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London, England, 1850-11-21 00:00:00

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QUEEN'S BENCH.—(THIS DAY.)
(Sittings in Banco, before Lord CAMPBELL and Justices
COLERIDGE, WIGHTMAN, and ERLE.)

THE QUEEN (AT THE SUIT OF B. M. WILCOX AND
OTHERS) v. THE PROPRIETOR AND PRINTER OF THE
" DAILY NEWS."
CRIMINAL INFORMATION.

The SOLICITOR-GENERAL said he had to move for a
rule to show cause why a criminal information should not
issue against the registered proprietor and printer of
the Daily News newspaper for a libel on Mr. B. M.
Willcox and two other gentlemen, the managing direc-
tors of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation
Company, which appeal* in that paper on the 29th of
October last. The passage in question formed
part of a long article on the Peninsular and
Oriental Steam Company in reference to steam navi-
gation to the Australian colonies. It related to
a question which had excited a good deal of public dis-
cussion in this country. namely, navigation by steam be-
tween Singapore and the Australian colonies; and it
was wholly within the province of a newspaper to dis-
cus' a question of that kind; but the observations made
in the article referred to affected the honour and the in-
tegrity of those three gentlemen so seriously that they felt
themselves bound to come to a court of justice in
order to clear themselves of such an imputation as that
which was cast on them. It appeared that, in the dis-
cussion which took place on this subject, the Daily News
took a very prominent part ; and a letter had been
written in the name of the company to the editor,
signed " A Lover of Fair Play," which had for its object
the vindication of the company. The editor published
the letter, and in a short ncte gave his comments
upon it, alleging, in answer, various complaints
that had been preferred against the company, and which
appeared in an East Indian newspaper called the Bengal
.11arkaru. The gravamen of the libel consisted in a
part of the article which substantially charged the
managing directors of the Peninsular and Oriental
Steam Navigation Company with having departed
from the usual rule of the company with re-
gard to the repairing of one of their ships,
called the Bentinck, in order that the directors might
get what was called their dustoree, which was an Indian
word, implying the receipt of an illegal and improper per-
qu'eite taken by servants and middle man, on the money
expended by them for their employers. He (t';e Solici-
tor-General) had the affidavits of the three managing
directors of that company, who stated that there was not
the slightest shadow of foundation for such a charge
being made against them ; that they took uo
perq iisites on the expenditure of the company, and de-
rived no advantage whatever in respect to the repairing
the ships of the company. The directors therefore felt
that by the publication of the statement to which he ha,l
referred they were disgrace:l in the °lea of their share-
holders; they felt that a charge of that kind seriously
affected them as public men and as gentlemen, and there-
tore they had brought the matter before the attention of
the Court; in doing so, however, they had ❑o vindictive
feelings towards the newspaper in otiesticn.
Lord CAMPBELL (addressing the Solicitor- Geheral)
said he understood that kis clients had had an oppor-
tunity of denying, the charge, and had denied it amply,
and he (Lmd Gsrephell) and his brethren on the bench
thought that the Court ought not to int-rfete.
Rule ;Thud.

Contrasted with this omission on the part of the two last, I
is the remarkable fidelity with which they have recorded
in nearly the same terms the rebuke given by our Saviour
to St. Peter, but a few verses farther on, namely, in the
23d of the same chapter of Matthew, and the 33d of
Mark; Luke and John alone omitting it.
Hence it is clear that little importance was attached to
the circumstance by those who were present; that they
regarded the power so conferred as purely personal; and
that it gave no spiritual supremacy over his colleagues
to the individual upon whom it was bestowed. Although,
even admitting that evidence of such supremacy could
be found in the New Testament, it remains to be proved
that the grant of supremacy was extended, beyond St.
Peter, to those who might be able to prove themselves
by an unbroken chain of historic evidence the legitimate
and apostolic successors of St. Peter's piety and power.
Now, where is the historic evidence to be found of
Peter having at any time been Bishop of Rome, and as
such assuming any authority, approaching in the least to
that claimed by the Popes, over the Christian churches
of his day? Not certainly in the Acts of Apostles,
where we find St. Peter playing comparatively but a
secondary part; Paul and Barnabas, not Peter, being by
far the most prominent actors in all the transactions of
the period. Indeed, I am not aware that we possess any
trustworthy evidence of Peter having ever visited Rome,
although, as he was a great traveller among the Gentiles,
it is far from improbable that he might have done so.
An occasional visit to Rome, however, and the circum-
stance of his preaching the Gospel there, even could it
be satisfactorily proved, did not confer upon him the
Bishopric of that See, which we might more naturally
conceive to have belonged to St. Paul, who not only
visited, but resided and preached in Rome for two whole
years.
But that the words pronounced by our Saviour, as re-
corded by St. Matthew, whom I quote in the orignal G reek,
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and analyze the fluid, to measure its amount, to cal-
culate the facility and the expense of conducting it to
town. All London watches for the result with the
interest of persons who are to be relieved from a
nuisance, and endowed with a blessing at the same

time.
The principal merit in Mr. Napier's scheme is its
comprehensive character ; there has been antecedently
no one suggestion by which water at once so pure and
ample in quantity could be obtained ; no supply
coming from one quarter could be devised except
upon some such comprehensive basis. There is
every reason to believe that there does not exist
within a moderate distance of London more
than one area which could furnish the quality
and amount of water which we require; we seem,
therefore, forced to the conclusion that either there
is no single method by which the whole metropolis
can be supplied now and prospectively on a better
principle than the one in use, or else that the one
method offers itself here. We are come to the end
of our methods. Water is only to be had from rains,
rivers, and springs. From rivers we cannot get it
pure; from rainfall we cannot get it, as it seems,
either so plentifully or so cheaply as from springs ;
from springs we cannot get it unless we embrace a
very wide district of country. Mr. Napier reports a
sufficiency of good water in a certain locality. Mr.
Rammell calculates, by a more precise examination,
that the quantity is an undoubted fact, and that the
area can afford to dispense with it. What is now re-
quired is that the quality of each separate spring should
be ascertained beyond dispute by chy mical analysis,
that a complete estimate of expense should be framed by
competent authorities; in a word, that a thoroughly
digested plan should be brought before Parliament.
The evidence adducible in favour of such a plan will
be the only ground upon which the powers of the
existing companies can be contested, their allegations
rebutted, and some general measure laid down.
It is really in the interest of the water companies
to join in imposing a measure, of this nature upon
Government. The most economical .scheme to the
public will be also the best for them, as they would
secure a compensation which, if it falls into private
hands, will be much more scantily dealt out to
them. It is useless to suppose that we shall remain
content with the imperfect or deleterious supply
now furnished when the sanitary importance of a
pure one has become so manifest, and its possibility
so nearly established. It need hardly be added that
' it is much in the interest of Government, at a

ovpavots.
From which it would appear that our Saviour's ex
pression, Talsro .71-&pa. oNoBopicrai
auou Taw ZkicXylcrtav," applies net to the individual,
but to the faith which prompted the reply by that indivi-
dual, to the question put by Christ in the 15th verse,
where he says, " 'N",ucis 6E Ti,Va A4Ere etFett."
Peter promptly and unhesitatingly answered' "
yu Et
(7) Xpto-rk ci IA; vo ()EaTou Oovros"—" Thou art
Chris.t, tho son of the living God."—This is the
rock upon which he declared he would build his
Church, so that the gates of Hell should not prevail
against it, and by means of which Peter should possess,
.so long as he retained it, the keys of lleaven, and the
power to bind and loose.
The power must have been granted both. conditionally
and individually, conditionally, that ho should retain the
faith implied in his reply; for it is absurd to suppose
that the Almighty would suffer him to retain it in the
event of his falling off from that faith—and individually,
since it cannot be supposed that it was intended to de-
scend to successors of every shade of belief, among whom
our Saviour himself forewarned his disciples that a pos..
taci,s and heresies would arise. ladee I it must require
even more than the sophistry of the Vatican, the craft
of a Loyola, or the casuistry of Westminster Hall, to per-
suade any, but those of the weakest and most errdulcus
understaildiag, that the mighty and superhuman power
conferred was granted in endless perpetuity to all the
Popes, Anti-Popes, and Pope doans, who might claim,
as temporary occupants of the See of Rome, a pretended
spiritual descent from this highly distinguished Apostle.
But, if this ccmmission really conferred any spiritual su-
premacy, like that subsequently usurped by the Rknaan
Pontiffs. how did it happen that the individual so exalted
above his colleagues should have been held amenable to
their cnsures? And yet we read in the 12th chapter of
Acts, that
" When Peter was come up to Jerusalem they that
were of the circumcision contended with him, saying,
Thou wentest into men uncircumcised and did cat with
them.' "
And Peter, recognizing their authority, entered into a
full justification of his conduct.
Will Pio None, who pretends to be the Apostolic suc-
cessor of St. Peter, but who, unlike the Apostles of old,
ran gallantly away in the piebald livery of a footman,
from the imaginary honours of a martyrdom, give an
equally apostolic justification of his recent puerile at-
tempts at usurpation?
When the supposed claim cif St. Peter to the spiritual
supremacy of the Church. and his actual occupation of
the See of Rome as its Bishop, shall have been estab-
lished upon better evidence than the legendary traditions
of the Vatican, it 'will be suffieient time to inquire into
the claim of hereditary power pretended to have sprung
from it.—l am, Sir, &c.,
WILLIAM HAMILTON.
14, Octagon, Plymouth.

time when party questions are comparatively in
abeyance, to signalise a session by soma internal
reform which may commend itself to a numerous
class, or satisfy some natural expectation. Even
should Ministers decline to take upon themselves a
responsibility which ought to be dictated alike by
their position and previous agency in the matter, they
should, at least, take care that an inquiry, which it
was imperative to set on foot, should not be stopped
short at the moment when success draws near. We
could forgive hesitation or indifference after the in-
vestigation had furnished us with some incontestable
data, but we ought not to be mocked with a tan-
talizing series of pronositions of which none is con-
firmed, and a conclusion by which nothing is con-
eluded.— Times.

THE POPISH AGGRESSION.
COMMON COUNCIL.—(rIIi3 DIY.)
A special general court of Common Ceuncii was held
this morning iu the Council Chamber, Guildhall, for the
purpose of addressing hes Majesty en the subject of the
recent Popish aggression. The Right Hon. the Lord
Mayor pre,ied.
Mr. Joule WOOD in a lengthened address proposed a
resolution to the following effect:—" That an humble,
dutiful, and loyal address be presented to her Majesty
on the subject of the recent proceedings of the Bishop
of Rome, and expressive of the continued loyal attach-
ment of the Corporation of the city of London to her
person, authority, end Govcrninent."
Jv'r. BLAKE seconded the motion.
Mr. CARR, a Roman Catholic member of the Court,
took exception to some parts of the address, and defended
the policy of the Pope, though he was not, he said, pre-
pared to justify, n..r did he think his Holiness desired,
to exercise any political power in this country.
Mr. Alderman LAWRANCE would not deny to any
man the right of worshipping his Maker after the
fashion which his conscience dictated, but this move
on the part of Rome would not increase but retard
that liberty, and he was therefore opposed to it. He de-
nounced-in no measured terms the Puseyite proceedings
of Oxford, and pronounced an opinion that the Bishop
of London and the Bishop of Exeter were as much to
blame for this Romish aggression as Dr. Wiseman. He
protested against the creation and recognition of Roman
Catholic bishop', because such a step would be
productive of great political evil. A bishop
without a territory or church might seem an
anomaly, but only let the Pope succeed in getting his
bishop introduced into this land, and those requisites for
sustaining his power and dignity would soon be ob-
tained. The noblemen with ignoble :minds, who had
become proselytes, and heel gone over to Rome, were
blamable to the highest degree, and while he did not
object to the creation of Romish bishops inlrelsnd, which
was purely a Catholic country, he must be understood
as entertaining an uncompromising opposition to their
appearing in England.
Mr. STACEY hoped the address would be passed by
a unanimous vote.
Mr. DARIN was inclined to think that the Pope had
been urged on by a " vaulting ambition that c'erleaps; it-
self and falls on the other side" and when he learnt the
storm of indignation which this aggressive policy had
raised in England, he would see toe expediency of re-
tracing his steps, if he acted the part of a wiseman.
Mr. TAYLOR pointed to Sardinia as affording an inns-
ttatien of the tyranny and war-to-the-knife spirit which
always actuated the policy of the Romish Church. Only
let Romanism gain the ascendancy in this country, end
there would be an end of civil and religious liberty.
Mr. ELLIOTT thought that a limit ought to be put upon
the toleration extended to Papistic principles. The tole-
ration which the Roman Catholics enjoyed should be
confined within its present limits, tor whenever and
wherever Roman Catholiciere had succeeded in establish-
ing bishoprics there immorality and misery abounded.
Mr. JONES agreed with those who had preceded him
that much of the aggression which the Pope wished to
be guilty of was attributable to the proceedings of a
small portion of the Established Church, but the dissen-
ait;ns which existed in the Church should form the
subject of discussion on another day. They had enough
to do now in confining themselves to the threatened in-
vasion from Rome, and in opposing that movement and
supporting this address, he begged to state that his
motive for doing so was a strong belief that the Roman
Catholic Church was incapable o' toleration.
Mr. BENNOCH depreciated the idea of treat-
ing the Archbishop of Westminster with contempt,
for his manifesto displayed a masterly pen and
consummate ability, and his influence was to be
dreaded rather than despised. For his part, he rejoiced
that this movement had taken place, since it would
serve the purpose of establishing Protestantism upon a
firmer basis • than it already enjoyed. He was a Pro-
testant Dissenter, aed belonged to a country which had
spent 20,000 of its best lives in supporting episcopacy.
He was, therefore, diametrically opposed to the prin-
ciples of Roman Catholicism; but though he was
strongly inclined to denounce the aggression of
the Pope, he could not conceal from himself
the fact that it had in a great measure been encouraged
by the abuses which existed in the Established Church,
and one of its Universities. In raising their voices
against the impudent proceedings of the Pope, let them
also protest against the dissension which existed in the
Church, and insist upon tho abuses to which he had
referred being at once rooted out.
Mr. LOCK said the true source of the evil was Catho-
lic emancipation, and- the only remedy for the grievance
was the withdrawal of the concessions which had been
made to the Catholics.
Mr. D. W. WIRE trusted the Court would not sym-
pathise with the feelings of the last speaker. Why
:should they return to the days of persecution because
the Pope of Rome had been guilty of an attempted
aggression? But while he protested against that
step he was equally averse to the spread
of Romish influence in this country. Civil and
religious liberty he would never forsake, but this move-
ment of Rome would destroy that freedom, and it was
big duty to resist it. Dr. -Wiseman had contrasted this
creation of bishops by his Church with the parcelling
the country out into districts by the Wesleyans, but the
analogy there attempted to be drawn could not be sus-
tained, for while the Wesleyans recognised no fo-
reign power in matterOpiritual or temporal, Ro-
man Catholics, who *bre sincere in their pro-
fession, were forced to owe a divided allegiance.
The tendency of Roman Catholocism was to debase the
mind and enslave the soul, and Heaven forbid that it
shOuld ever again obtain the ascendant in this country.
Still he did not blame Dr. Wiseman, the Pope, or the
• Government, for this aggression, but the unfaithful sons
, of the Church of England, and though some of them had
disavowed their former principles, he was strongly in-
clined to think that it was not for the sake of Pro-
testaetism, but was rather to be traced to a fear that
. their loaves and fishes were in danger.
, Mr. CARR, as a Roman Catholic, disclaimed owning
any allegiance to the Pope either spiritual or temporal.
Mr. Alderman SIDNEY spoke a few words on behalf
of the simplicity of-Protsstantism_and, in favour of the
address.
The resolution was then put and carried with only one
dissentient, after which a committee was appointed to
draw up the address, and the court adjourned.

METROPOLITAN WATER SUPPLY
When the question of a metropolitan water supply
comes before Parliament next session, the first ele-
ment of discussion will be the nature and scope of
the plans brought forward by the Board of Health.
That board being, in fact, an ,organ of Government,
its representations will be regarded as possessing a
weight proportioned to the position it occupies. In-
dividual projectors are standiog aloof for a while, and
competing companies reserve their propositions until
Gwvdyr-house has given utterance to its final re-
solve. On a social and sanitary measure of this mag-
nitude it was well to defer for a time the hopes of in-
terested or the proposals of speculative persons ; old
water companies and new would have been bidding
against one another for public favour, the one promis-
ing an impossible repentance, the, other an impracti-
cable excellence ; every engine known in the warfare
of committee-rooms would have been brought into
play ; the real character of a dozen different schemes
would have been disguised amidst the dust of the con-
flict ; and, finally, either the most subtle advocacy would
have triumphed to the neglect of public considerations,
or a commission would have been appointed at the
close instead of the beginning. If some of these evils
have been avoided by the delegation of the matter to
the Board of Health, some yet remain in prospect, so
long as the intentions of Ministers remain doubtful.
When the Government assumed to themselves the
conduct of the preparatory steps they may be said to
have assumed the whole responsibility of the eventful
measure. If the wants of a population of 2,000,000
constitute a plea for inquiry, they constitute still more
a reason for consistent and definite action founded
upon such inquiry. The problem which was given
to the Board of Health to solve may be said to have
been,—ls there within reasonable distance of the me-
tropolis water of a quality and quantity sufficient for
the use, and favourable to the health, of the inhabi-
tants, and, if so, where ? Upon the answer made by
them to this question, one of the most important
measures of the forthcoming session must de-
pend ; whether that measure come from the Mi-
nisterial benches or not, it is imperative that the
answer should be complete and satisfactory. At
present all we know is, that there are two plans in
contemplation, about neither of which the evidence is
perfect, one to procure a supply by draining a large
area of high ground, the other by uniting in a single
channel the waters of forty-five different springs. In
appearance one of these plans offers a larger, a purer,
and a cheaper supply than the other ; the only reason
for hesitation in accepting it is, that it has not yet
been placed in a position to come forward as the one
solution of our difficulty. : its practical excellence has
not, in other words, been subjected as yet to tests
which could warrant the construction of a measure
upon it. In order that the absolute merits of one
plan over the other may be established before the
meeting of Parliament, and all doubts which could
assail an impartial or a reasonable mind be removed,
any resources necessary to such decision ought to be
placed at the disposal of the Board. Unless they are
enabled to bring a single definite proposition before
the House, with the requisite guarantees, their opera-
tions will have been merely the basis for a legion of
speculators to build upon, and the very purpose of the
whole inquiry will be resigned.
There may be some ignorant or unwashed members
of society, some averse to all contact of the pure ele-
ment either within or without, who are indifferent to
the question at issue. There may be some lovers of
the microscope who would sacrifice anything for an
animalcule, some palates which require that their
water should smack of something, some few reckless
shareholders who make it a condition of their own
prosperity. that men should swallow filth; but, beyond
these sections, there are not less than ine-tenths of
theinhabitants of London who view the future water
supply with all the anxiety which a question at once
sanitary and economical can command. There can
be no choice between good water and bad ; but, not
only is London water hard, vapid, charged with dele-
terious matter, animal, mineral, and vegetable, but it
is also ill distributed and expensive, there are an
immense number of houses without any water sup-
ply at ali ; those which are supplied do not receive
on an average SO much as health and cleanliness
demand, and those few which do receive sufficient pay
an enormous rate. The existing water companies
cannot or will not so far reduce their charges as to
extend the distribution and the quantity of their
supply, they cannot, if they would, change the quality
of their water without subjecting it to a process which
would enhance its expensiveness ; when they com-
pleted their machinery, a water supply was regarded
as merely a commercial question ; they sought, there-
,' fore, the cheapest source, and underbid one another,
not by presenting a purer, but a more defiled fluid
for our purchase. We are aware now that health,
[ cleanliness, and economy, depend not only on the
cheapness of water, i. e. upon the amount at com-
mand, but also upon the
quality. We naturally
demand whether it be possible to secure for our popu-
lation one of the first and greatest of blessings—
whether it be possible to secure it in such a way that
those whos supplied. It
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moestcasutisnetethdisshwalalnbte
itsh the mos t
cheaply u
some-
thing other than a commercial want, that Par-
liament can legitimately interfere as it has interfered.
Deferring to this circumstance, Government took the
divining rod in hand, and set out upon the -investiga-
tion. Officers are appointed to scour the country, to
pierce into geological formations, to taste, and test,

PAPAL SUPREMACY.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SlR,—While the advocates of Papal supremacy over
the Christian Church in every part of the globe rest
their claim upon a supposed grant of spiritual supremacy
made by our Redeemer to St. Peter, as related by St.
Matthew in the 18th and 19th verses of his I6th chapter,
it becomes us, as Protestants, who deny that spiritual
supremacy, to examine into the grounds upon which
that claim is supposed to rest, and the extent to which
the power conferred by our Saviour was designed, or was

understood at the time, to go.
' It cannot fail to be remarked as singular that, among
the four Evangelists who have recorded the events of
our :,bviour's ministry, Matthew alone has deemed this
_ address, to St. Peter worthy of being preserved for the
information of posterity, although the circumstance
which gave birth to it has been carefully chronicled by
e out of the four—viz., Matthew, ch. xvi., v. 13, 14,
15, 16, 17; Mark, ch. viii., v. 27, 28, 29, and- Luke,
eh. ix., v. 18, 19, 20; but, of these three, Matthew alone
records that portion which refers personally to f3t,Peter.

THE SUN, LONDON, Tn. URSDAY EVENING, N OVEMBER 21, 1850.

The second information was then gone into against
the defendant for manufacturing tobacco without pos-
sessing the Excic !icence, by which he incurred a
penalty of 2001.
The COURT, after a short consultation, gave judg-
ment against the defendant in the penalty of 5001.,
viz., 3001. for the adulteration, and 2001. for carrying
on the business of a tobacco manufacturer without
licence, and also awarded the condemnation of the
seizure.

Henry Wilson was charged with working an il-
licit still, and also with having an unlicensed still in
his possession at Montague-court, Spitalfields.
The COURT gave judgment in the penalty of 2001.,
with the condemnation of the seizure.

POLICE IN TELLIGENCE.

GUILDHALL.

A respectably-dressed young man was brought up
in the custody of Mullineux, a City detective officer,
and placed at the bar before Mr. Alderman Hum-
phery, charged with stealing from the person of Mr.
IV. Eason, of the Welch Harp, Essex-street, White-
friars, a gold watcu ,value thirty guineas.
Prosecutor stated that he was on Snow•hill on
Tuesday evening about six o'clock, when his attention
was drawn to a well-dressed woman, who was wan-
dering about in a state of extreme intoxication. A
crowd followed hArA wherever she went, and prose-
cutor stopped for a few minutes on the edge of the
kerb to observe her movements. Suddenly he felt
something at his waistcoat pocket, and he caught the
prisoner's hand with his watch in it. Prosecutor ina-
mediately collared him, and a desperate struggle en-
sued, during which the prisoner dropped the watch in
the gutter. Prosecutor identified the watch produced
as his property. It was jewelled in ten holes, with
ruby palettes, and had been made for prosecutor ac-
cording to order, and cost thirty guineas.
John Corney said he picked up the watch and gave
it to a gentleman in the crowd, of the name of
M'Elroyd, who handed it over to the care of the
officer.

Mullineux stated that he had been watching the
prisoner on the evening in question, and on hearing
the prosecutor call out that he had been robbed of his
watch he directly took the prisoner into custody. Ob-
serving that he had something in his left hand, wit-
ness endeavoured to get it from him, and, after a short
struggle, he saw prisoner throw away the watch,
which was shortly after picked up by the last witness.
He then took him to the station, where he gave his
address, 12, Surrey-street, Brighton.
Alderman HUMPHERY—IS the prisoner known ?
Mullineux—l know him to he a member of the swell
mob. It is not more than six months ago since he
was charged at Bow-street with picking pockets.
Prisoner (indignantly)-013, I was never up at
Bow-street in my life. I only came from Brighton
last (Tuesday) night.
Alderman IiUMPLIERY-It is rather sharp practice
to begin so soon after your arrival.
The prisoner was here identified by Mr. Crouch, of
Tudor-street, Blackfriars, who happened to be in court
at the time, as the person who held him while another
stole his watch, value about 71. That man is now
undergoing a period of imprisonment for that offence.
A son of Mr. Crouch, who is deaf and dumb, here
deposed to seeing the prisoner receive his father's
watch on Tuesday week last from the man who stole
it. Witness was lookink out of the first-floor window
at the time, and could not be mistaken i❑ his identity.

Prisoner—lt's all false. I was in the country on
Tuesday week, and can prove it.
Alderman HUMPHERY—Where were you ? Priso-
ner—l went down to Kingston by the half-past one
o'clock train and slept there that night.
Alderman HUMPHERY—That does not signify, for
you would then have had plenty of time to be in
Blnckfriars by half-past three o'clock and to return
to sleep at Kingston.
Mullineux—l had his companion in custody last
week, and know both of them well. They belong to
the Drury-lane gang.
Prisoner—That's not true, for I don't know where
Drury-lane is.—(Laughter.)
Alderman HumruEnv—Perhaps you do not know
where Covent-garden is ? Prisoner—No more I
do, Sir.
Alderman HUMPHERY—Where did you go after
leaving Kingston ? Prisoner—l went to Brighton,
where I have remained cver since.
Alderman llumrneaf—lt's very clear that you
took the watch in the first case, and I shall therefore
send you for trial.
Prisoner—Am I to be allowed to call witnesses to
prow.; that I was at Kingston on Tuesday week ?
Alderman HUMPIIERIE—You can send them on to

the Old Bailey, as I intend to commit you for trial in
both cases, so that, in the event of your getting off in
the first charge, you may he indicted on the other.
The prisoner was then removed to the lock-up cells
under the court, where he amused himself with abus-
ing the officer and making as much noise as he could,
under the circumstances.
WESTMINSTER.

John Murphy and Jeremiah Ill' Cormack, remanded
from the previous day in default of finding bail for
their appearance, were charged with the following
desperate and violent conduct at the house of Mr.
Broggreff, the Ennisraore Arms, Ennismore-gardens,
Brompton.
The defendants and some other labourers, employed

at the Industrial Exhibition ;structure in llyde.park,
were in the tap-room of the Ennismore Arms on Mon-
day evening, and one of the party having called for a
gallon of beer, Mr. Broggreff and his waiter took in
two pots ea.:ll, buu as usual with customers of that
class, refused to deliver the liquor without immediate
payment. The waiter, however, having placed the
two pots he had taken in upon the table, without first
taking the money, two of the party immediately
helped themselves :their contents, and M'Cormack
tried to take another:pot out of the landlord's hand,
and, upon his refusing to part with it until be
had received payment, M'Cormack struck
him in the eye. Mr. Broggreff then tried
to recover possesdon of a pot which Murphy had
seized, when the latter struck him twice on the face,
and made his nose bleed. Mrs. Broggreff beset as
described, came out of the bar and laid hold of
Murphy by the collar, upon which he turned round
and gave her a blow which made her ear bleed, and
knocked her down. In consequence of the fall, her
hip was so Burt that she was unable to leave her bed
until the following afternoon, but was now much re-
covered.

The defendants aid they intended to pay for the
beer, a pot of which in the scuffle was wasted. Murphy
admitted having struck Mr. Broggreff, but denied that
he had assaulted his wife. M'Cormack went into a
long history about the beer, and described the cir-
cumstance which the non-payment had given rise to
as merely a scuffle.

Mr. YRODERIP said the case was fully proved against
the accused, and fined M'Cormack 508., or one month,
and Murphy 405., or one month, for assaulting the
landlord, and 605., or six weeks, for assaulting the
landlady.

Mary Dale, a young woman, servant in the house,
was called, and she stated that on the dny in question
she s:.-tw the prisoner take the kettle off the lire, and
walk over to the bedstead in vi hich the complainant
was lying asleep, and deliberately pour the boiling
water over his face and arm.

The prisoner still asserted that the injuries were
accidentally inflicted.
Mr. A'BECKEIT said that it was proved to his satis-
faction that the prisoner was guilty of a most bar-
barous assault—that of intentionally pouring boiling
water over, and scalding, a man against whom it
was evident she had a feeling of dislike. Although
the injured man had expressed a desire not to press
the charge, he (the Magistrate) would not consent to
any such wish on his part, and that instead of send-
ing the prisoner for trial, as he intended, ho should
inflict the highest penalty the law empowered him,
namely, 51. on her, and in default of payment, sentence
her to two months' imprisonment.
The prisoner was sent to prison in default of paying
the fine.