reconsider the question of allowing the costs. The cases had
been committed for trial by magistrates, after full and
due investigation at a police court, and the officer of the
society, who was a sworn constable named Allen, acted
with and by the authority of the parents of the girl,
who was but 12 years of age. The allowance of the
costs was a matter of no moment to the society, but he
asked that the Assistant Judge would now grant that
which he had improperly and rashly refused. He hoped
he would take time to consider of it, as he refused in a
moment of temper, and if after consideration the refusal
should be persisted in, the whole of the circumstances
would be brought under review in a higher quarter, and
as the costs of prosecutions were paid out of the consolidated
fund, the Secretary of State might have power to
order them to be paid.—The Assistant Judge: Is this
meant intimidation?—Mr. Parry said he was but doing
his duty. If the motion he now made was refused, the
matter would be brought before the Secretary of State,
and it would then be seen whether these epithets were
justifiable on a gentleman equal in rank and of as high
honour as the Assistant Judge himself; and they would
then obtain that justice which had been refused them
here.—The Assistant Judge said he had heard Mr. Parry
to the conclusion. He had listened to language which
rarely indeed had been addressed to the bench from
the bar, and language which, under no circumstances
whatever, would be addressed to the judges of the land.
Now, what he said on the preceding day he would now
repeat. If the society was well managed, and its operations
properly conducted, it would be a valuable one,
and would do a good deal of public good; but if not,
and such cases as those now in question were taken up
by it, instead of being a good, it would become a
nuisance. When he said he should disallow the costs, he
did not intend that to apply to the witnesses who had
been bound over, but to the costs incurred by the
society. The witnesses were paid, but the latter was
not; and a surgeon who had been subpœnaed, but not
bound over, had to make a special application, and his
fee was allowed. It had been distinctly asserted that
the society did not volunteer prosecutions. The father
of one of the girls stated to him on oath that he gave
instructions to no one, and that the society took up the
case through seeing it mentioned in the newspapers.
There was a great deal of animus in these attacks upon
him, and Mr. Parry thought it becoming not to address
him with that courtesy which was due and should be
observed towards one in his position. It was customary
for the bar generally to address him as his lordship;
not that he cared a fig for the compliment; but Mr.
Parry addressed him as "Mr. Serjeant Adams" in a
manner which could leave no doubt as to there being,
as he had just said, a deal of animus in the attacks
which were made upon him. He ended with a
threat to bring the matter before the Secretary of
State if his motion should be refused. He hoped he
would do so, and he would send his notes of the
evidence to enable the Secretary to form a correct
opinion as to the cases. A more disgusting case than the
first tried yesterday he never saw, and he would not
unsay any one thing he had said. If the society took
up such cases as those three, it would become a nuisance
instead of a public advantage, which it would be if
properly conducted. He did not think the society ought
to take up such cases on seeing them in the newspapers;
and with respect to the costs in those now under
consideration, he wished it to go forth, that though he said
he should not allow the costs, the ordinary costs to the
witnesses were allowed, and the society's costs refused.
Mr. Lawrence said he did not apply for them. The
Assistant-Judge remarked thereupon that the counsel
who was present did not ask for the costs, while a
counsel who was absent afterwards came and attacked
him in open court, and threatened to bring the matter
before the Secretary of State if he did not allow them.
It was not endurable; it was sufficient to make the
blood boil in one's veins to be thus treated after a
professional experience of over forty years. As the learned
serjeant resumed his seat there was some applause, but
it was speedily repressed.—Mr. Payne (the senior member
of the bar present) said that speaking for himself, he
thought such an occurrence was a discredit to the bar,
and he was sorry that any man at the bar could be found
to make a motion in the terms which had been used by
Mr. Parry.

At the Clerkenwell Police Court, on the 25th, George
and Anne Parkin, man and wife, were charged by
Captain Richard Hawkins, R.N., with having Violently
Assaulted him. The captain, who had a pair of black
eyes, said that he resided at No. 4, Southgate-street,
Islington. The prosecutor said, on Thursday last
Mr. Parkin called me into the kitchen, and asked
me in the presence of Captain Snell if I had not
enticed and endeavoured to seduce Miss Sloney, Mrs
Parkin's sister. I said I had not. He asked whether
I had not directed my letters to her at a coffee-house.
The defendants then made a desperate attack upon
me. I defended myself and called out "Murder."
They got me down, and I was blinded with blood. They
continued striking me violently and holding me by the
neck. I got assistance and escaped from them. Mr.
Clarke, solicitor, of Bedford-row, for the defendants,
questioned the captain, who admitted that he had been
convicted of bigamy and confined in the House of
Correction. Miss Sloney was 21 years of age. Did not
endeavour to entice her from her home. He had taken
her to the theatre. Mr. Clarke—Did you not strike
Mrs. Parkin? Captain (emphatically)—Never. I
have fought and bled against the enemies of my country,
and I should be ashamed of myself to strike a woman.
Several witnesses were examined to show that there was
a struggle and fight, and the captain was covered with
blood. John M'Pherson, footman to Captain Hawkins,
proved that his master was covered with bruises. Clara
Parkin, niece of Mrs. Parkin, proved that the captain
called her aunt a liar, and struck her. The magistrate
dismissed the case.

At the Central Criminal Court on the 25th inst., John
Windle Coles, a merchant in the city, was charged on
several indictments with having obtained money on false
pretence by means of enormous Forgeries of Dock
Warrants. The first case charged the defendant with
having thus obtained £10,000 from Messrs. Lang,
Campbell and Co., on the pretended security of two warrants
alleged to represent property in the possession of one
Maltby, a wharfinger; Maltby, who has absconded, had
taken, in conjunction with Cole, a wharf so situated
with respect to another wharf belonging to a person
named Groves, that a person looking over the property
on one wharf would not be able to tell immediately that
it did not belong to the other. On the faith of warrants
issued on property stated to be in the wharf in question,
Messrs. Lang and Campbell agreed to advance a large
sum of money. Cole sent the prosecutors certain
warrants, and a cheque was given him in return to the
amount of £10,000. The prosecutors had agreed to
advance £30,000 to Cole. On cross examination, Mr.
Lang admitted that he had transactions with the
prisoner to the amount of £100,000. In consequence of
certain representations made to Mr. Lang, he applied to
see the goods, but was not permitted to do so. His
clerk, who went to inspect the goods named in the
warrant, saw similar goods in Groves' wharf, Maltby
telling him that all the goods in that wharf were under
his control. The prisoner was found guilty. The other
indictments were not proceeded with, and the prisoner
was sentenced to four years' penal servitude.

NARRATIVE OF ACCIDENT AND
DISASTER

The United States Mail Steamer Arctic has been
Wrecked, with the Loss of above Three Hundred Lives,
on the 27th ult., on her voyage from Liverpool to New
York, about sixty-five miles from Cape Race on the
coast of Newfoundland. This terrible event was the
consequence of a collision in a dense fog with the Vesta,
a French iron steamer, bound for Havre. There were
from three to four hundred persons on board, including
passengers, officers and crew, of whom only fourteen
passengers, three officers of the ship, and twenty-eight
seamen are known to have been saved, having arrived
at Newfoundland, but it is possible that some others