The Sun.
London, England, 1844-05-10 00:00:00

THIS DAY'S NEWS.

QUEEN'S BENCH.-(THIS DAY).
(Sittings in Banco.)
The Court took the new trial paper to-day. No case of
any public interest came on during the morning.

COMMON PLEAS.-(THIS DAY.)
(Sittings at Nisi Prius before Lord Chief Justice TINDAL.)
ELIOT V. ELLIS AND HICKS, PARISH OFFICERS OF THE CLERK-

EN WELL WORKHOUSE.

In this case Mr. Sergeant Talfourd, Mr. Barstow, and Mr.
Chambers were counsel for the plaintiff; Mr. Sergeant Shee
and Mr. Warren were for the defendants.

Mr. Sergeant TALFOURD stated the case. This was an
action of trespass brought by the plaintiff, who is an attorney,
against the defendants, one of them being the master of the
Clerkenwell workhouse, and the other one of the relieving
officers, for illegally confining and detaining him in the
workhouse. It appeared that on the 2d of December, 1842,
the plaintiff, who resided in Bi unswick-street, Barnsburv-
road, Islington, was confined as a person of unsound mind,
and on the 6th of December he was brought before Mr.
Greenwood, the magistrate. The evidence of the plaintiff's
unsound state of mind was that of one of the war.
rant officers of the Court, who, on going to kis
house to serve a warrant, found him perfectly
naked, except that he had a blanket thrown over him, and
was reading from a Bible which was fastened to the wall,
with great violence of language and gesture. When brought
before the Court, however, he was asked by the parish
surgeon Mr. Semple, some questions on the subject of Bibles,
but replied that such questions were irrelevant to the subject.
He allowed he had six or eight Bibles in different languages,
and that the Duke of Sussex had the largest collection of any
man in England. The magistrate, not thinking that there
was sufficient ground for his detention, refused to interfere,
and the plaintiff withdrew.. He now brought the present
action against the parish officers for his illegal imprisonment
and detention. Evidence was called on the part of the
plaintiff to show that he was perfectly sane. It• is probable
the case will not be concluded to-day.

EXCHEQUER COURT-THIS DAY.
(Sittings at Nisi Frius, before the Loup CIIIEF BARON and
a Common Jury.)
WEEKS V. ROBERTS.

This was a solicitor's action to recover 431.. the amount of
a bill of costs. The plaintiff Weeks is a solicitor carrying on
business in Chancery-lane, and the defendant is a labourer
residing at Tyddyen Galle, in the Island of Anglesea. It
appeared that the child of the defendant Roberts was entitled
to a small property in right of her mother, deceased. Roberts,
as next of kin, filed a bill in Chancery to recoverthe property,
and employed as his solicitor in the matter Henry Rumsey
Williams, of Carnarron, who agreed to manage the business
on the defendant's undertaking to remunerate him for his
services when he ' recovered the property. Rumsey
Williams then engaged the plaintiff Weeks as his
agent in London to attend to, the suit. In July, 1841, the
suit still pending, Rumsey Williams died, and the plaintiff
Weeks shortly after wrote to the deceased's clerk, Hugh Wil-
liams, to say that before the approaching Michaelmas
term he should require a retainer in this, among
other suits in which he then acted as agent for Williams.
Subsequently Weeks wrote to demand 201. OR account for
carrying on the suit, and Williams wrote in reply to explain
the terms on which the suit was originally commenced and
continued for Roberts, and stating that Roberts was a poor
man who could not advance any such sum as 20/., but that
the plaintiff Weeks would be paid the amount of his charges
as soon as the property was recovered. Subsequently the
conduct of the cause came into the hands of a solicitor
named Rous, and then the plaintiff Weeks brought the
present action.
Mr. Jervis and Mr. Atherton appeared for the plaintiff, and
Mr. Martin for the defendant.

Evidence to prove the above-mentioned state of things
having been adduced,
Mr. MARTIN submitted that no case had been made out for
the plaintiff.
The CHIEF BARON said he did not wish to non-suit the
plaintiff. as he thought there was some evidence to go to the
Jury; but he would give leave to the defendant to move to
have the plaintiff mon-suited.
Mr. MARTIN said that Weeks knew that he could only be
paid out of the estate when possession was recovered, and
that he would then be paid.
The Loan CHIEF BARON having summed up, the Jury,
after a few moments' deliberation, returned a verdict for the
defendant.

CRIMINAL COURT-(THIS DAY.)
OLD COURT.
(Before Mr. Justice COLTMAN.)
INFANTICIDE. —Julia Elizabeth Scales, aged 19, was in-
dicted for the wilful murder, on the 22d of March last, of a
female child. of which she had been lately delivered.
Mr. E. Platt 'appeared for the prosecution, and Mr. Doane
defended the prisoner.
The circumstances of this case have very recently been
fully before the public in our police report, when the pri-
soner was examined before Mr. Henry, at Lambeth-street
police-office.
The jury, without a moment's hesitation, returned a ver-
dict of Not Guilty.

UNION HALL.-(THIS DAY.)
ExTErrsivz SEIZURE.—Four men, named White Dixon,
Lowne, and Redman, and a woman named Stanley, were
charged with being engaged in the manufacture of glass in
a private and unentered place.
An excise officer stated that from information he received
he went on the preceding night, between eleven and twelve
o'clock, accompanied by some policemen, to a house in Kent-
street, in which an extensive trade in illicit glass was carried
on. When they approached the place, one of the defendants,
who was on the watch, gave the signal to his companion, who
obeying it ran out the back way and got into an old woman's
house in the neighbourhood, when they were all afterwards
discovered in bed and pretended to be asleep. They were all
taken into custody, and the officer, in describing the circum-
stances of the seizure, said that he never saw a more com-
plete manufactory for the purpose of carrying on an extensive
trade in illicit glass. He found two pots full of liquid metal,
four blowpipes, besides a quantity of manganese and other
ingredients used in the manufacture of glass. Them were
also discovered an immense quantity of bottles and decan-
ters, of various sizes, all of which were seized.

The defendant, in answer to the charge, endeavoured to
induce a belief that they lodged in the house where they
were found, and had no connexion with the glass-house.
Mr. Tnatm—But what have you to say to your clothes
being found in the factory where the work was going on ?
The prisoners made a vague reply to the question ; and the
Magistrate inflicted a penalty of 30/. on each of the defend-
ants, and, in default of payment, sentenced them to be im-
prisoned for three months to hard labour.

THE MURDER AT BATTERSEA.
WANDSWORTH.—(THIS DAY.)
This being the day appointed for the examination and
committal of the man, Augustus Dalmas, who stands charged
with the murder of Mrs. M'Farlane, on Battersea-bridge, the
Magistrate of this Court (Mr. Clive) took his seat at an
earlier hour than usual, perhaps with the intention of avoid
ing the crowd of persons who tried to gain admittance at
eleven o'clock, the usual time of sitting. The witnesses had
been previously warned to be in attendance at nine o'clock.
Mr. Gilham, from Symond's Inn, was in attendance on the
part of the prisoner.
The daughter Charlotte Georgiana Dalmas was the first wit-
ness called. She was accommodated with a chair while giving
her evidence, and was placed in such a position as not to
be able to see the prisoner at the bar. She stated—
I am in, service with a Mr. Patrick, of Montpellier-
square, Brompton. I saw my father in the middle
of the dav • on Monday, the 29th of April. I
asked him if he had seen to some property of mine. He
had not-called on me, but I met him accidentally-in Mont-
pellier-square. He said, when I asked him the question, he
would attend to it. He also said he was very unhappy,
from his anxiety about getting a situation, as he
was not sure whether he would get it or not. That was
all the conversation that took place, and he then went away.
I saw him again the same night between ten and eleven
o'clock, when he walked by and coughed as a signal to me.
I came out and asked him "how he was?" He did not answer
my question, but asked me how I was. He then gave me a
pocket -book containing some property of mine. He then
wished me good night, and went away. He was very unhappy
in his mind. When he went away, I told him I would see
him next Morning.
Mr. Cure—Did you hare any conversation with him
about Mrs. M'Farlane? Witness—No, not that I recollect,
although I am more composed now than' I was when the
officers came to my bed
Mr. CLlVE—Do'you now state, upon your oath, all that
was said at both interviews? 'Witness—Yes, Sir, as far as
I can recollect.
By the Clerk--43oth interviews took place on the same day
—Monday.
Mr. CuvE—You now state that you cannot recollect that
anything further took place ? N 6, I cannot —Did your fa-
ther walk with you arm-in-arm at the first interview ? No,
Sir.—Did he touch you anywhere ? No, sir.—Have you ever
complained that your hand was cut ? No, sir.
By the Clerk—Was it cut P—NO, Sir.
- Mr. CravE—ls there any mark on your hand P—No, Sir.
(There was a slight scratch on her finger.)
You are quite certain that the name of Mrs. M'Farlane was
not mentioned on that day P—lt was not. I have nevermade
any statement at variance with that which I have made this
.day, that I. ara aware of. But I have -int been in a right
state of mind.
By Mr. Gilham—lf there .had been cuts on
your hand
would they not have been there' now?—Yes, Sir. Are
there any cuts on it P—No, Sir. What I haVe before stated
I stated when in an excited state of mind.
The next witness was Ellen Gibson. She merely deposed
to the fact that the prisoner and her sister (the deceased)
were very intimate, and that he was in the habit of meeting
her frequently.
George French, a boy, aged twelve years, after being in-
formed upon the nature of the obligations of an oath, stated
that the prisoner had called, at his (the prisoner's) lodgings
late on the night of the . murder, and that he had gone out
again. He knew him by his step. There was another lodger
there, but he was confident the prisoner was the man, for ho
(witness) knew his step well.
Sarah Ann -Miles, ' daughter of Dalmas' landlord, gave
similar evidence.
Augusta Dalmas, the prisoner's youngest daughter, was
the next called, but her statement only proved that her isither
and Mrs. ll'Farlane had been together at Mr. D'Oyley's, in
Bolton row, at nine o'clock on the night of the murder, and
supposed that they had left together to go towards home.
Police-sergeant Lynes, 5 V.—l was on duty in Bolton-row,
on the night of Monday, the 29th of April, about half-past
eight, and observed, about twenty minutes to nine, a man
walking opjosite, and looking up very anxiously at Mr.
D'Oyley's, No. 9, in that place. I went round to the corner
of Black-place, and watched him, and as the chimes were
going three-quarters pact eight, I sAv a woman come out of
the house, and the man crossed over and met her. They
then went arm-in-arm in the direction of the Queen's Elm.
I knew that the man was the prisoner. The female looked a
smart-made woman, about the middle size.
Elizabeth Shipley, barthaid at the Stag, Brompton. The
Stag is nearly half a mile from Bolton-row. I did not know
the deceased by- name. I observed the prisoner at the bar
on the evening of Monday, the 29th of April, at a little after
nine, in company with a lady. I had seen them, in company
several times before. They stood at the bar, and called for a
quartern of gin and cloves; which I•gave them. They stood
about five minutes, and then left the house. I do not know
in what direction they went.
Elizabeth Shipley re-called—The female was a middle-
aged p,rson, very genteel and stout, and about the middle
size. She had on a straw bonnet and figured light gown.
Sergeant Lynes re-called—The female's gown was striped,
or spotted—inclined to be dark; and the shawl, as far as I
remember, was dark, with a border.
Cress-examined—l read my own evidence at the inquest.
I. slid not know that I was to come forward to prove the dress
on this occasion.
Mary Ann Williamson—Lives at the old toll-house. I am
a dress-maker. • I remember Monday, the 29th of April.
About ten I arrived at home, and abou,t twenty minutes
before wao at the corner of Duke-Street,' and *within A few