affidavits :
It appeared, that in the early part of the year 1840
Mrs. Clowes, then Miss Harriet Jones, was an inmate of
a boarding school, and an intimacy arose between them,
the result of which was, that Miss Jones declared her-
self to be pregnant by Mr. Clowes, and he, after some
hesitation, eventually consented to marry her. The
husband alleged that she had contracted this marriage
with him under a false impression, she being at the time
about seventeen 3 ears of age, and he twenty-five years.
During the time that Mrs. Clowes was residing at Ken-
nington, in the year 1841, she one day, during the tem-
porary absence of Mr. Clowes from home, had the
infant, child of a peasant in South Wales brought to
her, and upon his return she informed him that
during his absence she had been confined of a fine male
infant; showing him at the same time the child, which
she was obliged to have procured under the circum-
stances first stated. They lived together after that event
until the month of February, 1842, when he received
certain information which induced him to suddenly
leave Mrs. Clowes, who although she frequently made in-
quiries at both'the private house and business premises of
her husband's rather, could receive no other information
than that he had gone abroad, and was not likely to re-
turn. For a short time after the departure of her hus-
band, his father paid her a small weekly allowance, which
he soon, however, withdrew. The family of Mr.
Clowes then, through the agency of the police,
tried to gain sufficient legal evidence upon which to
obtain a divorce. A suit was instituted in
the Consistory Court for this purpose the merits of which
rested chiefly upon Mrs. Clowes having got married in
a false name, but the Court decided that the allegation
had not been fully proved, and refused the application.
As soon as this case (which occupied the Court for
nearly two years) was decided, Mrs. Clowes instituted
the present suit for the restoration of conjugal rights
which was met in bar with a counter-allegation, that the
promoter of the suit had been guilty of adultery.
The voluminous affidavits on the part of Mrs. Clowes,
after denying the allegations with respect to procuring
the child by fraud, stated that all those circumstances
upon which her husband had sought to round the charge
of adultery had been forced upon her by the fact of hav-
ing been abandoned by her husband and his family and left
in a state of utter destitution. One case may be men-
tioned. She was compiled to advertise for a situation,
when she was engaged as an attendant in a shop in the
Strand, and upon going to the person who engaged her
to take her in the evening to the premises, instead of
doing so he placed her in a hackney-coach and caused her
to be driven to a house of ill-fame in Gloucester-place.
A mass of documentary evidence was put in to sup-
port the allegation of adultery against Mrs. Clowes,
most of which was unfit fur publication. The last affi-
davit stated that Mr. Clowes was quite dependent' upon
his father for support, and had not one penny of private
property in his own right.
The Learned ADVOCATE having been heard on the
technical points of the case on each side,
The further consideration of the suit was ordered to be
adjourned.

this day security in 201. that you will prosecute the
appeal ; and if you do not prosecute it, you, or your
security, must pay that 201. I have inflicted a very
slight fine, when I had it in my power to inflict a
penalty of 101.
The defendant took the advice, and his promise to
pay on Saturday next was accepted.
A respectable elderly man, named Richard Hold-
ing, appeared to prefer a complaint against one of the
crew belonging to the omnibuses which ply to and
from Gracechurch-street. By some accident the
wrong person was summoned, but that person also
proved to have offended. His name was John Fox,
and his badge number was 906.
Mr. Holding, who described the affair in so lively
a manner as to cause some mirth, said, " My Lord,
as I was passing along the Cross Keys Inn, in Grace-
church-street, I saw several of the omnibus con-
ductors about the neighbourhood, and one of them,
but not the man at the bar, came up to me, and,
taking me by the shoulder, he said, ' I say, your
name is Watson, ar'n't it ? Why, you are my father.'
' No, it isn't my name,' says I, and I'd be very
sorry to have such a son.'—(Laughter.) So he shook
me
,again, and said he knew I was his father. Well,
I go away from that gentleman, but not far, when I
saw e defendant, and who was one of the party.
' Wh ,' says the defendant, ' your name is Watson ;
away
I know it is. You are Watson. You are a lawyer.
I hate lawyers:—(A laugh.) I again said that my
name was not Watson. ' I know it is 'Watson, you
old —,' says he, and he put his face up to mine ;
' and you are a lawyer, and I hate lawyers. Now I
am no lawyer; I am a miller."—(A laugh.)
The defendant, who had all the appearance of a
larking gentleman of the omnibus fraternity, denied
that he had said a word of an offensive kind.
The LORD MAYOR—The summons charges the
defendant with an assault, which was committed by
another person. If you can find the party who shook
you I shall deal with him, and if you had summoned
this man for using language calculated to lead to a
breach of the peace, I could now fine him to the
amount of 21. As it is, I must discharge him.
Mr. Holding said he should endeavour to bring
the first offender, who called him father, before his
Lordship.
The LORD MAYOR informed the complainant that
the police would render him every assistance.
.........
CLERKEIV WELL.
John Cayford, the driver of the cabriolet 742,
was charged with having been drunk and assaulting
Mrs. Louisa Meetyard and Miss Adelaide Knight,
the wife and sister-in-law of Mr. Horace W. Meet-
yard, barrister-at-law, No. 3, Verulam-buildings,
Gray's Inn.
Mrs. Meetyard stated that on the previous night,
between six and seven o'clock, herself, sister, and
husband, having dressed to go to a dinner party, she
sent the servant for a cab to convey them thither. The
prisoner came ; witness and her sister got into the cab,
but they had not proceeded more than a few paces
when the door of the cab flew open. The prisoner,
jumping down from the cab, said witness's servant
had damaged the door in shutting it, and thereupon
used the vilest language. Witness, being alarmed,
told him to drive on, and she would hold the door.
He refused, and said he would not go a step, and
again used the most dreadful language. Witness,
being greatly terrified, as they could not account for
his frightful conduct, jumped out of the cab with her
sister ; they had no bonnets on, and their necks were
bare. They had not gone more than a few yards when
the prisoner ran after them, and seizing her neck in
his hand shook her. He seized her sister in the same
manner; he demanded money, but she was so dread.
fully agitated that she could not tell what she said.
Mr. Meetyard at that moment came up. She had
not refused to pay him.
Mr. Meetyard said, when he came up the prisoner
had hold of both ladies, and Miss Knight was just on
the point of falling in the mud from his violence;
both ladies were terribly frightened, and were crying
all night. They had not gone 50 yards from his
residence when this conduct took place. He was
mauling about the ladies shamefully, and witness
gave him into the custody of a police constable.
Police-constable 97 E captured the prisoner, who
was drunk.
Mr. COMBE—What have you got to say, prisoner ?
Prisoner—What do I say ? Why, I know I did not
use any bad language; but I have no recollection of
the assault. I wanted my fare (Bd.) for taking me
from my stand.
The prisoner's master was not present, but the
yard- keeper came forward and gave him a good
Character.
, Mr. COMBE—WeII, Mr. Meetyard, it appears this
man has a good character. I suppose you don't
wish him to be very severely punished ?
Mr. Meetyard said he would leave it entirely to
the magistrate. The ladies were shamefully pulled
about.
Mr. COMBE, after telling the prisoner that he had
subjected himself to two fines of Si. each, and two
months' imprisonment, with or without hard labour,
sentenced him to pay a fine of 11.
The fine was paid in half an hour after.
MARYLEBONE.
DISORDERLY PAUPERS.—Three young women, named
Turner, Elliott, and Knott, were charged with riotous
conduct in the Marylebone Workhouse.
Mr. James Jones, the master of the workhouse, stated
that about eight o'clock last night he was told that the
defendants were burning something. He proceeded to
the females' ward and saw them burning the stuffing of
their beds. They had broken up some of the furniture
in the ward and were burning portions of it. Elliott
threw the burning embers about and exclaimed " We
will burn all the old devils (meaning the inmates) in
their beds."
They were committed for twenty-one days.
Two other girls, named Tenfold and Sexton, were
also charged with riotous conduct in the workhouse.
Mr. Jones stated, that when he was giving the
abovenamed females in charge, last night, the pri-
soners obtained a ladle, and Sexton smashed twelve
squares of glass with it, and Penfold four squares. They
were committed for six weeks, the extended period under
the amended Poor-law Act.
WORSHIP-STREET.
On Monday a dissipated-looking fellow, named
Joshua Chatfield, was charged with a brutal assault
upon his wife, a delicate little woman, in an advanced
stage of pregnancy, and whose face was shockingly
swollen and disfigured. She stated that the prisoner,
who was by trade an engineer, and capable of earning
40s. per week, and by whom she had had eleven chil-
dren, was a most drunken fellow, and whenever in
that state, which was of daily occurrence, invariably
ill-used her. On',Saturday night he returned home
drunk, as usual, and presented her with 55., which
was all he had left of his wages, with 4s. of which
POLICE INTELLIGENCE. he ordered her to redeem from the pawnbroker's his
(YESTERDAY.) hoots, which he had himself pledged during the week
MANSION-HOUSE. to procure drink, and with the remaining shilling told
Yesterday Mr. Cooper, the honorary secretary to her to procure food and other necessaries for the Sun-
the Waterman's Company, attended before the Lord (lay. She begged him to give her more money, as
Mayor to prefer a complaint against a man named the shilling was quite inadequate for their wants, on
Young, for having carried fish in his skiff from a which he abused her with the coarsest language, and
vessel in the lower part of the river to Billingsgate, commenced a most violent attack upon her, striking
he not being free of the Waterman's Company, her about the ribs, and knocking her down and kick-
He stet( d that the free watermen of 'Wool- ing her for more Ilan half an hour. Her cries at last
wich and Greenwich, who had served their time, arrested the attention of a policeman, who forced his
and were entitled to certain privileges, felt in way into the place, and found the woman crouched
a severe manner the consequences arising from up and bent together in one of the corners of the
the constant invasion of those privileges by men room, with nothing on her but her night dress, which
who had no claims at all, so that if they did not meet was torn to pieces ; blood was flowing profusely from
with protection from the magistrates of London, their her mouth, and she had every appearance of having
means of support, already greatly diminished by a been most brutally treated.
great variety of inevitable causes, must be altogether Mr.BROUGHTON characterised the case as one of the THE MEDITERRANEAN AND INDIA MAILS.---The
most brutal assaults that had ever come before him 2 following notice was issued on Monday morning from the
extinguished.
James Dowse, a free w aterman, stated that he re- and said he regretted that he was not empowered General Post-office, St. Martin's le Grand :—The mails
for Vigo, Oporto, Lisbon, Cadiz, Gibraltar, Malta'
sided at Greenwich ; that on the 21st of October lie
to send the husband to prison for at least six months, Greece, and the lonian Islands, will be made up on,
observed the defendant go alongside a vessel which as he richly deserved that extent of punishment. Ile, Thursday morning next, the 14th instant, and for Egypt,
had fish on board ; arid witness applied to the captain however, should punish him to the full extent of his India, Hong-Kong, and China, on the morning of the 3d
for an engagement to do the work. The captain said power, and sentence the prisoner to pay 51. to the of December, via Southampton. By the overland closed
he did not want any man, as he had one (the de- ; Queen, and in default of payment he must undergo mail to India, &c., on the evening of the 7th of
fendant). 'Witness said the defendant was not a free two months' imprisonment and hard labour in the September, via Marseilles. The West Indies, Sac.—The
Waterman ; but the captain did not care about that House of Correction. next mails for Madeira, the West Indies, Bermuda, New
objection, and employed the defendant, who took the The prisoner, who was astounded at the sentence, Granada, San Juan de Nicaragua, and Venezuela, on the
fish on beard his skiff, and landed it at Billingsgate, was afterwards carried off in the van.morning of the lathinstant, by the Severn steamer, via
Southampton. The postage upon all letters posted in
for which labour the captain paid him, next day, the THAMES
the United Kingdom, and addressed to Venezuela, and
sum'of 1/. Is. James Rich, a young man of wild and haggard
The evidence having been confirmed by another aspect, was on Monday charged with having made a vice vers
a, when conveyed direct by packet-boat,' is
reduced to'the uniform rate of one shilling the half ounce
free waterman, desperate effort at self.destruction by hanging himself two shillings the ounce, and so on in proportion. The
J. 11. Howe (of the Waterman's Company) was with his pocket-handkerchief in an outhouse attached postage, however, on letters dispatched from the United
called upon to prove that the defendant was not a to his father's premises.
Kingdom must be paid in advance. The next mails for
freeman of the Waterman's Company. The proof It appeared that he had been subject to fits from British North America, Bermuda, and the United States',
was given ; and hydrophobia for the last eight years. As far back as will be made up on the morning of the 18th instant, and
The LORD MAYOR asked the defendant what he that time he had been bitten by a dog, and exhibited
hydrophobia, though forwarded by the Caledonia steamer, via Liverpool,
decided symptoms of
had to say in his defence P—The defendant declared Halifax, and Boston. Letters and newspapers to Hol-
that he considered himself to be as good a waterrnan wounded parts were excised. When he was seized land, to be forwarded by the mail to Holland, will hence-
as any freeman of the Waterman's Company. It was with the fits his bark (it was stated) was scarcely
I distinguidog. He also exhi- forth be received at this office, and at the branch offices
shable from that of a and receiving houses in London, on the mornings of
true he did not belong to that Company, but he had
bited a horror of water.,. is Wednesdays and Saturdays, to be dispatched by that
a license, which had been granted by the Elder
Mr. BRODERIP-1 his a most extraordinary chaasvee. mail on those mornings, up to the following hours, viz.,
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aid considerable. attention to. andrea, m tolerablyg cor.i. rough branch offices, until 7, eat. At the chief
was at liberty to ply his fare, and do everything else P
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Mr. Cooper said the Trinity-house license allowed cases where the symptoms were decidedly manifested
the owner of boats to carry passengers, but not goods. hydrophobia terminated fatally.
The LORD Mayors said there was no doubt what- 1 The prisoner was given up to his friends, who were
until 7 30 A.M. ; at the chief office, St. Martin's-le-
ever of the violation of the law by the defendant, the cautioned by the magistrate to take great care of him.
Grand, and at the Lombard-street branch-office until 7
LA MB E T II- S TR E E7'.
very wording of whose license by the Elder Brethren 45 A.M. Letters and newspapers are dispatched every
of the Trinity proved that he was not empowered to I On Monday Captain Samuel Weeks, master of the evening (Sundays excepted) for France and Belgium,
carry goods for hire, whatever he might do with I Maria Louisa, a vessel lying in the London Docks, and vice versa.
regard to carrying persons. As, however, the de- I and just arrived from Oporto, and James I?amfellon7 HADDINGTON CHURCH—ATTEMPTED BURNING.—
fendant might not have known that he was actually 1 a seaman on board his ship, were charged with smug• On Saturday afternoon, as the two beadles entered the
transgressing, the penalty which the magistrate had gling.
parish church of Haddington, to remove the coverings
the power to inflict should be greatly reduced. I Walden, a Customs' officer, found concealed upon , from the seats for Sabbath, they discovered that the east-
The defendant said he felt inclined to take the case the first prisoner's person two pint bottles and a small 1 door was burnt to a considerable extent, and had fallen
A train of fire had been applied
to the Quarter Sessions. decanter, all filled with Faench brandy. On the ! from its lower hinges.
The co •
mplamant Dowse, said the defendant, and person of the other he also found a small decanter of I
while
terfered men similarly' • I had penetrated about half-way through the wood,
situated, not only constantly in- brandy, and, near to the spot where he had been I
to the door along the bottom, which, close to the ground,
terfered with that privilege ' y
b of the free watermen, but
searched he found a package containing nearly
added insult to injury a the inside, stones were found lying in the passage, which
sonal chastisement uryonyththereatening to inflict per- pound weight of foreign-manufactured tobacco, which I
! around the lower hinge it had entirely consumed it. In
had been thrown through the panes of glass immediately
actual loss of the meansp of living,T he injury was the the prisoner Rainfellon subsequently admitted he had I above the door, and Lucifer matches were found about the
dropped.
The LORD MAYOR said the defendant was cone The captain pleaded perfect ignorance of doing
victed in the penalty of ten shill' foot of the door, which led to the suspicion that the fire
The defendant repeated that hiengsesi h wrong in carrying so small a quantity his of own Sheriff and other authorities, were active on Saturday
, had been wilful. The Provost, Procurator-Fiscal,
The LORD MAYOR-You had bettaeto apPeal. stores out with him, though he admitted he had sailed and on Monday in taking the necessary steps to discolar
if you appeal, produce London, before you appeal. You must, eree well for upwards of nine, years in and out of the port of , the origin of the fire. Suspicion, as yet, attaches to no
I particular party.—Scotsman.

The captain was convicted in the penalty of 51.,
and his man in 205., both of which the captain in-
stantly paid.
George Ramfellon, the brother of one of the last
prisoners, and who is a labourer belonging to the Lon-
don Dock, was also convicted in the penalty of 205.,
for having in his possession 1 lb. of tobacco.
This prisoner was taken at the same time with the
others, but less fortunate than them, and his circum-
stances being much more humble than the captain's,
he was locked up and kept in custody till brought to
this Court.

He, too, paid the fine, and was discharged.
WANDSWORTH.

On Monday Maria Newton, an emaciated and care-
worn looking woman, was charged with deserting her
child and leaving it chargeable to the parish of Wands-
worth.

Mr. Unwin, the relieving officer, stated that he had
adopted the only course open to him, that of charging
the defendant with deserting the child, which was in
the union, in order that both mother and child might
be removed to their own settlement.

SHERIFFS' COURT, Nov. 12.
SALMON V. ISAILkY.
This was an action for an assault and for the injury
done to the character of the plaintiff, by a false accusa-
tion of an attempt to pass false coin.
Mr. Bailey, the defendant, is a butcher, residing in
Tottenham-court-road ; and Mr. Salmon is a coach-
maker, in the same neighbourhood.
Martha Heed deposed that on Saturday, 28th Sep-
tember, she accompanied sirs. Salmon to market. That
they entered a public-house together in order to obtain
change of a sovereign. They afterwards went into de
fondant's shop for the purpose of purchasing meat. Mrs.
Salmon bought meat.to the value of 2s. 10. and gave
Mrs. Bailey the sum of two shillings and sixpence.
Having left the shop without her change, she returned to
obtain it, when Mrs. Bailey, who had taken the money,
did not deny that she had neglected to give plaintiff the
change, but asserted that the sixpence was a bad one.
Witness said that it was not a bad sixpence, and that
the coin produced was not that which plaintiff
had given ; she knew that from the fact
that the money which Mrs. Bailey produced
was black, and that given to the plaintiff was
not. Mrs. Bailey referred to her husband, who said that
the money was bad, and, after a great deal of altercation;
turned the plaintiff and the witness out of the shop, and
thrust the former out with such force, that if she had not
been caught by a by stander she would have fallen in
the kennel. He afterwards seized upon her violently,
and shook her in such a manner that she feared she
would lose some money which she had in her hand, and,
when she persisted in asking for her change, he gave her
in.charge for attempting to pass bad money.
The policeman, E 98, deposed to having taken plain-
tiff into custody, and to defendant sending a message to
the station-house to the effect that he did not wish to
press the charge, upon which plaintiff was liberated.
Mr. BALLANTTNE addressed the jury at great length,
setting forth several circumstances in mitigation He said
that it could not be denied that defendant had acted very
hastily, but he thought the jury need not give more than
nominal damages, as there were several circumstances
which seemed to support the charge against plaintiff,
although no one could for an instant suspect her or her
friend, after hearing the whole of the circumstances.
The jury found for plaintiff, with 5/. damages.
There were this morning several other cases, but of no
importance.

The defendant said she had just got into a little
work, and she was willing to take the child off the
hands of the parish. If she was passed to her own
parish she would be thrown among strangers, and
should be obliged to return to Wandsworth.
Mr. CLivs observed, that if the defendant, after
being passed to her own parish a second time, re-
turned, she would be liable to imprisonment for
21 days.
Defendant said she did not wish to go into the
workhouse. She was willing to work and maintain
the child.

Mr. Unwin suggested to the defendant that she had
better come into the lIMISd ; she would leave a situa-
tion of misery for one of comfort.
The defendant again expressed her repugnance at
entering the workhouse, and said she would prefer
going to a gaol.
Mr. CLIVE said this was a very melancholy case.
Here was a woman willing to work and maintain her
independence, and he did not like to give an order for
her removal into the workhouse, to which she ap-
peared to entertain so great a repugnance. At the
same time, she was strictly liable in law for me
glecting to keep her child after she came out o
prison.

The defendant said she earned from Is. Gd. to 2s.
a-day at washing and charing, and was certain o
being employed three days in the week. Her eldest
daughter, who lived with her, earned from Gs. to 7s.
per week.
Mr. CLIVE asked the defendant if she had since
her confinement been enabled to purchase any fur-
niture ?

The defendant replied that she had not ; ail she had
in the room was a sack of shavings, upon which she,
her infant, and her daughter slept. She trusted,
however, that the should soon get round again.
Mr. CLIMB thought that the defendant's case was
one deserving of commiseration. He could under-
stand the feeling that induced her to keep out of the
house. She was evidently an industrious woman,
and preferred enduring the greatest privations to be-
coming a burden upon the parish. He thought,
under the circumstances, he could not do better than

,
appropriate a portion of those funds placed in his
hands by benevolent persons to her relief. He should,
therefore, allow her as much as would purchase a few
necessary articles of furniture. The child would be
delivered up to her at the expiration of three days.
The poor woman appeared most grateful for the
kindness shown her.

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, Nov. 12.

(Before Mr. Commissioner GOULBURN.)
• 4 IN RE HENRY CATON, BUTCHBR, HATFIELD.
The insolvent applied for his interim order, but was
opposed by Mr. Bagley, on the part of several creditors,
and on the ground that the case was out of the jurisdic-
tion of the Court, the insolvent having been a trader,
and the debts upwards of 300/. The schedule, however,
eXhibited only debts to the amount of 284/. The insol-
vent had, it appeared, compounded with his creditors in
1843, and the composition had been paid up, in full of all
claims. But afterwards it appeared that, through igno-
rance, the insolvent had entered many of those persons
on his present schedule. He was therefore ordered to
amend and exhibit it to his creditors, before coming up
for his final order.

HEAVY GALE AT LIVERPOOL.

LIVERPOOL, MONDAY.

During the night we have been visited with a heavy
gale from the north-west, and it still continues to blow
freshly. A few disasters have occurred, not, however,
of a fatal character :

The Albion of this morning contains the following
from a correspondent at Wexford :

(Before Mr. Commissioner' HOLROYD.)
Ix RE GEORGE FIELDING, OF TIIAME, OXFORD,
Tho bankrupt, an ironmonger, in extensive business,
was oppoared by Mr. Edwin James, for the assignees, on
the ground that the accounts were not properly rendered.
His Hozcona adjourned the further hearing, but or •
dared that'the solicitor to the assignees should furnish
the bankrupt's accountant with a written notice of what
they required in good time before next examination.

" Wexford, Nov. 8.
"The weather during last night was very severe,
blowing a gale of wind, and with rain. I regret to say.
that the ship James Matheson, from Liverpool to
Cuching, Hong-Kong, and Whampoa, went on shore
this morning in North Bay, near Raven Ppint. The
active agent for Lloyd's, Mr. F. Harpur, started this
morning, at seven o'clock, for the scene of distress. I
am happy to say the crew are all saved, the captain being
the last to leave the ship. I very much regret the above
melancholy occurrence, and it points out most foreib:y
the necessity of putting a light-ship on the south end
of Blackwater Bank, or adopting some other measure
for preventing the loss of lives and property so fre-
quently occurring on this coast."
A subsequent communication from the agent for
Lloyd's states, that he expects to save the materials and
cargo, though we believe in a damaged condition.
The Troy, from New Orleans, which was on shore
on the bar near New Orleans for some time, was blown
on shore near Wilson's ship-building yards. We under-
stand she has got off again.
The Santos, in coming in, went on shoe in the Rock
Channel. She has got off.
This fine wind will bring up the arrivals from foreign
ports in double quick time. Already they are very
numerous,

The other prisoner said he had carried the brandy
at the request of his captain, but the tobacco was
his own property, as he had purchased it from his
captain.
Mr. HENRY inquired how it was that the charge
against the prisoners had not been entered on a police
sheet, and brought before him in the ordinary way ?
'Walden, the Customs' officer, replied that the fact
was, that at the earnest entreaties of the captain, and
his representing the great inconvenience he would be
put to by being detained, he (Walden) had permitted
him to go at large upon his pledging his word of
onour to attend before a Magistrate on this day, and
he had kept his word.
• Mr. HENRY —Did you make any inquiries as to
whether he was really the captain of the ship before
you allowed him to go at large ? Walden (evidently
much posed by the question)—To tell the truth, I
did not, your Worship. I may have acted wrong,
but as the captain told me he had to report his ship
this morning, and would be put to great inconve-
nience if detained, I allowed him to go.
Mr. IIENay —No doubt it is a great inconvenience
to any person to be kept in custody; but the law does
not give a person in your situation any discretion in
the matter. It is your duty to detain any person
found guilty of smuggling, no matter what their
rank or station, until conveyed before a magistrate;
and therefore you have acted illegally in allowing the
prisoners to go at large, and that, too, without even
making the slightest inquiry about the truth or false-
hood of their representations, though the vessel was
in the dock close by.
Walden—l judged from his appearance, your Wor-
shi, he was what he represented himself to be.
In reply to further questions put to Walden, and a
dock-officer named Fryer, it appeared that no repre-
sentation whatever of the transaction had been made
at the police station-house in the dock, or report to
the Customs' authorities, upon which
Mr. HENRY remarked that it was possible, but from
the fact of the captain and his man coming forward,
that the public would not have heard anything of the
case. The admission of the Customs' officer disclosed
an extreme laxity in the present system, or rather
want of system, which should be at once put an
end to.