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London, England, 1844-04-23 00:00:00

MINORITY-NOES, 89.

Aglionby, H. A. Elphinstone, Howard Pechell, Captain
Baring. I. T. Evans, W. Philips, M.
Barnard, E 6, Ewart, William Plumridge, Captain
Barron, Sir H. Forster, Matthew Protheroe, Edward
Bell, John French, F. Russell, Lord John
Berkeley; C.' Gill, Thos. Rutherford, A
Berkeley, Captain Gisborne, Thomas Scholefield, Joshua
Bernal, R. Gore, Robert Scott, Robert
Pernal, Captain Grey, Sir G. Seymour, Lord
Bowring, Dr. Grosvenor, Lord R. Shelburne, Earl of
Buller, C. Hastie. A. Smit h ,IVernon
Busfeild, W. Hatton Captain Stansfield, W R.
Butler, P. S. Hawes, B. Stock, Sergeant
Cavendish, Hon. 0. Hay, Sir A. Strickland, Sir G.
Chapman, -B. Heathcoat, J. Strutt, Edward
Christie, W. D. Hobhouse, Sir J. C. Tancred, Henry W.
Clay, Sir W. Howard, E. G. fhornely, Thomas
Colebrooke, Sir T. iinwick, Lord Trelawny J. S.
Collett, John Labouchere, H. Wakley, Thomas
Craig, N. G. Langston, J. H. Walker, R.
Dash wood, G. H. Lemon, Sir C. Warburton, Henry
Denison. W. J. Mamuley, T. B. Watson, W. H
Penison,John Evelyn Marjoribanks, S. Wilde, Sir T.
Duncan, Lord Marshall, William Wilshere, W.
Duncan, George Marsland, H. Wood, Charles
Duncombe, T. S. Mitchell, T. A. Wrightson, W.
Dundas, Admiral Murphy, F. S. Yorke, H. Redhead
Dundas, David Napier, Sir Charles
Easthopc, Sir John Paget, F. TELLERS.
Ebrington, Viscount Palmerston, Viscount Hill, Lord M. AC.
Ellis, Wynn Parker, J. Tuttle% H.

BRENTFORD PETTY SESSIONS.
On Saturday a boy, named John Kingston, aged fifteen
years, was brought up before the Magistrates, charged
with having made a most desperate attack with a stone
on a boy named Robert Edwards, thirteen years of age,
by which his life was in imminent danger.
It appeared the prisoner and Edwards were engaged
with other boys in loading grains at the brewery of
Messrs. Coles and Co., at Twickenham, and while at
work they were paid with beer instead of money, and
many of them were in the habit of getting tipsy upon
their allowance. The prisoner and Edwards quarreed
on leaving work, and the former, in the height of his
anger, ran to him and beat him on the head with a large
flint stone till he fainted from pain and loss of blood.
He was taken to an hospital, and had only recovered
sufficiently to appear then in Court,.
The prisoner acknowledged the assault, but said
he
was provoked by Edwards having thrown stones at him.
The Bench committed the prisoner for trial.

METROPOLITAN DRAPERS' ASSOCIATION.—A ser-
mon was preached on its behalf, on Sunday evening last, by
the Rev. Tennison Cuff', at Carlisle Episcopal Chapel,
Kennington. The Rev. Gentleman descanted at length, and
upon the demoralising tendern• of late
with much earnestness,
attendance in shops and dressmakers' work-rooms. lie asked
how was it possible that young men who were employed,
upon an average, for fourteen hours daily in the winter, and
for sixteen and seventeen in the summer season, could ac-
quire those qualifications which were essential to a proper
discharge of the duties appertaining to the dignified office of
a British merchant, an office to which the majority naturally
aspired, and which a large number of them must necessarily
fill. And he further asked, if it could be reasonably expected
that young persons, who, like thousands of the class under
consideration, were kept toiling at their business till one, two,
and sometimes even three o'clock on the Sabbath morning,
would, or even could, attend properly to the duties
,of that sacred day. Instead of attending a place
of Divine worship, he asked, would they not be far
more likely to throw themselves upon their beds to seek relief
from that lasitude and exhaustion which they would not have
experienced had they retired at a seasonable hour on the
previous night. Mr. Cuff stated that the way to render
young men less given to dissipation was not by chaining
theinto the counter till an hour every night when all places
of proper resort being closed, those of vice and licentiousness
only were open to receive them ; but by placing at their dis-
posal proper opportunity for moral and intellectual improve-
ment ; in' confirmation of which opinion, he referred to the
recordd testimony of employers who have tried the experi-
ment. Mr. Cuff interspersed his remarks with several anec-
dotes, some of which were of an interesting and others of an
appalling nature. lle observed that such a state of things
coil(' not go en, that reform must take place, and that, as a
clergyrban, he felt it to be his imperative duty to aid its pro-
motion. In concluding, the Rev. Gentleman made a very warm
appeal to his hearers, calling upon them, as heads of fami-
lies, to make such arrangements as for none' of their house-
hold ever to enter a shop after six o'clock in the evening.
THE MINERS.—Two or three of the Derbyshire
coal Lords have, within the last few days, consented to ad-
vance their colliers' wages, and the men are returning to
their work. In this county the rascally truck system has
been practised at some collieries for a length of time, and to
a most audacious extent, almost as open as any public shop.
Some of these robbers of poor men have been the first in gee
ranks to brawl against the "strike," and misrepresent the
men's earnings. -Prosecutions are likely to reach the doors
of the truck gentlemen, and every honest person will be glad
of it.—From a Correspondent.
NICOLAS DE WITTE, THE
.CELEBRATED HARPIST.
—Dc Witte expired in Golden-square, on Saturday, from in-
flammation, after an illness of a few days. M. de Witte was
the son of the Russian General of that name, and had takes
to the profession owing to a severe accident he met with whtla.
in the cavalry which disabled him for life.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
2 ROM TETE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
GLOBE.—Whether accidentally, or by design,
we take not upon ourselves to determine; but certain
it is that the proceedings against O'Connell and his
co-defendants-have been brought to a dead lock. On
Saturday, shortly before the rising of the Court, the
Attorney-General, in person, applied that the
motion for a new trial, which stood for Monday
(to-day), should be postponed! From the state-
ment of the Attorney-General, it would seem, that
the prosecutors have not taken a single etep toward.
answering the affidavits on which the counsel
for the defendants moved for a new trial. The report
of what took place on Saturday sufficiently explains
the new dilemma in which the Crown lawyers find
themselves involved. The effect of this new impedi-
ment will be to throw the case over the term.
Should the motion for a new trill be refused
by the Court, the writ of error cannot reach
the House of Lords during the present session.
The party which goaded tLe Government into the ill-
starred prose ,ution, and whose journals, indecently
anticipated the verdict, and actually assigned the
measure of punishment which the defendants would
receive at the hands of the Court, were loud in their
complaints whenever an objeetion was taken to any
part of the certainly very questionable pro-
ceedings of the Crown lawyers, that justice
was d leyeil by unnecessary impediments.
The Irish Tories thus showed their thirst
for the conviction, and fs;r a vindictively severe
punishment, as the result of that conviction. Easter
Term was anticipated with impatience. It would
then be known what course would be taken, and when
that course would be entered upon. That was to be the
termination of all doubt.. Certainty would then be sub-
stituied for conjecture. These rabid prophets would
then see their predictions confirmed by the event.
'he ordinary proceedings were adopted on the part of
the defendants. Oa receiving a four days' rule,
giving them notice that the Attorney-General, on
the part of the Crown, would move the Court for
judgment, a motion for a new trial, founded on
affidaviteee!mtas made on their behalf. The Court
fixed this 'day for- the argument. One class
of the affidavits filed in 'support of the motion had
reference to the mytterious loss .of a consider-
. ahle number of names from the jury lists. These
affidavits, as the Attorney-General saw, were of a
nature which demanded a specific answer : " He con-
ceived it to be his duty"—so he stated to the Court—
" to cause the clerks of the peace to be served with a
notice, setting forth the charges in these affidavits of
the traversers, in order to ascertain whether they would
"swear affidavits in reply:" The clerks of the peace,
it would appear, from the Attorney-General's state-
ment, had taken no official notice of his notice. What
private. intimations, explanations, or directions have
b6n conveyed on the one hand, which, if known,
would account for the expressive silence of these func-
tionaries, or whether that which appears pregnant
with suspicion of design be only the result of one of
those accidents, or " mistakes,' which have sig-
nalised the proceedings against O'Connell from
their commencement, perhaps time, the great ex-
pounder of mysteries, may explain. All we at pre-
sent know is, that the order of the Court has been
discharged generally, and that the notice stands
on the _ lists without any day being named for
its renewal. This new delay, caused by the prosecu-
tors, will tend t, strengthen the generally-believed
report, that the Gevernment has not the intention of
pressing for judgment against the parties. Modera-
tion may, and will be, condemned by the intempe-
rate; but it will be 'approved by men of all parties
who desire to see the mass of the Irish people conci-
liated and emancipated from the delusions of repeal.
Next to abstinence on the part of the Government
'from interference with an agitation which (as Sir
Robert Peel admitted) was "burning itself out'!—
but which was revived by the new fuel supplied by
the- prosecutions to its flickering flame—we could.
wish to see a decided disposition on the part of Mi-
ftTeters to proceed no further in the course on which
they ought never to have entered. The Government
has gained nothing, but has lost much, in character
and moral influence by the prosecution. Every step
onward in the ill-advised course will be fraught
.with danger. It. is possible that this new hitch
in the proceedings is the result of accident. At; all
events, it must cause considerable delay. By arrest-
ing the progress of the law it will afford to the Go-
vernment an opportunity' of more dispassionately re-
viewing the whole proceedings. If that review in-
duce a prudent disposition to abandon the idea of
pressing for udgment, a plausible excuse is supplied.
Time, in such a state of things, is of great importance.
This is obtained lef the accidental or designed impe-
diment to the argument on the new trial motion,
which was to have been entered upon to-day; but is
now postponed, sine die.
STAN DARD.—From what passed in the Irish
Court of Queen's Bench on Saturday, it is certain
• that the Attorney-General will have the fraud of the
abstracted names of the jurors' list searched to the bot-
tom. In consequence of the traversers and their
solicitors having sworn to theirbelief that the abstrac-
tion of the names was not accidental, the high-spirited
Attorney-General instantly called upon the Clerk
of the Peace and the other functionaries who
had access to the lists to answer these affi-
davits before twelve o'clock on Saturday. At
three o'clock on Saturday, however, they had
neither answered the affidavits nor intimated any
purpose of doing so; and there the matter rests. The
Attorney-General, unfortunately, has no power over
the Clerk of the Peace and the other persons concerned.
They are the servants of the repeal corporation, !or
of the well-known Mr. Frederick Shaw, the person
to whom chiefly the repeal corporation owes its
existence. Magrath, the person responsible
for the' lists, is, we presume, wholly in Mr. Shaw's
hands ; for we remember that in the late debate, in
which this question of the lists was raised, Mr. Shaw
declared, with some affectation of scorn, that he had
not dismissed and would not dismiss' Magrath. Of
course he will not dismiss Magrath, even though that
person still decline to purge himself of the fraud imputed
to him in the affidavits of the traversers and their attor-
neys. This most extraordinary conduct of public
offioers calls for another delay, and this, no doubts is
one of • the motives of the recusants. While
we are upon this subject, let us follow up
a hint of the Morning Herald, by a suggestion
that we think might go far to baffle the
dilatory scheme of the traversers. They say
that they will split their motion, in fact into
eight motions, each traverser employing his own
counsel. Now it is observed by our Contemporary,
that the punishinent, sooner or later, or at all,
of. six of the conspirators is of little moment,
and we so far agree- with the Herald. The
cases of Messrs. Barrett, Dully, Steele, Ray,
John O'Connell, and Doctor Gray, may very
well stand over for as many terms as shall be found
convenient. But the case of Mr. Daniel O'Connell
and Mr. Tierney must be disposed of at once. Why
not then, as the traversers choose to split their mo-
tion, take them separately in fact : first deal with Mr.
Daniel O'Connell, then with Mr. Tierney, both
promptly, and afterwards take the rest at leisure.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
(YESTERDAY.)
MANSION-HOUSE.

Edward Blthurst, the person who was brought before
Sir Peter Laurie, charged with having endeavoured to
obtain 2,00f1 Exchequer bills from Mr. Joseph Davis; of
the Stock Exchange, was re examined yesterday. Mr.
Thrradaile, and other mercantile men of eminence, were
present.
Mr. Wise attended as solicitor for Mr. Davis.

When the prisoner was placed at the bar, -
Sir PETER LAURIE asked him whether any friends of
his Iv/ r( present? Bathurst—l have friends ; but they
will not ackowledge me in this condition.
Sir PETER LAURIE—Can you procure any bail ?
Bathur4-1 fear nobody will will bail me.
Mr. Borradaile said that he attended at the justice
room, in consequence of the statement which apr eared
in the newspapers, having received a bill of exchange
drawn by the prisoner from the Cape of Good Hope,
upon Sir Charles Cockerell and Co. The prisoner had
no funds whatever at the house, and had no authority
to draw upon it, and Sir Charles Cockerel' knew no- -
thing at all of him.. The money had been paid at the
Cape.
Hem? Sir PErrEa Lanny. handed the bill of exchange,
which w.as regularly noted, to the prisoner, and asked
;whether he know anything about it. Bathurst (with a
long sigh)—Yes. I do know it, unfortunately.---, (A
laugh.)
Sir. PETER LAURIE—Wiw did you represent at the
Cape of Good Hope that you had authority to draw upon
Sir C. Cockerel! ? Bathurst—lf I had my papers here,
I would show you that I had a correspondence upon the
subject and that I had no improper design in what I
had done.. I am merely unfortunate—certainly not ed.-
mina[.
Sir PETER LAURIE you showed me your correspond-
ence with Coutts' Bank, the particulars of which I id
not publicly mention- ; but that only went to show they
declined to have anything at all to do with you. Bathurst
—I assure you I was authorised by Coutts house to do
as I was doing, when it was thought necessary to take me
into custody.
is your property of
Sir PETER LAURIE—Where
which Yon'
have- spoken ? .Bathurst
ample means.l • do de-
clare to you that I bad once
My father was in extensive business in India,
but lie died early, and I went out to secure his business
Witt conduct it, but I became overwhelmed with embar-
rassments and difficulties, and I arrived in this country
struggling with misfortune.
Sir PETER LAURIE—You now say you are in distress,
hrtil still yon went, in the midst of these embarrass-.
ments, to take a enunting-hawse, and to instruct a broker
to purchase 2,000/. Exchequer bills. Now, how do you I
reconcile these inconsistencies? Bathurst—l was,. .1 de- I'
claret authorised by Coutts' to hypothecate these bills;
but I admit I have acted very foolishly.
Sir PETER Li tram—The fact is, you thought youwere
too° clever for us, and you were mistaken. I have made
inquiries, and find. that syou have respectable con-
reogious. r find, also, 'that you have • but very lately, •
arrived from the Cape of Good Hope, so that you have

not had much time to put impositions of this description
into practice ; and the picture which the press has drawn
and is likely more fully to draw of you will, in all pro-
bability, stop you in a career which might, if unob-
structed for some time, end in a trial in the Central
Criminal Court.
Bathurst—My friends have all turned their backs
upon me, and I have a wife and children to support. I
have otlended the members of my family. Believe me it
was not my intention to defraud anybody.
Sir P. LAURIE—Why, you have defrauded a party at
the Cape, as this bill of exchange testifies, and you
certainly aimed boldly at defrauding Mr. Davis, but he
would not be cheated.
Bathurst—l did not suppose they observed such
strictness in business here.—(Laughter.)
Sir P. LAITRIE--I fancied on Saturday that you were
insane, but I entertain a different opinion now. How-
ever, you have got into kind hands. Mr. Davis, who
might punish you severely, is disposed to take a very
lenient course, and I shall be satisfied to take your own
recognizances, to the amount of 1001., to appear here
when required. Do not abuse this kindness.
Bathurst—l shall not, indeed, Sir. All I wanted was
to establish just the form of credit.—(A laugh.)—He
then very eagerly entered into his own recognizances
and was discharged.
A gentleman applied for advice under the following
circumstances. He stated that about a month ago he
handed a bill of exchange for 100/. to a friend of his to
get discounted, that his friend handed it to a person who
was a clergyman of the Church of England, and repre-
sented himself as having c:introl over large suns of
money, on account of which representations the bill was
entrusted to him, and that the address this money-agent
gave proved to be incorrect, as the house was unin-
habited, and the Reverend Gentleman was not known
there. It was presumed as he had broken several ap-
pointments promising to give the cash for the bill, that
he had obtained the money and misappropriated it.
A summons was immediately issued.
CLERKEN WELL.

TAE LATE ABDUCTION CASE.— William Burton New-
enham was brought up for final examination, charged
with the abduction of Frances Louisa Wrotham, daugh-
ter of a widow lady residing in Gerard-street, Coburg-
road, Islington.
The bench and every other part of the court was
crowded with spectators, amongst whom were several
county magistrates, and a great number of professional
gentlemen, whose interest was probably excited by the
contention between the Court of Chancery and this
court for the custody of the prisoner.
The prisoner was dressed with great neatness, and
fashionably. He wore his shirt collar turned over ala
Byron. He looked very pale, but seemed in full pos-
session of that confidence which he has on former occa-
sions exhibited.
Mr. Southee, of Ely-place, was for the prosecution,
and Mr. Humphries for the defence.
A great portion of the facts of this case have been
already before the public. The following is a resume of
the supplementary evidence.
Mrs. Wortham, mother of the young lady, who looked
exceedingly delicate and depressed, was sworn. Some
letters were handed in which had been written to her by
the trustees of the property (Messrs. Hawkins and Pem-
berton) to which Miss Wortham had become entitled.
These letters she had shown to the prisoner, one of
them regarded the making Miss Wortham a ward of
Chancery. (A copy of the deed of settlement by which
Miss Wortham became entitled to the property—be-
tween 4001. and 5001. a year—was handed in.) Witness
showed that deed to the prisoner, who said he would
take it to his attorney, Mr. Hammond, of Furnival's Inn,
and he took it thither accordingly. On witnesses return
to her house on the day of the abduction, 13th of Octo-
ber, 1843, she found a letter on the table written with a
pencil, of which these were the contents—" My dear
Jane, we are gone to Furnival's Inn, yours affectionately
—William." The reading of this laconic epistle caused
much laughter in Court. 'Witness proceeded to state
that he never addressed her in that familiar strain before ;
had always called her Mrs. Wortham, and been very
respectful to her.
Mr. COMBE said there was no necessity for putting
that evidence on the face of the depositions.
Mr. Southee wished to have it appear there.
Mr. COMBE—It is not material. The prisoner is now
charged with felony : on former occasions it was mis •
demeanour only.
Her daughter had on only a light walking dress at the
time of their departure, and upon examination she found
that.not an article in her wardrobe had been removed.
In June, 1842, the period at which her husband died,
they lived in Henningford-terrace, Islington. On the
Thursday after they removed to Mile-end. Lived a
month there, and went to reside in Stamford-street.
Remained a few months there, and went to Swinton-
street, Gray's Inn-road.
Mr. COMBE—And the prisoner met you in all these
places ? Witness replied in the affirmative.
Prisoner—l don't hear the witness (and with great
asperity of tone) ; all through this investigation I have
noted a great dislike against me. (The prisoner made
some observations of a very severe, and, it is unnecessary
to add, wholly undeserved character on the conduct of
the Worthy Magistrate.)
Mr. COMBE remarked that Mrs. Wrotham was in a
condition which precluded the possibility of her speak-
ing in a very loud tone of voice, but, as the prisoner's
advocate could hear her, an able professional gentleman,
he did not think there was so much need for the pri-
soner's interference. What the prisoner said regarding
his (Mr. Combe's) magisterial conduct, he did not mind.
The witnesses must speak as loudly as they could.
Prisoner—l want to know how long she stopped at
each of these places. It is important.
Mr. Humphries—lt does not signify a pinch of snuff.
You must allow me, Sir, to put the proper questions at
the proper time.
The prisoner shook his head is sullen discontent
Mrs. Wortham proceeded to state that she removed
from Swinton-street to King William• street.
Mr. COMBE—Was your daughter with you conti-
nually ? Witness—No ; she was absent a portion of
the tine. When I was living in King William-street,
the prisoner was arrested, and he requested us to go and
live in the country ; and we accordingly went to Walton
in Essex, where he lodged with us. Then we came to
the Lower-road, Islington, from which we finally re-
moved to Gerard-street.

Cross-examined--The prisoner had lodged with her
during her husband's life-time. Her husband had bor-
rowed money from him, but repaid it. Prisoner lent
witness money to pay rent and taxes. Lived for a
a while at Peckham, in a cottage taken by the prisoner,
but in her name. Part of the furniture there was
his. They sometimes quarrelled, but " made it up again."
He gave witness a gold watch, and half-a-dozen of silver
spoons, now in her possession. Had purchased some
dresses for her at Stephens and Co.'s, and Willis and
Co.'s, in Ludgate-hill, for her. She subsequently borrowed
money from him-201. or 301.—whitl she still owed him.
Prisoner advanced money to pay for her daughter's
education. They had the use of his carriage at Walton.
In February, 1843, the prisoner paid 5/. 10s. for her
daughter's quarter in advance, at the school. Witness
has now in her possession some furniture, pictutei,
books, ornaments, of prisoner's ; also a pianoforte which
he gave to her daughter. Witness always looked on
Newenham as a brother. Her husband died in poverty,
and the prisoner knew that.
Mr. Hammond, a solicitJr, residinr, at 16, Furnival's

Inn, deposed that the prisoner came to his office in
January, 1843, when he brought with him the copy of
the deed of settlement produced in evidence. He said
he came cn behalf of a poor widow to get profeSsional
advice. Had previously known the prisoner profession-
ally. The prisoner engaged him for Mrs. Wortham, and
dictated to him an abstract of the deed by which Miss
Wortham became possessed of the property. Witness
never heard from the prisoner, directly or indirectly,
that he had any intention of connecting himself with
Miss Wortham. The prisoner told him'that Mrs. Wor-
tham wished him to file a bill in Chancery. A bill as
subsequently filed. Was Mrs. Wortham's attorney in
the matter, and not the prisoner's, and was quite wilting
to produce all the papers with which he had been en-
trusted.

Mr. George Dunn, a solicitor's clerk, residing- in
Vine-street, Regent-street—Had known the prisoner
for 14 years. In the beginning of last year he called
upon witness, and said he was about being appointed
guardian to an infant girl, between 12 and 13 yeari of
age. He did not mention her name. He said she *as
entitled to considerable property. At a subsequent
period, in October last, the prisoner called upon him,
and said he had returned from Gretna on the preced-
ing Friday. He said he was married, and that he had

carried, or went off with (witness could not remember
which) a girl who had some money, and he was anxious
to ascertain whether or not she was a ward of Chancery.
'Witness said,. " Surely it is not that little girl you
were telling me about?" He replied that it was.
It being now nearly six o'clock, the further hearing
of the case was postponed until to-morrow (this day).
The above witnesses had their depositions read over to
them, and were bound over in 401. each to prosecute at
the ensuing sessions of the Old Bailey.