The Sun.
London, England, 1868-09-21 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 21, 1868.

CITY OF LONDON REGIIILITION.

THIS DAY.

The Reviing Barrister for the City recommenced
his sittings in the Court of Common Pleas, Guild-
hall, this morning. Five wards have been already
disposed of, but, unfortunately, there are 14 more
to be inspected.

Mr. Ledger and Mr. Smith again appeared for
the Liberal Association, and Mr. -Harper for the
Conservative.

WHAT coNsTiTurEs A LODGER ?

Mr. Crutchley, of 111, Bishopsgate-street,
claimed to be put on the register on the ground of
occupation of the above house since July, 1867,
but he did not begin to pay rent until Ist Septem-
ber following. During the interval repairs and the
fitting up of fixtures were going on, but these were
paid for by Mr. Parnell, the landlord; although he
(the applicant) would have to repay him.
Mr. Harper objected that there was no occupa-
tion, and the tenantcy could not commence until
the rent began to run. lie could not be occupying
as a tenant without paying the rent.
The Revising Barrister—He might be a tenant
without it.

Mr. Ilarper—The purpose of the occupation as a
tenantcy only begins to run when he commences to
occupy the house beneficially.

The Revising Barrister—lie was occupying it
most beneficially if be was fitting it up.
Mr. Crutchey said that Mr. Parnell was his
uncle, and that it was arranged that he should re-
pay him for the fixtures. lie should have to pay it
back under a written agreement.
Mr. Ledger mid that the occupation was quite
sufficient to create a tenantcy, and it was so held in
" Cook v. Cook." They had heard of such things
as a peppercorn lease, and he supposed his learned
friend would not dispute that to be a tenantcy. The
officers of the parish could tell the court that Mr.
Parnell had informed them that the applicant
would pay the rates and taxes from Minsummer,
1867.

The Revising Barrister said that it was evidently,
the intention of parties that there should be a con-
structive occupation, and he should therefore dis-
allow the objection.

Mr. Harper protested against this decision, on the
ground that it was contrary to the meaning of the
act, and intimated that it was a proper case for ap-
peal.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE-- This Day.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

DANGEROUS STONE THROWING.—James Rippers,
a greengrocer, of No. 4, Thomas street, Oxford-
street, was charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt with wil-
fully throwing stones in Hyde Park to the common
danger of the passenger,.

From the evidence of Henry May, 297 A, it ap-
peared that yesterday afternoon he saw the prisoner
and a number of other lads throwing pieces of
granite, which had recently been spread on the road
in Hyde Park, at a chestnut tree a few yards from
the road, and after pursuing the prisoner for about
half a mile he succeeded iu apprehending him.
In answer to Mr. Tyrwhitt the constable said
there was a complete shower of stones at the time,
and that the place where it was going on was a
much frequented part of thepark.
The prisoner denied throwing stones.
Mr. Tyrwhitt said that, considering the prisoner's
size (he is about 18 years old) and the things he was
throwing, he should fine him 10s. or seven days,
and if the practice was continued he should increase
the fine to 40s. or a month.

NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE.

His Royal Highness the Field-Marshal Com-
manding-in-Chief has approved the annexed
ar-
rangements in connection with the camp at Col-
chester :—Major- Clarkson, late Adjt. Bth Depot
Battalion, to join the 3d Depot Battalion at Chat-
ham ; Capt. Heywood, Ist Battalion lst Foot, to
be Adjt. of the 15th Depot Battalion, vice Capt.
Drage, transferred as Adjt. to the Bth Depot Bat-
talion ; Staff Assist.-Surgeon Lithgow, Bth Depot
Battalion, has succeeded Staff Assisi.-Surgeon
M‘Namara, 4th Depot Battalion, in the medical
charge of the troops stationed at Landguard Fort,
Harwich.
thlSaturday detachments of 23 non-commissioned
officers and men of the Ist Battalion of the Ist
Royals, an 1 42 non-commissioned officers and pri-
vates of the Ist Battalion of the Bth (the King's)
Regiment, left Chatham, and proceeded to Malta,
to join the service companies of their regiments
which are about proceeding from Malta to India.
The officers who left Chatham with the troops
were :—Capt. J. P. Jones and Lieut. G. W. Sawyer,
Bth Regiment ; and Ensign It. IL Derman, Ist
Royals.

The appointment of director of the Royal Engi-
neer establishment Chatham, vacant by the promo-
tion of Major-Gen. J. L. A. Simmons, C. 8., to the
list of general officers, has been conferred by his
Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge on Col. T.
Lionel J. Gallwey, until recently serving on the
Staff in Canada, as commanding Royal Engineer at
Quebec. Col. Gallwey will commence his duties at
the Royal Engineer Establishment, Brompton, early
in the ensuing month.

There was a general parade of the whole of the
officers and men of the Royal Engineers at head-
quarters, Chatham, at Brompton barracks, on
Saturday, to witness the presentation of a silver
medal " for distinguished service in the field," in
Abyssinia, to Corporal William Chamberlain, 10th
company of Royal Engineers. The medal, which
was awarded by his Royal Highness the Field-
Marshal Commanding-in-Chief, was presented to
Corporal Chamberlain by. Major-Gen. Simmons,
C.8.,wh0 complimented the recipient on the distin-
guished nature of his services in Abyssinia which
had procured for him this mark of honour.

The finding of the district court-marial, which
recently assembled at Chatham, under the presi-
dency of Lieut.-Col. C. C. Chesney, Royal Engi-
neers, for the trial of Colour-Sorg. Peter Logan,
50th (Queen's Own) Regiment, and Colour-Serg.
Henry Clark, 2d Depot Battalion of the Ist Royals,
canteen clerks at the Ist and 2d Depot Battalions'
canteen, having been approved by the Major-Gen.
commanding the division, the sentence was promul-
gated to the troops on Saturday. The prisoners
were tried for disgraceful conduct, in having, while
in charge of the canteen, fraudulently altere 1 the
stock- book with intent to falsify the accounts, and
al_o with embezzling a sum of money, amounting to
nearly £4O, belonging to the canteen funds, They
were acquitted upon the charge of embezzlement,
and convicted on the other charges, the court sen-
t3ncing both the accused to be degraded to the rank
and pay of private soldiers.

The Buzzard, paddle transport vessel, arrive .I at
Spithead on Friday from Devouport, with super-
numerary seamen and marines o❑ board.
On the Ist proximo it is understood that the new
scheme for the amalgamation of the Civil Depart-
ments—the Military Store, Commissariat, and Pur-
veyor's—will be made known. Great changes are
expected, particularly in the Military Store Branch,
causing the removal of several officers at different
stations.

The War Department stores at present lodged iu
the Tower of London, it is said, are about to be re-
moved to that portion of her Majesty's Dockyard
at Deptford which has been turned over to the War
Department, the remaining part of the dockyard
being reserved by the Admiralty for the Victualling
Establishment, or for other purposes.
On Thursday evening his Imperial Highness the
Grand Duke Alexis dined with Port Admiral Sir
William Martin, K.C.8., at Government-house,
Mount Wise, Devonport. On Friday morning the
Prince was conveyed in the steam yacht Princess
Alice from the Russian frigate Alexander, Newsky,
51, Capt. Kremer, in Plymouth Sound, to her Ma-
jesty's gunnery ship Cambridge, Capt. Hon. Fitz -
gerald, A. C. Foley, in 'lan:maze, and having wit-
nessed some shot practice with the guns, went on
board the ship Impregnable, 78, Capt. F. S. Tremlett,
where the Prince, in company with Admiral Posiet,
saw the drilling of the boys who are under train-
ing for active service. On Saturday morning
Port-Admiral Martin, Admiral Superintendent
Hon. James R. Drummond C. 8., and the Com-
mander of the Forces in the West, Sir Augustus
Spencer, K.C.8., paid a return visit to the Prince
on board the frigate Alexander Newsky. The din-
ner to be given on board on Saturday was post-
poned in consequence of the severity of the weather
which will detain the frigate possibly until to-day
or to-morrow.

Orders have been received at Sheerness dock-
yard that the boilers of her Majesty's ship Scourge
are to be appropriated for the use of her Majesty's
ship Clio, 22, screw corvette, 1,472 tons, 400-horse
power.

Her Majesty's ship Vanguard is to be renamed
the Ajax.

Her Majesty's ship I3arrosa, 21, screw corvette,
1,700 tons, 400-horse power, now stationed in the
reserve at Woolwich, is ordered to be removed to
Sheerness, for overhauling by the dockyard autho-
rities by the Ist of November next.
The screw steam gunvessel Tyrian, Lieutenant
and Commander Edmund J. Church, just returned
from the Mediterranean, was removed on Friday
from Plymouth Sound into 13amoaze, where she
was inspected on Saturday by Captain Preedy,
preparatory to her being paid off and put out of
commission.

The Valiant, 24, screw (4i-inch armoured iron)
frigate), Captain J. B. Kennedy, C. 8., was put
through her trial of speed over the Stokes Bay
measured mile on Saturday, and realised a mean
maximum rate of speed of lot knots per hour.
This was preparatory to entering upon her coast-
guard duties on the river Shannon.

- The Terrible, 19, paddle (unarmoured wooden)
steam frigate, Captain Trevenon P. Coode, has
returned to Spithead anchorage from Channel port

service.

A naval court-martial assembled on board the
Formidable, flagship of Vice-Admiral Sir Baldwin
W. Walker, K.C.8., Conamander:in-Chief at the
Nore, on Friday, for the trial of Mr. Thomas James
Walters, assist.-engineer of the first class, addi-
tional of the Fisgard, 42, doing duty in the Vivid,
2, 160-horse power, Staff-Commander T. W. Sulli-
van, for having, on the 27th ult., been drunk
and incapable of performing his duty, and also for
having, on the 28th ult., left his duty in the engine
room of the Vivid, and gone below to his mesa place.
Capt. D. M. L. Mackenzie, Flag-Captain of the
Formidable, presided over the court, and Mr. A. A.
Admiralty Arnold,
o of
solicitors,th e
firm
ofR Rochester,
chsseesltle, Knight, and Arnold,
r,
officiated as Deputy
Judge Advocate, and conducted the trial. The
prisoner pleaded guilty to the first charge, and was
convicted of the second charge. In consideration
of his lengthened service and his former good cha-
racter, as shown by the certificates put in, the court
only adjudged him to forfeit all his seniority in his
present rank, and to be dismissed from her Ma-
jesty's ship Vivid.
The following appointments were made on Satur-
day at the Admiralty :—Henry V. Baker, midship-
man, to the Defence ; Samuel Smyth, paymaster, to
the Liffey ; Arthur Hughes, assist.-paymaster, to
the Fisg ird, as supernumerary ; and W. G. Hill,
surgeon, to the Liffey.

SHOCKING DEATH OF A PLATELAYER,--On Satur-
day a platelayer, in the employ of the London and
Brighton Railway. Company, named Kitchingbam, met
with his death under the following shocking circum-
stances : —lt appears that the deceased was walking along
the line near the Now Cross station, having a hammer over
his shoulder at the time, when, in trying to avoid a train
of empty carriages, an express train coming along caught
the hammer and drew the deceased on to the metals and
passed over him, the consequence being that the deceased's
head was smashed in a most frightful manner, and the
body other wise frightfully mutilated. The deceased's re-
mains wore taken to the Railway Tavern, New Cross, to
await an inquest.

CELVJRAL CRI3I IN AL COW:l.—This Day.

OLD COURT.

The October Sessions commenced this morning
before the Lord Mayor, Recorder, and Aldermen.
The number of charges in the calendar amounted
to 124.

The Recorder, in charging the grand jury, said
the number of case 3 to be brought before them were
more numerous than usual, some of the offences
being of a very serious nature. There were two
' charges of murder and several of manslaughter, all
arising, with but one exception, from drunkenness.
It was hoped that crime was on the decrease iu that
court, and therefore it was to be hoped that the great
number of cases thii session were merely excep-
tional. There were, however, six deaths, two persons
to be tried for their lives, awl four or five charges
of manlaughter, all to be attributed to the vice of
intemperance, and such a fact was quite enough to
cause the great2st sorrow and regret. In one of the
cases one of the witnesses said all concerned in the
affray were drunk, so with respect to that they
would have to use their discretion as to the reliance
to be placed upon the evidence. The learned gentle-
man then proceeded to detail the circumstances of
the charges of murder, and also the indictment for
arson against Mary Margarets, the evidence in which
case went to prove that the prisoner,had received no-
tice to quit her employment,and that in 10 minutes
after the fire was discovered. They would see
whether they considered there was sufficient evi-
dence to enable them to return a true bill, and if
not they would act accordingly. There were no par-
ticular difficulties in the other cases embraced in the
calendar, therefore be need not detain them longer
from the commencement of their duties.
The grand jury then retired.

NEW COURT.
(Before Mr. Commissioner Kerr.)
THE CASE OF MADAME RACHEL.

The trial has again attracted the attendance of a
number of elegantly-dressed ladies, who occupy
nearly every available scat in the court.
Sarah Rachel Leverson was indicted with ob-
taining, by false pretences, the sum of £1,400 from
Mary Tucker Borrodaile. There was also au in-
dictment for conspiracy.

Mr. Sergeant Ballantine and Mr. Montagu
Williams were for the prosecution, and Mr. Digby
Seymour, Mr. Sergeant Parry, and Mr. Sergeant
Sleigh defended the prisoner.

The Learned Sergeant, in opening the case, said
it would be idle to suppose that they were un-
acquainted with the facts of the extraordinary case
which was about to be brought before them from
the fe.ct that the case had already once before been
tried by a jury. lie would not further allude to the
case than to ask them to dismiss from their minds any
conclusion they had come to with respect to the
case, and in arriving at the verdict they were called
to give, he asked them to be guided solely by
the evidence that would be placed before them.
The prisoner was better kno•,vn by the name of
Madame Rachel, and kept an establishment in
Bond-street, where she was patronised by royalty.
her business appeared to be, according to her ad-
v,rLisements, to make the fair sex " beautiful for
ever," and also to retail perfumes brought from
Nlnant Ararat, and across the great desert of
Sehara—(laughter)—but he could not give fur-
ther information on that part of the case,
owing to his imperfect geographical knowledge.
The advertisements of course attracted the atten-

tion of ladies, and Mrs. Borrodaile visited the shop
for the purpose of being made "beautiful for ever,"
the coat for which process was to be £l,OOO. This
being a large sum, the prisoner seeing the silly kind
of person she had to deal with, told her that Lord
Ranelagh had fallen in love with her, and the rest
was very soon told. He should ask the jury to
believe the evidence of Mrs. Borrodaile, because
her character was impeachable only as regarded
folly, that she had been a virtuous wife and widow,
that nothing could be raked up against her charac-
ter, howevergreat the desire to do so might be. There
was nothing that would justify the accusation that
she was committing perjury, and therefore he asked
them to give that weight to her evidence which it
rightly deserved. The learned Sergeant then
recapitulated the evidence given at the last trial.
He concluded by saying that it was imputed by the
defence that the prosecutor had been carrying on a
clandestine acquaintance with a persoa of Ow
name of 'William, and that the introduc-
tion of the name of Lord Ranelagh was
merely a blind to conceal that circumstance, but
such an imputation was altogether untrue. If it
was not, did they (the jury) believe that "
would not be produced by the defence to prove the
perjury of Mrs. Borrodaile? His existence must have
been known to plenty of people in connection with the
prisoner. But such an accusation was untrue, an d
he challenged the defence to substantiate the state-
ment in any oue particular. his (Sergeant Ballan-
tine's) witnesses would prove the broad fact alleged
against the prisoner, and he would be quite ready to
call the daughter of the :prosecutrix if that would
in the slightest manner assist the defence in prov-
ing the charge. He felt he could not too strongly
impress upon the jury the extreme improbability of
Mrs. Borrodaile committing perjury. If such was
her intention, did they (the jury) think she did
not know that every tittle of evidence would be
brought strongly against her to prove her unworthy
of belief. His learned friend could call the person
mentioned as Edward and the other lady men-
tioned by the prosecutrix if he felt disposed ;
they doubtless could throw some light upon
the accusation laid against the prosecutrix, if it
was true, but they well knew it was not. It had
been said very forcibly by his learned friend that
the prisoner's mouth was closed by law, but he con-
cluded with the hope that if her counsel concluded
by stating the prosecutrix was unworthy of belief, he
would not stop there, but call his witnesses to prove
the same, and thus enable him to test their accuracy.
He left the issue to them (the jury), with the firm
conviction that justice would be done, and with that
the public would be satisfied.

Mrs. Borrodaile, the prosecutor, was then called,
and examined by Mr. Montagu Williams, and pro-
ceeded to detail her first acquaintance with the pri-
soner in 1864, which commenced in consequence of
her reading the prisoner's advertisements. In that
year she spent £l6O at Madame Rachel's.

We shall continue the report iu a late edition.

COLLISION BETWEEN 7.11 E GALATEA

AND THE DESPATCH.

SOUTHAMPTON, Sept. 19.

The London and South-Western Company's
steamer Despatch, Captain Deal, and the
schooner Galatea, Captain Ball, of Pruro,
came into collision this morning off Ryde.
The Galatea has lost her figure head, cut
water, bowsprit, gibboom, and sundry other
damages, whilst the Despatch has carried away
her port paddle-box. Her lifeboat, star-
board, bulwarks, and hull were drove in,
and considerably damaged. No person was
injured on board the Galatea, but Capt. Deal
was knocked overboard, and picked up severely
injured and insensible. The doctor of her Ma-,
jesty's steamer Liffy, lying near, wont to render
assistance, and finding the captain's shoulder was
broken and dislocated, and that his head was
severely injured, his removal here was considered
advisable. The machinery of the Despatch being
uninjured, she towed the Galatea to Southampton
docks. According to the statement of Captain
Ball the Galatea was off Ryde standing for sea, on
her starboard tack, when the collision occurred about
7.40 this morning.

ANOTHER, ACCIDENT TO 711 E HOLY-

HEAD MAIL.

CHESTER, Sept. 19.
The Holyhead mail,due here at eleven o'clock
last night, on nearing the station ran into a goods
train which was shunting. Several passengers re-
ceived slight injuries.

The French Transatlantic Steam Navigation
Company has ordered three large steamers from the i ru-
portant shipbuilding concern known as the Compagnie des
Chantiers et Ateliers de l'Ocdan.