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POLIGE.

CITY COURT.

Wednesday, January 8. (Before Mr. Sturt, P.M.)

Híb Worship took bis seat on the benoh at tan

o'clock.

Drunkenness.-Eliza White, James Bu- chanan, Thoraas Maiden, Fanny Porter, John Speed, and William Thomas, were fined Gi.

each.

Disorderlies, &o.-Joseph Mormon and William M'Cartney, charged with disorderly oaa duct at the Publio Baths, were fined 20s. eaob. ; in default, seven days' imprisonment.-David Guy, for an aot of indecency in William-Btreat, wub fined 5s.-Mary Boardman, charged by her husband with habitual drunkenness, was ordered to find two sureties, in £20 each, to keep tin peace for six months.-Ellen Banks and Anae Merrick, for disorderly conduct, were fined 5). ' each;-William Chinn, charged with vagranoy and begging in the street, was cautionod and dis- charged.-Charlotte Harrington and Merrion Donnelly, for fighting in the street, were cau- tioned and discharged.

Ihtent to Commit Felony.-Ah-Shan, a Chinese, was charged with intending to commit a felony. Constable John Gray stated that ha arrested the prisoner on tbo previous ni^ht, at the rear of a house in La Trobe-street. He was in a stooping position at the time) and had in his hand a large iron tool, something hkoa " jemmy." Being unable to account for the circumstances, the constable locked him up. Remanded till Thursday, for further inquiry.

Stealing Gold.-Edward Jonea was brought up by Detective Duross, charged with being con- cerned in tho robbery of gold committed on Thomas Firbank, a digger lately returned from. New Zealand. Tho .prisoner, who is a tioket-of leavo holder, was remanded till Friday.

Assault.-Henry Moigan was charged with assault. Mary Bennett, a woman living in Juliet terrace, stated that on the previous morning she went, as she was frequently m the habit of doin{, to the door of a house next doorto her own, when ehe was encountered by the prisonor, who kiokol bcr violently backwards against a poBt, and "knocked three of her ribs out." She had boan obliged to go to the hospital. Constable Marks said he know tho prisonor to bo living with a, woman named Donnelly, in Juliet terrace. The prisoner denied that he had done anything mora io the woman than put his arm round her waist, and shove her out. He was very sorry to hove been in such disreputable company. Mr. Sturt told him. it was advirable that when a man was brought up for being in a row in Juliet-terrace, he should ba able to produce evidonco of his own good cha- racter. Bouud over in ono surety of £20 to keep llie peace for six months.

False Pretences.-William H. Ravenswood was charged with obtaining .t2 10s. by false pra tences from William Payne, bookkeeper at the Hotel del Universo, Colfms-streot. The prose- cutor said that the prisoner carno to him and lold him that he was going home in the ship Alfred, that the half of his passage-money was

paid, but that his guardian, tue Rev. 1. flether- I ington, who had £180 "Lof his money, would not let him bnvo any moro until hu was on board hhip. Witness had already assisted him to a small »mount. Ho gavo witness an order upon the rev. gentleman, and then witness let him have 10s., tho brlauce of the order. The prisoner sent hi m a message not to present the order, and witnes s allowed the matter to run on for several days, an 1 then called on the Rev. I. Hetherington, who said that he had no knowledge of the prisoner. Tua Rev. I. Hetherington deposed that he had saan the prisoner. Dad no money belonging to him in his possession, and never had. A few even- ings ago thj prisoner carno to him, and said that he was in great distress, that he was a native of

Inverness-shire, was an intimate acquaintance of J

Captain Bancroft, and also known to Sir Thomas Pratt, and had been educated at Rugby School, llo told his Btory with an air of bo much feeling and sincerity, that witness believed him, and gave him £1. About a week after ho returned, and said that he had every hope of being able soon to get a situation, as he was a nephew of Sir Henry Young ; and wanted witness to assist him to get some new clothes and pay his tailor's bill. Witness, by this time, entertained some doubts of his truthfulness. The prisoner, who had no- thing to say for himself, was committed for trial.-Luis Mirx was brought up, on remand, charged with obtaining money by false pre- tences from Richard Barrow, landlord of the Governor Bourke Hotel, Little Lonsdale-street. On. the 26th December last, aocording to the statement of the prosecutor, tho prisonor went to the hotel, in company with another mau, and ordered a bottle of porter. In payment ho produced a cheque for £3 15s., which purported to be drawn by *f Charles Fisher," of Richmond, a music master. Witness objected to cash the cbequo at first, but ultimately did so, and gavo prisoner the balance. On presenting the cheque

next morning at the English and Scottish Bank, ' the answer was, " No account." On questioning him, at first, tho prisoner said he lived in Little Lonsdale-street, but witness could not find him, and never saw anything more of him until he was arrested. John Robert Jaok son, ledger-keeper at the English and Sottish Bank, proved that there had not been any aocount

in the name of Charles Fisher for the last year. J Detective Black said he arrested the prisoner about ten o'clock on Monday night, at the Publio

Library. The prisoner said it was a bad job, as I ho had no money to meet the eheque. Committed

for trial,

charge op ill-treating a child.

i Essex Scott, wife of a photographio artist, was charged with ill-treating a ohild of fifteen years of age, named Catherine Keeley, while in her

service.

Tho ohild deposed as follows :-I have beau between two and threo years with Mr. Scott, and am about fifteen years of age. My name is Catherine Keeley. I was first engaged by Mr. Scott at the Bombay Orphan Asylum School. I came to this colony with Mr. and Mrs. Scott a few weeks ago. Mr. Scott is living at his own house, in Collins-street. Wo have neen in Mel- bourne about four weeks. Sometimes, when I don't do my duty, and am very obstinate, tho missis beats mc. No one told me to say that. I hoy it of myself. On tho 6th of this month missis beat mo with a cane in the morn- ing because I did not do my work, and vould not answer her. A Mrs, M'Leau came into my room m the evening, and asked ma how I dared to milk her goats? Missis gave ma tomo slaps with her baud on my face and on my hands. The marks ou my faeo aro natural marks, and will not como off. Onco thero was a great Hwelling on my nose. That was before the 6th. No injury was done to my mouth. It was Mrs. M'Loan who told the detective that missis hal torn my mouth open. I very often get slaps on my face, and sometimes a little of the skin comes Dil. I uamo hero to tell tho truth. Since the

lith I bava had no conversation with any ona about thi» matter, exoept with that gentlomia (pointing to Mr. Cresswell, the solicitor). The rune marks on my arm were mado by my missis, »orne before I came to this colony, and soma

»ince.

Cross-examined by Mr. Cresswell.-Mr. and Mrs. Scott treat mo kindly, as one of tho family. Homet'mies I have ttold my misBia lies, and then 1 got a slap on the face for it. It was not a tttvoro beating I got. Mrs, M'Leau lives next door to us. On the 6th, she carno to tho house, and asked why I milked her goats? I said I did not. She asked mo to como to her house, »nd she would take caro of mo, and bo like my mother. She offorod me £20 a-year if I would do so. She has been sevoral times to ask me ti 1 o to her. Mr. Soott yesterday waited at boma, io seo if she would dare lo como again. Sha n an ted me to take my clothes and my box, and ».aid they would do for my wages, and that sha would hide me until my master and mistress wera geno to Sydney.

, Re-exiimined,''-Somo people carno to Mrs. Scott, aud told her not to beat me. Yesterday, two mon came to Mrs. Scott, und frightonod lirr. Mrs. Sco't called n,o into their presonea. 1 hey «aid that if Mrs. Scott beat mo any moro ibey would take her mi o custody. Mrs. Ssitt and the children went out for a walk »Iterwurds, and Mr. Soott wnited at home, io seo if Mrs. M'Lean would daro to come. 'Mr. Scott tuld mo so himself. I went to Mrs. M'Lean's hous? myself, my rooson bemgtoasear Tain if sho intended to como to my master's li ouse. I had packed up ono of my bundles myself, before I went. Afterwards, when she iiiuo hi,.I packed up the othor. I asked her if the would take the one, and said I would take tho other. I packed up both bundles myself.

Re-cross-examined.-I put the Borun wool into .mo of tho bundles-tho ono I gave to Mrs. M'Lean. Tho Berlin wool was in my box for months. It belonged to ray mistress. Mr. Scjtt never told mo to put tho wool in my bundle. I put tho wool in for the purpose of laying » trap for Mrs. M'Lean. I packed my bundle up of my »wn accord. I went twice to Mrs. M'Lean's to g«t her to como. On the samo evening I asked lier if sho would como over and carry one of tha bundles with mo. I told her that my niastorhal given mo permission to leave his service if I nked. At that time I had no intention of leaving. Mrs. M'Lean carno up stairs to my room. I told her to carry tho bundle 1 bit pelted first, and I packed up the other myself, tynon wo carno down, Mr. Scott carne out of tha drawing-room, end was exceedingly angry at har being tbcro. He had sent mo for her. He caught ber by tho hand, and took her to tho front door, and sent some one for a polioeman. Tbo policoman was not standing ready at the door. Ho did not examine the Dundie, but ha uBked me what it was ; and I said it was my clothes. He told the constable Mrs. M'Lean must bo taken to the station- house, for daring to come into his house. He did not then know ths contents of the buodle. '

By Mr. Cresswell.-Mr. and Mrs Scott bought my clothes for me. The wool had been in my

since wo had been in the ooloay. .vin.

M'Lean was in fbo house tho evening beforo. Neither Mr. nor Mrs. Scott waa then thero.

By the Bench.-Mrs. M'Lean said I waa to bring all my olothes to her houso. No one told me to put the wool in my bundle.

Robert Downing, an independent man, deposed to seeing the little girl on the 6th instant. Was in Mrs. M'Lean's houso. Two detectives cams in, and asked Mrs. M'Lean to show them tho child. They went to find her, and Mrs. M'Lean told her not to bo frightened, as the two gentle* 1 men and she would be friends to her. She thoa

bared her armB, and showed them the bruises, 1 and her mouth, which had blood at the cornera.

Sbo said her mistress had dono it, by tearing it with her fingers. She was very dirty. The marks wero here and there, from her wrist up- wards. There were no marks on her face. She said her mistress had beaten her, sometimes with 1 a cane and sometimes with a stick. She said

she had enough to eat, and was beaten for being disobedient. That she Blopt on a door-mat, with a blanket to cover her.

I Cross-examined,-I was in the house by ac-

cident. Mrs. M'Lean was sober. There were 1 bruibcs hore and there on the girl's arms.

I Dr. Baden, having first asked to bo allowed to

mnko an examination of tho girl's person, on j the ground that she had refused to allow him to i do so, said-I find she has got two fading bruises, . one on eaeh shoulder, and two lower down oa [ the back, nnd one on the outside of each knee,

1 The aims show bruises of a later date. Oa ! Monday evening, about seven o'olock, Mrs.

M'Lean called at my house, saying that she Vi anted me to seo a child who had received a serious beating, and was likely to bo killed. I went to her house, and she said tho child was at tho rear. Shu crossed over the yard, and brought in the girl. Tho child was will, difficulty brought to mo, and seemed as though she feared me. I encouraged her, and then only looked at her shoulders and her face. Sho had a fading bruisa on her cheek, and a drying sear at each corner of the mouth. Mrs. M'Lean said, "You aee what the child has got has been done by her master and miatross." The child assented.to that. Sha appeared to bo feeble, and had a kind of irritative fever; indicating a bad state of health. A boat 1 iug, such ns the child hnd received, would not

have hurt her health, unlesB repeated. I sent

information to thotletectives.

Cross examined.-Tbo bruises wero suoh al could be caused by a stick or cane. Some of 1 the in were caused, I think, by squeezes of the

thumb on the child s arm. The blows were not of such a severity as would havo injured the child's heal i h, unless, as I say, they had been re- peated.

By the Bench.-The girl opposed the examina . lion as much as possible, and said she had no

bruises.

( Tbis waa the case.

Mr. Cresswell briefly addressed the Benoh, suggesting that a more trumper}' caso had noVer I been brought before a court of justice. There

waa not a titilo of corroborative evidence. The child herself admitted that she had been kindly tieated-as one of the family j and asBho was, even according to hor own story, m the habit of being disobedient and telling lies, Mr. Scott, who stood now to her, being an orphan, in loco parentit, had a perfect right to treat her as any parent would do, and administer a reasonable castiga

tion. '

Mr. Sturt, after conferring with Mr. Greaves and with Dr. Eades, who had also taken a seat on the bench, said the evidence was not sufficient to establish a chargo of cruelty against the de- fendant, but it certainly appeared that rather undue severity had been used towards the child, whose person would not have exhibited the marks it did unless she had been su jeeted to consider- able "castigation- more than, perhaps, was justly called for. But there was nothing to show that any cruelty had been practiced. The girl might possibly, according to her own words, have been obstinate and occasionally might havo told liea, and anyone standing towards her in locoparentis might be justilied in administering to her a reasonable correction. Dr. Eades, who had examined her, hud assured the Bench that her person did not show any marks of severe corporal punishment, or of moro than she probably had deserved. The case, as one of cruelty, would be

dismissed.

Jane M'Lean, the woman who had interfered on the child's account, was thon called to an- swer a charge of stealing from a dwelling.

The facts of tho case had already been elioited in the foregoing examination ; and Mr. Cresswell, on behalf of the prosecution, said. ho would con- sent to withdraw the charge, provided his friend Mr. F. Stephen, on the other Bide, would agree not to interfere with Mr. and Mrs. Scott, who -had takon their passage to Sydnoy, and would undertake not to bring an action.

Mr. Stephen declined to do anything of tho sort, and insisted upon the case being gone on

with.

Mr. CreBSwell.-Oh ; very well, then, well go on with tho case, if you will havo it. The learned gentleman then addressed the Bench, and said the prisoner was oharged with stealing a quantity of Berlin wool (the wool above referred to), a child's dress, worn by the girl, Catherine Keeley, and other articles of wearing apparel, which could not possibly have belonged to the child, but were, together, in fact, with all the articles, the actual property of Mrs. Soott.

William Scott, sworn.- I am an artist, residing in Collins-street. I know the prisoner slightly. I saw her once before, when I wont to her house to look for apartments. On the 7th, Mrs. Scott and the children went out, leaving mo at home. The little girl told me the prisoner had boon ia my house on the previous evening, during the absence of my wife and family. She came to my house last night{ about half-past five o'clock. I concealed myself in the drawing-room. Waited till sho came down. Saw her with the bundle,

and asked her what she wanted thero. I then 1 gave her in charge. I identify a package of Berlin wool and a dress, belonging to the little girl which prisoner had in her possession. She waa very abusive to me, and spat in my face. I laid this trap for her to soo if she would have the audacity to come into my houso : but I was not aware she was going to take anything that did not bolong to her, nor did I authorize her to take anything. I did not wish to press the oharge, nor to prefer any charge of theft against the pri- soner, as I did not really believe she wanted to steal anything ; but they would not take the woman into custody unless I preferred a distinct charge of theft.

Mr..Sturt stopped the case here, and discharged the prisoner, adding that he did not believo she intended to take anything unlawfully ; but she had aeted imprudently in going into Mr. Soott'g houso, and, it would appear, endeavouring to par* sundo his servant to leave him,

Discharged accordingly.

Deep Sinking.-Wo find in the Victorian Miners' Manual, published by Messrs. Sands, Kenny, and Co., a chapter on the " Permanence of Gold-mining," containing the opinions of various noted authorities upon the depth to which it ia probable our quartz veins will prove payable. Somo aro of opinion that the uppar portions of our lodes are richest, while others believe that the diminution of yield in depth is so slow as not to be appreciable within any depths to which ordinary mining operations ara carried-m other words, that our lodes will prove payable until the miner's work takes him oui of the reach of any mechanical contrivances that human Bkill has yet invented. Wo believo, an 1

our opinion is founded on experience in the,, working of lodes in various countries, that both theories aro correct. Some lodes aro richer at or near the surface than at a considerable depth, while others will continuo payable to tho depth of the primary rock with which they aro connected. Lodes are of all widths and forms, and one which is rich near tho surface may become barron at the depth of a few fathoms, or may close in, and remain cloaed to thodopth of several hundred feet. A vein, which is only a thread at the sur- face, may Bpread into a strong lode, and beooma richer as it is followed to a considerable depth, and it may provo rich to tho depth of the rook, enclosing it, Bay from 2,000ft. to (5,000ft. If ths theory which we support ia correct, thai our lines of reefs are not continuous lodes, rising and fall- ing, but detached bands, dipping to rise no more, then wo know that when an auriferous band ii struck near the surface, it may he useless to look for g'pld in an adjoining band, but we might ba successful if wo struck the same band on its northern or southern dip.-InglewoodAdvarliser,

Jan. 7.

Flue at tue Fouît Posts. Pleasant Creek:, -Mr. Salinger's store, at the Deep Lead, wai burned down to tho ground on Sunday evening, about six o'clock. Not a vestigo of property has

been saved. Tho cause of the uro has been attri- buted to the fact of some lucifer matches placed on one of the top shelves igniting from the exces- sive beat of yesterday, nnd iheso setting fire to the calico immediately under the hot- iron roof. The llames spread in a moment to a barrel of gunpowder, and so destroyed the whole building < and its contents-valued at £3,000. Ail the resi-

dents, except Mr. Nathan Salinger, who was in Ararat, were in the building at tho time, and so ' sudden waa theliroandsorapiditssprcnd, that the ! inmates-including Mrs. Salinger and lier three

daughters - had a narrow escape. Mr. Salinger and his family havo been very unfortunate, for this is tho third fire that has happened on their premises duriug the three years they have re* sided in the colony. Mr. Salinger was not in- sured. Two of tho Misses Ballinger were on the point of marriage, and were going back to their nalia o country-Germany-by the Groat Britain, with theil- intended husbands, whoso boxes of clothes, &c, wero m iho store ready packed. Ararat Advertiser, Jan. 7.

! Minino Accident. - Yesterday nfternoan, while a party ot Chinamen were working ia tome old ground Jiear the Whito P.itoh, tha drive suddenly fell in, without naming. Ono maa nat killed int-tauUtieonfly, and another had his hip db-locattd. Assist-me-ô w.is promptly afforded, -Ararat Advertiser, J au. 7.

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