The Express.
London, England, 1864-01-06 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 6, 1864.

THE .7HANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER
IN PLINTSHIRE.

The light Hon. W. E. Gladstone, the Chancellor
if the Exchequer, on Monday evening delivered an address
at the inaugural meeting of the Working Men's Readies
Room, Buckley, near Mold. Sir STZPIISSI GLTNNI, M.P.,
presided, and there was a numerous attendance, including
the principal owners of property in the district,
The CHAIRS! AS having briefly opened the proceedings,
Mr. GLADATODE came forward, and was greeted most Ow'
&say. After some preliminary remarks in reference to the
segmentation of population, wealth, and general prosperity '
et that district, he proceeded to say—With that augmenta-
tion of advantages, my friends, there comas an augnienta-
ties of responsibilities. We must consider—and I rejoice
he think that it has been considered—whether along with this
prospect of iacremed commerciel prominence there cannot be
realised eomethiog else on behalf of Buckley--greater oppor-
tunity of social improvement, greater moral and intellectual
advantages. Those advantages, indeed, ought never to be dis-
sociated from the highest of all pursuits—l mean that pur-
suit which 'miens to every man in the cultivation of his
immortal being ; but I cannot but reflect with satisfaction
that it is the clergyman of this district who has taken the
most pominent part upon the occasion in commotion with
she foundation of an iostitution for intellectual and social
improvement, thereby betokening and setting forth the im-
portant and permanent truth that between those whose
business it is to preach the gospel and to spread the inesti-
mable benefit') of religion sod all other Mutate, whether
temporal or social, or of whatever class, there ought to be
so discord, no coldness, no indifference to a close and
lasting union and perpetual harmony. Now, it is not neoes-
wary to enter at large upon the advantages of institutions
of this kind. The time of arguing fully on behalf of such
ea establishment is a time when men want to he convinced
et it ; but, as far as the general public is concerned, '
as far as the common opinion in England is eon-
earned, we can no longer say that any necessity
fee argument remains. Happily, their utility is generally
recognised. They have takes hold upon the mind of the
people ; they have struck a deep root in many district* of
the county ; they are spreading sod multiplying ; they are
thriving where they exist in a degree heretofore unknown ;
they are coming into existence where they don't exist ; and
their general warrant and justification are complete. But
still, in this district they are new. And now, my friends of
the working-classes in particular, for whose benefit this in-
stitution is especially intended, although they are new, are
they not reasonable and necessary ? Does not an institution
of this kind attempt to fill up a gap iu your life which must
otherwise remain unfilled—l mean in your daily life? Let
en look at the constitution of rum, and let us compare him in a
single point with the case and the condition cf the lower ani-
mals. Nan agrees with the lower animals in this respect—
that both of them are born to labour. Labour is the
lot of the lower annuals ; labour in sue form or other is the
lot of waulund ; and physical and bodily Lamar is the lot,
and must, as far as mss can sea always be the lot, of the
vast majority of mankind. But although there is this
broad and striking resemblance between the constitution
and destiny of man and the coustatutiou and destiny of
mime's, yet the Almighty, speaking to us as He always
dose, through the economy of nature, at once mints out to us
this great difference. It is natural to the animal to divide its
time between labour, food, and sleep. Labour, food, and
sleep in oerpetical round make up the existence of the
animal ; if there is anything else it is vacancy. That is not
the case with the man. A man cannot divide his twenty-four
boors beim eu labour, food, and sleep. He may give a large
portion of it to labour ; he may give a considerable por-
tion of it to sleep ; he must give a certain portion
of it to food. But that does not fill up the round of the
day and night for man. There are certain Lours that
require other food ; and other food, either good or had,
they invariably get. It is not only in these long winter
evenings, it is iu summer evenings also. The summer
day is too long for man to labour ; the Mater night is too
long :or man to sleep. Either one Day or the other, though
it is perfectly true that the bulk of his life is absorbed in
'moistener; to the physical Deoessities of his mature and
is going through that toil which is required to provide
him with the means o f subsisteace, yet there is always a
residue 01 time which must be employed. And how is
that time to be employed:* Let us consider what are
those means of employing it which compete for it, which
offer theumelves to the labouring man in particular.
There is home. Well, find turbid that, either by
means of this institution or in any other way, the labouring
man should be drawn away from his home. An institution
of this kind is not intended to weaken the claims of his
home, his wife. and his children upon him ; but it is inten-
ded, on the eoutrarv, to enable him to give fuller effect aid
satisfaction to them claims. But if we look at the home of
the labouring man, we meet admit that it is not, sod cannot
be—et any rate the position to which this country has now
attained is not one in which the home of the working man
ens be -a place in which he can do himself full justice as
regards the improvement of hie mind. It is not to be ex-
pected that in all carts it can have the perfect tranquillity
which is requisite in order to give the attention of
the mind to intellectual pursuits, and still leas
is it to be expected that the stores of books,
m►ps, dictionaries, and means of information which a
common stock in a reading room will afford, can be en-
joyed by even a single labouring man. I herefore— I do
sot speak fines only, but of men and women—it is shown
by experieuce that if in the labouring class they have a desire
to improve their mental faculties by a recourse to books—
that, is to Nay, by recourse to the stock of valuable matter
that former generations of tutu and other minds have accu-
mulated for our use and benefit—if they seek to avail them-
selves of that great and almost indispensable means of im-
provement. it cannot effectually and generally be dune in
the liboui :rig uteri's home. Well, then, that which the
labouring man minuet do individually—that which the single
family is not strong enough to do for itself—is now at-
tempted to be done by means of common institutions. It
is just in the same way with regard to schools. No doubt,
if it were possible for ever,' labouring man to give a very
good domestic education to his children within his
own wells, it might in some points of view be
en excellent method of proceeding, and in some points of
view better than sending him from his own Louse to s,•hool;
but the principle of comma stock enables him to give his
children so education which tau could not give them in his
own house. And so the priuciple of common stock will
enable the father—ay, and the mother too—to ohmic, for
themselet.• intellectual improvement, through the means of
instatutioes of this kind, which they could not have if they
were compelled to seek it exclusively between the four
walls of their cottages. Well, thee, what are the other
aompetitors for the spare time of the labouring man 7 There
is the public house. Now, I am not going to speak in ex-
treme language about the public-house. I sometimes think
that when, iu our zeal to repress excels of that description,
we denounce public-homes and the class of men connected
with them. we run the risk of doing considerable mischief
by obliterating and effacing the difference between a
reepeetaMe and a worthy man keeping a public-
house and a man that is not respectable sod that is not
worthy. A public-house, after all, ministers to the neces-
sary wants of niankiud. It is not to be expected—whether
it is to be desired or not—that the use of stimulants can by
whole communities altogether be dispensed with. At all
events, I am quite awe it does not become those who are
in my own condition of life, and who feel that it is necessary
for them to have sonic assietaoce of that kind in order to go
through their own labours—it does not become me to get
up
OD phitfornis and denounce too violently the moderate
and rational and Cbristianlike use of such thing.. But
still you will agree with me in this—that the public-house
ss not the desirable place fur labouring men to stend that
porno", or their lives iu which is not absorbed by labour and
by sleep and by food. It is not desirable in itself. It gene-
rally has . bad end. But if instead of going to the Emetic-
house we speak of idlicg away the spire time out of doors
—what it,es that roue to Y It almost always manes to
mischief ics one form or other. Is point of fact, it is not
merely tl e positive evils that are inherent in these methods
of spendiug the spare time of the labouring class, but it is
this—thi consequence of them is that the labouring claim
remains in a lower grade of culture, a lower stage ofsultore
and eiv&..atiou thus that to which they might otherwise
attain, and to which they ought to stnve to attain. They
leave a Meek in a great part of their existence. They have
*very one of them got minds that are capable of being cul-
tivated. The Almighty does not give us any part of our
constitution for nothing, Whatever talents or faculties He
bestows, he they great or small. /lodises not give them to
as to be muree Ile does sot give them to us to be tempts-
boss ; if se use them so it is our own fault. He gives
them to us that we may employ them, that we
may use them and make them the means of shed-
ding blessings upon ourselves and those arcuod us.
Tu every one of the labouring clan, although Ile
has laid upon them the law of labour, He hoe
likewise give , powers of thought, powers of reflection,
powers of inquiry. In many instances. from unfavourable
circumstances, those powers may remain stagnant, though
in many Golfe the vigour of a emu's mind will enable him,
even wh-o working with very ,canty means, to Minc him-
self forward both in the improvement of his faculties and
in t►e mitward condition of his life ; and by an institution
of the I[ll4 it is sought at mice to give to all those faculties
possessed by the coniniuoity the means of satisfying them-
selves —the mesas of improving themselves, Le sccess to
those store, of knowledge and those various forms of pi-
struetiou lithe+ have been accumulated in hooka for the use
of the i resent generation. (Applause.) Thus far, Lidice
asd gentlemen. I have tioubled you upon the general ques-
tion of the utility of iostitutions of this kind, and I hove
eodeavuored to set font that which I very strongly and
very fu ly fuel. There is is this country a popula-
tion which, when full opportunity is given to it, is
capable. I think, of staining as much excellence and as
varied excellence as the population of any country upon the
fees of the earth : but is this world, constituted as it is,
low mush that is capable of bearing fruit, how much that is
foil of promise, goes to waste, goes to destruction, goes to
positive misery and mischief, for want of opportunity, and
for want of the judicious and resolute use of opportunity
when it offers itself. We all admit—l think the commu-
aity at large bas felt that for those persons of the labouring
edam who are desirous to improve themselves, unfortunately
it IWO/ that they have great difficulties to contend with.
ft ie true iudeed, that even their immediate vocation, even
fisted io which they spend their time from renew to sun-
set, beceenes to many of them the mesas of educating and

training their faculties, and it is also true that then are
other mesas of educating and training the faculties which are
of greatest &demise, and which afford a multitude of facili-
ties to those persons who are in the middle and the higbet
°Woof life, and that these facilities until recently have not
been within the reach of hthouring men. Therefore if it
has been felt that we have bad to lament the prevalence of
evil habits of any kind ; if the tone of the community was
in this or that neighbourhood not satisfactory ; if the con-
sumption of strong liquor was pursued to a degree incom-
patible with wealth and destructive of duty ; if the manners
of the people of this country were more rude than might
have been desired ; if they were unacquainted in many in-
stances in • degree that was to be lamented with their
religion, with the history of their country, with the condi-
tion of the world in which they live, with the works
of Providence, with the deeds and capabilities of
mankind, it has been felt that it was practicable
to remove those difficulties, and give to the labouring
classes opportunity, if they would, of pursuing • career
of self-improvement. These institutions are main instill-
meota for that purpose. In this institution, as I have
said, you will have access both to books and to teaching ;
the will must depend upon yourselves. Happily, in a case
like this it will be testified to by the very existence of the
institution itself, because it will have to depend in the main,
I apprehend. upon the subscriptionswhich youyourselves will
furnish, and depend upon it that the efforts you may make
to supply out of your own wages the mean. of maintaining
an establishment of this kind, and of giving yourselves access
to the information it will afford, will be efforts that will be
blessed to yeu and to your families ; and whatever sacrifice
they may entail will bee Bunks that you need not grudge.
Well, now, we speak of the means of maintaining this insti-
tutiou, and I am thereby brought to the consideration that
it is by money that such institutions are maintained, and I
ask this question—whether, speaking generally, the labour-
ing classes of thiscountry get u much for their money—extract
as much of profit and benefit from their wages as they
might do 7 Now, it is not fair to attempt to judge any
class by au abstract standard, and I hope you will forgive
me if I speak freely before you. There is no use in getting
up before as assembly of people in this country or any
other to flatter them, or to tell them of their good deeds
and good qualities. Happily, the people of this country
have plenty of good qualities ; but the point for us all to
consider, whether individually or collectively, is not so
much what are our, good qualities—those we are! ready
enough to find out—but what are oar weak points in which
we are more susceptible of improvement. Now, I frankly
confess I do not look upon the people of England as being
altogether • thrifty people. Ido not attempt to try them
by any abstract standard ; I try them by the standard of
actual practice in other countries. I set my face
towards the north, and I cross the border into
Scotland. It may be said that possibly I may have
• slight prejudice, • favourable prejudice in that
direction, because the blood in my veins, such as it is, is
Scotch blood, and I am not hers to blame my own country.
(Hear, hear.) On the contrary, lam going to praise it. If
I were addressing an suembly of Scotch men, I do assure
you I would not enter upon the topic ; but here in the
southern portion of the island I do think it is fair to say that
the people of Scotland are more thrifty than the people of
England and Wales. If I cross the Channel and go into
Francs my belief is that Frenchmen are more thrifty than
the English. That may, perhaps. surprise you, and it is a
matter, I admit, that does nut admit of being brought to the
test of positive demoortration one way orthe other ; but still,
looking at such means of information as we have—whether
they are the statistics of public trade and revenue and
savings—and from the opinions and judgments of the
best-informed, my belief is that the French labour-
ing man, taken generally, though he receives much
less wages upon the average—at least, I may venture to
say, 20 or 30 per cent, less of wages upon the average—
than the labouring mac of this country, yet that he saves •
greater proportion of his wages, and that if it were possible
to compare them with the actual wealth of the French
labouring classes, thousand for thousand, or million for mil-
lion, certainly the French artisan class—l speak of them
more confidently than of the peasantry—is greater than that
of the corresponding class in this country. It has been for
many years the desire and the effort of the legislators to do
what they could, not for the purpose of straining and press-
ing the labouring community of this country to consider the
subject of saving, but towards affording them facilities,
providing they had the disposition, to make it easy for them
to lay by what they could save out of their daily ex-
peoditure in • manner convenient to themselves sod
with such circumstances attending it that, at any rate,
nothiug but the want of disposition should prevent them
saving. The disposition, I need not tell you, cannot be
::upplted by parliament. It may he the duty of the legisla-
ture to prohibit certain things—and so it is—which ate of
the nature of social abuses ; but with regard to the general
government of man, it has pleased God to make him a free
agent, and those by whom he is ruled in this world ought
to respect that freedom, ought to make it easy for him
to do what is tight and difficult for him to do wrong ;
and, having made it easy for him to do right., to
trust to his own free and conscientious choice to choose
the path he should walk. (Applause.) With regard
to the particular reasons for recommending the virtue
of thrift, just let us consider one moment what they
are. In the first place, if we look at the condition
of the artisan class in thiscountry, we see thatat any rate we
may safely say that it is • much improved condition. There
is no doubt that it is • great deal better than it was even in
the memory of the present generation. lam son that
your recollection and your experience would bear me out if
I were to say that the rate of wages iu this parish is mate-
rially better than it used to be twenty or thirty years ago..,
Speaking generally, the artisan nulls no great difficulty in
keeping things straight as long as circumstances are favour-
able, as long as markets are brisk, as long as work is
continuous and unbroken, as long as his wile and his children
are in good health, and as long as he himself possesses
that inestimable benefit. But. then, that is not
the uniform condition of human life. The day of calamity
will come. The day of reverse will conic. There will be
friends and relatives in less favourable circumstances who
will stand in need of aid. And as l have honestly ventured
to say that I did not think that our countrymen are • vary
thrifty people, I may our say a word i.poo the other side.
I may say that I think they are a very open-handed, open-
hearted people—(her, hear)—and that they wish to have
the means of assisting those who are in greatet need than
themselves—aye, even those who are io need wish to have
the meson of assisting those who are in greater need.
(Applause.) Well, the fact that the evil day must
arrive some time or other is one very good reason
for making some provision for it. Just consider in
what au advantageous position a man stands if lie
has got • certain portion of his savings put by,
reference to putticg out his children in the world. That is
• most important part of his duty. a most important part of
the business of life—to give his own children a good store
when they come to the time when they begin to be able to
earn their own sustenance. and look to becoming themselves
in their turn the founders and fathers and mothers of fami-
lies. To haves little store ready at the seasonable moment
for such • purpose is of immense value to the labounog man
—and especially of immense value if we consider that that
store is composed not of what has been withdrawn from
any valuable purposes, but of money that has been rescued
—of money, I will admit, in some cases that has been
saved by the sacrifice perhaps of innocent pleasures, but
that in a much greater number of instances has been res-
cued from some utterly useless, or eves some mischie-
vous and degrading indulgence. It contnbutes to that
which we call the respectability and independence of • teen
that he should have some reeouroes—that he should have
something upon which he can fall back. It strengthens
his position in the world ; it procures him respect ; it serves
as • sign of his character ; it show, that be is • men that
does not live only for the stoniest: it shows that be is a
man who considers the future as well as the present ; and,
if we are to ask what are the principal prerogatives of
human nature, I ask whether there is one more distinctive
or more characteristic or more exalted than that man's
being who is able to look into the future, to make plans and
designs for the future, and to shape his course io reference
to the future. These are grounds lam sure you will be-
lieve with me that are sound and broad grounds,
and that make it desirable for the labouring class of the
community to consider seriously within themselves
what efforts they can make in order to provide a fund is
the shape of savings with reference to en evil day, with
referenceto supplying the wants of others, with !reference to
securing their own independence, and, generally, as • means
of improving their position in society. and discharging in a
more satisfactory manner the duties that are given them to
discharge. The right honourable gentleman then referred to
the establishment of the post-office sayings banks, of which
lie said there were now nearly 3,000 spread all over the
country. He explained very fully the working of the sus-
tern, and commended the consideration of its many advan-
tages to the attention of the labouring classes. In conclu-
sion, he said—l am sot about to set up the idea of saving
woolly as if saving money was the pus pose for which man
lives in this world. It is not the pursues fur which
he lives here ; but it is not try duty to lead
you into higher regions of Christian teaching and doctrine.
1 come before you as a member of the community, anxious
to point out to you that which I believe to be is itself valu-
able and useful ; that in explaining which I fear I have de-
tained you longer than I should have done, but that with
regard to which I can most confidently say that I do believe
that the fulfilment of these lower duties is as essentially
associated with the fulfilment of the highest duties. The
privileges of the man and the privilena et the Christian are
united end combined together, and I do trust that you by
your conduct will prove that you are intending and ere
resolved to be good and faithful subjects and citizens both
to the kingdom of this world and the kiogdom of the world
which is to cache. (Applause.)

On the motion of the Rev. Mr. MELLATIS thank. were
then voted by acclamation to Mr. Gladstone for his address,
and the right hon. gentleman having replied the proceed-
ings terminated.

THE SToe or GRAIN IN LIVLRPOOL.—The fol-
lowing in • statement of the estimated stock of grain, &c..
is this port oo the 31st Denember last :—Wheat 366,112
qrs. ; barley, 4,662 ; rye, oil ; malt, 2,334 ; oats, 21,277 ;
beau., 24,074 ; peso, 6 666 ;lo cora. 191.32 i ; oatmeal,
46,039 loads ; tour, 64 930 soaks and 139,4116 boa-rola.

tiouitt KENSINGTON Mueeum.—During the week
ending Jan. 2, the visitors have been as follows :
Christmas week, free days, open from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m.
17,866 ; total from the opening of tba Museum, 4,387,632:

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la price, sad whet...saw to use. These edveutssee have secured
fur this Teas getters! prafesvace. It Is sold la packste IMO
asesia. Ad viortlamossit.

I NAVAL AND MILITARY.

ADMIRALTY, Jiw. s.—Areournmr3.--Captain
G. W. Preedy, C. 8., to the Victory, additional, far service
is the Hector.

klas Cleveland Wellsaley, to the Arian
Surgeon G. T. Beaks, to the Rattlesnake.
Asostant-Sergeoes 0. /Lorton, to the Duller ; Dr. E.
Dann, to the Wm.
anlineer C. J. Marti., supernumerary to the Asia, can-

rseTstant-Engineer J. M'Clashan, to the Royal Oak.
First CIA• 11 Assistant- Ragineer A. F. Itletyre, supernu-
merary, to the Cumberlaad, confirmed.
The appointment of G. R. Banker to the Royal Oak hen
been cancelled.

CHATHAM, JAN. 5.

A fatal accident occurred yesterday evening on
board the iron frigate Achilles, fitting for sea at this port,
by which • mechanic named Sherwood bat his life, and
another man was very seriously injured. The accident
occurred at the moment the large body of workmen ware
leaving the vessel, and was occasioned by • heavy plank
which was being placed across the hold falling from the
upper deck into the hold, and striking the deceased on the
back of the head, by which his skull was battered in, and
inflicting serious injuries to a man named Campbell. Both
the sufferers were immediately conveyed in • steamer to
Melville Hospital, but the unfortunate man Sherwood died
immediately after his admiesioo, and the other man was
found to have one of his legs so shattered that it was after•
wards deemed necessary to amputate IL Earlier the same
afternoon an accident also occurred on board to • lad named
Caddy, who received concumion of the brain from • fall.

WOOLWICH, Jar'. 5.
By direction of the Admiralty experimeuts,
which are stated to be highly satisfactory, have been car-
ried out at this dockyard to ascertain the practicability of
mating the bottoms of iron ships on a plan invented by Mr.
Leatch. The varnish and preserving composition' uow in
use would be superseded by the adoption of Mr. Leatch's
plan, which consists in coating the iron surfs*. with gutta
percha or other cement, and on this soft material to fasten
sheets or plates of glass about a quarter of an hob thick.
The glass is previously bent to the shape of the ship, and
pierced for the reception of the screws or bolts, the spec-
tated' being lined with a soft adhesive composition, which
prevents the screws, &c., from owning into immediate con-
tact with the glom.

NAVAL Pluze Moiws.—Notice is given in last
night's Gazette that preparations are now being made for the
intended distribution of the naval portion of the parlia-
mentary grant for stores captured at Kertch and Yenikale,
in the year 1t155, and that the officers and crews of her
Malady's ships stated below are entitled to participate
therein :—Algiern Agamemnon, Ardent, Arrow, Banshee,
Beagle, Curlew, Carsdoc, Danube (tender), Furious, Cla-
diator, Hannibal, Highayer, Leopard, Lynx, Miranda,
Medina, Minna or Suhna (tender), Princess Royal, Recruit,
Royal Albert, Sidon. &moan, Sphinx, Spitfire, Swallow,
Stromboli, Snake, St. Jean d'Acre, Tribune, Terrible,
Valorous, Vesuvius, Viper, Wrangler.
ROYAL NAVAL RESERVE. —Up to the 31st ult.
19,519 applications had been received and 16,949 volunteers
enrolled in this reserve.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.

(Before the Recorder.)

Edward Bents, 22, wag charged with a robbery worn-
partied with violent)* upon William Stevenson.
Mr. Orridge prosecuted; the prisoner was defended by
Mr. Lilley.
The prosecutor in this cue resides at Whitby, in York-
shire, and is the master of a brig called the John Murray.
He came to Loudon on the 13th of November, and received
a sum of 301. from the agent of the venal, which he de-
posited in • puns in his watch pocket. About four o'clock
in the afternoon it appeared that he was in Toole!-street,
where he met a woman named M'Oarthy, and be treated
her to some licino. at a public-house in Tooley-street. They
then went to the George beerabop in Mintarreet, Borough,
where the prosecutor pulled out his prune and mated the
people who ware standing about the bar with liquor. Very
soon after this the prosecutor was knocked down and robbed
of all the money he had in his possession, which at this
time amounted to 471. in gold and some silver. The pri-
soner was alleged to have hews one of the persons coucerned
in the robbery, but the prosecutor admitted that he was
somewhat intoxicated, and the ecoount be gave of the trans-
action was not a very clear one, but in the course of his
' evidence he stated that after he had been knocked down he
willed to the landlord for assistance, but he did not render
hirr any, or do anything to pmvent the robbery from being
ei

George Hester, the landlord of the beersbop, who was
examined as a witness, stated that be remembered the pro-
secutor ooming to his house, and said that the prisoner and
two or three other men and women were standing io front
of the bar. He admitted that he heard the prosecutor call
out that he had been robbed, and saw him lying upon the
ground, and that he did not interfere in any way to protect
him. He also stated that the prisoner had at one time lodged
at the George.
The Recorder observed that it appeared to him that the
attention of the magistrates of the district ought to be called
to the manner in which this bowie was conducted.

The woman WCarthy, who accompanied the prosecutor
to the beershop, proved that she saw the prisoner put his
hand into the prosecutor's pocket and take oat his purse.
She rid that she immediately laid hold of him, upon which
he struck her a blow in the face and ran away. She subse-
quently, it appeared, gave information to the police, and the
prisoner was apprehended.
Another witness named Dinner corroborated the testimony
given by the woman PeCerthy.
The Recorder having summed up, the jury returned •
verdict of Guilty.
After the verdict had been returned, the learned judge
observed that in his opinion the witness Hester, the keeper
of the beershop, had behaved very ill in the matter accord-
ing even to his own showing, in not rendering soy assist-
ance to the prosecutor when be complained of being robbed,
and he should therefore not allow him his expenses. He
found that he did not keep a licensed house, and conse-
quently the magistrates of the district bad no control over
him ; but, considering that he bad behaved very ill, he
should not allow him to have his expenses for attending as
a witness. _ _

The prisoner, who was not reooanieed u au habitual
thief, but who had probably yielded to the temptation of
seeing so much money in the possession of a drunken man,
was sentenced to i months' hard 'shoo..

The prisoners Hidr, Witite, and Al'Cormirk, were again
placed at the bar, and it was stated that M'Cormick wu
in respectable employmeot about two years ago, but since
that time nothing wu known of him.
The Recorder then senteroxd theiu to be imprisoned and
kept to hard labour for six mooths.

In the course of the day Mr. James Attenbormigh
obtained permission to address the court, and said he
wished to remark—in reference to a statement which had
appeared in the papers in a ease in which a roan was charged
with stealing some gold watches—that the makers' names had
been erased, and the name of Atteoborough substituted ;
that both he and his brothers, who were in the same busi-
ness, repudiated entirely having anything to do with alter-
ing the names. The name of the partis was given as
"!fern. Attenborougb," but on the part of himself and
brothers he wished his lordship to understand that they had
nothing whatever to do with it.
The Recorder said that, knowing bow Mr. Attenbormigh's
businees had hitherto been conducted, he thought himself
it was somewhat at variance with their principles.
(Before the Commou Serjeant.)

John M'Carthy, waiter, pleaded guilty to a charge of
attempting to wound Samuel Hutchinson.
It appeared that the prisoner v.as waiter at an eating-
house, and on Christmas-eve he got very drunk. “nd while
in that state he rushed into the public room with a knife,
attempting to stab everyone who stood in his way. The
prosecutor was present at the time, and the prisoner made
a very furious attack upon him with the knife, but fortu-
nately several persona interfered and so harm was dour.
The Common Serjeant sentenced him to four months' im-
prisonment.
CU.,. Foga., alias Ball, 2R, soldier, was indicted upon a
charge of feloniously being at large before the expiration of
a sentence of 15 yams' penal servitude to which he had been
adjudged.
The prisoner pleaded guilty, and in so doing handed up a
paper to the Common Serjeant from which it appeared that
since his escape he bad fought in the Confederate army,
after leaving which be had joined the English service, and
had been conducting himself in a most exemplary manner
in the Artillery band.

The Commo'n Serjeant said he sympathised with the
prisoner in some degree, but at the same time he must
peas on him the sentence uffthe law. It appeared that he had
served eight years of his time, consequently be bad still to
pass seven years more. Whether steps would be taken to
lessen that puoistment be could not say, but he would not
give him any additional sentence. The learned Serjeant
then ordered him to be kept in penal servitude fur three
years, that sentence to ran on concurrently with his former
sentence. . .

Harry Anion.. 60, was indicted for felonioualy inter-
marrying Caroline Martha Beemm, his wile Mary being
alive. _ .

T. P. Lsbilliire and Mr. Wood prosecuted ; the pri-
soner was defended by Mr. Laney. . . .

It appeared that the first marriage took place at Murton-
on-the-hill, Lancaster, in 1843, but both the witnesses
were dead, and had been for some years. The second
marriage took place in St. James's Church, licrrnoadeey, in
June, Imo. The prisoner and the second wife heed to-
gether happily up to the present time, when proceedings
were instituted by the first wife.
The jury found the prisoner Guilty, and
The Common Serjeant sentenced him to six months' im-
prisuumenL

THE POLICE COURTS.

MARYLEBONE.

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William Whitehead, aged 36, of Wexham Rectory, Buck-
inghamshire, gentleman, was brought up on remand charged
with indecently assaulting Mrs. Brices Charlotte Richsrdacia,
in • earrings on the Great Western Railway, between Long-
ley and West Drayton and Paddington, the prisoner being
drunk at the time.
Mr. Serjeant Ila Matins, instructed by Mews. Maples,
Maples and Teesdale, solicitors to the Great Western Rail-
way Company, sweated to prosecute ; and Mr. Lewis, jun.,
appeared on behaff of the prisoner.
Mr. Serjeant Bal'entitle said—Before this ease is any
further gone into, it will be perhaps as well to say in what
position I appear in respect of this matter. I wpm' to
prosecute, instructed by the solicitors of the Great Western
aieiy Company, the directors of which feel very strongly
upon this subject. The facts of the case were that
Mrs. Richardson and other young ladies of position and
refinement were travelling in one of the company's car-
riages, when they were much frightened, and Mr'. Rich-
ardson was most indecently assaulted. This lady has
wertained that the prisoner has a wife who is most respect-
able, and although she has been grossly insulted, 'till she
has a very strong desire to withdraw from the prosecution.
The railway company, however, feel that there is a duty
incumbent upon them, and that duty is to prosecute this
matter to the fall extremity of the law. They feel
1 that persons travelling upon their line must and shall be
I
protected (rem such outrages. These sort of outrages have
latterly been carried on to a great extent on different Bass,
and unless the high hand of tho law is put in force against'
such men as the prisoner and others like him, it will be
unsafe for any person to travel by railway. Isbell call '
evidence before you as regards the conduct of the prisoner
towards this lady (Mrs. Richardson), and I must say
that it does seem to me most fortunate that a Mr. Smith, '
• solicitor, who is now in attendance, should have been in
the same carriage. This gentleman seems to have acted
with great courage, and also to have shown his humanity in ,
his endeavour to put • stop to such abominable said disgust-
ing conduct as was exhibited 17 the prisoner. Mr. 1
Smith at one time was very much alarmed for the
safety of all parties in the carriage, for it appears that this
man produced a whistle similar to those used by penis,
and whilst the train was going along blew it with great
force. Mr. Smith felt that if this was to be allowed to con-
tinue, it, would net only endanger the lives of the par-
ties in, but might also cause destruction to the train. He
(Mr. Smith) remonstrated with him upon the subject. His
(prisoner's) conduct did not appear to improve from this
remonstrance, but rather the reverse' for he lifted a stick
that he had with him, and flourished it about, and knocked
it violently against the compartments where the ladies
were sitting, and they had to dive down their heads to
avoid being struck, and indeed if they had been struck very
!serious consequences might have ensued from such severe
1
blows as would have been inflicted. I think it only right to
say, oo behalf of the guard, that the lady, when lodging her
complaint with him, did not go fully into the details which
had occurred.

Mrs. Richardson wee then examined, her evidence being
the same as that previously given.
Other teeti.nony with reference to the drunken state of
the prisoner and the disgraceful conduct of which he wee
scoured was also adduoetl, and the prisoner wee committed
for trial.

A second charge was then gone into, Mr. Smith, the soli-
eitor referred to by Mr. Ballantine, being the witness
heard. While his testimony was being given the prisoner
laughed at Mrs. Richardson and others, and was repri-
manded for his ungentlemanly behaviour by Mr. Knox.
This second charge was ultimately abandoned, as no assault
had actually been committed.
The prisoner toss then committed for trial, ball being ac-
cepted, himself in WU/. and two sureties in lOU/ each.
The Mil was forthcomi, and prisoner was released.
Thomas Dudley, a well-dressed young man, next appeared
on a summons taken out by Superintendent Durdle, of the
company's police, charged under the company's by-laws
with being found intoxicated in one of their carriages on
the 28th ult. Defendant gave the address 21, Queen-
street, Edgware-road.
Serjeant Ballantine said—l have taken a deal of trouble
to inquire as to whether the defendant has committed any
acts of indecency. He was certainly drunk, but from the
evidence of Mr. Smith and the other parties. I am satisfied
that he had not committed any act of aggression. The de-
fendipt is a person in a humble walk of life, and otioht not
to have been in the company that he got into. We only
intend to go upon the by-laws, and as so indecency was
committed by defendant, we do not wish to press for the
penalty.
Defendant pleaded guilty, and expressed his sorrow.
Mr. Knox considered that under all the circumstances

the;eiTuirements of the cell would be met by a fine
being imposed upon him of lOs., or in default of pay-
ment to be imprisoned for seven days, and he hoped this
would be a caution to him for the future.

The fine was paid.