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London, England, 1853-10-01 00:00:00

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Tot: I.‘w At; ‘t NsT "TRADE e oNsPIIII4-IES" has
beets invoked against three printers, mutual Francis
Friend. :lames Friend, and Robert Blind, who were
summoned to tluildhall to answer a charge of con-
spiring, with other persons, on the lath of September,
to prv►enn' the dismissal of Frederick Spence from
the serviee of Mr. Peter Jackson, publisher, of
,tngel. street. St. 31artin's.le-1 inual. Mr. Hi- nrintEvs,
the solicitor for the prosecution, said
" that there was at combination ttintelig the printers in
I 1 1:• emphoyment of Mr. -lateksian. arising from at strike that
rteently took pima, antssug the men in Mr. Tailli,'s estab-
lishment. Mr. Tallis employed at ovoter number of
apprentices than the journeymen in the trade approved of,
nod his printers necordingly ntrurk t but ultimately the
greater portion returned to work without aeltieving their
object. The other
.isaurneymeu in the truthe passed a
resolution, to the effect that none of those Melt who
n•t;Hued, or amy who worked for Mr. Tallis thenernarward.
nhould he employed iu retry other house in the trade. It
no happened that the complainant Spence was nut in Mr.
Tallis's employ either at or anteeetlent to the strike ; hot.
M.ls engaged after the meu ram-nisi to work, and while
everytl.ing was progressing smoothly. t►u tin, 111th sat'
Septetulwr. bstwevcr, the esnuplatmant from Airline- .4
of work, discharged Ilan Mr. Tallis's service. land on the
I:ith he applied ut Mr. Jaekson's establishment. and was
taken on. He remained thaw three days, and tot the fourth
day he wag told there was t>tt► more work for him ; and. on

SATURDAY,

asking why he was discharged, was informed that it was on
account of the complaints of the men, who had resolved
not to work e ith an; journeyman that had worked for Mr.
on the d.e day previous two consultations, termed
in the trade ' chapels,' were held by the men in the room
where complainant workol, but he was excluded—and on
the following morning before he received his dismissal he
inquired what the chapels were held for. and Franeis
Friend said they were concerning complainant and his
having worked for Mr. Tanis since the strike. Mr.
Humphreys concluded by observing that men have a right
to meet and arrange what hours they will eork, and for
what amount of wages, but the law does not allow them to
combine with the view to control a workman, either to his
own injury or that of his mater.'
The evidence of the complainant Spence and other
men employed iu the establishment having been
taken, the case was adjourned, and summonses
is,ued against several others of the printers employed
by Mr. Jackson, who are alleged to have joined in
the supposed "conspiracy."
SONE RELtcs or TIM CONGREOATION who deemed
Johanna Southcote a prophetess still meet to cele-
brate what they term wor,hip, in King's-row, Wal-
worth, where they call their house of assembly the
" Royal Manger." On Monday the leader of this
sect, one Peacock by name, and described us a
strange-looking person, with small, ferret-like eyes,
and whose hair was srlit off in the centre of the head
and combed back so as to give him a singular and
sinister appearance, appeared before the Lambeth
magistrate to complain of a boy named Treaville, for
having thrown stones at the windows of that house,
and disturbed their religious services. The com-
plainant gave his statement, in a solemn, drawling
voice, to the following effect:—

From conviction we imbibe the doctrines of Johanna Sontheole,
and, without °tiering inky person the slightest ()Uwe, we are sub.
jected to the greatest annoyance, and an annoyance, I am sorry
sny, langhtsl at and cueourzmed by persons iu the neighbour-
howl calling themselves Chrisnims. Yesterday evening we were
sitting together quietly, when we were lunch alarmed by a crash
the root of the house by a large stone. I honied out, and,
seeing the prisoner in the fo,nt of the house and about to run
away, I fellowed mid secured him.
Mr. Er.taorr : Did you see the prisoner throw the stone?
Witness : I did not; but I have very little doubt ho did it ;
and there were limn fourteen to fifteen of them creating a con.
siderable disturbance, and seriously annoying the nelsons u
sembled at my house for religious purposes.

Statements made by some witnesses on the other
side showed that the charge of disturbance applied
with greater truth to Mr. Peacock and his disciples :

A solicitor, who attested on behalf of the prisoner, t aid that.
the house was the 11104 intolerable nuisance to the entire neigh-
bourhood that cs.uld la. conceived ; and it was a matter of lists,•
nislititent that the psdice should have pet untied it to exist tOr a
single meek. The Wet wits, that the complainant, who styled
himself "The l'rophet," had some mouths ago married tut aged
wrauan, fancied herself to he it second Johanna Solithessic,
or, as the complainant described her, a" " standing in the light
and those persons drew 'about than a few followers, whose con-
duct was of the most sitwitlar description, and from four o'clock
oil the Smislay evening until eleven at night the neighbourhood
wale kept 111 a continual uproar. They Were in the habit of
rlaeing a multherof llso!s and haunters in the front of their house,
and playing music omen sorts,and this was the imams of lainging
together of some hundreds of idle boys anal eirle, to the great
annasynnee of the inhabitants '1 hey bad also Ism in the habit
of collet:lingo crowd by besting a drum through the neighbour-
lewd, and, when they got them assembled, called on the police le
disperse them.
The complainant denied this. awl said it was till hall that they
should be subiectral tissue,' atitiovilliet,t, sent by the Lortl as they
were to preach the principles of.lishanna Southeide.
Solieitor; 1/two lint your wile descr.he herself as Johanna
Soittlicote?
l'eactsek : Well, she stands itt the sante light as her, and, if tie.
eessity compels us to perform God's will. it is too bad we should
be annoyed. 1 have written to loud I'olml-stun for protection.
for the pollee does not effssttl its lunch.
Police-essustable Cole said that every istinslay eve g consider-
able slisturbanees took place in front of tile house, in colitseglielle.•
of at displaiv of flags, b bails. music, mid preaching, mid
the its- ettildiage ill consequence of at windier orb' yv anal rods.
Soheitor: Have you 'wool a drum played about the street by
these people for the plirpoNe of getting ter„ether a crowd to al
On". 1111'411 prelle11?
l'esit•o4•k : That sous 1110 011111 U of the Lord.
A respeetable woman, residing next door to the parties. said
the nuisance erode., by them was of the worst description;
when they culleeted u mob in front they ceimitenced preitehitw- -
as they called it—at parcel of nonsense, filial were 11114Welell 1.; the
NT., anal persona assembled, so that the Peelle 111101 laugnage
were of the lutist obscene, blasphemous, and uisgusting descrip-
tion possible. indeed, so bad was it that she could not allow
her children to he withhn hearing.

There being no evidence to show that the defen-
dant had thrown the stone complained of, he was
discharged. On a subsequent day an application
fin• a summons against Peacock. for creating a nui-
sance and disturbing the neighbourhood, was duly
made to the magistrate. It was then intimated that
the police had reeehed instructions to look after the
abode of the " Prophet," who would promptly inter-
fere in case of any renewal of the obnoxious per-
form alums.

CArtica In-ought up his son, only tcn years of
age. at the Worship-Frreet Court. charging him with
an inveterate propensity to thieving. MI that edu-
cation could do, he said, had been done for the boy,
who had received instruction of every sort. moral and
religions, and was lately placed at an expensive
boarding-sehool at Wolverhampton. Thence he had
contrived to escape•. and returned to London. and his
predatory habits, which it appeared that nothing
could eradicate :
For A long time he had hn n in the !Obit nhonst every niOtt
of visiting an nnlicein., d penny theatre, which was the insert ut
the most abandoned chnmvtert•, mad, not satisfied With purloin•

OCTOBER 1,1853.

in` every portable article ha could lay his hands upon, he tre•
quently stripped his little brotners and sisters of their personal
clothing to furnish himself with the neeessary miens for the
gratification of his vicious indulgences. lii the course Of Sault•
day night last. after .witness and his family had retired to rest,
the prisoner stealthily entered his sleeping apaittueut, fleas
which he abstracted a horse pistol and various articles of wear.
ing apparel belonging to his mother, and then proceeded hb the
bedroom of the children. where he removed the upper covering
from off their bed, and clandestinely left the house with the
whole of the property. On missing the articles next morning,
witness proceeded in search of the boy, whom he found lurking
about in one of the adjoining streets. and, in answer to his
inquiries as to what he had done with the property, coolly stated
that he hail sold the pistol for 341. to a man he had accidentally
met in the street, and with regard to the other articles that he
had torn them up and disposed of them as old rags at a
marineostore dealer's at llaggerstone. The father telt so in-
censed that ho at once gave bun into custody, but was most re•
luctant to proceed with the charge, and trusted that the magi..
trate would have the power of procuring his admission into 'toms
asylum with a view to his ulthuate reclamation.
11r. D'lL:vsuot• air said that it was certainly a very distressing
ease, and, in order to consider the niost advisable course to be
adopted under the circumstances, he should order the prisoner
to be remanded for a week.

THE CRIME OF MURDER ON THE HIGH SEAS was
alleged against the master and four seamen of the
barque Queen of the feign at the Thames Po:ice
Odle° on Monday. The master's name was Stooks,
aid two of the other defendants, named Ahan and
Ali, were Malays, the remaining two being English-
men. They were charged with having caused the
death of five Lascar seamen belonging to the same
vessel on the 22nd of last July, shortly after crossing
the line, on the voyage from Singapore to England.
Some previous investigation of the charge had taken
place at Gibraltar, whence the magistrate had for-
warded a cofilu-like box to the British police court.
On this box being opened by Mr. Yardley, divers fearful
weapons were produced, including crowbars, long
iron bars, cutlasses (some broken near the hilt, some
in the middle, and some whole), with throe or four
Malay daggers, called kreis, of singular workmanship,
with polished wooden handles and sheaths, and formid-
able blades of about fourteen inches long. There was
also a large paper package, containing what appeared
to be a log-book and copies of depositions taken before
Mr. William Woolrige, the Gibraltar magistrate. The
evidence now given before the court was most con-
flicting. One witness, a seaman, declared that all
seemed going on right, and the Lasear seamen, who
numbered fourteen in all in the vessel, were behave
ing well until the night in question, when he was
roused by a " row " on deck, and, going up, found
that some of the Lasears had been cut down and
wounded with cutlasses, shot with pistols, or thrown
overboard. There were five, he said, killed in all,
and all the defendants were noticed to he more or less
participating in these acts of violence. Mr. Triatt,
chief mate of the barque, gave a different. narrative
of the affair. He was a watch on deck at the time
when the Lascars made a rush aft, pursued and
wounded the man at the wheel, and. breaking out
into open mutiny, attacked him with kreisses, and
other weapons, wounding him severely, insomuch
that his life was saved only by the timely arrival of
the captain, who had been disturbed by the uproar.
Much resistance was made, however, by the muti-
nous Lascars, which resulted in the death of five of
their number before they could be thoroughly over-
powered. Their object, evidently, was to seize the
ship, though none of them were competent to navi-
gate her, and she was eight hundred miles from land
at the time. Mr. Yardley adjourned the ease, trust-
ing that, the affair would be investigated by the
professional authorities. Bail was accepted for the
defendants. _

THE CutEr or rim Zeus KAFFIRS, now exhibiting
at Hyde-park-corner, appeared at Westminster
Police Court to answer a charge of assault. Mr. Cal-
dicott, son of a merchant at Port Natal, whom his
father had entrusted with the charge of the Zulus
forming the exhibition, came forward as eomplainailt.
The chief, it appeared, had gone out without
leave, accompanied by his brother Kaffir+, to take a
walk. They returned with a curious crowd at their
heels, and were roughly chidden by Mr. Caldicott for
their absence. Ile was said to have pushed them
with some violence, and the Katfirs, on reaching the
gallery, showed evident symptoms of wrath, swinging
their clubs, and threatening serious damage to the
on-lookers, and especially to the complainant. The
charge was brought in order to obtain some inrezi,+-
terial sanction to precautionary measures in future.
Mr. Meow...sir inquiretl whether the defendant had
signed any document giving to Mr. Caldicott the
power of controlling his outgoings and incomings
Mr. Caldioott produced an agreement., signed by the defendant
and the others+, and duly s•ertitleil. to the etfeet that Mr. Caldicott
+should pay their passage to England. clothe. maintain, and allow
them a certain sum per h. and land them again at l'ort
Natal within eighteen months. milevii a further agreement
+should be made by mutual consent, for which they agreed to
Kerte him faithfully during the 'raid period. by performing all
midi native dances and other customs aM might be required for
the purposes. of eNhibition or otherwise.
Mr. Itiommtir: The Kaffir+ agreed to tame tuittguily. by
verfortulng native dances and other native euvlonia for exhibir
lion;" but he could Out, by their utrreement, put them to any
mental etaphivtueist ; and the acen-cil now wanted to know why
lie wino not permitted us go out. the contract containing no re-
'friction in that revert*/
Mr. Caldicott pointed out, that if they were permitted to go
abroad at their own ri..axare. without control. the ccnsegitcneen
the rub* lltt& b Ide mot setiout. dot two.

THE PRESS.

VW entirely ID Dia ebarge while they were from their native
country, and his father was under sureties. to the amount of
Lhilttl, to see that they were properly eared for, under the agree-
ilieut to the Colonial tioverument, and lauded at Port Natal at
the sitridated tone.
Mr. Buoitr R p save Mr. Calilieott 4 relit for carefully lookup:
after them, hut still the question was, whether he had any power
to prevent their going in and out at pleasure. so loug as they
" perforated native dances said other customs tot exhibitton."
Their agreement was strictly ewitined to that. What complain•
ant wished was very proper. and showed • due regard to the
public ; but the question was, whether he was legally justified in
putting restrictions upon them. tie had better, perhaps. have
not been so strict with them on this occasion. The very moment
violent hands were laid upon them they bietuno eacited. They
required the exercise of • great deal of judgment and prudence.
Mr. Cahlieott said it was not their first offence ; they had be-
fore been violent. .

Mr. lIRODERIP. addressing the interpreters, said: Tell the
defendant that if he striker anybody he will be punished ao•
cording to our law; but if be has any complaint about the way
be is treated, and violent bands are laid upon )lIM, they must let
him Mils here and complain. Will he undertake to behave wed
in future. and not to be indent. but come here if he has any
complaint ?
Inc interpreter, having comniuninated this. announced the
defendant's reply. that he was very sorry, and that he would uut
do it again; but if a man pushed him he must push again."
Mr. lima:mem : Tell bun he must not 'waif again, but that
the man who pushes wrongfully will be brought hero and
punished.
lie was then discharged.

THE DISCHARGE OF A YOUNG MA named Parker
was opposed at the Insolvent Court ou behalf of a
number of tradesmen, who alleged that their debts
were fraudulently contracted. Insolvent's father is
an alderman of Liverpool, who allowed his son 4001.
a year, and the young man had besides the expeeta-
tion of some reversionary property. Ho had run
deeply into debt with various shopkeepers for clothes,
jewellery, guns, &c., being introduced to most of
them by certain gay and anstoeratic acquaintances
as a youth of vast future wealth. As such ho had
given himself out on many occasions, and had be-
sides formed connection with money-lenders, for
whom he signed bills, and bor:owed money at
usurious interest from them. Ile had also signed
cheques, which he got cashed, but which were liner•
wards dishonoured at the Bank. For the insolvent
it was alleged, principally, that he had boon deceived
in the presumed value of his reversionary property.
He expected to obtain enough from it to pay his
debts, but in the end it seems to have passed into
the hands of a money-lender for a comparatively
trifling sum. Mr. Commissioner Murphy, in giving
judgment, said :

"If the Caen rested on the money transset our. he shroud have
pronounced a diNcharge, but the insolvent had, in rontraettng
debts with the tradesmen who appeared, shown a reckless die-
poattion. Trus it was that ' evtl communication,' corrupt good
manners,' and he was afraid that the persons with whom he had
been conneeted,aud who had intmdueed him to tradesmen, had
given him a degree of recklessness which hail wade him indif-
ferent to the interests of others. There had been something like
• systematic wrong towards his creditors; and the mode of paying
a little, and then getting large supplies, showed that he was not
so innocent a victim as had been allegro] by his coons'''. It was
his intention to deal with the CAM' in • penal unuitier. and give
such a jUIigInVIII. WI would perhaps get the creditors their money.
lie should therefore remand the insolvent, at the sluts of nine
shopkeepers, for a period of welt.• calendar mouths front the
vesung order."