The Sun.
London, England, 1850-05-15 00:00:00

.730Xt.OUGH 12 OP ItT.M.I4StIC=Ir

Oar market continues very inactive; }et holders are
not disposed to accept lower prices.

WIEEX".CMCHAPEIL.
Prime Beef, Mutton and Lamb, commanded a steady
sale at full prices. In other kinds of meat only a
limited business was doing. Beef from 2s to 3s 0:1;
Mutton, 2s 8d to 3s lod; Lamb, 4s 4:1 to 5s Sd; Veal,
2s 8d to 3s 4d; and Pork, 3s to 4s par Blbs, by the
carcase.

QUEEN'S BENCH.—(THIS DAY.)
(Sittings at Niti Prius, nt Guildh3ll, bif Lard CAMP
BELL and a COMUD.II Jury.)
HETHERINGTON V. WCORMIC.

This was an action brought to recover damages for an
assault and false imprisonment.
Mr. Lush was counsel for the plaintiff, and Mr. O'Mal•
ley represented the defendant.
Thu plaintiff is a Parliamentary agent and debt
collector, and the defendant is a tradesman residing
in Fleet street. It arpeared that the plaintiff,
who had been an attorney in Ireland, having
been reduced in circumstances, came to England, wly:11
he became connected with the defendant in certain busi
sass transaction,, and in November last the drh-ndant,
thinking he had some cause of complaint against the
plaintiff, gave him into custody on a charge of em-
bezz!ing 2/. 45., as be (the plaintiff) was walking town
Fleet-street on his way to his chamberi. He was then
taken before the police magistrate at Guildhall, by whom
he was detained in custody from the 19th of November
until the 16th December, and then discharged.
Witnesses having been called to prove these facts.
Mr. O'MALLEY addressed the jury for the defence,
contending that the reputation of the plaintiff had sus-
tained no injury. The charge against him only fell to
the ground ter want of legal e vidence to support it.
The plaintiff had himself admitted his moral guilt.
There were several charges of a like description againtt
the plaintiff, end on one of them be bad been committed
to Newgate, though afterwards discharged. The defea•
dant, he submitted, was only liable for the imprison-
ment of the plaintiff until the remand took place.
Lord CAMPBELL told the jury the sole question for
them was the amount of damages. The plaintiff was net
entitled to damages beyond the time of the remand. Hi
thought this was hardly a case for nominal damages, as
the defendant had taken the law into his own hands.
The defendant bad not proved that a felony was com-
mitted; therefore it must he assumed that the charge
against the plaintiff was unfounded. The defendant had,
on the other hand, acted en very excusable mody(li
in giving the plair,t,ff into custody, and that being so,
he (Lord Campbell) did not think it was an aggravated
case.

The jury returned a verdict for the plaiutiff—Damage
ene farthing.

EXCHEQUER.-(THIS DAY.)
The second sittings at NM Prins, in the city, were
held to-day, but nothing transpired of the slightest put:-
lie interest or importance.

BOW-STREET.-(THIS DAY.)
A respectably-attired man, who spoke with the ac-
cent (,f as Irishman, was charged under the following
circumstances:—

Police-constable F 16 stated, that yesterday aftern,,on
he met the prisoner in Crown- street, Holborn, carrying
a child, about nine years of age. The prisoner was in-
toxicated, and the child appeared to be insensible from
drink. He sent the prisoner in custody of another con-
stable to the station, while he himself took the child to
the hospital, where it was found to be in a dangerous
' state, but its stomach was relieved of its foul contents,
and now the child was only suffering from the langour
producel by the drink it had taken.
The father of the child, who appeared to be a me-
chanic, stated that all he knew of the prisoner was
simply this:—Some time ego he introduces a lodger to his
house. Yesterday he call,d to see this lodger, and took
that Opportunity of getting possession c f the child, by
inducing the wife to let it go to a neighbouring pawn-
shop to redeem a scarf for him. Nothing was heard
the child till the police-eOnst able came with the informa-
tion that it was in the hospital.
The prisoner admitted this statement to be correct,
and told the magistrate that before he got • to the pawn
shop he met a friend, who invited him to have some
drink, and this person gave the child two glasses of rum.
Mr. HENRY asked if the chit was a male or u female?
—The father replied that the child was a female. The
child was not sufficiently recovered to admit of her being
removed from the hospital.
Mr. HENRY, therefore, remanded the case until she
could attend to give evidence in the case,

SADLER'S WELLS THEATRE.
PERFORMANCE IN AID OF TIDE FUNDS OF

GRAND EXHIBITION OF 1850.
All honour to Messrs. Greenwood and Phelps for
having set an example which, we trust, will be followed
not only by all metropolitan managers, but by all pro-
vincial managers also. They, to-morrow, give a per-
formance at the Theatre Royal Sadler's Wells, the entire
receipts accruing from which will be given i❑ aid of the
funds of the Grand Exhibition of 1851, the expenses of the
evening being defrayed by the management. This liberality
on the part of Messrs. Greenwood and Phelps is almost
unparalleled in the history of theatricals, and accordingly
we are rejoiced to find that their conduct has been so
highly appreciated that H. R. H. the Duke of Cambridge
has consented that the performances shall be under his
most gracious patronage, and that his Royal Highness
has taken a box, and signified his intention to honour
them with his presence; that the Duchess of Sutherland,
and several others of the nobility have taken boxes and will
also be present, and that the following gentlemen have
consented to act as a committee :—Charles Dickens,
Esq , Leigh Hunt, Esq., Charles Kemble, Esq., Douglas
Jerrold, Esq., John Forster, Esq., Charles Knight,
Esq. ,John Oxenford, Esq, D. Maclise, Esq., R.A.,
H. F. Chorley, Esq., J. A. Heraud, Esq., F. G. Tom-
fins, Esq., G. Daniel, Esq., Clarkson Stanfield, Esq.,
R.A. The peformance will commence with an
Address, written by R. H. Horne, Esq., which will be
spoken by Mr. Phelps, after which the National Anthem
will be sung. This will be followed by four acts of
Shakepere's Henry VIII., after which Mr. R. H. Horne
will appear as Shylock, in the trial scene of the Merchant
of Venice. This will be succeeded by a grand concert,,in
which Miss Dolby, Miis Lucombe, Miss Lanza,Miss Lizzie
Tedder: Mr. G. F. Kiallmark, Mr Sedgwick, Herr
Stuart, Herr Ernst, Mr. Whitworth, Mr. Travers, Mr. G.
Esq., Sheridan Knowles, Esq., R.' H. Horne, Esq.,
J. W. Marston, E: q., T. K. Hervey, Esq ,
Charles Cowden Clark, Esq., Lord Nugent, M.P.,
Lord Dudley C. Stuart, M. P., Richard Monek-
ton Manes, Esq., M. P., IV. M. Thackeray,
Mengis, and other eminent performers, who have kindly
given their valuable assistance, will appear. The whole
w ll_conclude with the farce of the Silent Woman. Again,
we say, all honour to Messrs. Greenwood and Phelps for
the liberal manner in which they have come forward in
support of a great national object, and may the excel-
lent example which they have been the first to set be
followed by every other manager in the kingdom.

- "AWFUL-SACRIFICE" TRADESMEN.-1110 of these
generous, disintereeed, sacrificing gentlemen had stuck
upon every other pane of glass, "Selling off no reasonable
offer refused— must close on Saturday." This man once
offered himself as bail, or security, in some case which wus
brought before a magistrate. The magistrate asked him if
he was worth 2001. ; he said " Yes." " But you are about
to remove, are you not ?" " No." " Why you wrote up
`Selling off.'" -"
Yes; every shopkeeper is selling of."
" You say, 'No reasonable offer will be refused.'" " Why,
I should be very unreasonable if I did refuse such offers."
'But you say you Must close on Saturday.'" "To be
sure ; you wi,uld not have me open on Sunday, would you ?"
—Liverpool Paper.

The Earl of Lincoln's Divorce Bill was yesterday
read a first time in the House of Lords, and was ordered to be
read a Etcond time on Tuesday, 28tli

EXTRAORDINARY CASE OF 131'

At P STU' E.
(nsen the Essex Herald.)
ietal yesterday, , remarkable and almost incredible
the weakly board of the Sussex County O°P
ease of imposture was exposed :
A woman
named lie:sy (ino, aged 23
threei. weeks since as an in-patient, on the rec°93lll'
etion of it subscriber and a surgeon's certificate), "I
chargad by, her surgeon with wilfully producintgo
the disease the cure of which she had apPlierl.„
the hospital. The steeernint made against her was,
seat very numerous diseased patches of skin, over
and facei
nearly the wh de of her body,
were the result of her own application to the parts °5
by drochlorie acid (spirit of salt). Several patched
were nearly as large as the palm of the hand ;
they were in different stages, the recent ones bei.cri
received
yet in a gangrenous condition, others (frora•
the sloughs bad suppurated) were deep and irnilulei'do
some ulcers, and many (the majority) bad healed,
the
but with disfiguring scars, and in some places ,The
injury and contraction of the adjacent sinews' ot:
fellowing arguments were advanced by her at ot
—That the parts of her body (as her back, 84°) nr.
neirlily accessible to her own hand remain r
the affecho:d
feetly sound, and free from scars ; that
was totally different from any disease which he hich
patches w ere
ever witnessed ; tint the three fresh
had shown themselves during her stay in they I.lVci
Hospital had been scrutid; that some tibed,
water, with which they had been carefully wts ce
gave, with chemical tests, abundant ore, A
of the presence of hydrochloric acid; fromthat
little hydrochloric acid, which he brought 111) ,ced
the surgery, and applied to her skin, had pre
a gangrenous spot—a miniature fac-
sfili/e oho 0
others ; and, lastly, that on searching ber cir:golee
phial had been found containing the remain' °,1;,-.31i
hydrochloric acid. The woman, after nrallY„77oled
and prevarications, at length admitted her gu'"' tioa
further, that she had been practising the deeePa of
for a period of nearly three years, four 111°,,ntj's0ed
which she had spent in the Colchester HosP,B„;aoe,
nine weeks in University College Hospital, Labile
without the imposture being discovered. „ ins
begging for mercy, she stated that she had b° better
d uced so to act in the hope of obtaining ww
home than a wo kh ouse.
It appears
enter tai thaty the suspicionsmedical
gentlemenfraudsv:vrielofoart
ts:e
o:red;
her in Chelmsford. It was at the begi°ll,nolisa
December, 1847; when medical relief was iararcl
for, and she exhibited to Mr. a C°P',El" tbst
.gangrenous appearance upon the forearm'i,srges
gentleman,
from its appearance, instantly
her with producing it by burning, hilt
this she I
bat /
peatedly and solemnly denied,- declaring te cos'
came of i-self, and the mother when questions there
firmed her in this, adding as a proof tba:t4,o
was no deception in the case that the Pf IS
Cher died from a disease of the same characteh'e fiesh
the course of a short time a large piece °f Vii3g
in the arm mortified and actually dropped out, -et, to
a deep and painful ulcer, nearly six inches 1°13°411
,ecure the healing of which it was necessary t° esroat
pabifal caustics. Since then there has been et
succession of •sores, as many as sixty Pis, cesi-driug;
appeared, all of the same character, and all rel,ilse
the same treatment. Some of these were the
the top of a teacup, others as large as see°
plate and s everal, though healed, have left .Perit
iej ury behind them; one in particular, 01 to
back of the hand, was so deep that it inv°lvaebesi
entirely
of the tendons, destroying the use of „"
; the face is scarred from the same alet"s; 07,
in fact there is scarcely a part of the body thB""elm P
marked by frightful cicatrices of these vv°lll3—; see
was not till these sores were multiplied, and Ptehlett
pearance, upon the face, to the great injury
,°f
s personal appearance, which it seemed ion)" ap•
ps
that any woman would voluntarily inflict, the
rent absence of all motive to counterbalance:6•
os;
degree
of pain, and after the many solemn ;„e
tams of the party, that Mr. Copland was wbtc
to consider it or treat it as a disease spos'ili'
was certainly then considered as one before 11°-,11 the
The woman was seen by several medical tneu 'd 0
town, all of whom were fairly pussled ; 513001
medicine was baffled, arrangements vgeffie „thee
by the benevolent, and she was sent v"-bciiib'
ter Hospital. Discharged from that es.ti I tete!
menth in much the same state as sbLealfs,"-
t rough the sympathy excited in her ur,,4-Ditol
was introduced to one of the London ss"
where her case created intense interest oce,
gave rise to every conjecture but the righof
tb
Artists were employed to take drawing',.;
wounds ; every means of cure that iogenu"Jto tb:
suggest were attempted; but after some 110°.°- 00"
patient returned home much worse than s'peotis6
The pity of those who for three years had be;- berej
atrociously imposed on did not let her case res"v eo'
another effort was happily_ made, and racietrire(glet
clothes were furnished to place her in the.v.,sif
Hospital, where the fraud was most ingent°'
.tiecoit:ehdae.
reason assigned by the impostor for her trlers'l9
f prece with the whole transaction. -85,Wee ertt);
stateddshe was in service ; and it has never L'9)11) Pi
doubt
that she should go into the union-houses, es'
rt her oljset was to defraud the charitsu''n'et
e has succeeded, though, we should think "leg
the extent of her original plan ; but she has assttiorigi.
obtained reek amongst the most remarkable Pe
postors of the day."

THE CITY GAS QUEST
Yesterday, on the re-assembling of the C
Mr. Cardwell in the chair, the examination 00004
Mr. Croll, the engineer of the Central Gas,.„oo.
was proceeded with, and continued for three statedb
did not anticipate any d,ffitailty in running roe
through Whitechapel, though se many ahead)? rogelteit
through that district. The amount of gas ectligreetio
the public street lights of the metropolis vv', b 08,4
than that consumed by private lights, itiasnie;peanot
latter were a less time burning. Generalljn—oaclA
there was very little escape of gas in Lorm°7:00"110
greater proportion of gas that could not be see" JO AO
arose not so much from leakage, but from lot
termed " cheatage" and " stealage." 111) t°_,135,%00
last the Great Central Company had rece/YP-11
and had 12,0001. at the bankers. The Issl,toiliaPi
due on the 16th of April, and was con3Pll7, 10'.90
able before the 29th of May. Witaess,lods+,
in the company was about twenty thousand P-t-ractet"l;ol
he was interested in it as an engineer, a Virovsti,"no
meter, manufacturer, and a shareholder. P'"0,0317-f
gas might be supplied by the Commercial Gas ,fit
in Whitechap, I, at less than 58., and at a
per cent. Was not aware that the Conone,-
pally did not for several years pay a divideti Tettlia-014
The Hon. CHAIRMAN —Do you think that iP-
supply less gas than you have contra'lteii for
oft
companies came down permanently to 493,. 00 Jae gt,
itness—lt would not affect us for the first 650,U0U
because we have entered into contracts vet o,oovd'os
consumers in the City to supply them with ; PO'
cubic feet of gas for five years, and after
operation we expect to pay a first dividend. NOM'
The committee, at four o'clock, adjourned t°
27th inst., at twelve o'clock. tle
sc
00
The following account of violence and twist .00
loos conduct at the Somerset County Protee'is tb,egoir
Conservative Association meeting, at their dionerfloe Sirpth
Down-Inn, on the Ist of May, 1850, Sir John 10,0;
ley in the chair, is stated to have taken place e` aor
and Cheltenham Gazette, (a Tory paper), of the 8 sta°
1850 :—" After Ike usual toasts, Mr. W. A. Mlles ascii 08
for the purpose of proposing the healths of Mr• ,"I„rte,r°,ol'
Pinney. A burst of disapprobation from everY (Mr. tito-oill.
meeting showed that there was no probability, ;able c-
proposition being entertained ; and after coot e— roole te.
sion, Mr. H. Blandford, who sat on the side of the pioadeif
rnediately opposite Mr. Green, rose from big ,se,3,;ve 10
the form, strode across the four tables whichliar fr°fl
tween him and Mr. Green, seized him by the 4.f:d
coat, and, with the assistance of others, ei,ee'Atierphis
the room, amidst the cheers of the meeting.„,„, wit,
sort of a man must the chairman be?, v`"";erit.'
Blandford? Neither Miles or Pinney wee Pr''''
a Correspondent. clOtif 10
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PLYMOUTH, MAY 13.—The Jessie, Li?! 600 i.
John's, Newfoundland, has put back lesiY: 48, "
decks swept, 19th April, long. 34, W.,
heavy see.

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OF A SOX.
On the 11th inst., in Hill-street, Berkeley-sitratsr • of.
of the Rev. R. M. Wood, curate of AldburY, v`,.`iie l'Aw
On the Bth inst., at Balsdon-lodge, Torquay' ' , 4,400
11. Lee, Esq. • ttrolb P'
On the 11t11 inst., at Sutton's-gate, Hornell
Mrs. J. J. W. Dutch. MO*
OF A DAUGHTOM og_
On the 11th inst., Mrs. Rice W. Harris, of toe°
Birmingham. gri•kie pa.,
On the Bth inst., at Kingston,Gloucestershire, cooper,
On the 11th inst., at Tilford, the wife of A•
46th Regiment. Of
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At Highbury, on the 14th inst., Mr- ow
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Broadhempston, Oevon, to Elizabeth Matilda,
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On the 9th inst., at I.langarren, Daniel sort° pck'
son of the late D. B. Scott, Esq., of Ingh3°l'vorilif
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Edith, youngest daughter of the late Thomas 1
of Bernithan-court, near Ross, Herefords Air .0:0 006
On the 9th inst., at St. Peters's, Shaftes ileo,
Oxley, of Frome Selwood, Somerset, to iztice.
daughter of T. Abbott, Esq, of the former p -

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