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London, England, 1842-06-16 00:00:00

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! insolvent's arr( st.
Messrs. Cobb and Jenkins having been tendered as bail, in
I reply to the Learned Chief Commissiume, said they had both
been bail four times in this Court. for ether insolvents.
Mr. Commissioner IlErxon»s—How does it happen that
you have been bail together for the same individuals?
•Ajr. Cobb—Why, I don't knot, your Honour, but the times
are so hard now ;hat we find a great many of our friends
"going to the. dogs."— ( Laughter. )
Air. Commissioner Rts-Nocns—And to carry cut the simile
still further, you and Mr. Jenkins always run in couples.
.Mr. Cobb—Just so, your Honour, it has been ; but I shall
be ni •re cautious in future how I shall let my good nature earn
for me again such a cross-hackling as I got here to-day.
Mr. IN 'MOLLS on tLe part of his client having said he was
• instructed to state that the gentlemen offvring themselves as
bail were most respectable and wealthy seen, they were allowed
to ju.tify, when the insolvent was discharged.
COURT ETIQUETTE.— IN RE W. P. CRATE.
In this matter, which was an unopposed application, Mr.
Woodroffe appeared for the insolvent, and being without his wig,
The Learned CHIEF COMMISSIONER asked how it came
that he did not wear his wig when he rose to address the Court?
Mr. Woonnorrn said he was afflicted all yesterday with a
severe headache and inflammation in his eyes, which he wts
advised by a medical gentleman arose from the load of horse. •
hair with which his head was enveloped in this sultry weather,
and that this day being appointed for hearing bail cases only,
he thought he might dispense with the anno:,ing appendage
without a breach of etiquette; however, if the Court required
it, he would at once go and put it on. In Westminster Hall
the Judges and several Counsel, amongst whom he saw the So-
licitor and Attorney-Generals had thrown them off since the
weather had become so oppressively warm. When next he
should appear in Court without a wig, he promised first to ask
permiss ion.
he Learned CritEr COMMISSIONER said the practice in
the superior Courts being as the Learned Gentleman described,
rendered it unnecessary to say more on the subject.
This very important discussion (?) appeared to afford the
highest amusement to the not very select audience oceupyiog
the bask benches in the Inselvent Court, who were on the
broad grin witile it continued.

CRIMINAL COURT.
OLD COURT.

Mr. Baron GURNEY took his seat in this Court at tcn
o'clock.

Francis Beard, aged 48, a Post Office letter carrier, was in-
dicted for having, while employed in that capacity, stolen a
letter containg a half-crown, the same being the property of
Lard Lowther, the Postmaster-General.

Mr. Shepherd, and Mr. Adolphus conducted the prosecu-
tion, and Mr. Clarkson defended the prisoner.
The ease was one of the ordinary description, and the charge
• was clearly brought home to the prisoner. He was employed
at the Post Office in sorting letters.
' Baron GURNEY having rummed up, the jury returned a ver-
dict of Guilty, hut at the same time strengly recommended the
prisoner to mercy, on account of his p-evions good eliarseter.
Baron GunteEv said, he was at all times anxious to .give
effect to the recommeniatien of a Jury, but this was oae of
these cases in which his duty to the public prevented him from
doing so. The Court bad no alternative but to pass,a severe;sen-
tence, in order to afford a warning and example to others not
to commit the like act. The pritoner was then ordered be
transported for life.
Robert Peck, 25, was indicted for the manslaughter of Imes
Carroll, a police constable.
Nr.. Bodkin and Mr. Chambers conducted the prosecution,
and Mr. Phillips appeared for the prisoner.
The circumstances of this case have already been fully
given upon the. trial 'of a man named Smedley, who w.is also in-
dicted for being accessary to the death of the deceased. h
will be remembered that a disturbance took place in Bethnal-
green, and that the deceased in the execution of his duty as a
police e(nstable, endeavoured to put an end to it, and took
Sntedley, who was the principal party causing the affray, into
custody. The mob attempted to rescue the prisoner. and
mr.de'use of violent language towards the tol:ce, and the prisoner
aed Smedley were proved to have both kicked aed struck the
deceased, who received such severe injury as to occasion his
death a few days afterwards.
The Jury found the prisoner guilty of an aggravated asssult, •
and Mr. Karon Gurney ordered him to be imptisoncd ant: kept ;
to hard laboti for two years.
HA I' E.-• James Greenland, aged 25, wheelwright, was iii-
dieted for having committed a rape on the person of Jane Ma-
tilda Arnold.

Mr. Glaikson conducted the ease fur the prosecution, and
Mr. Philip defended the primer.
It appeared from the evidence of the prosecutrix, who is a
good looking and intehigent girl, ayparently about the age of
13 years, that she was a nursery-maid in the service of 3lr.
Ball, of Duke street, Grosvenor-square. 'the prisoner was a
sarrant in the employ of Col. Yorke, of the Guards, who lodged
in the house of Mr. Ball. On the night of 26th May last, as the
prosecrutrix was goir gto bed, the prisoner took hold of her
and dragged her into his room, and then accomplished his pur-
pose. As seen as she discovered the intent of the prisoner, she
screamed loudly, but he seic d her by the throat, and held it so
tightly that she could not- crt• out, and could hardly breathe.
She had never been into the bedroom of the prisoner but once
before this affair to, k place, and that. was when another girl
was making the bed.
Mr. Bali, the master of the prosecutria, stated that on the
night in question he was alarmed by shrieks proceeding from
ore of the rooms up stairs. On his proceeding up stairs, he
found the girl in a state of great agitation and excitement.
She appeared to be suffering great pain. Mrs. Ball, who was
with the witness, took the girl down stairs, and she then made
a dtselosure of the facts as stated in her evidence. When she
earae from the room her eyes were starting from her head, her ,
hair was dishevelled, and her body b tat almost double. She
was ci-ying,and appeared in great distress.

. Thi; evidence was eGrroborated by 'Mrs. B.
Ale. James Tatham deposed to liaving examined the prose-
c:uu•i>; the morning after the alleged assault. The evidence of
tivs witness, which is unlit for publication, proved that the
Ulenee had been committed.

RobertLLister, policeman 143 C, stated that when he took
the prisoner into custody, he said that what he had done had
been done in a frolic, and he thought he should be transported
fur it. Re added that it. was with the consent of the girl, and
she bad often been in his room before.
This was the case.
Mr. PHILLIPS addressed the Jury for the prisoner, and con-
cluded by calling the following witnesses :
Jane bright deposed that she was in the service of Mr. Bali.
About a fortnight before this occurrence she hoard the prose-
cutrix, Jane Arnold, go into the bed-room of the prisoner at
about twelve o'clock at night. She mentioned the exeunt-
stance to the prosecutrix the next morning, but she did
not say anything to her mistress about it until the
night of , the alleged outrage On the day this oc-
curred, the prosecutor said to the witness " I wish I had
as many sovereigns as James has given me kisses." She fur-
ther added, that she had been into his bed-room while he was
dressing.
The witness wr.s severely cross-examined by Mr. CLARKSON,
and stated that she had been on very friendly terms with the
pr.soner..

Hannah Sturgensi stated that she had been formerly in the
employ of Mrs. Ball. She found a comb belonging to
the prosecutrix on Greenland's bed, which the prosecutrix
admitted having lost there. She had seen the prosecutrix
thtee times in the bed-room of the prisoner. She said she
liked being.there, as Greenland often kissed her.
Cross-examined by Mr. CLA RKSON— Witness had often re •
ceived presents from the prisoner. She had received a Bible
on New Yerr's Day.
Colonel Philip James Yorke deposed that the prisoner had
been in his service about two years. He had previously been
in his regiment, and had always conducted himself steadily and
' with sobriety.
The prosecutrix wa4 then recalled. She stated that she had
never been in the room of the priso,er atone before this trans-
. action took place. She would swear that she never acid she
wished she had as many sovereigns as James had given I
her ki3ses. - She limier left a comb in the room et'
the prisoner. She - was never in the room while
the prisoner was there, before the assault took place.
She never for a moment imitted the prisoner to take liberties
with her. He had never kissed her at all. They were not on
friendly terms,:as he was continually swearing at her, and say-
ing that she was always complaining to her mistress.
Mr. PHILLIPS again addressed the Jury upon the latter evi-
dence, and Mr. CLARKSON having addressed the Jury on the
evidence for the defence,

The Learned JUDGEmmined up the evidence, awl the Jury
returned a verdict. of Guilty.
Ihe Learned JUDGE then addressed the prisoner as follovis.
The mime of which you have been convicted was attended with
great aggravation. You, an inmate of the house,
bound to respect the modesty of every femaie in it,
committed this violence upon a girl of tender years.
I think the defence of to-day has aggravated the case. It is
impossible to give credit to it. A very short time ago this was
a capital offence, and your life would have been forfeited. It
is no longer a capital offence, but the enormity of the crime is
such that the Legislature has imposed a punishment next to
that of death. The sentence that I must necessarily pass upon
you is, that you be transported for the term of your natural life.
THE CHARGE OF HIGH TREASON.

Just before Mr. Baron Gurney left the Bench, the Grand
Jury came into Court with a number of bids, and among them
a true bill against John Francis for high treason.

NEW COURT.
No case of interest came before the Court this morning.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE,
MARLBOROUGH-S77?EET.

Edward Casey, a boy about twelve years of age, who was
charged at this Court, a tew days since, with damaging a Yalu-
ab'e shrub, of ten years' growth, in KensingtOn Gardens, and
who was discharged co a promise not to offend again, was
charged as follows : he Corstable of the Gardco%, No. 5,
stated that, about three o'clock yesterday morning, , he
met the prisoner in the Gardens. with a black bird's nest, ,rith
four young ones in it, in his hand, and which it was afterwards
ascertained he had taken from a tree on the south side of the
ornamental water. Witness saw that the nest was undisturbed
as late as eight o'clock last evening. The gates of the gardr
were not opened, so the prisoner must have climbed the
wall from the Ha-ha in Hyde Park, or have remained in all
night, which he was in the habit of doing, Fly her Majesty's
commands the greatest care is taken to prevent the destruction
of every description of birds throughout the gardens and parks.,
The tree from which the nest was taken was damsged by the
prisoner climbing up it.
Committed fir one month to hard labour.
ROBBERY BY A SERVANT.—MtRicI Wilkeit, a respectable
looking youth, about 16 years °rage, was charged with robbing
his employer, Mr. George Rogers, of No. 1, High-street, St.
Giles's, tobacconist.
Tuesday
while serving a cost mer with half a pound weight of
,cigars, he took an opportunity of saireting 41 from out of the ,
box, and those he afterwards was seen to give to a low protti_
tute he had formed an acquaintance with, and wh)
it appears was in the habit of waiting nightly for him near to
his master's shop, to convey away any property he had pur-
loined in the course of the day. The prisoner said he had only
taken four cigus to smoke when he went out on .Sunday.—lle
was remanded until this day week.

Eawtzid EdwcirdB, a fishionable young spark, was fined