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NORTHERN ClRCUlT.—Liverpool, Aug. 26.

CIVIL SIDE.--(Before Mr. Justice bRESSWELL.)

FARRAR V. DEYLINNE.

This case, which had occupied the Court from about
Friday noon, came to a conclusion this afternoon. The
question was (as has been before stated) whether the
defendant was, at the time of the liability incurred to the
plaintiff, a partner in the firm of Todd and Co., of
Manchester. Notwithstanding the great length of the
case, it was from the very nature of the point in issue a
dry repetition of acts and declarations from which the
partnership might be inferred.
Mr. BAINES having concluded his case,
The SOLICITOR-GENERAL addressed the jury on be-
half of the defendant, and commented very ably upon
those features of the case which bore in favour of the
defendant. He did not call any witnesses.
The Learned JUDGE summed up the case briefly,
without going through the details of the evidence, and
the jury after having retired for a few minutes returned
into Court, and delivered a verdict for the plaintiff—
Damages 1,2351.

CRIM. CON.-WOOD V. MONK.

This was an action for crim. con., alleged to have
taken place between the defendant and the wife of the
plaintiff.
Mr. Knowles and Mr. Hogging appeared for the
plaintiff, and Mr. Watson and Mr. Atherton for the
defendant.

Mr. KNOWLES, in stating the case to the jury, ob-
served that the injury of which the plaintiff had to com-
plain was one of the deepest that a man could sustain,
and which could be brought before a court of justice. The
plaintiff was a stone-mason by trade. He had also been
the keeper of a tavern. About 11 years ago he married a
beautiful young woman, who had since borne him three
children, and with whom he had lived upon the most
affectionate terms. He for some time resided at Preston.
About three years ago he went to keep the Hesketh
Arms Inn, at Southport, but in 1842 he returned to
Preston, and conducted an inn known as the sign of the
Grapes and Punchbowl. The defendant was a person of
respectable station in life, being an alderman of the bo-
rough of Preston, in which town he had for many years
carried on an extensive practice as a surgeon. In that
character he had been introduced to the plaintiff's house,
and had taken advantage of the facility which these cir-
cumstances and the misfortunes of the plaintiff gave him
to effect the ruin of the plaintiff's peace. The plaintiff
did not succeed in his undertaking, and was sent to Lan-
caster Castle, from which place he obtained his libera-
tion under the Insolvent Debtors' Act. In the mean-
time, his wife carried on the business of the inn. The
defendant was called in to attend her professionally, and
taking advantage of those circumstances, effected her
ruin. On the subject he (the Learned Counsel) would
add nothing, but leave it to the jury to say what da-
mages such a defendant ought to pay to the plaintiff,
whom he had so deeply injured.
A woman named Mercer was then called, wbo stated
that she had lived servant with the wife of the plaintiff
during his absence at Lancaster ; that about the Bth of
October last year her mistress sent her to the defendant
to tell him to come and see her, as she was ill. The
witness went, and soon after the defendant came. He
and her mistress went into the back parlour. While
there a man came for a glass of spirits, and offered 6d.,
which witness took to the parlour to get change from
her mistress. On opening the door she saw the defen-
dant and her mistress in a position which she described.
She drew back, gave the man his sixpence, and let him
go on trust. On another occasion her mistress had a
swelling on her finger, and sent witness for defendant.
He came, and they went up stairs together. Witness
went to the room to ask her to change a half-sovereign
for a customer, when she found them both in bed toge•
they. Witness was then single, but had since got
married. _ . _

On cross-examination she denied that she had ever
seen the plaintiff strike his wife till after his return from
Lancaster, and that she had not been offered 20/. or 5/.
by the plaintiff to prove his case, but had been told she
should be well paid, and have her expenses clear.
Mrs. Proctor, a married woman, stated that in Ja-
nuary last she went as servant ,to the inn, and detailed
some occurrences similar to those deposed to by the last
witness. _ _ _

On cross-examination she admitted that she did not
live with her husband ; she had been parted from him
three times. He was the ostler at the inn at Boscough-
bridge. She had lived in the house of the plaintiff since
his wife had left.

Mr. WATSON addressed the jury on behalf of the de-
fendant, and urged the immense importance of this case
to his client, who, as a married man, with a family,
holding a respectable position in life, and being of a pro-
fession in which the most rigid integrity was necessary
to insure or retain success, had everything at stake in
this cause. He then commented on the nature of the
evidence which had been adduced, its unlikelihood, the
contradictions between the two witnesses, and all the
circumstances of the case, which, he contended, deprived
their testimony of any credibility whatever. The Learned
Counsel then proceeded to call witnesses to contradict
the case of the plaintiff, and the case was adjourned at
seven o'clock.

CROWN SlDE.—(Before the LORD CHIEF BARON.)
CHARGE OF MURDER.—Owen Leonard was indicted
for the wilful murder of his wife, Bridget Leonard, and
inflicting several wounds on her body with a razor.
Mr. Hulton and Mr. Drinkwater conducted the prose-
cution; the prisoner was defended by Mr. W. WOubrey.
It appeared from the statement of James Leonard,
the principal witness for the prosecution, a boy twelve
years of age, that his father, the prisoner, was a tailor,
living in Peter-street, in this town. The deceased was
his mother. There was a family of six children, of
whom the witness only was residing at home. The de-
ceased was in the habit of letting part of the house
to lodgers, and on the 27th of July the attic was occu-
pied by a person named Livingstone and his wife.
'there was another male lodger in the house whose name
did not appear. On the evening of that day this boy
had retired to bed in a room on the first floor, where the
deceased and the prisoner slept He had on going to
bed left them and Livingstone and his wife and the other
lodger in the kitchen below. He was awakened by a
noise, and found that it was the lodger singing ; and he
then heard the voice of his father in angry altercation
insisting upon the lodger leaving the house. The boy
came down stairs, and found the lodger on the point of
dep
of arting.
very angry. He called the deceased a w—e, and accused
her misconduct After Ihveithwaos gone, the prisoner continued
one John Guest, who had been a
lodger several years before. Soon after the Livingstones
went to their room, and were let up stairs by deceased.
The prisoner followed to the room on the first floor, and
the boy saw his father put something bright into his
pocket. He went up to the room of the Livingstones
and desired his wife to come down stairs. He himself
went down to the kitchen and barred and fastened the
door and window. The deceased soon after came down,
and the prisoner recommenced his abuse of her on the
subject of John Guest, and used the same opprobrious
epithet as before. She only replied, " Are you sure ?"
which she repeated several times. She was sitting in a
chair behind the door, and the prisoner struck her with
his fist somewhere about the face, and then took:" the
bright thing" out of his pocket, which proved to be a razor,
and began cutting her about the throat. The boy cried
,4 murder!" and endeavoured to pull him away, but he
repeated the bloc s in different parts of his unfortunate
victim. The boy at last got the door open and ran
for the police. In the meantime Michael Hamilton,
a neighbour, came to the door and endeavoured to push it
open. The parties were behind it, and he could only get
hold of the hair of the prisoner, who again forced the
door to. On a second attempt he forced an entrance,
and found the deceased lying on the ground, and the
prisoner standing over her, striking her with something
he held in his hand. He said to the prisoner, " You old
villain, what are you doing to your wife ?" He then
found that the nose of the unfortunate woman was
entirely cut from her face, and she had a severe gash
upon her cheek. The witness ran to call the
police, and
the unfortunate woman in the meantime crawled parti-
ally out of the door, saying faintly, e Keep him in, keep
him in ; put something to me, I shall die ; he has cut
my throat." The prisoner then pushed her with his
foot, when she fell out on the pavement, and he shut the
door to. Several policemen coming up she was carried
to the house of a surgeon, and thence to the hospital,
but died from loss of blood before she arrived there. The
prisoner was found in the middle of the kitchen floor
washing, his hands, and being asked why he had com-
mitted the act, said she was an old b—h- He seemed to
have been drinking, but yet to know what he was about.
On examination of the body of the deceased, it was
found that several frightful wounds had been inflicted on
the face, neck, legs,
and thighs, one on the latter being
seven inches Tong and near six inches deep. The lateral
jugular vein and the femoral artery were divided.
Mr. WUBREY addressed the jury for the defence,
and contended that the prisoner was insane ; and that,
at all events, under the provocation stated, the offence
did not amount to more than manslaughter ; and called
several witnesses in support of the first position, but who
failed to make out that defence.
The Learned JUDGE summed tip the case very elabo-
rately, and the jury, after a few minutes' retirement,
ment, found a verdict of Guilty of manslaughter.
The prisoner was sentenced to be transported for life.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.
OLD COURT.
(Before Mr. Baron GURNEY and Mr. Justice WIGIITMAN.)
Thomas While was indicted for a similar offence
upon Elizabeth Farrer, a child nine years old.
The jury found the prisoner Guilty of an aggra-
vated assault.
The same prisoner was also indicted for a similar
offence upon Nancy Burrows, a girl of the same age.
The jury returned the same verdict as in the for-
mer case.
There were two other indictments for similar of-
fences against the prisoner, but they were not pro-
ceeded with.
Mr. Justice WIGIITMAN sentenced the prisoner to
be kept to hard labour for eighteen months upon each
conviction.
William Simmons, 17, was indicted for feloniously
killing a mare, the property of Henry Holmes.
Mr. Brierly, at the request of the Court, examined
the witnesses for the prosecution, and Mr. Payne de-
fended the prisoner.
It appeared that the prosecutor is a cowkeeper and
milkman, and the prisoner was in his service, and
employed to look after the mare in question. On
the 9th of July, in consequence of some information
he received, the prosecutor examined the mare, and
found she had sustained a most dreadful injury, from
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The jury returned a verdict of Not Guilty.
This case concluded the business of the session, and
the Court then adjourned to Monday, September 16.
(Before the COMMON SERGEANT.)
The following cases were disposed of late on Mon-
day evening :
Henry Burton, described as a toll-collector, was
indicted for the manslaughter of Henry Spence, at
the parish of Whitechapel.
Mr. O'Brien conducted the prosecution, and Mr.
Ballantine appeared for the prisoner.
The circumstances of the case will be fresh in the
recollection of our readers, as they have been given
very fully within the last few days. The prisoner
had been very much annoyed and insulted by the de-
ceased and a number of other boys, and, unhappily, in
a moment of excitement, he struck the deceased a
blow on the herd, which occasioned his death.

The jury returned a verdict of Guilty, coupled
with a strong recommendation to mercy, and judg-
ment was respi:led until the next session.
William Adttm Postlethwaite pleaded Guilty to a
charge of assaujt upon Eliza Augusta Townsend, with
intent to commit felony.
Judgment in this case was also respited, but the
defendant was allowed to go at large upon finding
sureties for his, appearance at the next sessions.
Henry Stephenson was indicted for maliciously
throwing a stone upon the South Western Railway,
and thereby e)adangering the safety of the passengers
pa,sing upon the railway.
The defendant pleaded Guilty.
Mr. Bonxiti, who conducted the prosecution on
behalf of the 'London and South Western Railway
Company, said'. that it was instituted for the purpose
of showing the public that such offences could not be
committed with impunity. In the hope that the
present proceraling would have the effect of prevent-
ing such offences from being committed in future, the
Company wc'.re not desirous of pressing for any
punishment, and if the Court felt that such an
arrangement could be entered into, they would be
satisfied if thi3 defendant entered into his own recog-
nisance to appear and receive the judgment of the
Court when r equired to do so.
The COMM ON SERGEANT remarked that the offence
was a most serious one, inasmuch as the lives of
thousands of the subjects of the Crown were put in
jeopardy by it, and it must be distinctly understood
that the utra at penalty of the law would be enforced
against all pf rrsons found so offending in future.
The defer dant, having entered into the required
recognisancEx, was discharged from custody.

NEW COURT.
(Before the RECORDER.)
ASSAULT. --Davie/ .111'Diarmid, captain of the Pro-
tomelia, was charged with assaulting Samuel John
M'Dowall, on Friday, the sth of July, on the high seas.
It appear, ad from the evidence of the prosecutor, a
most intelli.gent but friendless boy, that he was ordered
to clean a pmrt of the ship. He went for a broom to do
so, and the. captain seeing him with it, struck him with
his hand, polled the broom from him, and gave him a
blow with the handle of the broom. It would appear
that the c'aptain acted in this manner, because there was
an old broom which he might have taken. He was obliged
to lie by that night and part of the next day, when he
came to 'aim and asked to see the boy's thigh. After
having stripped himself, the captain beat him with a rope
about an inch and a half thick. After this he refused
to do any more work till they came to London, the
assault ha, vino been committed below Dungeness. It
also appetared from the statement of the boy that on
Sunday, the 7th, he violently pressed his neck, and said
if he did not work he would break his neck. When
they arrive 3 in London the captain was brought before
a magistrate, and was committed to take his trial at this
Court. Ti iere was a witness in the case, but when called
he was not, forthcoming.
Mr. DOANE said that the captain acted as he did under
the impression that the boy was feigning illness, in order
that he might not work, and the boy admitted that the
captain wa s very kind before the assault occurred. The
captain wa 4s willing to make him some compensation.
The Rs CORDER thought that would be the best way
to settle -the matter. The boy had acted in a manly,
straightforward manner, in not submitting to be treated
unjustly ; but the Court was willing to believe that the
captain ha,d acted under a false impression. He would
direct the jury to find a verdict of guilty, aux' the Court
would then settle the amount of compensation.
The jury having found the prisoner Guilty,
Mr. DoANE, on his behalf, offered 101. compensation,
which was accepted as fair and liberal. •

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
(YESTERDAY.)
MANSION-HO USE.

Mr. Goodman, the chief clerk, having, by the di-
rection of Sir John Pirie, written on Saturday to the
owner of the ship John Campbell, in consequence of
a statement made in the justice-room, charging the
supercargo of that vessel with desperate offences
alleged to have been committed on the coast of Africa,
received the following answer, which he handed to
the Lord Mayor :

" Liverpool, Aug. 26, 1844.
" Sir,—ln reply to your letter of the 24th inst., I beg
to state, for the information of Sir John Pirie, that my
ship, the John Campbell, has not yet arrived from
Africa, and I scarcely know when to expect her. I do
not know whether any others of the crew are in this
country, and I have no reason to suppose Captain Burnley
would commit such an act as that with which it appears
he is charged by the man Laidlow. A mutiny took place
on board the John Campbell soon after her arrival at
Calabar, which was quelled by the interference of the
King. I perceive that Laidlow, the complainant, was
one of the mutineers, and having observed in the Lon-
don papers a long account of his examination before Sir
John Pirie, I have deemed it but justice to Captain
Burnley (and to prevent the public forming an erro-
neous opinion of the case from exaggerated statements),
to publish the deposition and statement of the mutiny,
which I received from Captain Burnley on the Bth of
June last, and to which paper I refer for further parti-
culars.
" I beg to remark that Captain Burnley was put on
board the John Campbell by the charterers of that
vessel as supercargo only, but assumed the command by
my authority on the death of Captain Nelson.
" I am, Sir, yours respectfully,
" WILLIAM SHARP.
" To S. R. Goodman, Esq., Mansion-house, London."
Sir John Pirie, who, it will be recollected, said,
upon reading the written statement of the seaman,
which was signed by that applicant and another of
the crew, that it was possible the persons who com-
plained were mutineers, mentioned, upon reading the
letter of the owner, that he considered it due to Capt.
Burnley to give the same publicity to the statement
and opinion of the owner which the extraordinary
accusation had received.
The LORD MAyoR, acquiesced in Sir John Pirie's
view of the matter, and said that the circumstances
should be entered into when the necessary informa-
tion reached hand.
Laidlo Tv, the seaman, upon being told that his
Lordship would, on a future day, take cognisance of
the case, stated that he should be punctually in
attendance.
Captain Wheeler, of one of the Woolwich steam-
boats, was summoned for having, by the swell. occa-
sioned by the rapid motion of the vessel, overset a
waterman's boat and tumbled him into the water.
Hiram Howard, a waterman, stated that, as he was
rowing on Thursday morning, in the river, the
steam-boat of which the defendant was captain was
proceeding at a most rapid rate, and the consequence
was that the wherry was stove in and upset, and the
owner's life was endangered.
The captain stated that, as he was obliged to look
forward, he could not:see the complainant, or he would
have eased his vessel in time to prevent the accident,
which, however, was insignificant, as the waterman
was shot over into very shallow water. He denied that
the vessel was going at a furious pace.
The complainant said the surf raised by the Wool-
wich vessels, was often in consequence of the extreme
rapidity with which they went along, often seven or
eight feet high, and that the depth of the water into
which he was pitched was about three feet.
The LORD MAYOR—We are passing regulations
which will put an end to all those dangers and dis-
putes, and as no great damage has been done in this
case, and we shall rigidly act upon our new by-laws
the moment they are passed, I shall allow the defen-
dant to settle the matter with the Waterman who has
sustained the injury.
A young man named David Williamson, one of
those fellows who are constantly on the look-out for
countrymen, was charged by Mr. William Harman,
merchant; of Leeds, with having endeavoured to do
him out of 401.
The complainant, a person of very comfortable ap-
pearance, about fifty years of age, went, it appears,
into an eating-house, and sat down to a chop, and the
defendant walked into the same box, and likewise fell
to work with a knife and fork. A conversation
commenced, in which the complainant, although a
Yorkshireman, very readily joined without at all
suspecting his new acquaintance. The defendant
said that his father was a man of fortune, and that
he came to town to buy a horse to run in a match
with another in the old gentleman's phaeton, and that
the complainant could assist him in making the pur-
chase. The complainant consented, and it was quite
evident, that if he had happened to have 401. about
him, the defendant and some fellows who were co-
operating with him would have become possessed
of it by one of those manoeuvres which prove so
frequently successful at fairs and markets. Mr..
Harman, however, not being supplied with ready
cash to answer any more than his immediate occa-
casions, luckily called at the counting-house of a
gentleman of the name of Pond, his broker, for the
purpose of getting the amount, taking the defendant
with him. Mr. Pond, upon looking at the defendant,
at once suspected that he was a flat-catcher, and
asked Mr. Harman who he was ? " Oh, he is a
friend of mine," replied the Yorkshireman. " How
did you get acquainted with him ?" asked Mr. Pond.
" Oh, I met him at dinner," said Mr. Harman. The
consequence was, that the cletl.lidant completely lost
his chance of plundering Mr. Harman.
It may appear rather surprising that a Yorkshire-
man was so near being victimised, but it came out in

the course of the investigation by the Lord Mayor,
that Mr. Harman was not only tempted by the oppor-
tunity afforded him to serve a gentleman of fortune,
but was to have handled two sovereigns as commission
upon the purchase of the horse, which was stated by
the stable-keeper in whose care the animal had been
left for a little while, to be worth no more than 131.
A solicitor, who attended for the defendant, sub-
mitted to the Lord Mayor that there was no case for
him to answer.
The LORD MAYOR said he regretted that he was
obliged to discharge the prisoner. Of the intention
of that person to plunder Mr. Harman there could
not be the slightest doubt, hut Mr. Pond fortunately
was applied to in the nick of time. His Lordship
expressed some surprise that a man with so many
years upon his back could, merely upon a mutton-
chop acquantance, have hazarded his money and his
reputat ion.
The defendant retired from the bar smiling.
BOW-S'TREET.

Yesterday Francis Hallett was charged with having
taken indecent liberties with Mrs. Elizabeth Butter,
at a late hour on Monday night, and with violently
assaulting Thomas Humphries, who now lies in a
dangerous state at the Charing-cross Hospital. The
prisoner was represented by his attorney as a person
holding a responsible situation under Government.
Elizabeth Butter, of 179, Drury-lane, a married
woman advanced in pregnancy, stated that she was at
the corner of St. Martin's-lane, Castle-street, shortly
after twelve on Monday night, in the company of her
husband, who had stopped to speak with some friends.
With the view of resting herself, she sat down upon
a large stone on the footway, which was undergoing
repair, and while in that position the prisoner and
another man came up to her, when the former assaulted
her in the indecent manner charged. Her husband
approached him and said, " She's my wife," and re-
monstrated with him. An altercation ensued, and,
during the scuffle, the prisoner raised his stick and
levelled a severe blow at the head of Humphries, who
was knocked down upon the pavement, bleeding pro-
fusely and insensible. Humphries had interfered as
the friend of witness's husband.
Joseph White, of 16, West-street, Sobo, one of the
party in conversation with Butter, corroborated this
evidence.
Samuel Pope, a plasterer, of Exeter, the companion
of the prisoner on the night in question, denied that
any indecency was committed by his friend, and said
that the blow given by him was necessary for self-
defence, as the whole party were attacking him.
William Crick, a by-passer, connected with neither
party, also stated his opinion that the prisoner was
justified in his attack upon Humphries.
The certificate of the house-surgeon, to the effect
that Humphries was in a dangerous state, having been
put in, the case was remanded for a week.
Mr. TWYFORD, after much consideration, acceded
to the earnest application of the prisoner's attorney to
take bail for his appearance—himself in 2001., and two
sureties in 1001. each.
MARYLEBONE.

Yesterday John Sprolc, who, about twelve months
ago was butler in the service of Mr. W. A. M. Mac-
kinnon, M.P., No. 4, Hyde Park-place, was placed at
the bar before Mr. Rawlinson for re-examination,
charged with having stolen a silver table spoon and a
silver dessert fork, the property of the gentleman
above named.
It appeared from the evidence that upon several
occasions articles of plate had been stolen from the
premises, and it had been strongly suspected that
the prisoner was the thief. On Saturday last he (pri-
soner) called at the house, when he asked to be
allowed to speak to the housekeeper, and he was de-
sired to go into the kitchen. He went down stairs,
and was soon afterwards observed to come out of the
butler's pantry. The spoon and fork were almost
immediately missed, and, on the prisoner being
stopped by the butler, the said articles were found in
his possession. Police-constable Bewley, 153 D, who
was called in, took him into custody, and he then
said that he intended to pledge the plate, and redeem
it as soon as possible.
The prisoner, who had now nothing to say, was
fully committed to Newgate for trial.
Yesterday Mrs. Annc Watson, a very respectably-
attired woman, about thirty years of age, carrying in
her arms a fine infant, and who at the station-house
said that she resided in Rupert-street, Haymarket,
was brought up in custody, and placed at the bar, be-
fore Mr. Rawlinson, charged with having stolen silk
of the value of 151., the property of Mr. Rowland
Hooper, in an extensive way of business, at 52, Ox-
ford-street.
The husband of the accused was present.
William Duggen, assistant to Mr. Hooper, deposed,
that on the previous evening, between seven and eight
o'clock, the prisoner entered the shop and looked at
some calicoes, a quantity of which she purchased;
and, while the woman who had served her was hand-
ing in to the cashier the particulars of the sale, wit-
ness, whose attention had been directed towards her
(prisoner), saw her take from the counter five silk
dresses (lengths not made up) and place them under
her cloak; he went up to her and questioned her re-
specting what she had done, when she dropped four
of the said dresses on the floor; the fifth he took
from her.
Hardiman, 76 C, stated that he was called upon to
take into custody the prisoner, who denied knowing
anything whatever about the silk.
Another shopman of Mr. Hooper's was examined,
and his evidence was confirmatory of that given by
the first witness.
The prisoner, who has upon a former occasion been
convicted of shoplifting, was committed for trial.
CLERKENWELL.

Anne Pztrehas, alias Smith, alias Roberts, alias Wil-
liams alias Heffizon, with a variety of other aliases,
was Charged with obtaining money on false pretences
from the Rev. T. H. Bullock, curate of Christ Church,
Bloomsbury, residing in Everett-street, Brunswick-
square.
It appeared from the evidence of Horsford, the
Mendicity officer, that the prisoner has been known
to the Mendicity Institution for the last thirty years
as a most artful and successful begging-letter impos-
tor. Her husband had been at one time a thriving
tradesman, but even in his lifetime, and when there
was no occasion to exercise fraud in order to obtain at
least the necessaries of life, this woman betook herself
to this species of imposition. At one time she repre-
sented that her husband had just met with a shocking
death ; at another that her son had a leg amputated ;
at another that she was afflicted with an intestinal
complaint, and produced numerous documents pur-
porting to be medical certificates, and those engrav-
ings from truss-makers showing spinal deformities,
&c. Then she had warrants of distress filled up in
the most formal manner, and testimonials from clergy-
men in abundance. She had not carried on her system
of imposture with impunity, as will appear by the
following list (which Horsford read) :—Committed by
Mr. Shutt, at Marylebone, for two months, for a
fraud on Lady Beverly, on the 21st of August, 1835.
On this occasion she represented herself as a widow
with five children, which was untrue. 15th August,
1836, committed for one month by Mr. Dyer, for
obtaining money on false pretences from Sir J
Ramsden. 21st June, 1838, ditto by Mr. Hoskins.
August 14, 1838, ditto by Mr. Shutt. 16th Decem-
ber, 1840, ditto by Mr. Dyer, for a fraud on Lord
Fitzallan. January 30, 1841, ditto by Mr. Hard,
wick, one month. July 16, 1841, ditto by Mr. Hard-
wick. September 23, 1841, ditto by Mr. Rawlinson,
for three months, for a fraud on the Rev. Mr. Baker.
December 23, 1841, ditto by Mr. Greenwood, one
month. April 14, 1842, sentenced, to nine months'
imprisonment by Sergeant Adams, at the Middlesex
Sessions ; the prisoner's counsel, however, had the
sentence remitted, in consequence of an informality
in the indictment. October 11, 1842, committed for
one month, by Mr. Rawlinson. June 5, 1843, ditto
for three months, by Mr. Rawlinson. January 22,
1844, ditto by Mr. Greenwood, three months, for a
fraud on Mrs. Rashleigh, of Russell-square.
The Rev. Mr. Bullock deposed that, on Saturday
morning last, the prisoner came to his house, told
him her little son, who had been at Christ Church
School, was very unwell, and that she wanted a little
pecuniary assistance, to enable her to send him to
Ramsgate on that afternoon. Witness asked her name,
and she said her name was Anne Fielden, of 19, Little
Chapel-place, Little Coram-street. Witness gave her
four shillings. Her sick son, as she called him, was
with her, a lad of about seventeen years.
Mr. MBE sentenced her to three months' impri-
sonment in the House of Correction.
WORSHIP-STREET.
Yesterday a good-looking young woman, about 28
years of age, named Maria Clifibrd, was placed at
the bar before Mr. Bingham, charged at the instance
of the Rev. Mr. King, Rector of St. George's-in-the-
East, one of the Directors, and Mr. Thomas Natt,
Secretary to the Guardian Society for the Preserva-
tion of the Public Morals, an institution at the north
side of Bethnal-green, and of which her Royal High-
ness the Duchess of Kent is the patroness, with at-
tempting to induce two of its female inmates to enter
upon a course of prostitution at a well-known house
of that description at the West-end.
Mr. Natt said that the Institution, of which he was
one of the Secretaries, and which was supported by a
great number of the nobility and persons of distinc-
tion, had been founded for the very beneficial pur-
pose of providing a temporary asylum, with suitable
employment, in the shape of needlework and
washing, and repairing articles of apparel, for
young women, who have deviated from the paths
of virtue, and who have either been removed from
the public streets by the operation of the laws,
or have been awakened by their consciences to a
sense of their danger and guilt ; and he need not
point out to the Magistrate how essential it was to
mire a severe example of :my person yvhurn they de-
tected in making imm rat overtures to any of the
inmates, or propositions, the tendency of which was
to seduce them back to a life of prostitution. There
were now upwards of thirty inmates in the Guardian

Society's establishment, of whom tlia prisoner,
two very pretty young women, 17 years of age,
the names of Huff and Fowler, formed three, and t,be
cause of his charging the prisoner was this
considered beneficial and advi,able !)3, the Laoti,e,,
Committee, as tending to break the monotony of Psi
asylum life, that the young women should 11°
occasional opportunities of visiting their fr ends an
relatives, and all the inmates were perfectly hafl
with their situation, and contented with these hv;
days, with the exception of the two young vrerne
Huff and .Fowler, who, from being two of the hsl
piest and best conducted. had, since the prisoner
ad:nission to the institution, become discontented
directly the reverse. This conduct had, at last, bei
come so manifest and annoying that the matrons alit
managers were satisfied there must be some imP,r°,l.;
cause for it, and one of the servants, who too
care of the sleeping apartments, was directed toral
it out, if possible. On the preceding evelli;'
when the girls were about to retire to rest,
woman, as they took off their clothes, made a Pei°t4
examining them, and on scrutinizing the Star*
Fowler and Huff, she fancied she felt something lo
a letter sewn in between the stays and the busko
each of them. She was, consequently, induced t°4
their stays open, and upon so doing found her soar;
eions verified by discovering two letters, one ill ea
e
stay, in the handwriting of the prisoner, stronglive
commending the young women for a life of pros
lion, to the landlady of a well-known house of a e
rl
tain descripiton, in the neighbourhood of Mancheste
square, and of which it appeared that the prisonerbhie te,
self had formerly been an inmate. The instant the
discovery was made one of the girls fell to A
ground in hysterics, and upon being recovered ,701,
carried to bed ; the other girl likewise became to
larly affected shortly afterwards, and both of t_lo
at the moment he was speaking, were then confin,"..aj
their beds, and had been ever since subject to a lie
succession of hysterical fits, so that it was impossibied
produce them before the Magistrate with safety. 00e0
the young women, in the course of an interval bet
these affections was gently questioned as to theanol
of the letters, when she declared that the prisonel74,
written them, and been for a long time past taraP;,
ing with them, to induce them to go back to so d
istence of vice, and promising them, if they '4
consent to go to the house to which e recomMen
them, they would each receive three guineaS
week, be splendidly attired, wear gold watches oi
chains and jewellery, and have every luxury "beidd
could wish for," and the prisoner's persuasions iet,
had such an effect upon them that they had dear
mined upon embracing the first opportunity of iefir
ing the asylum and following her advice. The rot
soner was then called in and questioned, when, SO4
from contradicting what the young women hadstsi
she fully acknowledged it to be perfectly correet,ool;
attempted to justify her conduct, by saying se,:
she had advised the young women for their ()slid
vantage, as she had learned from them that Dr;e-i
they had sought refuge in the asylum,*
had been in the habit of frequenting estau
ments of an inferior description, and she ate
it a pity such beautiful young women should rot
sacrificed. Althouga so late at night witness deepmined to make inquiry about the house in quest
Owith a view to its suppression, and on going
tap
found it to be a house of a very respectab'e,ool3
quiet appearance, and let at a rental, as he
imagine, of at least 801. or 1001. per year.4l
questioned the policeman on the beat, and then ,7,01
to the station house and saw the inspector 00 do
who, upon mentioning to him his errand, sent for ,ir
other constables, and they all expressed their eellted
tion that the house was one of the description stscor
although very well conducted, and no formal, to if•
plaint had been made to the police with regaruity
On receiving this confirmation the managers °of
asylum had determined upon letting the prisoueo
main in the institution that night, but to give 1114
custody the next morning, which had aceo.—
been done. oil
Two inmates of the asylum, named SlPafl
ia
Matthews and Caroline Oade, the latter 20 Sep'
age, proved, the first, finding the notes in the yo 1W
women's stays, and the second, that they were Ifeaj
handwriting of the prisoner, who, the Rev. Mr.fiti,
said, had been an inmate also for about four ra°,1;11:,
but would never again be permitted to enter its vole
rhe letters were then put in and read, and
tbd
exactly as follows, suppressing the number 0
house and name of its manager :
soaS
"Miss Clifford's compliments to Mrs. --a ret
she would be so polite as to speak to the bee (ey
this, Miss C. would take it as a favour, as she
be is quite ignorant of the life, and I t"... foff'
would be a pity that she should be lost. Thereat
trusting you will do me the favour to take her
your house.—l am yours affectionately, 6.
" Mrs. —, Manchester-squ"a3rel.."
„c„
" Miss Clifford would also feel obliged to Dins"
attending to this note, which is of the same natty d
the other. They (the bearers) are both destittirbit
homes, and deserve your earliest attention, 113 n will
CLIFFO.-1
are both nice young women, and I am sure y 0
like them.—Yours affectionately,
" M. CLIFF°
" Mrs. —, Manchester-square."
The prisoner, upon being asked if she wi-%.,aheu of
offer any observation, burst into a violent Iv"- •
tears, and declined saying anything.
Mr. BINGIIAM, after some consideration, said
prisoner had lived out of the asylum, and it ec):,.den
distinctly proved that she was acting under the sl#
of the keeper or agent of a house of ill-fatneti;
would be undoubtedly liable to be severely 130 n ts 0 t•o
but as the evidence offered only went so faroftpe
prove that she was an inhabitant likewise jrit
asylum, and therefore a companion of the other:1:01
he could not see that there was any offence Pr°_,i,
which a magistrate, or the justices at quarter se,Tegif
could take cognizance. Although it was nettle o 1
shown that the prisoner was following the torsr9 oisP
procuress, her conduct was so base and dern. tbs
that she ought not to be suffered to remain int efer!!
establishment an hour longer, and he, tu;; so,
trusted she would be instantly turned out of ItyfelP
with respect to the present charge, he reluctall
~
compelled to discharge her from that also. Age
The prisoner was then discharged, and, Caere,
face as much as possible, precipitately left the
dbi
PLEASING RESULTS.—With the gaiety aSsfereaff
10
nature in the brightness of the summer season t f 7
few disinclined to participate; and in pursuit oil 001
rational enjoyments personal agremens, in Ill'oset
variety, are necessarily objects of ee3irc---t obWiji
which the perfecti. al and durability are at once otsA
and important, meet their most available preset's' fir
11,
Gowland's Lotion ; first, as a decided refloat ti
cutaneous impurities ; and, secondly, as an cIPPI'g ereeto
and effective appendage to the toilet, reinovst,_olo,f
species of local discolouration, defending the ski,
all the well-known effects of heat upon its surf d trey
as contributing largely to continued delicacy an
ness of the complexion.
DEAFNESS. /Dr
Esq' $, 4,
TESTIMONIAL from John Sawyer, -
wood Lodge, Maidenhead, Berks, to Messrs. S. an"
0101:0'
mons, 39, Albemarle-street, Piccadilly. Gentlente
tbiA,
been deaf for some time, I was induced, in the ra°°„aellt
vember, 1839, to make trial of your Invisible Voice Ccuia 11,1
and, although at my advanced age, at that time Paitedisnol
year, I had no hope of obtaining any relief, yet inr, co,
applied them I could hear the general conversatio of
hearing has become so much improved by their use,oit7o,°o
now hear acutely without their aid. I am, Gentl42..,r'ts,
most obedient servant, J. Sawyer. 22d June, I flertfruo
the late Henry Cowper, Esq., of Tewen Waters, beee;ef
Messrs, S. and B. Solomons:—Gentlemen, having le ,r
for many years, I was induced to try your Inv,i6"coolroa
Conductors. They enable me to hear persons 01 odes old
and at a place of worship most distinctly. The 5Pe1,004001,,
Handglass which you have sent me are very altvi se,,A
suit my sight perfectly, the transparency of which the v4O
liant, that although I have passed my 86th year Not, test
May last, yet they enable me to read, and by caPdle;oo my•'
the greatest ease and comfort to myself. I return Jcoo
thanks, and remain your obedient servant, Henry
22d June, 1839.—Telescopes, Opera Glaser, c.sntfit°
Ze e. of the same kind of Lenses.—Cautien.—Messrs• tle
_hoe.
lomons, Opticians and Aurists, are not in any way 0.11000"cor
a person of the same name in their immediate nelabl1)0 gets
Nor n any part of the country. To preventarl
tious, and Observe,—Only to be bad at 39, Albert
iva9
Piccadilly, opposite the York Hotel. iire'sjeat
A PLEASING RETROSPECT.—A life 0. a
Of 111,11.
minister, written by himself, whose scenes isg2, ele
were in Lincolnshire, from the year 1780 t°„
eludes his account of them by stating
au the bed
joyed in my ministry 2,028 Sabbaths ; res, sierideo
tares, two chapters for each day, 36,50 tirne,.4 o'4l
8,112 sermons ; occupied fifteen pulpits '"efoonv
117,000 miles; and my salary never at any ton
to 501. per annum."
Cb'lies BIRTH
On the 21st inst., at Park-road,S.
Dalston, ar•
rd
Hewlett, of a daughter.
fcl/c.
On the 22d inst., at Harrow, the lady of the
Tyt On e, of a daughter.
the 24th inst., at Lavender-hill, Batterseivri°6:4s.
lady of Mr. James Charles Cockerell, of a soo•_e,„ st. uw
On the 24th inst., at Hadley, the lady of Jauion.
Burke, Esq., of Park-street, Westmiaster, of asjoes
On the 26th inst., at Highgate, the wife °i
,s" n
mont, Esq., of a son. Goo dlO/5- •
On the 26th inst., at Great Alie-street, 0'
MOnrs. Michael Meyers of a son. Do° ff
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the 26th inst., ,in Great Coratn-str,ee__.,o
square, the wife of C. H. Weston, Esq., barri:::
daughter. uh
Br' re,
MARRIED.
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Chamberlain of the King of Bavaria, to Aso
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trate aLtsclth,evi,obery
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