The Sun. — London, England, 1848-10-12 00:00:00

IRELAND. ARREST ON A CHARGE OF HIGH TREASON. DuIILIN; WEDNEsDAY.—The Freeman of this morning has the subjoined announcement : " At a late hour last night it was intimated to us that M r . D. Reilly was arrested in Belfast on a charge of high treason, and that he had been committed to Rich rmoeul Bridewell. On inquiry we ascertained the follow ing facts :—A young man named Reilly (not Thomas Reilly, but answering his description) had been ar asted at Belfast by one of the detective police. The prisoner was consigned to Richmond Bridewell. It ap pears that this Mr. Reilly was connected with one of the slabs, but, in no way related to Mr. T. D. Reilly. The charge irinst the prisoner is high treason. It is said that vigorous efforts are being made by the authorities to ascertain the parties whose handwriting has appeared in the balloting papers produced at the special commis sion at Cionnsel, in order to connect them with treason able practices. It is supposed that Mr. Reilly is one of the parties alluded to." Of the State prisoners in Belfast the Northern Truk says — Oa Sunday two of the State prisoners (Messrs. Eugene O'Reilly and O'Rorke), who have for some time been confined in the new House of Correction here were transmitted to Dublin, in charge of two constables. Mr. O'Rorke is to be tried at the commission in Dublin, and Mr. O'Reilly is, we understand, to be set free on giving bail." Respecting the trial of Mr. Meagher, the Clonmel correspondent of the Freeman writes— The Crown is more perplexed by the case of Meagher than by any or all of the others. There have been several consultations as to the c, - eirse to be taken, and I believe you will find that at least Meagher's case will be the last on the list, so apprehensive are they of not getting a verdict, and of such a result influencing any subsequent trials. The most active exertions to pro cure evidence are being made by the Crown; groups of witnesses are being brought in and sent off again as worthless, and up to the hour at which I write it is felt that it would not be safe to risk a trial as the case now stands. However, no man knows what an hour may bring forth. The present impression is, that Meagher will be the last brought up—if he be brought up at all at this commission." NOTES OF PREPARATION. Under the above head, the Tipperary Vindicator says— " We understand that active measures are being taken _to fortify police barracks in Ireland, and more particu larly in the county of Tipperary, so that they may able to withstand a siege if another outbreak should ever take place. Inspector-General Captain Roberts, a gen tleman of great engineering skill, has within the last week officially inspected the police stations in the north riding of this county, with a view to ascertain their ca pabilities of dererce. Many barracks were utterly con demned as untenable, for which new edifices must be built forthwith, while in others he has directed the weak points to be strengthened. A considerable acces sion to the present force in the county of Tipperary is contemplated." Mae. O'BRIEN.—This afflicted lady proceeded from Clonmel to Limerick yesterday. Her accouchement is daily expected. THE SPECIAL COMMISSION. CLONMEL, OCT. 10.—The trial of Mr. M`Manus re commenced this morning, but it created comparatively little interest, in consequence of his being a stranger in this part of the country. The following were the witnesses examined: — Wm. Franklin, Esq., deposed to the handwriting of Mr. O'Brien ' as appeared in the letter addressed to the Mining Company of Ireland. Patrick M•Kenna deposed to his having taken up Mr. Meagher and another gentleman, on Saturday, the 22d of July, at a place called Laughlinstown, and leaving them Enniscorthy. Mr. Egan was steward in the relief works at Ballin garry, last July. He remembered seeing Mr. O'Brien going up the street of the town on Wednesday, the 25th, accompanied by a great number of persons, many of whom were armed. He saw the prisoner at the bar, Mr. M'Manus, there on the day after. He saw him in the street riding a horse, and with a crowd of people, who were with Mr. O'Brien. The witness saw no arms with him, but he saw him go up and down among a number of persons in the street, some of whom were draws into line ; but he could not say that he was the person who marshalled them. He saw him afterwards going towards the fair green of Ballingarry, accompanied by twenty or thirty people, some of whom were armed. He saw two pitchforks and some guns. He remembered seeing Mr. O'Brien at Farrinrory on the Saturday following, and Mr. M'Nfanus with him. He did not see him speak to O'Brien or police-constable Carroll ; but he was walk ing up tbrid down the street with a black belt round his waist. He saw nothing in it. Thomas Berke examined—He was a summons server, tnd deposed to 'his being in Ballingarry on Thursday, he 27th of July, where he saw a large crowd of per sons. Some of them hail guns, others pikes, and others pistols. He remembered seeing the prisoner at the bar on horseback, riding up the street, with a belt round his waist, and a pistol in it. A man named M'Carthy was drilling some of the men. They remained in Ballin garry about two hours. Ho did not see the piisoner and Mr. O'Brien speaking at any time while he was there. There were about 400 or 500 persons in the street, walk ing up and down, three deep, and when they passed by his door they went into a garden, and commenced point ing their guns out on the road, while the pikemen were running up and down the road. To Chief-Justice DOHERTY—He did not hear any word of command given ; but he heard Mr. M`Manus telling the people to march on three deep. Examination resumed—He remembered the previous Wednesday evening a great number of people leaving Ballingarry for Mullinahone. He should say there were at least 150 of them arrived with pikes, guns, and pis tols. They met Mr. O'Brien about hall-way between both phces e with about 300 persons, armed also with guns and pistols, and Mr. O'Brien at the head of them, marching from Mullinahone to Ballingarry. He saw him afterwards at Ballingarry, and heard him tell the peopleao keep their arms, and that any ono who had them and would not give them up, to take them by force, for the time was come when they wanted to use them. Mr. O'Brien then went into the chapel yard, followed by about 50, all of whom were not armed. He thought about 20 or 25 of them had arms. The witness recollected Saturday, the 29th of July, being at his work, when he saw the police going towards the widow Cormack's louse. He went up and saw a great number about the house ; he should say there were 60 or 70 close up to the yard well, 60 of whom were armed ; but besides those there was a great number of others in the ditches, per haps four or Eve hundred, looking out at the horse. He saw the prisoner at the bar with a pistol in his hand, standing at an outhouse, and breaking in a window shutter with a stick. He was accompanied by a number of armed men, who were standing in the haggard, and as the witness was coming from the front of the house, he heard him say, " the house should be burned." The firing and attack on the house lasted an hour, or some thine. better. He saw two or three wounded, and one man killed near himself as he was coming out of a gate. The witness Ass under a wall near the gate. Judge MOORE —Was it after the firing, or before it, that Mr. MiManus said the house should be burned?— Towards the close cl it. Examination resumed—After the firing was over, he saw five hundred people collected together on the road, and Mr. ll'Manus with them. It was at that time he saw le- s li ce -constable Carroll get off his horse, and go amens the eroel. Cross-examined by Mr. BUTT—He was himself armed with a pike, but not on that day, and gave infor mation about what he saw when he was taken into cus tody. The first time he heard Mr. M`Manu's name was in Dublin, bat he knew his person very well. He was on the relief works when this business happened, for which he used to get 41be. of meal each day. He was examined at the last trial, and stated he saw Mr. M`Manus break the window-shutter. The witness never took a false oath, nor did he ever offer a man named Matthew Sullivan to take an oath for him about a pro missory note. head-constable Williams deposed that he was sta tioned in Mullinahone on the 26th of July, and remem beted seeing Mr. O'Brien coming into town. The witness next proved that Mr. M`Manus was with Mr. O'Brien when that Rend, man went to the police barrack to ewoßtict the arms of the police, as deposed to on the The other policemen stationed there were next ex anrind, and also deposed to the same facts as they proved on Mr. O'Brien's trial. _ _ George ;Sparrow examined—He recollected being in Baliingarry on Thursday, the 27th of July, where he saw Mr. O'Brien there with about 400 or 500 men, who were armed with pikes, guns, and pitchforks. Mr. O'Brien was drilling them. He saw Mr. M`Manus there also as he wont up towards where Mr. O'Brien was, and both cqmmenced drilling. Mr. M*Carthy examined—He remembered the Friday before the fight took place at the widow Cormack's bowie: he was at Killemaule on that day. As he was leaving the town a man came to him and said he wanted his horse, and he said he should have her.—(Laughter.) Re said he wanted to see whether the army was coming, and handed him a pistol, which he desired him to keep Instil he reAttrned. The witness remembered the barri cades at Killenaule; he did not know what direction the man to whom he gave hia horse went, but he saw him come from the direction of the barricades. He would not know a pike if he saw it, as ho never, to his recollec tioe, saw one in his life.—(A laugh.) There was some thing in Orchard's hand, but he could not say whether it was a pike or not. What he saw with him resembled pitchfork with one of the prongs turned down, and was placed en the top of a pole about five feet long. Look at the man.% t the bar, and s a y if h e b e the. per son who took your horse. I have a doubt in my mind if that is the IMO. To the COURT—As an honest man, and in the pre• sence of God, he could not swear that the prisoner was the man he saw in gaol in Dublin. He identified him in Dublin as the man who took his horse at Kiklenaule, but he had less doubt of him then than he had now. Cross-examined —He saw a person in Clonmel named Walpole, who was very like the prisoner ; indeed he was his dead image.—(A laugh.) To the SOLIPITOR-GENERAL—He could not positively swear whether it was Walpole or the prisoner who took his horse. Walpole was a police-constable, and when he saw him he was dressed like the prisoner. Inspector Walpole was here brought into court, when the witneas stated that he was the person who resembled the prisdder. D. Matthew examined—He was bead constable of po lice, and remembered being in Killenaule on the 25th of July; Afr aw Mr. O'Brien at the hotel door with about tiwtr 49!40ns standing around him. Lie spoke about `'rte - ~L THE SUN, a warrant that was against him, and said that the boys of Kilkenny and Wexford desired him not to surrender himself, but he had not heard as yet the opinion of the Tipperary boys. He said that they should not insult the police, for there was many an honest heart inside a green jacket. The witness saw Mr. O'Brien in the town on the following day also, and four gentleman in com pany with him, whose names he heard were Dillon, SPManus, O'Donohoe and Stevens. H was not, how ever, able to identify the prisoner. To man who was called i'y'l'Alanus had a belt round his waist, and a pistol in it, a green waistcoat, and a hat. He was riding M'Carthy's horse. The troops had passed at the time, and the town was filled with a great number of persons armed with all kinds of weapons, pitchforks, guns, and pikes. Cross-examined—He did not say anything on the former trial about the transactions he now referred to. He knew M'Carthy's horse. Was positive the prisoner at the bar was the person who rode it. Lawrence Middleton examined—He lived near Kil lenaule, and saw the prisoner there on the day in ques tion, standing at Walsh's hotel. Two men were walking up and down by the door, and one gentleman, who ad dressed the crowd, told the people to arm themselves, and to take arms from those who had arms and would not give them. Chief Justice DOHERTY—What was the reason al leg- d for taking arms?—They said they wanted to free their country, and that that freedom was just at hand. Cross-examined by Mr. BUTT—The barricades were made of trees, turf, and carts. He was dismissed from the police for being out of barracks without leave on four different occasions, and was once a collector of taxes. which he gave up in spite of himself.—(A laugh.) He made away with some of the money, was tried for the offence, but acquitted. William Parsons, a private of the Bth Hussars, proved that ho wos one of the advanced guard of a troop on the day when the barricades were erected at Kille naule. He proved the same facts deposed to on Mr. O'Brien's trial. Sergeant Hampden, of the same regiment, corrobo rated the testimony of the last witness, and identified the prisoner at the bar as one of those who stood at the barricades. Captain Longmore was next examined, and repeated his former evidence, but he could not identify the pri soner. _ _ _ John Tobin examined—He Jived in liillenaule with Mr. Ryan. On the day of the fight at the commons, James Orchard hired a car for some gentlemen. The witness drove them to Earl's-hill, where about 200 or 300 persons were present. They drove fer,m that to wards the common, when Mr. O'Brien told the people to go and bring in arms from the country , and to take them from those who would not give them. up. The wit ness heard Mr. Meagher say that they would gain Ire land in six months. He saw a gun with one of the gen tlemen but no pistol. John Pemberty, an engineer to the Mining Company at Ballingarry, identified Mr. M'Manus as one el the persons he saw on the common, armed with a pistol. Mr O'Brien called the witness aside and told him., if the com pany stood neutral he should support them, but that if they suspended the men for following him, he would take possession of the collieries, for he expected, he said, to have Ireland rescued from the British Government in a week. The people, he continued, were all ready in the towns, and as far as it had gone they were of the same mind in the country. Owen Cullen, the manager of the collieries, proved the conversation he had with Mr. O'Brien about the let ter which that gentleman addressed to the Mining Com pany. He could not identify Mr. M'Manus as being present at the time. John Lanphier examined—He was a pay clerk at the collieries, and remembered seeing Mr. O'Brien, Mr. Dil lon, and Mr. Meagher, coming into Ballingarry on cars. Mr. O'Brien told the people that he had defeated a party of dragoons, or at least prevented them from arresting him on that day. The witness saw Messrs. O'Brien and M'Manus speaking to the armed men who were upon the roads. The witness then detailed the conversation he had with Mr. O'Brien respecting the key of the po lice-barrack,and a loan of the company's coalcarts in order to erect a barricade. While Mr. O'Brien was in the yard, M‘Manus, the prisoner, was standing with the people on the road, armed with ague, and they remained there until Mr. Trant's party appeared in sight, and then they ran across the fields, in the direction of the widow M'Cormack's house, towards which the police were going. Sub-Inspector Trent was next examined, and deposed to the transactions already published, in which he was engaged both before and after the attack on the widow Cormack s house. Cross-examined—He was in the upper room, at the left, when word was brought him that Mr. O'Brien was below; but he did not see him. When he got to the house, he turned his horse into the stable, and left the pistols in the holsters. CHIEF JusucE—What became of your pistols?—l never saw them since, my Lord. They were taken away by the people. By Mr. O'CALLAGHAN—Was it you who struck up the " British Grenadiers?"—lt was; I saw one of my men, who was after firing, and knowing that he sang the " British Grenadiers," I desired him to strike it up, and be did so.—(A. laugh.) Indeed, I never heard him sing it better, and it was chorused from all parts of the house. —(A laugh.) I thought that as it was a good song for marching, it would be as good in an attack. The wit ness was positive the people fired in the first instance. They were fired from the front where he was standing, and he could not be mistaken about it. _ _ How soon did you miss your pistols? —The evening after. I got my horse back, without the bridle and the pistols. Is it true you began your dispatch with a quotation?— Perfectly true, and I an not ashamed cf it.—(Laughter.) What was it?—lt was— " Who takes the foremost foeman's life, His party conquers in the strife."—(Laughter,) A perfectly appropriate quotation under the circum stances. How often did you go down stairs?—Three times, in the greatest peril. CHIEF JUSTICE DOHERTY—We are not trying Mr. Trant's valour here.—(A laugh.) Patrick Ford, a police-constable, neat deposed to the fact of the person coming to the window while they were in the house, and demanding their arms. He did not know the man's name who first came, but Mr. O'Brien came the second time, saying, " he was a gentleman and only wanted their arms. The witness then repeated what he swore on the former trial, respecting the con versation with Mr. O'Brien, and how some one cried out, " Slash away, boys, and we'll soon have them all." Cross-examined —He thought they arrived at the Widow Cormack's about one o'clock; five or six people came up to the window with Mr. O'Brien and presented their arms at them, one of whom crying out, "I know you, you're Pat Ford, from Callan." Sub-constable John Carroll examined—ln addition to the evidence given by him on Mr. O'Brien's trial, he de posed that he was made a prisoner by Mr. M‘Manus, who was at the time surrounded by about 500 men. Mr. O'Brien and Father Fitzgerald went on the road towards Ballingarry, and a rush was made after them by the people, upon which the witness cried out to them to come back. Another rush was then made at himself, and he thought he was going to be shot. He then came down from his horse, on which Mr. M'Slanus took him by the arm and led him into a field, saying, he was going to the village, and that I should go along with him. He asked him what troops there were in Kilkenny—or what was their strength; and on his (the witness) de clining to go with him he went away, and he saw no more of him. He was in custody about two or three hours, and while a prisoner he heard the people say they'd burn the house over the heads of the police, or surround it by throwing up barricades. He heard Mr. O'Brien say he could take it in an hour; and after that Father Fitzgerald and him self were sent to Mr. Trant to know if they'd give up their arms, or a second attack would com mence. The witness saw Father Fitzgerald in commu • nication with Mr. Trant, and afterwards used all his endeavours to induce the people to go away, but he did not hear the reply then made. Before Father Fitz gerald went up, he said, " He'd do it to please the people, but that he knew very well it would be useless, as the police would not give up their arms." The wit ness, when released, met Mr. O'Brien, who gave him his horse, and made him a present of a stick. Cross-examined—He came to the widow Cormack's house, and delivered his dispatch before the firing ceased, and remained outside waiting for an answer fur about ten minutes. Sub-inspector :Trent was then re-called.—He re membered Father Fitz , erald coming to the window of the house, and s a yi ng he wanted to make his peace with all parties ; the firing had ceased. His expres sions were that the other party would be satisfied on the police surrendering their arms to let them depart in safety, and that he would accompany them himself, and guarantee their safety. The witness replied, that they would never surrender their arms bat with their lives. Father Fitzgerald then observed, that the people would burn the house over them, when the witness answered that he had five children as hostages. After this he added, that they had no provisions ; and he replied that they could fight and fast for forty-eight hours more, and that a force would be soon on the ground to avenge them if they fell, and not leave a house standing in the country. That they were doing no harm where they were, and that if he could protect them outside, he could do so in the house also. Carroll (the witness added) had his horse taken from him, and he'd feel obliged if he'd protect him. Father Fitzgerald then went away, but returned very soon after, and asked if he'd give him a pallet for a dying man, which he gave and had it thrown out of a window. He also asked permission to take the dead and dying away, and the witness gave it, but he said he could not take them away himself, and that the people were afraid to assist him lets the police might shoot them. To this the wit ness replied, that he would not fire on any man who came with him, and unarmed. He then went away, and he saw no more of him. uv John Doyd examined—He resided at Fethard Glebe. He remembered going on horseback towards the com mons of Ballingarry, on the 29th of July, about two, and arrived there about four o'clock. His attention was first attracted by seeing persons along the road, in groups of twos and threes, amounting in all to about 1.500. I.IQ saw the prisoner at the bar among them. He was about a mile from the widow Cormack's house at the time. When he came up to him, the prisoner presented a gun at him, and asked if there were so! diers on the road, to which he replied no. The prisoner again asked if there were any in Urlingford, or if the witness were a courier, and ho again replied no. The witness, fearing he was about to be detained, asked for Mr. O'Brien, whom he knew would protect him, when the prisoner told him to go where he liked. While he was speaking to him the witness saw a man with a gun, standing in the road, as if looking out for some one. Cross-examined—The prisoner shook hands with him, and advised him to keep out of danger. Sub•lnspector Cox .was next examined,• but his evi. LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 12, 1848. ing Dictionary, and other things. I came in the same train to London, and a gentleman of the name of M‘Pherson travelled with me. He agreed to assist me in getting my luggage when we should arrive at the terminus. The moment we reached the terminus at Shoreditch he and I hastened to the luggage van as fast as we could, but before we could reach the van the portmaxteau with its contents was gone. There had been tied to it a soft leather label, with the words " George Cross, passenger, London," written on it. (Here pieces of waistcoating were produced, which the witness said he should think belonged to the contents of the portmanteau). Upon ascertaining the loss I was much grieved, and I dare say I betrayed a good deal of anger to the servants of the company, who, however, promised to make every exertion for the recovery of the goods. I advertised on Monday morn ing, and received a letter from Mr. MTherson since, informing me that he had made many inquiries along the railroad, and that he Ind found no trouble at all had been taken by the establishment, notwithstanding the assurances I had received. I have some persons hero to whom some of the goods which I believe to be part of the property I had in my portmanteau were taken by the prisoner for sale at a comparatively low price. John Coz, alehouse-keeper in Cannon-street, said — Monday week the prisoner, whom I knew for some time as a customer, was at my house, and ho said he had just come from Boulogne, and had things to sell cheap, which had been seized at the Custom-house. He showed me three coats, and offered to sell either or all of them to me. I told him I did not want anything of the sort, and he left this piece of waistcoating with me, saying that he would sell it to me for siz shillings. I went out of the house for a while, and upon my return he was gone, having left behind him the piece. The price he had asked for the coats was 11. ss. each. Mr. Cross—The price of each of the coats was four guineas. (Here coats, the property of Messrs. Nicoll, were produced. They were made in a peculiar style, and William Cross said they exactly resembled the coats which had been stolen.) Witness—The coats offered to me precisely resembled them. The LORD MAYOR—Did the prisoner say whence he had the coats he offered you? Witness—lie said they wero brought over in the same boat in which he came, and that they were seized and bought at a Custom house sale. I did not think any more of the matter until I saw the advertisement about the railway robbery, and I then sent the piece of waistcoating to Messrs. Nicoll, who said that it was part of what they had lost. The LORD MAYOR—How long have you known the prisoner? Witness—About six months. I have known him as a dealer in woollen goods for sale. The LORD MAYOR—Have you seen him offer such goods as these for sale upon many occasions ? Witness —Never before. The Prisoner—l wish, my Lord, the proceedings in this case to be stopped until I procure a solicitor. The LORD MAYOR—We cannot stop the evidence. You can employ a solicitor, if you please; but we cannot stop the evidence. G. W. White, a licensed victualler, in Vine-court, Lant-street, Borough—The prisoner came to me last week and offr•red me two or three waistcoat pieces; he wanted 7s. 6d. each for them, and I gave him 7s. for one of them, and had it made up. I delivered it up to Haydon, the officer, who : came and asked me if I had anything of the kind. I had known the prisoner, who was in the habit of getting me cloth at the trade price. W. Burlington, a waiter, stated that he was present at Cox's house when the prisoner walked in and offered three coats for sale. Two of the coats had pocket de tectors, and exactly resembled those produced from Messrs. Nicoll's stock. The prisoner said either that the coats were Nicoll's patent, or after Nicoll's patent, he did not know which. The prisoner said he was going t o Walbrook, and upon his return in about 20 minutes he said he had sold the two loose coats for 51., after which he left the house with his parcel.: The LORD MaTou—Do you wish, prisoner, to ask any of the witnesses any questions? The prisoner —No, my Lord, I would rather decline it. Michael Haydon (City officer) stated that he and Webb and Story, his brother officers, were engaged upon the investigation of the robbery. He found th a t prisoner had at a very short notice quitted his lodging in the Waterloo-road, and gone to Bethnal-green, and believed that further evidence could in a few days be producedagainst him. A constable in the employment of the Eastern Coun ties Railroad establishment said he had frequently seen the prisoner on the platform at the terminus. The prisoner said he did not wish to make any obser vation at present, but he was desirous to hare the aid cf a solicitor, and that the postponement of his next exa mination should not be long. The LORD MAYOI2 said there was quite enough of evi dence to authorise the prisoner's immediate committal for trial, and that his final examination should take place in a week. The charge of two poor boys from Leeds against a person who is called agent to a man in that town for procuring apprentices to captains of ships, was post poned to Friday. The complainant has caused a great deal of excitement amongst seafaring men, and the Lord Mayor gave notice that he would most strictly investi gate it. iiARYLEBONE. EMBEZZLEMENT.—A youth named William Hogg, in the service of Mr. Charles Trevitt, a gas meter manu facturer, carrying on business in the Hampstead -road and St. Martin's-lane, was placed at the bar before Mr. Long, charged with having embezzled money to the amount of 21. 45.; received by him for and on account of his master. Evidence was gone into which:clearly esta blished the fact of the prisoner having received the sum in question from Mr. Campbell, of High-street, Shad well. He was taken into custody by Baddeley, 248 D. The prisoner, who had nothing to say, was committed for trial. CHARGE OF ASSAULT.—A lady of fortune, residing at Bayswater, was charged on a warrant with having assaulted her cook. Mr. George, Paddington-street, attended for corn plainanti and a clerk from :he office of Mr, Dodd, for defendant. Complainant stated, that, on the 27th ult., defendant returned from the country in a very ill humour, and she (complainant) told her that she should quit at the expi ration of a month; on the same evening, while in the kitchen, defendant attempted to throw boiling water over her, and struck her over the arm with the poker, at the same time saying she should like to knock her brains out. She was unable to get to her bed-room, as defendant had locked her door, and she was therefore compelled to remain all night in the kitchen. There were also wages due to her, which she was unable to get. Defendant denied having struck complainant, the latter of whom she charged with assaulting her. She also said that she (complainant) had charged her more for sundry articles paid for by her than she ought to have done; in addition theret o s h e a ll ege d t h at t h e com plainant'sanguage to her was insulting in the extreme. Complainant also struck her over the head and arm with the lid of a kettle, and called her a tigress and other opprobrious names. The money due for wages had been previously offered to her; but an objection was certainly made to paying other matters for which she had over charged. The case was ultimately disposed of by Mr. Loxes convicting defendant in the penalty of 20s. and costs. LAMBETH. THE DISTRESSED NEEDLEWOMEN'S SOCIETY.—It will be remembered that seine days since Mr. Roper, the honorary secretary of the Distressed Needlewomen's Society, attended on the occasion of an application of a Mrs. Pongerare, a deserving but distressed married woman, to be assisted to employment at needlework, in aid of the support of her sick husband and suffering family. On that occasion Mr. Roper stated that the society recommended experienced bands, and he could furnish the applicant with the address of a firm who could give her employment at which she could earn 95. a week. The address of a firm was furnished to the poor woman, and thus the matter terminated. Yesterday, however, Mrs. Pongerare attended before the Hon. G. C. Norton to communicate to him the course she had pur sued since last befere the magistrate. She stated that she had proceeded to the address furnished to her, namely, Messrs. Gladwin's, 20, Cheapside, and stating that she came from Mr. Roper, applied for work, but was immediately told that they were not in want of hands at all, for they were quite full of first-rate hands. On this she came away, much distressed at being thus de ceived ; but she had not gone to Mr. Roper to tell him the result of her application, because she did not know his address. Mr. NORTON observed that the statement made by Mr. Roper, when there, was that the house in ques tion was in want of a supply of the best hands, and that they would take as many as he could send. The worthy magistrate stated that he had re ceived from a benevolent gentleman, resident at Brighton, but who did not wish his name to be disclosed, a 5/. note, part of which the donor desired should be given to Mrs. Pongerare, to enable her to meet h er present exi gencies, and the remainder to the soc i e ty of which Mr. Roper was the secretary, in case that g entl eman suc ceeded in obtaining her employm ent. It would be well, perhaps, that the applicant should see Mr. Roper, and inform him of the result of her application to Messrs. Glad win. It was observed to the magistrate that after what had taken place there would be little use in sending the woman again to Mr. Roper. Mr. NORTON replied, that there was every use in that course being taken. lie (Mr. Norton) wished to test the good which the society in question professed to eff ec t. Mr. Roper had d ec l are d one of its beneficial effects was to furnish to persons of good character the addresses of houses in want of hands. The character of the poor woman before him had been ascertained by his officers to be excellent, and also they had learned that she was a first-rate workwomau. If Mr. Roper could not get such a woman employment it would be a proof that his society was good for very little. Cook, the gaoler of the court, stated that the wo man's husb an d was st ill very ill, but if he sh ou ld recover, from his good character, his education, and his knowledge of languages, he would make an excellent servant at a railway station. It was to be hoped some interest would be made in his behalf, so as to relieve the wife from the entire maintenance of the family. After some further conversation, Mr. NORTON directed the poor woman to be furnished with Mr. Roper's address, and advised her to wait upon him forthwith, and tell him what had occurred. She must also inquire from him whether he had any further means of getting her employment, and if he could not do so to desire Mr. Roper to write tohim, stating the reason why he did not carry out his promise. Mrs. Pongerare left the court to set out upon her mis sion, after receiving some immediate pecuniary aid. VAUXHALL TURNPIKE.—Mr. Benjamin Thorne, the eminent brewer at Nine Elms, appeared in person to answer an information presented at the instance of Mr. W. S. Gaitskell, the Secretary to the Commissioners of the Surrey and Sussex roads, for evading the payment of toll payable at the Vauxhall turnpike, deuce, in most respects, was precisely similar to that given on Mr. O'Brien's trial. When his party came in view of the commons of Ballingarry, they were at tacked by a great number of men, on whom they fired, and on one man falling they all dispersed. He then proceeded to the widow Cormack's, to relieve Mr. Trant's party. Head•constabla Crawley deposed that he was sta tioned in the city of Cork, and arrested the prisoner on the 30th of August last, on board of an American veasel, about two miles from the harbour. The circumstances were these:—He had warrants for the arrest of other persons, and when he went on board the first person he saw was the prisoner, whom he had seen in Liverpool two or three years before. His hair was cut close, and his whiskers shaved off. He was much altered in per sonal appearance since the witness last saw him. The prisoner then said that he had been born in Ireland, and was many years in America; that he was then in Ire land about ten weeks, and gave his name as Corcoran. The witness next asked where he was staying while in Ireland, and he said a portion of his time in Cork, Mallow, Buttevant, and Cove. He then asked him what brought him here, and he said he came for his friends, and that his brother was with him, going to America. Having declined to state where he then resided, the wit ness took him into custody. His meeting with him was perfectly accidental, and not from any information what ever. He believed at the time his name was M'Manus, and he admitted it in Cove. The way he knew his per sonal appearance in Cork was that some few years ago an extensive robbery took place in Cork, and as Mr. M'Manus was a shipping agent, he applied to him for information. Cross-examined—The people on board offered no re sistance whatever, but, on the contrary, they assisted him in bringing his luggage over. The protection of the American flag was not claimed nor offered. The prisoner's name and description were in the Hue and Cry, on the 26th of July. The vessel was to have sailed, and did actually sail, on the next day. The letter to the Mining Company and other docu ments were then read and put in; after which the Court adjourned. The Crown closed their case, and Mr. Butt will ad dress the jury for the prisoner in the morning. MR. O'BRIEN. Mr. O'Brien still remains perfectly unmoved and in different as to what his fate may be. He is not, how ever, careless of other matters, for having heard that attacks might be apprehended on the persons or pro perty of the jurors who convicted him, he wrote the following letter:— "My dear Potter,—l entertain the most sincere and anxious desire that no insult or injury should be offered either to the jury or to the witnesses through whose instrumentality I have been convicted, and I shall feel very much obliged if you will use your utmost efforts to make known my sentiments upon this subject. " Believe me yours sincerely. " W. S, O'BRIEN. " Clonmel Gaol, Oct. 9, 1848." MIDDLESEX SESSIONS. (Before Mr. Sergeant ADAMS, Assistant-Judge, and a bench of Magistrate.) Yesterday, Thomas Barker, a very respectably-dressed young man, was indicted for having stolen a carpet-bag, containing various articles of wearing apparel, of the value of 31., the property of Thomas Waters. . . - Mr. Horry detended the prisoner. It appeared that the prosecutor arrived in London on the 28th ult. by the North-Western Railway, and took up his quarters at the Drummond Coffee-house, near Euston-square. In the course of the same day the pri soner paid a visit to the same establishment, and having written, he took up the carpet-bag in question and walked off with it. Ile was pursued, and ultimately taken into custody. Mr. HOBBY, in an address on behalf of the prisoner, said that this was a most painful case. The prisoner was extremely well connected, and had held situations in several of the first houses in London, and amongst others at the banking establishment of Messrs. Twinings, in the Strand. During the last twelve months hewever, the members of his family had entertained a fear that he had become the subject of mental de rangement. In last July the prisoner was attacked by small-pox; and, from that period until the present mo ment, he had exhibited demonstrations of insanity, to such an extent as to induce his medical attendant to re commend that he should be placed in an asylum. Some short time subsequently to this advice having been given, it was suggested to his friends that he should be sent upon a long sea-voyage; whereupon it was deter mined, as he had a brother who was settled at Sydney, that he should be sent out to him. A passage-berth was accordingly taken for him on board a vessel which was announced to sail on the 30th ult., so that, had it not been that this transaction had come to pass, the un fortunate man at the bar would have been on his out ward voyage at the present moment. On the morning when this offence was said to have been committed, the prisoner left his brother's house very lightly clad. He was, moreover, labouring under the delusion that he was about to be married to a young lady with whom he was acquainted, and to whom he bad written many letters upon the subject, some of which he should feel it to be his duty to place before the jury. As they had already heard, on the morn ing in question the prisoner had written another letter at the coffee-house, which letter he should pre sently produce. It was, as the jury would at once sup pose, extremely painful for him to plead insanity as an excuse for the offence which the prisoner had committed, but under the circumstances he was compelled to adopt that course. The question then became this, whether, in the state of mind which he was in, the prisoner might not when he took the bag have been under the delusion that he was setting out on his journey, and bad thus carried off the bag with the impression that it was ,his own ? Alfred Barker, the brother of the prisoner, said that a more affectionate or a better conducted young man there could not be, but during the last twelve months he had greatly changed in his manners, and had manifested un usual irritability of disposition. Mr. Pottle, the medical gentleman who had attended the prisoner in his illness when attacked by the small pox, stated that since that period he had manifested every symptom of mania. The jury Acquitted the prisoner on the ground of in sanity. It having been ascertained by the Court that the bro ther of the prisoner was unable to defray the expense which would be consequent upon the latter being ;,placed in an asylum, The Learned JUDOE said that this was one of those cases which showed the dreadful want which existed of an asylum for the reception of 'lunatics who were one or two degrees removed from pauperism. The know ledge he had himself :personally acquired of the want of such an establishment had been the source of more pain to his feelings than could be imagined. In his judicial character many very pressing cases had occurred where such an asylum would have conferred the greatest be nefit. Take the present case. Here was a young man of respectable connexions, but who did not possess the means of maintaining him in one of the existing asy lums; for his brother was probably in the receipt of a salary not exceeding 1501. or 200/. a year, with a family of four or five children to support. It was therefore im possible that such a mon could place the unfortunate prisoner in an asylum, of which the cost would at least be 50/. a year or more. If, therefore, same institution, supported partly out of public funds, were in existence, wherein persons of the station of life in which the unhappy prisoner stood could be received, it would be one of the greatest blessings that could be obtained. Ho was aware of cases where the fathers of families were often put in the most painful situation. In one instance there was a man who was earning 255. or 303. a week, and had five children, of whom one was an idiot. Well, such a man was not able to pay 15s. or 203. a week for the maintenance of that idiot in an asylum. That was quite manifest. In numerous other cases he had re ceived letters, pr( ssing upon his notice the necessity of such an asylum, from respectable tradespeople whose wives were labouring under this lawful visitatiop. To such persons it would be absolute ruin to send their wives or children to one of the present asylums. It was a lamentable fact that, notwithstanding this country abounded with institutions of almost every .descrip tion, yet there was not one which was applied to these unhappy cases. There was, it was true, Bethlehem Hospital, where there was a fund for incurable cases; but at that establishment the patients were discharged every year, for if that were not the rule, the place would soon become an asylum. If all the cases which had coma under his judicial notice were to be put into a calendar, they would constitute such a list as would at once prove how necessary it was that an institution of this description should be founded. With respect to this prisoner, he would give an order for his reception into llanwell, inasmuch as it was very probable that he would be restored to health in two or three months, when he could be handed over to his brother for the purpose of his being sent to Sydney. ABSENCE OF COUNSEL. Mr. O'BRIEN applied to the Court to allow the case of a man of the name of Worrell to stand over until Fri day, when his Learned Friend Mr. Ballantine, who was engaged in it, would be able to attend. The Learned JUDGE said he most certainly should not accede to this application to meet the convenience of an absent gentleman. Persons should not retain counsel who came to that court only when it suited their own personal convenience, and stayed away and handed their briefs over to another member of the bar when it better suited their convenience to do so ; it was a course of proceeding which was unfair to the suitors in that court, to the counsel who regularly attended the court, and a total want of respect towards the Court itself. He should not entertain the application. Eventually, the defendant was allowed to plead, which he did by admitting his guilt, and with the consent of Mr. Prendergast, who appeared for the prosecution, judgment was postponed till Friday. James Tilley was acquitted on an indictment charging him with having committed an indecent assault upon a little girl of eight years of age, the daughter of the Rev. Mr. Chesnutt. The details of this case appeared in our columns on Tuesday, under the head of the', Southwark Police court. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE. ROBBERY ON THE EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY. — A young man, named William Trowbridge, was brought before the Lord Mayor, charged upon suspicion of hav ing stolen a portmanteau, containing paletots and other articles of dress, the property of Messrs. H. J. and D. Nicoll, of Cornbill, tailors, on the Eastern Counties Railroad. Mr. George Cross, traveller for the firm of Nicoll and Co., said—On Saturday week I came to London from Ipswich in the last train. At Ipswich I saw deposited in the luggage van my brown portmanteau, containing a qaantity of wearing apparel, consisting of paletots, waistcoattug, &c., a now edition of Walker's Pronoune- Mr. Clarkson attended to support the information, and after reciting the provisions of the various Acts of Parliament in force relating to turnpike trusts, and the Act under which the particular trust was created, stated the facts of the case, which went to show that Mr. Thorne had passed down the South Lambeth-road in a four-wheeled chaise, drawn by one horse, a distance, as measured, of 211 yards, then along Mill-street, which was not included in the the trust, across the Wandsworth road, which was in the trust, and thence out of the trust into the Nine Elms-road, to his brewery. He would then return by the same route, and pass through the Vauxhall-gate without paying the toll, though the demand had been made by the collector holding out his hand for it. By this evasion he had rendered himself liable to a penalty of 101., for the full amount of which he (Mr. Clarkson), on behalf of the Commissioners, prayed for a conviction, in order to deter others from following Mr. Thorne's example. The course taken by Mr. Thorne had been pursued by him every day since the Ist of September last. The facts, though admitted by Mr. Thorne, were for mally proved in evidence. Mr. Thorne said he had no intention of evading the toll, and had no notion that he had been guilty of com mitting any wrong. At one time he had thought of waiting upon the Court to ascertain if he was acting in error, but had abandoned that intention, leaving it to the Commissioners to move themselves in the matter. After a long and uninteresting discussion, in which the law was fully explained to Mr. Thorne both by the Magistrate and Mr. Clarkson. Mr. NORTON convicted the defendant in the full pe nalty or 101. Mr. Clarkson said that one half of the penalty went by law to the informer, and that they would give to the poor-box. The second information against the defen dant's coachman, for adopting the same course as his master, and under his master's directions (as that gen tleman admitted), they would abandon, and they would not ask for costs. ➢lr. Thorne complain.A loudly of the great hardship of the case upon him, but Mr. NonToN remtrked that he had shown, by his ad mitting that he had contemplated seeking information as to the legality of his proceedings, that he had enter tained doubts, and those doubts he had felt to be re moved by these proceedings by the Commissioners, who had thereby incurred a greater amount of costs than the sum in which he had been convicted. Mary Waghorn, a well-dressed and ladylike young married woman, was placed at the bar, charged with being drunk, and incapable of taking care of herself. From the statement of Constable P 134, it appeared that on the preceding night, about five o'clock, a gentle man called his attention to the defendant, who wus very drunk at the Rockingham Arms. He found her sitting on a barrel in front of the bar, quite incapable of taking care of herself, and she was accordingly removed to the station-house. The constable added, that on recover ing her senses the lady discovered that she had been robbed of 71. in gold, of some paper securities, only valuable to herself, and two new cambric pocket-hand kerchiefs, for which two old ones had been substituted in her pocket. In answer to Mr. NORTON, the defendant stated that she received the money lost the same afternoon, about three o'clock. She got into an omnibus in the City, thinking its direction was Somers Town, where she re sided, but which brought her to the Elephant and Castle, Newington, with five or six other passengers, one of whom was a female who sat beside her. She and the woman both got out, when the latter asked her to treat her, and they went to the Rockingham Arms together and had something to drink. Here she lost her senses, and had no remembrance of what had followed. The money and papers were safe in her pocket when she paid the conductor of the omnibus with half-a-crown which she had carried is her glove. Mr. NORTON discharged the defendant, who, it was clear, had been robbed, and ordered immediate steps to be taken to secure the perpetrators. WORSHIP- S TR EE T. HOePSSING AND ROBBERY. — Thomas Smith, a young man of notorious character, was charged before Mr. Ilammill with having been concerned, with two women not in custody, in hocussing and stealing nearly the whole of her clothing from the person of Jane Madden, a young dressmaker, residing with her mother in Paul street, Finsbury. The complainant stated that while proceeding towards home, on Sunday evening, from the house of a friend, in the Mils-end-road, where she had spent the evening, she was suddenly stopped at the corner of Keat-street, Spitalfields, by the prisoner and a young woman in his company, who invited her to accompany thee to their residence in the neighbourhood to partake of some coffee. Before she had time to reply the pri soner and his companion seized hold of her, dragging her down the street, forced her into one of the houses, the door of which was instantly closed and bolted. The prisoner then entered a room on the ground floor, but returned almost immediately with a second woman, who held to her lips a glass containing some liquid, of which she compelled her to drink a small por tion, which completely stupefied her. They then com menced stripping off her clothes, and after divesting her of her bonnet, boots, muslin dress, and almost every other part of her apparel, they all retreated up stairs and hat her in the passage, in a state of partial insensi bility. As soon as she recovered her consciousness she used her best efforts to effect her escape, but was unable to draw back the bolts, and remained there till the fol lowing morning, when the door was at length opened by a third woman, who came from another part of the house and thrust her into the street. She soon afterwards met a policeman, to whom she communicated the particulars of the outrage, and he took her back to the house; but she continued in such a state of lethargy and agitation that she was unable at the time to identify any of the in mates, and having hastily dressed herself in some clothes which were borrowed by the constable from one of the women, she was taken home to her friends. Police constable Donoway, II 129, stated that shortly after five o'clock on the morning in question his atten tion was attracted to the last witness, who was hasten down the street in a state of almost entire nudity, and crying bitterly. Having described to him the cruel manner in which she had been treated, he returned with her to the house, which was a notorious haunt of the most abandoned characters cf both sexes; but she ex pressed her inability to recognise either of the inmates as her assailants, and the place was closely searched, without any part of her clothing being discovered. On the following evening the complainant again accom panied him to the street, where she pointed out the pri soner, who was standing there with several other well known characters, as the man who had robbed her, and witness at once took him into custody. In answer to a question from the MAGISTRATE, as to the previous character and pursuits of the prisoner, The officers stated that he had been several times in custody, and was connected with one of the most des perate gangs that infested the neighbourhood of White chapel. The prisoner, who denied all knowledge of the trans action, was ordered to be remanded fora week. THE CORN TRADE. o o have,od on 10.—The aggregatefr from form a Ireland and coastwise LrrßgP increased , ° OCT.c and o fair supply of all articles. From Ca nada 4,489 barrels flour have come to hand; and fr om forei g n p orts con siderable quantities of wheat, barley, Indian corn, corn meal, and flour. The exports in the same time are 3,186 quarters of wheat, 430 quarters of beans, 13,263 guar• ters of Indian corn, or corn meal, and 401 sacks and 2,887 barrels of flour. The r e p orts from the a g ricultural m arkets being firm, the depression which pervaded the trade here on Tuesday last has not increased, notwith standing the augmented nature of the supplies; and as regards wheat and Indian corn, a fair demand has been experienced daily at very full prices. On Friday oats gave way 3d. per 451 b., at which a fair sale was experi enced, 3s. oid. to 3s. Id. being taken for nicely prepared and 2s. 10d. for raw. Oatmeal declined Is. and attracted little notice. Barley was more inquired for, and, with beans and peas, about supported previous rates. Flour was extremely dull, and 6d. per barrel lower for Ame rican, and rather more for Irish. At this day's market there was a good attendance of dealers, and a large show of all descriptions of grain and flour. The demand for wheat was very limited, at a decline of 2d. per 701 b. on all kinds of old, and fully 3d. on prices of this day week for the better qualities of Irish new, and damp inferior samples were nearly unsaleable. There was a cessation to decline in oats, and fine mealing could not be pur chased at the low rates current on Friday; sales, how ever, progressed very slowly. Barley, beans, and peas were neglected, and, in the absence of demand, prices were nominally as last quoted. American flour was Is. per barrel; Irish old Is., and new 25., per sack lower, and few buyers at the reduction. HULL, TUESDAY, OCT. 10.—The weather has been of a varied character during the past week, but not on the whole favourable for the latter harvest, and this appears to have been the general case in other districts. The condition of new wheat will in consequence be more or less affected, and hence we may look for an increased drain upon old stocks, now fast vanishing. There has been a daily and healthy consumptive business in all ar ticles of the trade since our last, taking off our continued weekly imports, and where holders are firm there is no necessity to give way in price. For to-day's market we had a liberal supply of homegrown wheats, with less of foreign than usual; the latter was more inquired for than of late, but the business done only limited, other markets Mug for the moment below our currency. The new wheat was generally affected by the late damp weather, and for such there is scarcely any sale, while anything dry meets a good demand at full last week's rates. — Barley in small supply, particularly fine quality, which sells well to distant maltsters; a fair sale for grinding barley at'our quotations.—Nothing done in oats.—Beans, and also peas, are offering on lower terms than of late; of the latter (white) there are some very fine new on the market at moderate rates.—English tares (winter) ex ceeding scarce; indeed, hardly to be met with, Some very fine new foreign are offering in the line.—We have again a large arrival of linseed, but much going to ware house, and the market quite up to last week; indeed, in some instances, rather more money is obtainable, and a few parcels have been taken by speculators.—The bulk of the rapeseed now arriving being for crushers' account, the transactions in the market are only trifling, old seed is saleable, but now a good deal neglected.—Linseed cake easier to buy, owing to a slacker demand, from the present mild weather; we do not, however, alter our quotations. Some fine foreign still on sale.—Rape cakes continue much neglected.—The better descriptions of guano in good demand.—Not much doing in bones. HUDSON'S BAY PRODUCE.—The first arrival for the season of the annual importation of skins and furs, from the possessions of the Hudson's Bay Company in the northern regions of America, has taken place. The vessel, Prince Albert, has:arrived in the docks from Hudson's Bay, having on board 47 bales, 13 casks, 14 hogshead, 28 cases, and 17 puncheons of skins, furs, ac., besides six packages of astor-oil, 67 bags of feathers, and 23 barrels of whale oil, the products of the northern districts mentioned, DINNER TO SIR C. NAPIER AT CHELTENHAM. (From the Gloucestershire Chronicle.) On Thursday evening a banquet in honour of Sir Charles Napier, the conqueror of Sinde, was given at the Queen's Hotel, Cheltenham. The Earl of Ellen borough presided on the occasion, and the company con sisted of about 120 gentlemen, principally men.bers of the military and naval professions, many of whom had seen service, some in those extraordinary achievements in India which have rendered British prowess more re nowned than ever throughout the world. The Earl of ELLENROROUGH, in proposing the toast of the evening, said—Gentlemen, I have now to pro pose to you that we drink " The health of our illus trious guest, Sir Charles Napier."—( Loud cheers.) If Sir Charles had come amongst us with no other recom mendations than those which have been furnished to us by the knowledge which we possess of his great ser vices at the head of his regiment in the Peninsula—of his long and most enlightened government in the lonian Islands —of his most judicious administra tion of the very difficult duties entrusted, in a time of much public commotion, to the General of the most disturbed district of the country— we should have been proud to have received him amongst us ; we should have rejoiced to see him here. But, gentlemen, I pass by those matters, however justificatory they may be of our approbation and acknowledgment. We receive our Illustrious guest here to-day as the conqueror and ad ministrator of Sinde.—(Loud cheers.) We receive our illustrious guest as a man who has carried the arms and the empire of his country into the valley of the Indus, and secured the establishment of its rule there by the hold he gave it on the affections of the inhabitants of the country.—(Cheers.) We shall ill appreciate the services my Gallant Friend has performed if we do not look back to the circumstances under which he entered on that command in which he has made his name illus trious. He did not go, as other generale have gone to India, to receive the command of a well appointed, self confidant army, in a friendly country, accustomed to victory, where everything was easy to a man of the most ordinary ability. Gentlemen, my Gallant Friend went to Sinde almost Immediately after the occurrence of a great calamity—of a disaster, to which in its completeness history affords no parallel since the destruction of the legions of Varus. That disaster had shaken all India; our allies were no longer to be trusted as heretofore; the confidence of the troops in themselves and their officers was impaired. In the midst of these difficulties, at the moment when a combined movement perilous in charac ter, in the estimation of all men who understand the art of war, was in operation for the re-occupation of Caubul, at that moment my Gallant Friend was placed in the command of the army in Sinde. It has been imputed to our gallant friend by those who have been desirous of undervaluing his services, that he is responsible for the expulsion of the Ameers and the occup ition of Sinde. It is not so.—(Cheers.) My Gallant Friend is not re sponsible for that measure.—(Cheers.) If it were an error, after an example of successful treachery at Caubul which resulted in the destruction of a division of the army and in danger to the British empire; if with such an event it were an error summarily to punish those who attempted similar treason, who on the very day that they signed the treaty were devising the means of de stroying the British General by whom it was signed, if it were an error to reward the long hereditary fidelity of the Nawaub of Bhawulpoor, to which fidelity, on which reward has been so well bestowed, we are indebted for everything done at Bhawulpoor—if it were an error to abolish slavery whenever it could be abolished—if it were an error to bring the armies of Bombay and Bengal into communication, to carry up the army to protect the flank of another army, and to conduct 15,000 men to Bhawulpoor—if it were an error to bring down yet another force to Kurrachee, with a view to operations in the Red Sea and in Egypt, rendered essential for our communications with India—if it were an error to get complete control of the trade in opium to improve the public revenue; —if, gentlemen, these are errors, my Gallant Friend is not responsible for them— they are altogether errors to be accounted for by the Government which he served.—(Cheers.) My Gallant Friend had the clear, simple, the unclouded and un blighted honour of having maintained and carried into execution the instructions he received.—(Cheers.) Without my Gallant Friend's prudence —e ithout his ability, it may be doubtful whether those instruc tions could have been properly carried out. It is to him due that with a most careful provision against every possible occurrence of danger he should have had his army equipped—that he should be able to make that almost romantic march into the desert, which more than any other achieve ment of modern times has excited the enthu siasm of the Duke of Wellington.—(Loud cheers.) It is due to my Gallant Friend that Hyderabad had been taken—to him by his careful precautions the vic tory is to be ascribed. It is to him due that in a sub sequent campaign in the hills, by a most scientific choice of position, by most extraordinarily wise and well considered combinations in the movements in the army, in operations conducted 70 miles from his base and com munications beyond the desert, that he had attacked, totally subdued, and totally extinguished the enemy.— (Cheers.) Gentlemen, it is to Sir Charles Napier that the glory is to be ascribed—that, having made all the provision possible to be made by a General for securing the victory in battle, he himself thought of every man else, but least of himself.—(Cheers.) He was the man of all others who exposed himself to danger ; and he was a brilliant example to the whole army.—(Cheers.) It is due also to him that he always improved a victory —(Cheers)—he never allowed a victory to be gained and the advantages of that victory to be lost, by at once ad vancing on the retreating foe, and securing all those ad vantages. You will understand much better that/ I do, as military men, the qualifications of my Gal lant Friend. But I venture to speak of his services, not in a military character, but in subjunction to his country's interests. There never has been, is, or ever will be, any name so great as his in Sinde, because no name but his is associated with jus tice—justice—justice—(Loud cheers)—to all men, in the execution of the most unlimited power and authority. In the state no quality excites so much admiration as justice, because it is, of all qualities, the most rare to be found in association with absolute power.—(Cheers.) My Gallant Friend had absolute power in Sinde; and no man has imputed to him one act of injustice in the exer cise of it.—(Cheers.) My Gallant Friend had every op portunity of obliging friends, of doing that most condu cive, I regret to say it, to the obtaining of a great name in this country—he disdained them all; he left Sinde without having perpetrated a single job—havin g o n all occasions selected, to the best of his j udgment, the men best fitted to perform the duty required by the public service. Gentlemen, I can tell you more; I can tell you, that the very men my Gallant Friend subdued joyfully became his subjects and cultivators under him, and that there are no men now in Sinde more contented under the Government of this country than the very men who im migrated into Sinde after having been subdued by him on the hills. I have told you facts within my own know ledge; Ido net believe I have stated one single cir cumstance that is not perfectly correct; I do nut think that I have in any degree overrated the services my Gal lant Friend has performed. And now, gentlemen, I pro pose that we drink my Gallant Friend's health, that we wish that for many years he may live, and that, as we may, as men of peace, wish, he may not have another opportunity of showing in Europe those splendid Eel' tary talents for war which, abov e a ll men in existence, 1- he possesses, for the purpo se o f maintaining the honour and extending the empi re o f hi s country.-- - (Cheers Sir CHARLES NAPIER i n rep l y sa i d, that eulogium coming from a man like Lord Ellenborough —a man who is worshipped i n I n di a — a man who, throughout the whole empire is admired and worshipped —in an ad miring army h onoure d beyond everything, and glorying in having his approbation—gentlemen, to be praised by such a man is very trying to the feelings of a zealous soldier who is unfortunate enough to be the subject of it.—(Ch eers and laughter.) But, gentlemen, conscience obliges me to say that I was a simple agent in the affairs that Lord Ellenborough has re ferred to; all orders emanated from the Governor- General, and they were executed by the army, and in the execution of those orders it was that I learned the great courage and ardour of the Sepoys, when led into battle by my brother officers.—(Cheers.) Gentlemen, I perceive many of those officers whose intrepidity gained me sb much honour, and I shall never forget their ser vices; I perceive around me several of those brave men. I arm sorry to say Pool is not here, who led my own glorious 22d Regiment, and broke the enemy with dread ful slaughter.—(Cheers.) But I see my gallant Welsh artilleryman Lloyd, whose iron artillery vomited forth death on the enemy.—(Cheers.) I see also Wiley, who fell wounded while cheering on my friends to battle; and I see young M'Murdo, who gallantly threw himself sword in hand into the very midst of the enemy.— (Cheers.) Gentlemen, I cannot look around me without feeling all I owe to these brave men, times past come back to my memory; I think of those far away—those who fell fighting sword in hand, grasping their arms blood ' stained and dying.—(Cheers.) Gentlemen, when I think of these things, the battles we have fought in Sinde come fresh before me vividly and glowing, like pictures new varnished by the painter, and then I feel utterly unable to express my feelings of obligation to those troops to whom under Lord Ellenborough, and after his departure under Lord Hardinge, I owe whatever merit attaches to the zealous soldier who has tried to execute that portion of the deity which is assigned to military men, leaving the disposal of events to that great Power who, in the words of the poet, " binds Nature fast by faith, leaves free the human will."—(Cheers.) Gentlemen, I will not detain you any longer by my nonsensicel gabbl e ._ (Cheers.) But the high encomiums of Lord Ellenbo rough, lam free to say that amongst so many of my countrymen, have perfectly orerset me. I therefore drink all your good healths; and I thank Lord Ellenbo rough for all his support of me, I may say, in the coarse language of military men, against a set of damned scoundrels—(Laughter)—and without whose support I should have been crushed by a rascally press and a ras cally Government.—(Loud cheers.) But I will say no more.—(Renewed cheers.) Sir CHARLES NAPIER again rose and said—Gentle men, I do not like to trespass on your attention again, but Lord Ellenborough has confided to me a toast which I shall drink with all my heart and soul. He has desired me, and it is with great cheerfulness that I propose " The health of the Army in India."—(Cheers.) An apprenticeship of seven years with the army and soldiers of the three presidencies has made me master in the art. I have served an apprenticeship, and am eter nally attached during the rest of my life to the Indian army.—(Cheers.) I can speak of my services—l have served now fifty-four years in the Queen's service, and I love the Queen's service ; but I love also the Indian army, and I feel to all intents and purposes a Sepoy of the Indian army.—(Loud cheers.) A great many were not aware of the position of the Indian army. I my self went out to India, having 'read, as most foolish people do, some few things—for none of us study our profession as we ought to do. I went out to India an ignoramus in 1841, thinking that India might too in. vaded by the Russians, but my mind was changed in a very short time. I !band 300,000 men in the Indian army equal to any contingency.—(Cheers.) I found 300,000 m en w h o h a d the :same courage, the same discipline, and all appointments necessary to carry on wer as the British army—the accoutre ments the same, the drill the same as ourselves ; their courage equal to our own, and if they are inferior in strength, not inferior in their determination ; and that is all in war, and in that equal to ourselves.— (Cheers.) Not only did I find that, but I found a staff magnificent in its condition ; the arrangements of the Adjutant-General, the Quartermaster-General, and the Commissariat were all masterly ; and more than all in my need was that these troops were officered by British officers.—(Loud cheers.) Three hundred thousand men, equal to three times the British army, officered by Bri tish officers, and ready to follow them to death. When I saw those troops, I saw that the army of India was perfectly equal not only to defend India, but, instead of idly resting on the banks of the Indus, capable of advancing to the Oxus against all the armies of the west, and scattering them far and near.—(Cheers.) God forbisl that I should lend the sanction of my name t any progress beyond the Indus, which is our natural boundary—but I will not say natural, because there is nothing natural but human advancement and civiliza tion ; but if we aro to pass the Indus we have an army capable of doing it.—(Cheers.) I may be told that we find in the advance into Affghanistan that which cuts against my argument. But 1 say that affair was an error of the generals, and still more an error of the politicals.—(Cheers.) It was an error of politics to go there; and it was carried out with a multiplication of errors on the spot.—(Cheers.) I believe that it is im possible to restrain the advance of civilization; it is stronger than barbarism, and will force its way on in spite of politics in general. I think it will; I think the banner of the cross will force its way in all parts of the globe, and I think we shall see it in the centre of Asia, and that it will exhibit there fights like those of Plessey to Sobraon—a mass of victories which have never been surpassed in the field—a mass of exploits of individuals, corps, and masses, which have never occurred in any other army which ever existed.—(Cheers.) The " Health of the Noble Chairman" was next drunk with great enthusiasm, and Lord Ellenborough said—lt is now twenty years since I first became connected with India, as the President of the Board of Control; and I have never ceased to take the deepest interest in everything connected with that country.— (Cheers.) My residence in India, was short, but I may, however, consider myself an old Indian when I look at the number of years I have been connected with that country. I must always take the deepest interest, not only in the welfare and prosperity of that empire, but also in the welfare and prosperity of many excellent friends I had the good fortune to make in it.— (Cheers.) Gentlemen, I have very great unwillingness to say anything whatever respecting myself or the Go vernment of which I was the servant. I fbund the em pire in a state of danger, and I think that history will not deny that I left it in a state of security.—(Loud cheers.) Allow me now to turn altogether from every thing connected with self. I have been supposed to be somewhat partial to the military profession. I confess that the imputation has a very strong foundation.— (Cheers and laughter.) That feeling existed in my mind at a very early period, and when I had the good fortune of seeing the officers and soldiers of the army in India, that confirmed the early impressions and prepossessions of my youth.—(Cheers.) I confess I honour and respect a family which is in almost all, if not all, its branches, attached to one or the other branch of the profession of arms; and if I look beyond the Napier families, from the highest to the lowest among the noblemen and gen tlemen of the land, I know not any family whatever in which I find persons so distinguished for their achieve ments in war, or any family so constantly remarkable for their addiction to arms as the family of my Gallant Friend. With them the profession of arms is not adopted merely as a node of passing an idle and agreeable life. It has been adopted as a profession in which every energy of body and mind was to be devoted to the pualic service. I know not, gentlemen, where you will find persons more distinguished in every way that illustrates a soldier, not only in my Gallant Friend, but in his Gallant Brother, the historian of the Peninsular war, Sir george Napier, one of the brightest and most distinguished soldiers in the army, and if we pass to the other branch, in Sir Charles Napier, one of the most distinguished members of the navy.—(Loud cheers.) Nay, more, it would ap pear that a Napier of the other sex could hardly con nect herself but with a distinguished soldier; and my Gallant Friend, Major M'Murdo, I trust, will transmit to distant ages a family of gallant soldiers, who will per petuate the gallant deeds of war, and the memory of their grandfather.—(Loud cheers.) Gentlemen, ; I con fess I feel very strongly on this subject. I can hardly trust myself, and I will refrain from going further. I now earnestly invite you to unite with me in drinking the health of the whole military family of the Napiers. Major MiMuaDo, in reply, said it had ever been the attribute of that family to devote their whole energies, their hands, hearts, and heads—aye, and their,blood, to the service of the country in every way, and they had ever been, in the words of the ancient motto of the fa mily, " Ready, aye ready !"—(Loud cheers.) The CHAIRMAN next proposed, in a highly compli mentary speech, " The Health of Major Edwardes." Sir CHARLES NAPIER heartily joined in the enco miums passed on Major Edwardes. He (Sir Charles) had made war in that country, and he knew that Major Edwardes' great talents were not appreciated as they ought to be. He had shown himself all that Lord El lenborough had said, and more —he had shown himself not merely a lieutenant, but a lieutenant-general. He had moreover proved himself a financier, for, crossing from the right bank of the Indus to the left, he collected all Moolraj's revenue, which was then due, and thus cut off the enemy's sinews of war.—(Cheers.) 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