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r 311t1ropnlis. A general Court of Proprietors was held at

the Vst India-house on Wednesday, when Mr. Eric Carrington Smith was eleatg. a Director of

the East India Company, vice Major Moore, deceased. ,

Mr. Smiles, the biographer of George Stephenson, applied to the Court of Common Council on Thursday, for leave to search the Corporate rd recos relative to Sir Hugh Myd leton and the construction of the New River in the Reign of James I. Mr. Smiles is preparing a biography of Myddleton ; the permission was unanimously granted.

The Bishop of London, on Thursday, licensed the Reverend John George Henry Hill, M.A., Brother of St. Katharine's Hospital, Regent's Park, to be Curate in sole charge of St. Philip's parish, until Mr. BonweR's application for leave to appeal" to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council against the sentence of deprivation recently passed upon him by the learned Judge of the Court of Arches, has been heard and determined. The Judge directed that the application must be made to the Judicial Committee at the commencement of Michaelmas term, early in No- vember. The Bishop of London, accompanied by the new Curate, visited the parish in the afternoon.

A clue has been found to the Stepney murder ; two men, Walter and George Mullins are in custody ; the inquest has been resumed ; and both the men have been examined at the Thames Police Court. From the state- ments made at the inquest and before Mr. Selfe the following feels are put together. Mrs. Emsley was murdered on the 13th of August. On the morning of that day she received a cheque for 10/. from the firm of Picker- ing and Caryer; this cheque was, amongst other things, missing when the police searched the house on the discovery of the murder ; and the police, suspecting that this cheque had been stolen by the murderer have made special efforts to trace it out. On Saturday a man named Mullins, formerly a detective, informed the police that he suspected Walter Emma to be the murderer: " on that morning he had seen Emma leave his house about half-past eight. o'clock, walk stealthinly to a ruined shed at some distance, and remove into his house a large parcel ; and, again leaving the house, had carried a small parcel to a little washhouse adjoining. On this informationthe police went to Emma's premises. Inspector 'Thornton gave this account of their proceedings. "On our arriving at the briekfield, Mullins took US by a rather circuitous route, and showed us, from a little distance, the position of the house, waehhouse, and shed. As we were passing over a fence we saw Emma, in company with another man. Emma had not then perceived us. We had intended to go round to the proper en- trance to Emms's house, but seeing Emma at a little distance, we thought it prudent to approach and break the matter to him ; Mullins, at our request, keeping away for a time in the background. We passed through an open- ing in a fence, and, going to Emma, we asked if he could speak to us for a moment privately. He thereupon left the person with whom he was talk- ing. We theatold him we were police officers (he appeared to know Ser- geant Tanner, and perhaps me too); that we had received information from a person (not disclosing then the name of our informant), who was on the spot, to the effect that he was seen coming out of his house about half-past eight on Saturday morning going to the ruined shed in the field, returning thence with a parcel, and then, after remaining in his house a few minutes, going to the washhouse with a smaller parcel which he left there and re- turned to his honse empty handed. With an air of apparent truthfulness he denied that statement, and said that he had not been in the ruin since last Saturday week, that he then went there to take or fetch some bottles, and that he was not out of bed until half-past nine on Saturday' morning. I then told him, as he denied the statement, that it would be necessary for us to search, his place. He replied that we were welcome to do that at any time, adding that, in order to test the truth of what he had said, we might go and see his wife, and ask her as to the time when he left his house on Saturday morning, which, to the best of his belief, was nearly ten o'clock, he being unwell that morning, Mullins had stated tons that he had seen Emma leave his house at half-past eight on Saturdety morning. Tanner, accompanied by Thomas, went and saw his wife, leaving me in the field with Emma. On returning they said they had seen Mrs. Emma and had searched the house, but had found no- thing. Emma appeared to be suffering from illness, and I thought at the time it would not be desirable to confront him with Mullins. Mullins at this time was seen corning in the direction in which we stood, and I sent Tanner to keep him away and to tell him that we did not then want Emms to know our informant. Tanner and Mullins went towards the washhouse, and held conversation. Something occurred which Tanner communicated to Thomas, and Thomas went into the washhouse, and returned with U par- cel to where Emma and I stood. Holding the parcel up, Thomas said to Emma, What is this; who put this in the washhouse; what does it con- tain? ' Emma I don't know ; what is it ; and who put it there? The parcel was opened by Thomas in the presence of Emma, and was foend to contain three or four teaspoons, a German silver tablespoon, two lenses, some blotting-paper, portions of a newspaper, and a piece of paper folded up, which latter Thomas handed to me in the presence of Emma. As I opened it Ennis said, Good God! that is Pieltenng,'s check ; ' or words to that effect. I don't reinetaber the exact words he used, but I believe he said it was the check 3Irs. Emsley received on the day she was murdered, ad- ding, Good God ! what can this mean ? it is a wicked and base plot,' The parcel found in the washhouse was partly tied round with a piece of shoe- maker's waxend, and partly by a piece of tape resembling a pocket, apron, or petticoat string. Tanner, 'Thomas and I then held a c ,nsultation, and we came to the conclusion that it was our duty to take both Emma and Mul- lins into custody." Sergeant Tanner threw more light upon the circumstances. Ile said- " I then told him I would arrange to send a sergeant for him on Sunday morning, if he would remain at home, and I took his address, 17, Oakham Street, Chelsea. He seid on parting with Inc— Now, don't go without Me, and I will behave well to you if it all comes off right.' (Sensation.) I said to him, Yon know .1 have reduced your statement to writing, and yciti -tan call on me to produce it any time. No advantage will-be taken of yoiir iii- formation; I hope you thinkwe are above that,' (The witness, then,- ia much the same terms as Inspector Thornton had used, related how Mullins next morning accompanied them to the brickfield, and the conversation there with Emma.) liesontinued to say—Emms, having referred us to his wife as to the time he got up on Saturday morning, I went and saw her, and she told me her husband did not rise that (Saturday) morning until nine o'clock, being unwell, and that most assuredly he was not out of the house until ten. The daughter also corroborated that statement."After stating that the first search in the washhouse was fruitless, witness continued—" As I was communicating that to Inspector Thornton and Emma, who were stand- ing together in the middle of the field, Mullins appeared in the background, about fifty yards off. I was sent to engage him in conversation, and on meet. lag him, he raid, You have not half searched thar place. She,' meaning Mrs. Emms, 'had her back to you all the while. Come with me, and I'll show you where I mean he went and put the thing.' I said, 'No, not now ; Emms does not know that you are our informant, and we don't want him to know.' We walked along towards the shed adjoining Emma's house, and stopped cheat four yards in front of the door. He (Mullins) said, 'Look now ; go in there, pull down that— slab, and turn up those bricks — (Sensation)—pointing to a slab that lay against the wall on the right of the doorway. I told Thomas to go and pull down the slab in question, which he did, and I saw him find a parcel. I told Mullins to go away and wait for me at the Rising Sun (a tavern in the neighbourhood). I joined Inspector Thornton and Emma in the middle of the field. Thomas came to us with the parcel and asked Emma what it was, and who put it in the washouse. Emms said he did not know. Thomas took out a piece of folded paper from among the contents of the parcel, and handed it to Inspector Thornton ; and as the latter opened it, Emms said, 'Good Heavens It is Pickering's cheek, which was paid to the old lady on the day she was murdered ; I don't understand it ; this is a wicked, foul plot.' I was then desired by Thornton to bring Mullins back, which I did ; and on our way back Mulling said, Have you found anything ?' I said, Yes; Thomas has found a parcel;' upon which he (Muffins) rubbed his hands as if with pleasure, and asked, Have you found any — money ?' (Sensation.) I said I could not say just then. I was desired to take him to the station, which I did. There I desired him to take off his shoes, and I found one of them was tied with a piece of string [produced], which had been waxed by a shoemaker, ap- parently, and which I compared with the waxed string with which the parcel was partly tied, and found that they very nearly corresponded. I then proceeded, with Thornton and Thomas, to 33, Barnsley Street, and there, in a back room on the ground-floor, occupied by Mullins, and given him as his address at the station, I found a piece of tape which exactly cor- responds with that partly used in tying up the parcel."

Thomas, the other policeman engaged, corroborated the previous evidence so far as he was concerned. Inspector Thornton produced the hammer found at Mullins's lodging. It was an instrument such as is used by slaters, and was both a hammer and a chisel. The inspector said it was known that Mullins always carried about with him a hammer of that de- scription. Emma is, it appears, a respectable man, and has been in the same situa- tion for eighteen years, and he was remanded on bail ; Mullins has been remanded and sent to prison.

John Dinmore, of 34, Parry Street, Plumstead, recently employed at the Armstrong gun factories in the Royal Arsenal, appeared before the Wool- wich Magistrate to answer a summons taken out at the instance of Captain Elliott, commanding the 5th company, 2d battalion, of Royal Arsenal Vo- lunteer Rifles, and charging the defendant that he, being a member of the said corps and having ceased to be employed in the Royal Arsenal, had neglected to pay the arrears of his subscription as such member, in breach of his agreement and contrary to the statute, the amount now due being 3/. Os. 6d. From the evidence of Captain Elliott and Company-Sergeant Riddiford it appeared that the defendant was a member of the corps, and had signed an agreement to pay for the uniform with which he had been supplied by weekly instalments of la. 6d. The defendant had subsequently been discharged from the gun factories, and had sent back his uniform, re- fusing to pay the balance due for it. If the uniform had been returned in good order the defendant would have been allowed a consideration, but, as the clothing was perforated with bayonet thrusts and otherwise damaged, it was rejected. In reply to the Magistrate it was stated, that the defendant still remained a member of the corps, as he had not men fourteen days' notice of his intention to leave, as required by the regulations. Mr. Traill said the ease certainly involved a point which at the present time it would be very convenient to settle. On examining the provisions of the Act 44th George III., chap. 54, he found that if a Volunteer ceased to be a member the Act did not bear upon the case, and the only remedy would be by an action in the County Court. It appeared, however, that the defendant had not left the corps, and therefore there was one olause of the Act named which would settle the point. This clause provided that if any person en- rolled himself in a Yeomanry or Volunteer corps, and refused or neglected to pay the money required to be subscribed, or the fines inflicted in accord- ance with the rules of the corps, then it should be lawful to summon such defaulter before a magistrate, who on proof of the circumstances could order payment of double the amount due, and issue a distress warrant in seven days to enforce payment, the inoney being placed to the funds of the corps. He (Mr. Train) should, therefore, order the defendant to pay double the amount he owed to the corps—being 61. Is., and costs, but would recommend that some agreement should be arrived at between the parties. The de- fendant said he had no goods upon which a distress could be levied. Mr. Train replied that, in default, one clause of the Act gave him power to award imprisonment.

Catherine Simpson has been remanded by the Worship Street Magistrate for biting off a woman's nose. The story is horrible. The poor victim of this outrage, Mrs. Atkins, told it herself in the Police Court, sobbing hysterically all the time, and still in danger of losing her life. She said- " I live in Dorchester Street, Spitalfields, and at one o'clock of the day, when this occurred, I came downstairs to shake a small carpet, and the prisoner came to me and asked me how to I came to be with her husband the night before. I told her that I had spoken to a young woman'who was talking to a man, but that I did not know he was her husband. She called me everything vile that she could lay her tongue to, to which I answered that I was a married woman. She upon that spat in my face, for which I smacked her face, went into the passage, and said no more. She followed me, saying nothing, but came before me suddenly, and then bit my nose right off. I was taken to the hospital directly, and have remained there ever since. Two persons were present when she did this. I bled fright- fully, suffered the greatest pain, and am going back to the hospital as soon as this examination is over.' It was clearly proved that Mrs. Atkins did not talk to Simpson's husband. The wretch has been punished on some former occasion for severely biting an officer, and that her husband had sepa- rated from her in consequence of her biting propensities.

A Mr. Wolstan Dixie, of the Conservative Club, has been fined 20s. by the Marlborough Street Magistrate for being found in a drunken and dis- orderly state in Albemarle Street at one in the morning.

The Earl of Kingston has been summoned for the non-payment of cab fares. During his examination, he behaved most insolently to Mr. Paynter the Magistrate, who bore it with dignity, and rebuked the Peer who de- grades his order with a just severity.