The Sun.
London, England, 1845-11-14 00:00:00

50177 II WARK.

;Tipha JohAs m alias Isaac Rowe, the fashionably-dressed
man, sharged
in with being concerned with others not in cus-
trtily, stealing a cash-box containing 60 sovereigns and
tonv! documents, the property of Mr. Skelton, of the Fleece
public-house, in George-street, Bermondsey, was Brought up
fpr re-examination on the charge.
Mr. Atkinson, a solicitor, attended on the part of the
prisoner.
The evidence adduced against the prisoner on the present
oocasion, as connecting him with the man and woman, who
were in the complainant's bar-parlour at the time of the
rubbery of the cash-box and contents, was briefly as

Liza
Rhymer stated that she was the complainant's
niece, and that she was in the house at the time the strange
man and woman entered, and requested to be permitted to
write a letter in the bar-parlour ; that while they were en-
gaged in writing the parlour-bell rang, and she left the bar-
parlour, and went there and received an order of the pri-
soner, who endeavoured to engage her attention by asking
le • whether she went to school, and other questions of that
nattire': She then left the room, and went back to the
bar plrlour, at which time she saw the man and

woman still writing at the table. She, however, had not
been many minutes there, when the parlour-bell was again '
rung, and on her proceeding to answer it, she was requested
by an elderly-looking strange man to take the chill off his
pint of ale by warming it at the fire. Having done this, she
was in the act of quitting the room, when the prisoner tried
to prevent her by catching hold of her frock, at the same
time saying that he wanted to ask her some questions about
the school to which her little cousin went. She then left
the room, and went to the bar-parleur, where the same
parties were still writing at the table, but the man she
found had moved from the place where he was previously
sitting to that part of the table near the drawer which con-
tained the cash-box and money. The woman was seated
nearly opposite to him, and witness noticed that she looked
at her and seemed to be watching her very closely, until at
length the tormer requested that he might be furnished with
a wafer to seal the letter, which he said was nearly finished.
At this period witness desired her cousin, a little girl who
had just come in from school, to go up stairs and bring down
the wafer-box. The little girl, however, staying longer than
was expected, witness left the bar-parlour to see after her,
and by the time she came down, both the man and the
woman were gone, and the letter they had been writing was
left on the table. The letter was here produced for the Ma-
gistrate's inspection, and :contained a number of unintelli-
gible sentences, the writing of which by the parties was evi-
dently done for the purpose of throwing the landlord off his
guard, with the view of stealing his cash-box and, its con-
tents. The witness then proceeded to describe the dress worn
by the woman, and said that, from the notice she took of
them both, she had no doubt but she should know them again.
In reply to Mr. Cottingham, the witness said that the pri-
soner entered the house after the man and woman, but they
did not appear to be acquainted ; that when the parlour door
was open any person sitting there could see into the bar-par-
lour, where the man and woman were writing. That during
the whole of the time the complainant was busily engaged in
attending to the customers before the bar. Witness was
certain that when the alarm of the cash-box being stolen
was given, the prisoner and the elderly man hastily left the
parlour together and went out of the house, so that if the
former said he had stopped at the bar and taken a glass of ale,
the assertion was without foundation.
The prioner's solicitor contended that there was nothing in
the evidence adduced to connect the prisoner with the parties
in the bar-parlour, who were supposed to have committed
the robbery. That he was not seen to speak to either of
them, and, in fact, was in a distinct part of the house at the
time ; that with respect to the circumstance of his asking
the little girl a few questions about her schooling, there
was nothing in that fact, and it did not bear upon the case
against him.
After some further evidence,
Mr. Atkinson urged that the evidence still was not of a
nature to justify the prisoner's detention in gaol ; that if the
officers had reasonable grounds for supposing they could con-
nect him in any way with the robbery, he was willing to
come forward on any future occasion.
Mr. CorrrscHAN said that the prisoner's conduct in the
house during the time the robbery was effected, his subse-
quent assertion that he remained there some some time after
the offence was committed, and his other acts, were altogether
so pregnant with suspicion that he was concerned with the
parties who actually committed the robbery, that he would
not part with him, and should, therefore, remand him for
'urther examination.

TRIBUNAL CORRECTIONAL.
(From the Boulogne Gazette.)
On Wednesday there were a great many causes before the
Court, among the others two for attacks upon an adversary
with a knife, one was to a certain extent accidental; but the
other was a base attempt at assassination, in which two
Englishmen from Calais were seriously wounded. It ap-
peared that the parties had been in an estaminet on the port
and had there quarrelled: on the Englishmen leaving they
were followed by the other parties and a row was the conse-
quence, during which Bouloy, one of the assailants, used his
knife, which was produced in Court stained with blood, a
formidable weapon, laid open the cheek of one man to the
extent of three inches, inflicted three wounds on the top of
his head, another upon his ear cutting down the neck and
laying bare the carotid artery, which the knife just escaped,
and other wounds upon the body to the number of nine; the
other Englishman was stabbed in the back. Fortunately
the parties had, as an adversary, a man of a forgiving dispo-
sition, who made slight of his wounds. and would not remain
in bed so long as to send the parties before the criminal as-
sizes, although, when he left his bed, it was with considerable
danger to his safety. On the trial the facts were proved, and
the assailant, who had been already in prison for five weeks,
was further condemned to 40 days' imprisonment, damages,
and fine.

ROBERTSON v. Scorn—This was an action by Dr. Ro-
bertson against Dr. Scott for injurious language against him
in the street, capable of wounding his honour and reputation.
The facts, as stated in the Court, were these. The Medical
Society of Boulogne called together its members and those
English gentlemen, authorised by ordonnance, practising in
Boulogne. At this meeting Drs. Scott, Robertson, and Camp-
bell attended. An adjournment took place, at which Dr.
Scott attended, but the other two were not present. It reached
Dr. Scott that the absentees gave as their reason for not at-
tending that they would not meet the Society if he attended,
because he had no right to be there, not having a regular
ordonnance (it appeared, on the trial, because it was not re-
gistered). Dr. Scott was much annoyed at such a report,
calculated to lower him in the opinion of the French
medical profession, as a man asserting what was not
fact, and thrusting himself, upon that assertion, into a society
where he had no right to be, and he made such inquiries as
led him to believe that the whole calumny emanated from
Dr. Robertson. At once he resolved to see him, show him
the ordonnance under which be practised in France, and re-
quest that he would contradict his former assertions. The
first place where they met was in the shop of Mr. Abraham,
the chemist, where Dr. Robertson was sitting 'down. Dr.
Scott took a chair and sat opposite to him, saying, " I have
been looking after you, Dr. Robertson, all the morning, hav-
ing understood that you have stated that I have no ordon-
nance to practise in France, will you oblige me by reading
this ?" handing to him the ordonnance. Dr. Robertson im-
mediately replied, rising at the same time, " I shall not read it,
I don't wish to have any communication or anything to do with
you," and he made towards the doorway, in which Dr. Scott
placed himself, saying, " but I wish to have something to
say to you." Dr. Robertson then pushed violently past
him ; shoulder met shoulder and Dr. Scott was nearly upset
into the street. General Willis was passing at the time and
he was called upon to depose as to what he saw and heard.
From his deposition we gathered that Dr. Scott said, " you
have stated, Sir, that I have got no ordonnance."—" And I
say so still."—" Then, Sir, you state a falsehood."—" I will
go and lay the whole affair before the Procnreur du Roi."—
" And I will accompany you," replied Dr. Scott, " that he
may at the same time hear both aides of thequestion." Such,
so far as we could gather them, were the facts of the case. The
lawyers pleaded for one hour and a half on Thursday morning,
pour et contre each doctor, and the Substitut called upon the
Court to condemn Dr. Scott to a fine of 25 francs and the ex-
pences,for having stated in public that Dr. Robertson had uttered
a gross falsel ood ; falsehood is a hateful vice, reproved by
morals and religion, and the accusing any man of it in the
public streets was calculated to injure his reputation, particu-
larly that of the honourable profession of. medicine. It mat-
tered not whether true or false. No man has a right to pro-
claim in the streets the misdeeds of another, if he did the law
punishes him. He therefore called on the Court for the pe-
nalty, &c., against Dr. Scott.
M. Marteau was proceeding to defend his client, when the
Court interrupted him, stating it was unnecessary. The
judges then retired, and, after a quarter of an hour, returned
into Court, when the President read the judgment, which
stated that the provocation received by Dr. Scott was a suf-
ficient excuse for him for the words he used, they therefore
acquitted him of tke charge, and condemned Dr. Robertson
to pay the expenses.

SEDUCTION anti MANSLAUGHTER.
(From the Liverpool Courier of Wednesday.)
Yesterday afternoon an inquest was held before the borough
Coroner, on view of the body of John Ratcliffe, of Union-
place, Howorth-street, Everton, who met his death under the
following circumstances :
Mary Charnock, a young and respectably attired woman,
who sobbed bitterly during the whole time she was in Court,
deposed that she was unmarried, and the daughter of William
Cbarnock. She resides with her parents at Upholland, and
was well acquainted with the deceased. She had had a child, of
which he was the father. Seven weeks last Sunday,
at about the hour of four in the afternoon, he came to
her father's house very much in liquor. She was sitting
by the fire, and her father was lying upon the bed
in one of the upper rooms. She desired the deceased to
leave, as she had reason to know that her father was very
indignant with her seducer, and that if they happened to
meet together some evil consequences might possibly ensue.
The deceased. however, not only refused to do as he was de-
sired, but said he would go up stairs and see the old man.
At this moment the father came down stairs, and told the de-
ceased several times to quit the house. The deceased still
refused, declared positively that he was determined not to
stir, and said the old man was unable to put him out. The
father then took hold of the poker from the fireside, and the
witness, fearing that fatal results might follow, stepped be-
tween them with the illegitimate child in her arms. They
pushed her aside, however, and in her agitation she was un-
able to say which of them struck. She did not see her father
strike with the poker, but they had a scuffle, the deceased
fell, and the floor was sprinkled with blood. This was the
substance of her evidence.

The deceased was subsequently conveyed to Liverpool in
a whitechapel, and on the 22d ultimo he was admitted into
the Northern Hospital. He then had a large abscess, occu-
pying nearly the lower half of the right thigh, and two small
abscesses below the knee; and after lingering in great agony
until Sunday last, he died.
Upon a post mortem examination by Mr. John Thomas
Jackson, the house-surgeon, it was found that he had a frac-
ture of the ninth rib on the left side, a large abscess on the
plura, another abscess on the outside of the chest, and another
on the lower third of the right thigh, communicating with
the knee joint. Mr. Jackson was of opinion that the abscess
on the chest must have been the result of external violence,
and that that, and the abscess on the knee, produced the
death.
Mr. Superintendent Brown took the dying declaration of
the deceased on Thursday last He then said that Charnock
came down stairs on the Sunday in question, with a bar of
iron, or poker, in his hand, that he first pushed him, and
then struck him with the poker below the right knee, and
that, when down, he kicked him three or four times on the
right side and leg. He added that his reason for calling at
the house was, to get a watch and 12s. which Mary Char-
nock had, belonging to him.
The CORONER, in summing up the evidence, said the cir-
cumstanzo the case showed that the father had received
great grisvBfation—first, in the fact that his daughter had
been seduced, and secondly, by the deceased refusing to leave
the house. But great as the provocation might have been,
it did not warrant the use of personal violence; and the
question for the jury was, whether there was evidence of
malice prepense, thereby making the crime one of murder,
or whether they thought it might be reduced to man-
slaughter or justifiable homicide.
The jury, after a few minutes' delibration, returned a ver-
dict of "Manslaughter;" and William Charnock, who is at
present an inmate of Kirkdale gaol, will be tried on the
charge at the approaching winter assizes.

THE PREMIER AND THE MAYOR OF MANCHESTER.
—The Mayor of Manchester, in his first week of office, has
received an invitation from Sir Robert Peel to dine with him
at Drayton Manor to-day (Thursday). His worship was
also invited to dine with Edmund Peel, Esq., yesterday, Of
course both dinners are in connexion with the occasion of
the Right Hon. Baronet putting the first spade into the soil
and cutting the first sod on the Trent Valley Railway line,
in the neighbourhood of Tamworth, this day. W. B. Wat-
kins, Esq., the mayor, we believe, proceeded on Wednes-
day to Tamworth, to fulfil his acceptance of both invita-
tions.—Manchester Guardian.
DROUGHT IN INDIA.—We have seen a letter just
received by a party in this town, from a clergyman at Ban-
galore, in which the writer says, "I am sorry to say we have
had no rain vet. Everything is becoming dear. The wells
are drying up, and no likelihood of any crops. It is said such
a season has not occurred the last sixtyzears. I fear there is
every prospect of great distress, especial:), amongst the poorer
classes."—Liverpool Courier.