b't 311ItriquilL The vacancy in the representation of Southwark created
by Sir William Molesworth's death has called forth two candidates; Mr. George Scovell, and Sir _Charles Napier. Both attended meetings of electors on Thursday night, and both found plenty of supporters.. Mr. Sewell, who has once before offered hie services to the borough, met his-friends at the Queen's Head Inn. He said he was prepared to vote for the ballot, the non-en- dowment by the State of any religions sect, an extension of the suffrage, a-reform of the defective system of administration in our public depart- ments, and for all measures which would promote the well-doing of the working classes. In his printed address he says—" I feel that no Govern- ment should be supported that does not unflinchingly, unequivocally, and by every means that it can command, prosecute the present legitimate war to such a termination as shall leave no doubt of the security and fu- ture progress of civilization." The meeting decided that-be should be supported. Sir Charles Napier attended a meeting at the Bridge-house Hotel. The main portion of his address consisted of criticisms on the war, and his personal quarrel with the Admiralty. This did not satisfy his hearers ; they wanted to know something beyond his opinions on the question of the war. He replied, that he was "liberal to the backbone," and then professed opinions very similar to those of Mr. Scovell. Sir Charles declines a personal canvass, butintends to hold a series of meet- ings. The other side will canvass the electors.
The second Sunday meeting of the dear-bread series, in Hyde Park was very much like the first,—neither more nor less significant. A crowd gradually collected towards the middle of the afternoon; a ring was formed; and the same stump-orator appeared to enlighten the multitude on the sins of.the aristocracy, the virtues of the labouring classes, and on the best mode of gaining over the soldiers and the police, namely, by dis- tributing tracts. His discourse was interrupted, towards the close, by a wanton assault upon a livery-servant, who, for some unknown reason, was chased out of the Perk. Then the more active-youths began to pelt the Police with vexatious though harmless missiles. The Police, how- ever, bore it patiently, separated the delinquents into several bodies, and no harm ensued.
In the direction of the Marble Arch, says one of the reporters "we found another orator holding forth in a style of rude eloquence, which, both in its matter and manner, was not without its attractions to many. He was re- lating the history of the appropriation of lend in this country; and at the point when we came within the reach of his voice he was telling how Wil- liam the Conqueror parcelled out the English territory among his followers. Another philanthropist, with a brown paper parcel under his arm, and some- what advanced in life, was advocating in another part of the Park the system of Communism as a panacea for the high price of food, and almost every other evil. Towards five o'clock tho day began to decline, and a slight drizzling rain set in ; and so the crowd gradually dispersed, after holding what was rightly denominated by a working man 'a Jackdaw's Parliament,' in which everybody tried to talk and nobody listened, because, in point of fact, nobody had anything to say worth listening to.
In charging the Grand Jury at the Central Criminal Court, on Monday, Commissioner Gurney referred to the lightness of the calendar, in some mea- sure the result of the new law extending the power of Magistrates to convict summarily ; and he remarked that the working of this law required to be watched as old offenders would have the opportunity by choosing a summary conviction to escape the heavier sentences which proof of former convictions would cause them to receive at the Sessions.
Specht, the married German who robbed Johanna Doscher while pretend- ing to visit her as a suitor, was convicted, and sentenced to six months' ha- prmonment.
On Wednesday, Isabella Jolley was tried for the murder of her mother. It will be recollected that Mrs. Jolley was found dead with her throat cut, one morning ; and that-her daughter Isabella stated that she had found her mother dead from the wound. They had been suffering from poverty, and Miss Jolley had procured a razor—she declared, for the purpose of -killing herself. A surgeon gave evidence that the wound might have been- self- inflicted. On the whole, the Jury were disposed to concur in this-view, and they found a verdict of "Not guilty." Mr. Baron Alderson fully concurred in the verdict.
- Cortazar and Brasier, the Spaniards who forged and uttered two letters of credit, were convicted of both crimes.
George Malley, charged with an attempt to kill Ellen Marney, a young woman who lived with him, was found guilty of the lesser offence of assauh' ing with intent to do grievous bodily harm. Sentence, transportation jor
e.
A very extraordinary incident has occurred this week. Elizabeth Yoyce, a young "unfortunate' about to become a mother, applied for admission at the St. Giles's Workhouse. After some difficulty al the gate, she was allowed to go in ; but a nurse almost immediately dismissed her, and she was turned into the street. Fortunately, she met an old acquaintance, William Baker, who engaged a room for her in Eagle Court, Bed Lion Square ; and there she had not been long before a dead child was born. Isabella Ward, a person who acted for the landlady, was very much shocked ; and, as Joyce saTh ordered her into the street, and persuaded her to pretend that the child had been born on the pavement of Red Lion Square, in order that the police might be induced to take care of her. The dead child was carried in a shawl. A policeman was found, and he, believing the story, carried the girl to Nita's College Hospital. The matter came before the Bow Street Magistrate. workhouse nurse says she really disbelieved the girl's statement ; but de- clares that she told a porter to take her to another ward. The porters excuse themselves by saying that many girls trump up similar tales to get into the workhouse for a night : Joyce, and a female friend she had with her, were "giggling." Isabella Ward explains, that Joyce, when upbraided for coming
to the house at Eagle Court in such a state,—there being nothing in the place for her proper-treatment,--offered to go away ; and, after swallowing some gin; went- into the street of her own accord : the tale told to the police- man was invented as most likely to obtain immediate aid The affair is still under investigation.
Captain Henry Stanton, an elderly gentleman who has retired from the Army, has been doubly victimized by thieves. As he left a tavern at Mile- end, in the evening, a gang surrounded him, broke his watch from the chain; seized the spectacles from his nose, emptied his pockets of the money they contained, and dispersed. aubeequently a. militiaman told. Captain Stanton that, for a "consideration," he could_ regain his property for him : the un- suspecting Captain too easily assented, and was led about from public-house to public-house, till he got into a low pot-house at Whitechapel. There the militiamen told him he would explain how the thieves plundered him : without waiting for the old gentleman's consent, he took his neek•chain, money, and other property ; and; saying "This is the way they got off !" immediately ran away. Owen M•Carthy, of the-Tower Hamlets Militia, has been remanded by the Worship Street Magistrate as the hero of. this clever bit of roguery.
A railway communicating between Croydon, Mitcham, and Wimbledon, and connected with London by the Epsom line and by the. South-Western, was-opened on Monday. Within four dap it produced its fatal accident On Thursday afternoon, a train which was proceeding from- Croydon towards Mitcham left the rails, the engine ploughed into the earth for some distance, and then turned over : John Bingham, the driver, fell beneath the ponderous mass, and was crushed to death ; the other men engaged. on the train were more or less hurt, but not fatally. There were but three carriages, and only one was occupied; and of the five passengers in this only one, a lady appears to have been hurt.
Cholera has appeared in that ill-situated and unhealthy -prison the Mil- bank Penitentiary. On Monday, an inquest was held on a third victim : there had been seven oases.
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