The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-12-15 00:00:00

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THE WAR IN CHINA.

FALL OF PEKIN.

FLIGHT OF THE EMPEROR.

BARBAROUS TREATMENT OF THE
ENGLISII PRISONERS.

In the event of an attack upon Pekin being

ordered the general order directed the following
directions to be observed :—As soon as the officers
commanding. the Royal Engineers report that a
practicable breach has been. effected in the city
Wall, it will be stormed by the second division.
On the wall.being g,ained die Otokmitlg party Will
turn• to the right, keeping along the ramparts,
and sieze the An-Ting Gate this
.post being
gained, the engineers and sappers, who should
follow the. supporting oum ;will inlgeOciol at
49Pee.tp,Open the gate post will then
be rilated in S. state of defence with the least
Possible delay, and be held by a garrison,of suck
strength as may be necessary. Officers and sol-
diers forbidden under any pretext whatever to
quit the gate or ramparts, or ,enter any street or
louse. All . property collected by officers on
this occasion to be sold for the just benefit of all
ranks.

The Commander-in-Chief informs the army
that he has taken upon himself a serious respim-
sibility, in appropriating to their benefit the
treasure which was found in the Emperor's Palace,
and which by right belongs to the Crown.
Just immediately before the period given for
Surrender would expire, Hang-Chun came out and
said that our demands were acceded to, that no
resistance would be made, and the gate was at
our disposal. Thereon the outer and inner gates
Were immediately taken possession of, and a por-
tion of the allied force was qttartered on the walls
of Pekin.
The Earl of Elgin and Caron dros pre a the
IniliWy Itead-ill!aiters i but; ai Mr, Bruce has
bebh salt 'or, it is possible that his lordship does
!tot propose to spend the winter in the north.
It is said to be the intention of the Commander-
-19-Chief to withdraw from Pekin, and make Tien-
[sin his winter quarters. Lady Grant has left
'Bong-Kong to join him.
, The commissariat, even in its most trifling
details, is unexceptionable. The general health
of the troops has been excellent.
The Tartar army is still in the field.
The Emperor has fled to Tartary.
Letters were found in the Palace froin San-ko-
lin-sin to the Emperor, assuring him of his
confidence in being able to *annihilate ns.
The garrison of Pekin is reported to be 60,000
to 70 000 men.
,
The pressure of the people is said. to have had
treat:weight in inducting the authorities to yield.
The generals and staff, with the Punjaubees
itiid 67th regiment, entered the outer and inner
rates of Pekin, and ascended to the ramparts,
and took possession of the gate and a number of
brass guns, and mounted our guns in their place. ,
The English and French flags were , then ,
40isted'in token of our military occupation. The
*all is sixty feet wide, and paved, and the troops
inside have their tents pitched on it. The only
thing the Chinese asked, was, that the Chinese
,coolies should not be allowed to enter the city.
this was conceded.
The Emperor's summer palace was only occu-
Died- by three hundred eunuchs, and thirty or
forty men in charge of the gardens. They made
It slight show of resistance, when two were killed
and two VretiCh officers wounded. The next day
the palace was given up to indiscriminate loot
after the French, had made first selection.
The Hong Kong Overland Register, of Oct. 29,
States that Captain Anderson and Mr. de Norman
died from the effects of the brutal treatment of
their Tartar captors. A serjeant of the Sikh
caValry has deposed that all the prisoners were
most inhumanly used, having their wrists bound
With cords, and an insufficient quantity of food
il lipplied them.
No information has been obtained about Capt.
kirabazon and Mr. Bawlby, the Times' special
correspondent.
A letter from the camp says that Messrs.
Parkes and Loch, whilst with San-ko-lin-sin's
army were forced to kneel before every man-
Grin, however petty, their faces rubbed, in
the dust, they were bound with their hands
behind them, and carried on horses to Tung-
Chow, and thence in the same state on one
of the carts of the country to Pekin, when they
Were placed in dungeons and remained so for
some time.

Mr. Parkes was beaten when he did not in-
ktantly reply to a question, and Mr. Loch because
he could not speak Chinese.
The London mail of the 10th September arrived
tt Hong-Kong on the 20th October.

PULL PARTICULARS OF THE CAPTURE
T. OF PEKIN.

LOOTING OF THE EMPEROR'S PALACE.

POSITION OF THE ALLIED FORCES.

LATEST COMMERCIAL NEWS.

(From the North China Herald, October 20.)
The following letters were brought down by
her Majesty's ships. Pioneer and Furious :
Camp of the British Army, one mile distant from
the North-Eastern Gate of Pekin, Oct. 9.

We have received despateheh ipatibn of
the,Chinii
Oil the 3rd of October the allied army corn-
Inenced its advance on Pekin.
On the 6th an earthwork near .Pekin was

taken. On the same day, the summer palace
Of the Emperor was taken
.ttnd completely looted,
4itotaiiig Tbo ,thief ghate'bf thb
plutider • ati+eitro to have fallen to tlie French.
A qiiantity of the treasure.which was taken is to
be divided between the French and .English.
Some privates are said to have sold Their shares
for about 30,000 francs. The entire British share,
including both treasure and private loot, is esti-,
Mated. at about $90,000.
_ _ _

• On the 12th everything was prepared for the
assault or the occupation of Pe,ltin. The siege
guns and other drtillery, -*ere in, a position to
bombard the to-tin Unless it Shoiild be surrendered
by noon of the 13th:- .
A general, order wpm issues}: by RI,- li,ope Orant
for thedigfiew;4tan afid deilti.ol Of the forces under
Command. The whole of the troops were to
he furbished on" the 13th'With tVvollays' cooked
rations.

We encamped here on the 6th. On the same evening
the Emperor's summer place, Yuen-min-Yuen, was
taken possession of, and yesterday Messrs. H. S. Parkes
and Henry Loch were liberated and returned to the
Embassy.
Isent a letter to you from the camp, six miles from
Tung-chow, on the 4th, which will probably reach you
With this. On the following the allied forces were on
the march in search of the Tartars, who were supposed
to be in great numbers about four of five miles off. The
front of the two armies stretched over a large extent Of
country, but the enemy was not seen, nor any sight of
an abandoned camp visible. We halted at one o'clock
P.m. Reconnoitering parties were sent out at night,
and they fell in with the Tartar pickets, who fired three
shots at them. On the morning of the 6th we were
again on the move at an early hour, but on reaching the
ground where the pickets had been seen, all was still.
Here are some very high brick-kilns, from which
aemeral gates and other structures within ;the walls of
Pekin were distinctly seen about five miles `distant.
Still in pursuit of the retreating enemy, we marched on
-through a thickly-wooded country until within half a
mile of the earthwork which extends along the north
aide of, and distant one mile from, the capital, where
some Tartars were seen among the houses close to.
The King's Dragoon Guards went in at them and they
fled, leaving eight dead or disabled and one of the
dragoons wounded in the skirmish. In a short time
after the earthwork was reached, and a gap of sixty
or eighty yards opened upon a straight road of the
same width leading to the N.E. gate of Pekin.
The troops entered by this gap, and, wheeling to the
right, halted where we now are, within the earthwork
----an embankment of forty to eighty feet high, which
Would le a. strong defence in the hands of efficient
troops. Here the greater part of the British army
encamped. Why it did not proceed to the Summer
Palace at once, as was planned, I do not know. The
French, and most of our cavalry with some artillery did
so, but the former did not arrive on the spot until two
hours after the latter, who were waiting for the remainder
of our army. On the French corning up, the brigadier
offered to co-operate with them. They asked him to go
round to cut off. the Tartars, whilst they attacked the
Palace. This they did, and found 300 eunuchs in charge
of it, and forty men who take care of the gardens, only
twenty of whom bad guns. They made a slight resist-
! ante • two eunuchs were killed, and two French officers
wounded, and they then took possession of the palace.
It is said that the reason our army did not advance
Was that a body of Tartars were seen to come out of the
forth-east gate, and disappear in a southerly direction,
and that we should follow them. I believe it was a false
alarm.
In the evening a communication was made to the
authorities, demanding the release of the prisoners. A
promise was given that those who were in the capital
should be released next. day. The snrrender of the gate
Was also demanded, with an intimation that it would
otherwise be taken. The first has, happily, been complied
With, so far that we had the pleasure yesterday of wel-
coming the return of Messrs. Parkes and Loch, with a
French officer attached to the Societe Scientifique, and six
or eight French, and privates of the Seikh cavalry. They
Were, whilst with San-ko-lin-sin's army, treated in
bloat cruel manner; forced to kneel before every man-
darin, however petty, their faced rubbed in the dust;
they were bound with their hands behind them, and
carried on horses to Tung-chow, and thence, in the
same state, in one of the carts of the country, to Pekin,
When they were placed in dungeons, and remained so
until ten days ago. Mr. Parkes was beaten when he
did not instantly reply to a question, and Mr. Loch
because he could not speak Chinese. Within the last
Week these atrocities have been discontinued, and they
have met with some consideration. It appears that when
'the -party was returning from Tung-chow, where you
Will remember Mr. Parkes went to remonstrate against
the Tartars encamping on . the ground appropriated to
the British army, they arrived at Chang-kia-wan, where
the battle of the 18th was fought, and seeing preparations
for an attack, they consulted together whether to charge
through them, or to apply to San-ko-lib-sin, who wawa

short distance behind,- for a pass. They resolved on the
latter course. He received theni with insult and abuse,
and made prisoners of them. They do not know where
the rest of the captives are, but suppose them to be with
San-ko-lin-sin's army, whether in or out of Pekin is not
knOwn.
The Summer Palace is about five miles by a circuitous
toad north-west of- this camp, outside .the earthwork.
. description of it is given
.in .Staniiten's account of
149rd,111aeartriey's ernbagsy, and other works on China,
htit.nO Pen can dekribe correctly the scene that has taken.
place there Within the two last ',days. Indiscriminate
loot has been alloWed. The public reception hall, the
state and private bedrooms, ante-rooms, boudoirs, and
every other apartment has been ransacked; articles of
vertu, of native and foreign workmanship,. taken, or
broken if too large, to be carried away, ornamental
wprti., screens; jade stone ornaments,
..iars,
clocks; thitthes; and Other pie e 3 of mechanism,
Ctirtairis and furniture, tiotie haVe escaped from
destruction. There were extensive wardrobes of
every article of dress ; coats richly embroidered in silk
and gold thread, in the Imperial Dragoon: pattern;
boots, head-dresses, fans, &c., in fact, rooms all but
filled with them. Store rooms of manufactured silk in
rolls, such as may be- bought in Canton at 20 dols. to
30 dols, per piece. By a calculation made in the rooms,
there must have been 70,000 or $O,OOO pieces. Hun-
dreds were thrbwu do'wn and trampled oni a;nd the floor
covered thickly, with them, men were throWing them-at
each Other, and all taking as inank as they could Carry.
. Th,ey were used instead of rope to seciire tlAe loading of
its filled with them. Throughout the French. camp
*ere hiiridredg•of Pieees, sortie heaped Up, others used to
make tents or beds and coverlidS.
In tha afternoon, yesterday, a patty of French went
through the apartment with sticks, breaking everything
that remained—mirrors, screens, panels, &c. It is said
they did so in revenge for the barbarous treatment the
released prisoners, their countrymen, had received. .
A treasury, containing a large quantity of gold ingots
and sycee silver, is under charge of a guard, and is to be
divided between the English and French. •
The total value of property destroyed would amount to
a large itistal,blent of tbp. indemnity
In one of the ante-rooms of the state bedroom at the
Summer Palace, the treaty
,of Teintsin, in English and
Chinese, signed by Lord wasi fonnd. It had been
thrown/01 the ground,hY.soine one, and lay in the heap
of 11, roken; articles; till the, ; nglish., paper . evidently
attrdcted th 4 eta of the person wpb discovered it.

A general order from the British Commander-in-Chief
desired that all articles taken by officers and men were
to be sent.in for sale by public. auction. for the benefit of
the army, was done. All were permitted to have
the articles they bad brought away, for themselves valued,
and have the option of taking or rejecting them. Many
beautiful curios and souvenirs were' thus obtained at a
'nominal price. The sale realised 32,000 dollars, which,
with the value of the treasure, estimated at 61,000 dol-
lars, is to be divided as prize money on the spot.
Much di.isatisfaction has been expressed at the deci-
sion of the CommanderLin-Chief that only those of' the
troops who marched from the last halting place on the
6th are to participate in the prize money, all the rest,
those at the depot at Tung-chow and elsewhere, being
excluded.

. The Commander•thrzChief and general officers have
waived their right to share. A gold jug of great value
was presented to the Cominander-in-Ohief by the army.
Nearly all the articles were sold at very high prices,
large.enamelled'and inlaid vases .afid'ornairients realising
full Shanghae prices for such articles, the fact of their
hiving -Feen 'the property or Men rung adding an
imaginary valite•to everything. The scene where the
sale was held in the teigple occupied by head-
quarters, was worth of the pencil of an artist. Had his
Imperial Majesty handed over the.whole of the contents
of that palace, uninjured, it would have sold for an
enormous amount, en ore"than three-fourths having been
destroyed'er Wren by the French.
All round the vicinity of- the palace are large enclo-
sures; parks, or cemeteries, with irees of some magni-
tude; and many stone bridges over nullahs,.the country
being very dry at present. - Branching off from the
palace are. several paved roads, and just outside of it is
the French camp, by the side of two large lotus ponds.
It its reported that they are to leave that place to day,
and take up a position on our left, They wish to
take the'west
.gate of the city, whieh is the only one
openi but it is objected to, as the Emperor's brother,
the Prince Hung, would not be able to enter the
city, should he be induced to return from the
country to Which, it is said,' he has fled. We pro-
pose to take bite of the gates on the north side
near to this camp, and shall 'do- so as soon as
the siege guns, which have been ordered up, arrive. ' I
have not learnt what is then to be done. It is supposed
the army will not enter Pekin in any case, but that the
officers will be allowed to do' so with a pass. The utter
destruction of the interior of the Summer Palace, where,
be it remembered, 'Lord Amherst, as ambassador from
England, was insulted, is but small' punishment for the
Emperor's contumacy, and the, treatment of the pri-
soners who were captured whilst on a peaceful mission;
yet the like visitation 'being intlicied on the palace in
Pekin might be impolitic, though deserved. That would
not only utterly destroy the present government, but
prevent the organisation of a new one under our pro-
tion, should it be desirable to do so.
The prompt release of the prisoners on. our near
approach to the capital proves that only a firm policy
can succeed with this government. It is" to' be hoped
that the same, will be persisted in, and that no terms
short of our demand will be accepted. 'Whether we
shall treat before the rest of the prisoners are released
is not made known. If San-ko-?in-sin remain obdurate
notwithstanding the defeat of his army at all points, we
may have to do so, or the end will never come.
At sunrise of the morning after we arrived here, a
saluteof twenty-one guns was fired by the artillery to
announce our positions to the prisoners, and to our
cavalry and artillery which had crossed our trail and
gone on to the Summer Palace, expecting to find the
army there.
The Emperor is reported to have gone to his palace,
Zehol, in Tartary, where Lord Macartney was received.
He has thirteen wives with him.

P.S. The siege guns have arrived, and I believe the
gate will be summoned to-morrow. There is a report
that a part ,of the Summer Palace is on fire. The
buildings are many and detached, yet I think it very
probable • they will be destroyed, the feeling being so
strong against the Chinese on account of the barbarous
treatment of the prisoners.

The following is'a separate account of the affair
at the palace :-

• INTERIOR OF THE PALACE.
The French column, together with Col. Pattle's Bri-
gade of Cavalry, advanced on Yuen=min-yuen, the Eng-
lish column rather nearer Pekin a large body. of the
enemy having been observed (near the village now occu-
pied by us). _ The'French entered with only two casual-
ties; two officers being wounded by the eunuchs of the
palace, The following day no sig,ns of the French being
visible, the English fired 21 guns to attract attention, and
later in the morning the Commander-In-Chief- learned
where they were. Lord Elgin, Mr. Wade, Sir H. Grant,
Sir. R; Napier, and their respective staffs proceeded to the
palace, and found the French had been comfortably estab-
lished there, and thOt a great portion: of the principal
valuables had been already taken away, leaving the heavy,
but less—valuable articles for the English, or at least
what things the French could not carry they left for
us. No description can give an idea ,of the splen-
dour of this residence. The entrance or reception hall
is paved with marble, -and "painted with gold, azure,
and-scarlet in -the mott gorgeous style. • The throne
of the Emperor is of beautiful carved dark wood,
and the 'cushion's, embroidered with gold dragons,
attracted general admiration; every- inner chamber and
saloon, was very handsomely fittecl, up, and the rolls
of 'silk, satin, 'and crape, all Of 'splendid wo'rknianship,
splendidly furnished cummerbunds and puggarees for
the French soldiers, who appear to have adopted our
custom in this respect. The
_jade stone and china were
of great value,, and some Sevres china of Louis
Quatorze would have delighted the eyes of many a curio
fancier ; and a presentation sword, with the English
coat of arms, studded with gems, and evidently of
antiquity, . gave 'the to some Speculation. ' The last
'treaty of Tientsin was also found, and the immense
quantity of loot of all kinds made it impossible to know
what to take away. Some idea of the quantity of silk
may be given •by the fact that fowls, old pots, &c.,
were wrapped in the most costly silks and satins. All
the ladies had disappeared, but their little Sapanese
dogs, something resembling a King Charles spaniel,
were running about in a distracted state. Mr. Wade
secured some valuable books and papers, some, we
believe, for the British Museum. The Emperor had
left the day before, but his destination is, I believe,
unknown. It is said that a panic took place amongst
the French, and that they evacuated the palaces, return-
ing, however, when the alarm subsided. One thing is
certain:--our allies took Care of themselves. •

COMMERCIAL.
HONG KONG, OCt. 28.

TEA.—The state of the markets at the open ports is
most singular. In face of a heavy export, of full sup-
plies, and of unfavourable advices from London, rates
continue :nearly at the standard at which they were
pitched when the prospects of a short supply were
imminent. The
.teamen . combine, as usual, making
ingenious representations about coming supplies,
sufficiently plausible to induce foreigners to be-
liee them; and to go on purchasing. Tt is true
they are firm, but that probably arises more from their
conviction of their ability to bring foreigners to terms,
than from any belief they have in short supplies, The
worst of the tea trade as now conducted is this—that
when the communications are interrupted and the country
teas really stopped, as was the case lately at Shanghai and
Canton, spurious, inferior, or fancy teas are manufactured
to such an extent, and meet with so ready a sale, as to
cause the export to swell up so that when the country teas
are released they find a sale from their scarcity, and make
shipments amount to a figure which is absolutely startling.
SHANGHAI.—In the absence of, any alarms as to the
Nankin rebels, confidence has begun to return and trade
to improve. Ningpo, however, still forms the principal
outlet, the communications between the interior and
that port being clearly less interrupted than those of
Shanghai.
HONG XoNG.—The reports of sales give but a small
business for the fortnight. The import trade generally,
however, is in a very healthy state, holders requiring an
advance upon many kinds of staples, and stocks being
sensibly reduced.
CANTON.—The state of the market for the different
description of goods is naturally similar to that of Hong
Kong.
FOOCHOWFOO.—The heavy sales reported last mail
appear to have supplied the demand. Stocks are rather
heavy.

AMOY.—Stocks low, and rates firm, but small s ales.

The Daily News questions the wisdom of the counsel
often repeated during the last few ' months, that the
'Chinese' Government would give up anything- rather
than allow us to take Pekin. The fact proves that they
would give up anythin o.
are gone, rather than to trust themselves
within our power. They' and with them go
all our calculations. We have now done, apparently,
all that the sword can do, and it is at the very moment
of our most brilliant success that we learn how little
that is. Our generals and diplomatists look round in
vain for an enemy or peacemaker.
The' Times attributes to the
'Emperor Napoleon the
anarchy prevailing in the Neapolitan states, which can
only be put down by military force; but Victor Em-
manuel—obliged to watch Austria on the Po,
in the States of the Church by the ever widening circle
of French occupation, detained before a paltry fortress
by the defensive alliance into which France seems to
of
have entered with the Kinghampered
Naples—has .not the
means at his disposal to restore peace and order to his
newly acquired dominions,

THE WINTER ASSIZES.

CROWN COURT.—YESTERDAY.
(Before Mr. Justice KEATING.)
His Lordship opened the court this morning at nine
o'clock for the transaction of the criminal business.
• STEALING A POSTOFFICt LETTER CONTAINING
11f0NEY AT LIVtRPOOL.
Matthew Bell, it voting inert who had been in the
employ of the Post-office authorities at Liverpool, was
Placed at the bar on the indiCtinent of having stolen a
letter, containing postage stamps and money, which was
given to him to deliver.
Mr: Cobbett,. assisted by Mr. Scott, conducted the
case for the prosecution, and the prisoner was defended
by Mr. Aspinalli -
William Edwin Towson was sworn, anal said that
he was a travelling inspector of the General Postoffice in
London; at the time that the prisoner was taken into
custody he was in the service of the Postoffice as
deliverer of letters. On Saturday, Bth December,
witness enclosed in a letter twelve marked penny postage
stamps and two marked half-sovereigns, and placed
them along with the letter in an envelope, end addressed
it 'to 72, Camden-street, London-road, N. On the
same afternoon he Pasted the letter in Liverpool; at the
time he posted the letter he gave Certain directions to a
person named George Slee, in the employ of the Post-:
(Age: The nett Sunday rnerning he Went to the prise-
ner's house with a man named 'here, and a Constable
named Cousins; they forind the prisoVer horne; and
witness having told him who 'he was, said he *anted to
ask the prisoner a few questions. He asked him if he
had a letter addressed to Mr. Howard, of Camden-
street, which passed through his hands that morning.
The prisoner replied that he had no recollection of it;
and witness asked him if he knew that there was no
such number as 72 in Camden-street what he should
have done, prisoner replied that he would submit it to
the intipector for hiidirections. Beth of them remained
in the parlour., whilC the. Constable, and Tiere were in
the back part of the houie sedichitig: Shortly
wards Tiere came into the parlour, bringing with him
a book in which witness found the postage stamps that
be had marked ;. asked the prisoner if the book was his,
to which he replied in the affirmative; asked him if the
postage stamps were his, and he said " yes ;" asked him
where he got them, and how long he had got them.
He said that he bought them about six months previously
from the person that kept the receiving-house in Byrom-
street (Mrs. Barbary) ; he said also that he brought
the book from the Postoffice that morning ; he remarked
that he had lent the hook to another letter carrier.
Witness applied a liquid to the stamps and found that
the private mark that he had previously imprinted on
them beCarne visible. 'The postage stamps were not
detached, but were in one piece ; the stamps were
marked-with witness's initials. After the lapse of about
twenty minutes he told the prisoner that he identified the
stamps as those he had placed in the letter, directed to
Camden-street. - The prisoner then replied, -"All I can
say is, if you can identify these stamps as yours, they
must have been placed in the book this morning." [The
stamps were produced, and Witness raid they were the
same that he bad placed id the letter.] By Mr. Aspinall :
At the tiite that he posted, or *as about to, post, the
letter, he rang the bell of the postsoffice window, called
for Mr. Slee and gate him the letter; which was stamped.
Mr.- Aspinall : Do you think that is the ordinary method-
of posting a stamped letter in the General Post-office in
Liverpool ? After a good deal of hesitation the witness
rePlied that he did not think it was the ordinary way.
He had previonslY arranged with Mr. Slee what he was
to do with the letter, and he believed that Mr. Slee had
carried out his instructions. When lie Went to the
prisoner he -found him asleep on the sofa, and imme-
diately awoke him. He was about half an hour in the
house before the stamps were found. Witness was not
present when the stamps were found. They were
brought in by Tiers. They were very much in the
habit of resorting to the plan of applying chemical-tests
to letters in the General Post-office, London. The
address placed on the letter, though not a correct one
for Liverpool, was perfectly correct for London, as there
was such a place in London. George Slee said be was
a clerk in the Liverpool Post-office, and had been there
for about sixteen or seventeen years. He had been
engaged there partly in taking letters in at the window.
He had been on duty on a certain day in December,
and received a letter from the last witness, addressed to
Mr. H. Howard, 72, Camdensstreet N, Liverpool. He
handed it to the inspector. By Mr. Aspinall : .With a
London letter the ordinary course was to have it for-
warded to London the following night. The ordinary ,
mode of posting letters was not the course adopted by
Mr. Towson; but if it were a special letter, that course
was generally adopted. Robert Tiere was called, and
said he was the inspector of letter-carriers in the Liver-
pool Post-office. The prisoner had been for about five
years in the employ of the Post-office. His district for
delivery was Camden-street and that neighbourhood.
On the Bth of September Mr. Towson gave witness a
letter, addressed to Camden-street. Witness locked it
up in a box, and put the key of the box in his pocket.
the next morning he took the letter out of the box,
when it appeared to be in the same condition as it had
been in when placed there, and the letter along with
about three hundred other letters, were placed on the
prisoner's desk for the purpose of being then sorted;
there were two sorters in the division, to which the
prisoner belonged. The prisoner came into the office
that morning at about a quarter to six o'clock ; when
he came into the office it was his duty to sort the letters
on his own desk ; he had nothing to do with tee stamp-
ing of the letters. It was the duty of the prisoner if
he found that there was no such person in Catnden-
street, as had been marked on the letter, to submit the
letter to the inspector or his assistant for instructions.
He had made inquiries in Camden-street to ascertain if
the letter had been delivered or offered for delivery, but
was informed that no letter had been left at any house
in the street. In reply to Mr. Aspinall, the witness
stated that during the time the prisoner was sorting
the letters in the morning he watched all his movements.
'William Cousins deposed that he was one of the
officers of the Liverpool. Detective Force—last Sunday
he went and searched the prisoner, and found some
small change in his possession ; he also examined his
bag, which he found behind a door, leading from the
kitchen to a cellar, and found in it the postage stamps
produced. He handed the stamps to Mr. Tiere, When
asked by Mr. Towson. as to where he got the stamps, the
prisoner replied that he knew nothing of them. By Mr.
Aspinall : The prisoner occupies a house, and is a mar-
ried man with a family. Henry Rainer, a sorter in the
Liverpool Post-office, said the prisoner never showed
him any letter addressed to Camden-street. George
Wheeler, a letter carrier, said that on Saturday evening
last. he went to the prisoner's house and borrowed a
book from the prisoner. The book produced was the
one that. he had borrowed. The following morning he
brought the book to the Post-office, and placed it on the
prisoner's desk. Prisoner and witness were in the same
division. ' He had not put auy postage stamps into the
book. " Thomas Hall said he was a- Liverpool letter-
carrier, and did not see any postage stamps in the book
which the last witness had received from the prisoner.
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of the letter. Mr. Aspinall, on behalf of the prisoner,
raised a legal point as to the irregularity pursued by Mr.
Towson in the manner in which lie posted the letter. He
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foe the defence, and said that the fact of the prisoner
being five years in the service Of the Post-office was, of
itself, quite sufficient to show the good character that
was previously borne by the prisoner. He spoke in
strong terms of the disreputable course pursued by the
officials of the Postoffice in laying traps for the detec-
tion of their servants. He denounced the system as
-most illegal; and he hoped the jury would scruinise all
the circumstances of the ease. His Lordship summed
up the evidence; and after having recapitulated the
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serving the inviolability of the institution of the Post-
office was of immense importance ; and that the
public who placed such great confidence in the officials
of the Post-office, who were the servants of the, public,
should beprotected. He considered that there was no
great temptation placed in the way of any servant of
the Post-office to break open a letter which might be
entrusted to him to deliver, and extract from it the
money contained in it, In the flank of England there
were many clerks who had thousands of pounds passing
through th.eir hands, and they would not be- justified in
giving way to any such temptation. His Lordship then
read over the evidence of the several witnesses.
The jury then retired to consider their verdict, and
did not return into court at half-past six o'clock, when
his lOrdship adjourned the court till half-past nine
o'clock last night.

, THE JURY LOCKED UP FOR THE NIGHT.
At half-past nine o'clock last night the jury in the
case of Rooney returned into court and acquitted the
prisoner of the charge of stabbing with intent to murder,
but found him guilty of stabbing with intent to do
bodily harm.
His Lordship—He shall be sentenced to-morrow.
The jurors in the ease of Bell also came into court,
after having been locked up in their room from about
two o'clock.
The Clerk of Arraigns asked the foreman if they had
agreed to their verdict.
The foreman replied in the negative.
His Lordship observed that he bad sent for them in
order to ascertain whether be could possibly afford them
any' assistance, either by reading over any portion of the
evidence that they might have a wish to have elucidated
or explained, or to remove any difficulty. that might arise
in a point of law which be might assist in soliing for
them, and of course, if such were the case, he should
feel it his duty and be most happy to do so. But it
seemed that they required no such assistance.
The Foreman, in answer to • the observations of the
judge, remarked that he was not aware that any such
difficulty presented itself ; and moreover, it was not
likely that they should come to a verdict.
His Lordship—Gentlemen, it is important for the
purposes of justice that a verdict should be come to. I
am afraid, gentlemen, that I must dismiss you again to
your duties. There is no other alternative. You must
retire.
One of the jurors said there was only one dissentient
voice amongst them.
His Lordship—Gentlemen, you must retire again.
We can't really discuss that question here. It is
necessary that a verdict should be returned.
The same juror again observed to the learned judge,
that for the last four or five boars they had all agreed
in their verdict, except the foreman, who was the only
dissentient voice.
The learned Judge reiterated what he had already
observed, that it was most important that they should
agree in their verdict, and in order that they should
come to that decision, he should have again to request
them to retire to re-consider their verdict, as there
should be a decision come to one way or the other.
A Juror—l wish your lordship would explain, or say
something., that might tend to elucidate the matter.
The Judge—As I said before, if there be any portion
of the evidence that I can read over for you, or if there ,
be any difficult point of law that occurs to you, of course
I shall be glad to assist you in coming to a right under-
standing of it. But I don't see any point of law that
can be raised in the ease. You are perfectly aware that
a verdict must be returned by the twelve jurors that are
sworn to do that duty.
Several of the jurors murmured very much at having
the prospect before them of being again locked up.
'His Lordship said that should request them to