The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-10-05 00:00:00

A SCENE IN COURT.

At the Middlesex sessions, on Tuesday, a curious scene
took place. A paper war has been going on lately between
Mr. Mr. Serjeant Adams, the assistant judge, and Mr.
Wilde, who on a recent occasion was counsel for a pri-
soner. On Tuesday Mr. Wilde was counsel for another
prisoner, and, before entering on the case, said he wished
to make some remarks on the previous trial. The judge
wished Mr. Wilde to confine his observations to the case
then before the court. Mr. Wilde then complained of
certain papers having been put into circulation among the
bar by the judge on the subject of the first case mentioned.
Mr. Serjeant Adams said he knew well that such obser-
vations were merely made for the purpose of being re-
ported in the papers next day, and that he would not
suffer the dignity of the bench to be lowered by such a
discussion.

Mr. Wilde.—l say I know nothing about the papers, but
you published words on the 30th of January, 1846, which
are not true. You charged me on that day, when shielded
by your official robes, with a mis-statement. That accu-
sation was not correct, and therefore I cannot address you
as a private individual after what has occurred.
The learned Judge.—l cannot allow this discussion to
proceed. I cannot permit such irregularity to be persisted
in, and I must say—and I am glad to find that I am not
alone on the bench at this moment—that this is not the
time, nor is it the place, fora discussion, the only object
of which can be the publication in the papers of its report.
Mr. Wilde.—l beg to insist that a public investigation
shall take place into this case. 1. require that that shall be
done, and I ask you to cause such an inquiry, for you have
the power to do so.
The learned Judge.—This is very improper. I shall take
my own course. I know my duty, and lam not to be de-
terred from its performance by any expressions of this
kind on your part. The conduct of a judge may be in-
quired into in public, and—
Mr. Wilde.—But I charge you with a mis-statement,
and—

The learned Judge.—lf you persist in this discussion,
I must adjourn the court.
Mr. Wilde.—l wish you would.
Mr. Miller, interrupting, said, that he as well as the
other members of the bar were very much pained at wit-
nessing such a proceeding as that of which they were now
the auditors. He was quite sure that the misunderstand-
ing which appeared to have arisen between the learned
judge and his learned friend might have been easily ex-
plained and corrected.

The learned Judge.—Look at the utter helplessness of,
and the position a judge is placed in, if he is to be subject
to such an improper and painful scene as this. If this
course of proceeding is not discontinued I shall at once
adjourn the court.

Here the matter dropped, and the trial of Eliza Harris
was proceeded with. After the evidence for the prosecu-
tion had been brought to a conclusion,
Mr. Wilde, in addressing the jury on her behalf, said
that, in reference to what had occurred in respect to the
case of Charles' Butler, he thought the matter ought, in
justice to the judge as well as to himself and all the par-
ties concerned, to undergo an official investigation.
The learned Judge took occasion, when summing up
the evidence in the case of Eliza Harris, to say that it
must be apparent to every one who was present at the
time, that the only object there could be in agitating the
case of Charles Butler was, that the matter should form
the subject of a report in the papers to-morrow morning.
He would not disgrace the bench and the high office he
had the honour to occupy, in the present instance, by any
further adverting to the matter, and so stepping out of
his line of duty, other than by remarking that a person
who had filled that chair, in that court, for twelve years,
and many years a similar position elsewhere, possessed,
he trusted, such a character as would enable him to meet
such statements as had been made against him fearlessly
and successfully.
The prisoner was found guilty.
The Court sentenced her to one month's imprisonment.
Shortly after this Mr. Walesby entered the court, and,
at the request of the learned Judge, tried the succeeding
case.

The learned Judge then left the court, but in less than
half an hour returned, and, handing a paper to Mr.
Wilde, said, that he had availed himself of the kindness
of his learned friend, Mr. Wale sby, in trying one of the
prisoners, and during that time he had quitted the court
on purpose to examine and compare the copy of the notes
in the case to which the learned counsel (Mr. Wilde) had
referred. He had made that examination, and he now
handed the copy to the learned gentleman.
There was great sensation manifested in the court
during the above proceedings.

STATIONS OF THE BRITISH ARMY,

ON THE IST OCTOBER, 1847.

Fed Service Magazine.)
ined, the last-nal:tied is that at
regiment is stationed.]
36th—(Ist batt.) Corfu.
(2d batt.) Cephalonia
37th—Ceylon, Chatham
38th—Jamaica, M ullingar
39th—Canterbury.
40th—Hull
41st—Mullingar
42d—Bermuda, Isle of Wight ;
Reserve batt., Bermuda.
43d—Portsmouth
44th—Newry
45th—CapeG.Hope,I.of Wight;
Res. batt., Cape G. Hope
46th—Canada, Guernsey
47th—Cork
48th—Enniskillen
49th—Galway
50th—Bengal, Chatham
51st—Madras, Chatham
52d—Portsmouth
53d—Bengal, Chatham
54th—Malta, Kinsale
55th—Templemore
56th—(lst batt.) Gibraltar
(2d batt.) Isle Wight
57th—Weedon
58th—N. S. Wales, Chatham
59th—Limerick
60th—(lst bt.) Bombay, Chatm.
(2d bt.) Gosport
61st—Bengal, Chatham
62d—Winchester
63d—Plymouth
64th—Limerick
65th—N. S. Wales, Chathallt
66th—Gibraltar, Cork
67th—Cork
68th—Dublin
69th—Manchester
70th—Templemore
71st—Glasgow
Reserve batt., Canada
72d—Gibraltar, Charleston
73d—Cape G. Hope, Birr
74th—Belfast
75th—Dublin
76th—Edinburgh
77th—Montreal, Tralee
78th—Bombay, Chatham
79th—Gibraltar, Boyle
80th—Bengal, Chatham
81st—Devonport
82d—Halifax, N. S., Brecon
83d—Kilkenny
84th—Madras, Chatham
85th—Dublin
86th—Bombay, Chatham
87th—Newport (S. W.)
88th—Barbadoes—Nenagh
89th—Dover
90th—Cape G. Hope, Chester
91st—Cape of Good Hope, Isle
of Wight
Reserve batt., Cape of G.
Hope
92d—Dublin
93d—Canada, Dublin
94th—Madras, Chatham
95th—China, Fermoy
96th—N. S.Wales, Chatham
97th—Malta, Isle of Wight
Reserve batt, Malta.
98th—Bengal, Chatham
99th—N. S. Wales, Chatham
Rifle Brigade—
(lst batt.) Cape of G. Hope,
Bristol

(From Colburn's Unit,
[Where two places are rnentio
which the depOt of the
Ist Life Guards—Regent's Prk
2d Ditto—Hyde Park
Royal H. Guards—Windsor
Ist Drag.Guards—Birmingham
2d—Newbridge
3d—Piershill
4th—Nottingham _
.sth—York
6th—Dundalk
7th—C. Good Hope, Maidstone
Ist Dragoons—Cahir
2d—Clonmel
3d—Bengal, Maidstone
4th—Dublin
sth-
-6th—Longford
7th Hussars—Dublin
Bth—Cork
9th Lancers—Bengal, Maidstn.
10th Hussars—Bombay, Maid-
stone
11th Hussars—Coventry
12th Lancers—Hounslow
13th Lt. Dragoons—Dublin
14th—Bengal, Maidstone
15th Hussars—Madras, Maid-

stone
16th Lancers—Brighton
17th—Dublin
Grenadier Guards—
(Ist batt.) Windsor
(2d batt.) St. George's Bar.
(3d batt.) Portman-st. Bar.
Coldstream Guards—
(lst batt.) Chichester
(2d batt.) Wellington Bar.
Scotch Fusileer Guards—
(lst batt.) The Tower
(2d batt.) St. John's Wood
Ist Foot—
(Ist batt.)—Antigua, Paisley
(2d batt.)—Manchester
2d—Athlone
3d—Naas
4th—Madras, Chatham
sth—Mauritius
6th—Cape G. Hope
7th—Barbadoes, Dublin
Bth—Bombay, Chatham
9th—Winchester
10th—Bengal, Chatham
11th—N. S. Wales, Chatham
12th—Mauritius, Isle of Wight ;
Reserve het., Mauritius
13th—Birr
14th—Plymouth
15th—Ceylon, Clonmel
16th—Corfu, Youghal
17th—Canterbury
nth—China, Chatham
19th—St. Vincent, Castlebar
20th—Canada, Isle of Wight;
Reserve batt., Canada
21st—Madras, Chatham
22d—Bombay, Chatham
23d—Halifax, Isle of Wight ;
Reserve batt. Canada
24th—Bengal, Chatham
25th—Madras, Chatham
26th—Buttevant
27th—Cape G. Hope, Fort G.
28th—Bombay, Chatham
29th—Bengal, Chatham
30th—Newcastle-on-Tyne
31st—Walmer
32d—Bengal, Chatham
33d—N. Brunswick, Stirling C.
34th—Corfu, Waterford
35th—Mauritius, Jersey

(2d batt.) Canada, Isle of
Wight
Reserve batt., Quebec.
CORPS.