The Express.
London, England, 1855-07-09 00:00:00

TO TIM =MOIL OP TER DAILY NZWIL

is not my intention to make any remark
epos Lord B.bert Orosemor's Sudsy Trading Bill, fur-
ther than observing that I, in eoujeaction with every well.
regulated and welt-informed mind, maids, it wee fraught
welt gibe grossest absurdities; bat as my seemelen bees wade
SID mans, sad so mixed up with the pulse wish. I eswillee
it a duty I owe both to emelt sad the pubis le espies the
'saleable. I hove suffered from a set ef paid ralte=so:
sheer to your readers that what has bees my
yesterday may become their mints Mummy, should
they by shears be singled eat by the maim fee
an attack, and the unfortunate individuals have se erodible
vitiate' to robot the Gelds's', se I happily had. sad which
meet probably prevented an inaocent sod injured man the
luxury of fourtsea or twenty one days' impaimonarat. I
generally eejoy my Sunday evening's welkin Hyde-park
during the essesser menthe, and I have yet to learn the
evil of such VOIWIMItiOn. Oa lianday lest I followed the
monster strewn of well dressed and respectable individuals,
sad entered the pack at the triumphal arch at about five
minutes taleneVeiselt, mad almost tee first object I saw to
attract my ahead= was a highly respectable freshman be
tines two aseseshise, mai mashes following clime behind, the
crowd of reememable people eagles "shame." This gentle
man was afterwards my enies for the night, when he
informed see that be bed bees shagged by theseperiabadent,
but foe what mime he wee wholly *nem& Upsa bis arrival
in Piccadilly be wished to have a ash at his ewe expeue,
which was refused, and be was dragged between the fellows
the whole way to tbe Vine street studio. I walked foie
ward, sad in two or three minutes I saw a ruffian bit a
Perfectly anoffeading man who happened to be in a crowd
of persons who were hooting the polies as a cab passed by
waistless three or four prisoners—the ride at that time wee
pettedly dear of say vehicle except a water cart sad
the Gabe sent to convey prisoners. I then preeseadl
as far as the footpath which eraser the ride at the lest emil
of the Serpent's*, when I crossed with al otbme, sad
was rudely and roughly pulled by two officers to whim I
said netting, sad, when scram, immediately placed amid?
babied the rail. At that moment some mae en horseback,
dressed in police uniform, called to his men to drive bask
all spectators who were behind the rail, when the sortie this
began, sad I noticed pollinates 370 A and 314 A make a
terrible onslaught, and with their truncheons they hit
indiscriminately every one who did not stand batik
beyond their mash, and old and young, male
or female, rich or poor, were earth and all the
subjects of their maltreatment. On coming opposite to
me, 370 said, " Stand back," and struck at me at the same
time, when 1 naturally shrunk away from the blow, sad
said." What are you doing, fellow, are Sou going to kill as
all ?" He replied, " They are my orders," and immedi-
ately came beyond the rail, and deliberately struck at MO
again, when 1 parried the blow by a slight stick which I
held midway in my land, and in so doing the point touched
the lower part of his body, when he instantly called " An
assault," and several other ruffians immediately seized and
dragged me about 100 yards along the ride, and then placed
me in a cab. A gentleman who saw the whole beseeches
followed to give bail. This was refused, and I sea
introduced to a cell where there were "drunk and MOus.
chalks," and two other park prisoners—this neenehm mei
about 10 feet long and 7 wide, with two small san=ded
like ventilators at the top and a hole in the door abed
9 inches long and 6 wide. In this pandemonium three
gentlemen (one the son of a member of parliamentq and
terse as named before, 'passed eighteen hourekArbsilwat
again refused when offered at 11 o'clock at aWilk, and ma
that late hour they would not permit a messager to infra.
our friends of our position. The horrid Menai and the fatale
table beat can neither be coaosived nor demand I
except by them who have had the safribiliMe
to have been inmates of each plasm of dense
hon. At ten o'clock on Monday morning we were
reloaded from this den, and ushered into • larger roons,where
I believe there was near 100 of us. %chiding potions's,
and where we were renamed until half-past four p.m., when
we were taken to the Mariboroaghetreet office, nod at six
o'clock my ease was called on, the result of which wee a
dismissal
Now, sir, I trouble you with this long letter in the hope
that you will, through your widely circulated columns, let
the public see bow they are treated under the demotic
sovereignty of Great Scotland-yard, and that some endea-
vour may be made by this exposure to effect a reformatioa
of our police law as now administered by Sir Richard
Mayne and Co., for it is seldom an opportunity occurs
where the sufferer from lb brutality has the power to lay
his wrongs before his countrymen, as it too freques:2
happens that when a man is capable of so doing, the
with which he has been charged places a fetter npoa bib
tongue and rec. Let me first, Mr. Editor, draw your elis
teotion to the iniiscriminate classification of prisoaen, thee'
to the else of the cell and the number of prisoners confined
tbersin, with the amount of ventilation at this season of the
year, and to add further, that a water-elicit added to the
conveniences and odour of this Calcutta black hole!
You will also be pleased to recollect that sub-
stantial bail was twist offered and refused. Is thle
in consonance with English law sad jurisprudence?
Farther, I have always understood that no prisoner can he
kept more than 24 hours without being brought before •
magistrate, to know the charge made against him. I we
281 boors. Whilst conduct such as this is pursued towards
her Majesty's liege and tax-paying subjects, let us not talk
of England's freedom, let as not speak of Russian tyres*,
—foe whilst we are boasting of the former and distoundo
the latter, let us hide oar diminhhed heads when we gal
to remembrance the battle of Hyde-park and the
"glorious Ist of July." Will my countrymen submit
tamely to these indignities Will they sane
their rights and immunities to be trampled apes,
their parks and privileges closed against that,
their lives endangered, and their liberties destroyed,
by a handful of paid myrmidons who were originally ergs%
abed to defend the lives and properties of those who pay
them ? Is there no Saxon blood now flowing in the veins
of my fellow citizens to urge the British lion to stand fur.
ward in amble cause—the cause of liberty ? Let the pub.
lic come for ward heart and soul to compel en investigation
isto the gross and wicked conduct of the police, that we may
nesertain on whom the blame rests, on whom the punish-
ment should fall. If a meeting for that purpose were celled
the response would be almost universal, and there are plenty
independent members who would gladly bring the
matter before the house. My solicitor is now getting up a
elese to prosecute two policemen for perjury, and I hope
the nubile will not let a matter drop in which all have so
marl at stake. I am, he., F. H. MAIR.
44. Chadwood street, South Belgravia, July 6.
r.s. All parsons wishing for a public meeting to delibe-
elies gym the measures to be punned in referents to this
salvage will oblige by communicating with H. 8.
N Mitchell, But., solicitor, 6, Ouildhalabembers, Basingball.
street.