The Sun.
London, England, 1855-07-23 00:00:00

NEW WRIT.

On the motion of Mr. HAYTER, a new writ was
ordered for Southwark, in the loom of Sir W. N °les-
worth, appointed Secrete,...), of State for the Coloni !g.
NUISANCES REMOVAL AMENDMENT BILL.

supported the motion, the amendment was negatived,
and the clause was ordered to stand part of the bill.
Clauses 28 to 36 were agreed to withc opposition,
ROYAL ASSENT.

At this stage of the proceedings, the Deputy Uslwr
of the Black Rod (Sir Augustus Clifford) summoned the
Speaker and the House to the House of Peers to hear
the Royal Assent given to several bills.
It being four o'clock the house then adjourned until
six.

The SPEAKER took the chair at six o'clock.
NEW WRIT.

Mr. HAYTER moved that the Clerk •of the Crown
issue a new writ for the election of a member for Mary-
lebone, in the room of Sir B. Hall, who Lad accepted
the office of Chief Commissioner of Works.
[LEFT SITTING.]

ME LATE DISTURBANCES IN HYDE-

PARK.

INQUIRY INTO THE ALLEGED MISCONDUCT
OF THE POLICE (THIS DA' Y).
The Commissioners resumed their sittings this morn-
ing at the Court of Exchequer shortly after 11 o'clock.
The Chief Commissioner inquired of Mr. Mitchell if
there were many persons remaining who wished to lay
their complaints before the Commissioners ?
Mr. Mitchell said yes ; he had the names: of 15. He
was anxious to close the inquiry as soon AS possible.
The Chief Commissioner said the Comini ssioners had
no desire to throw any impediment in the way of per-
sons wishing to lay their statements before them, but it
would be desirable as much as possible not to go over
the same ground.
The first witness called W 2 S
Thomas Hawson, boot-maker, 36, WHO -street, Lin-
coln's-inn-fields, who saw a stone thrown :a a police-
man, and heard the people express indigmatinn at such
conduct. He saw several attacks of the police on the
people after that, and in •ne of them a fee n.ale severely
struck on the wrist by a policeman's trunchi seen. Witness
went forward to take his number, but ei 'as prevented
doing so from the policeman thrusting his t runcheon in
witness's chest ; he saw one man attacked b y five or six
policemen, who beat him with their staves. From the
manner in which the mounted police acted, he thought
it useless to take the policemen's numbers. Considering
the former who ought to answer for any im ,proper con-
duct, he noticed particularly one of the mou 'sited police,
who appeared to have more of the "animal' than "in-
tellectual". about- him ; he was a stout ma n, with (he
thought), sandy whiskers ; he went to the par k to join in
the demonstratiOn against the Sunday Tradi rag Bill.
Chief Commissioner Wortley—To preve: et carriages
from driving there ?
Witness—No • but merely to show his die like against
the Sunday Trading Bill, considering it as on e of a series
of measures that would ultimately place the poor work-
ing
man in an unpleasant position.
Chief Commissioner Wortley—What was the demon-
stration to be ?
Witness said he belonged to no society, a rid had con-
sulted no one about going there ; seeing Sir Richard
Mayne's notice, he determined on going the! 7e.
Chief Commissioner Wortley—What did y •ou consider
the demonstration to be ?
Witness—Merely to be there.
Mr. Commissioner Armstrong—Merely to show your-
self as being opposed to the bill. •
Witness—Yes. This was the first Sun day he had
been in the park for years.
Mr. Augustus Wallace, hosier sad gloss 268, Ox-
ford-street, and 34, George's-place, Knights! 'ridge. He
was in the park, and noticed the peaceable order of the
crowd at the early period of the afternoon s. He saw
several policemen attack a man, and a stone , of about an
inch and half diameter thrown at them. B:e saw about
150 " roughs " in different parts of the pi I,rk. It was
principally tradesmen who were driving in carriages in
the park that afternoon. He noticed ap' iliceman be-
having with moderation, and heard him en y "it was a
pity the inspector gave them such orders "-- -meaning to
charge the people. Had the police bebavec lin a proper
manner he felt assured the majority of thos E i in the park
would have rendered them assistance hacl there been
need of it.
Mr. Bailey, sculptor, 7, Conduit-place, :i Paddington,
was in the park. He spoke of the imprope r conduct of
Superintendent Hughes in backing his h orse on the
people, and the manner in which he gave I i is orders to
the men. Witness saw several policemen i ihrust their
staves at the stomachs of several respecta I 'le females.
He saw many attacks on the people by the , police, and
one man who had received a blow over the r ear. Re-
monstrances appeared rather to come from I )ersons who
thought their position warranted them givin g . an opinion
than from working men; they behaved exec plary. Ha
heard expressions as he passed groups of pers ons condem-
natory of the Sunday bill.
Mr. George Payne, cabinetmaker, 3, C r•avan-place,
Paddington. He heard Superintendent I i':ughes give
orders to the men to clear the water side of the
drive. Immediately from thirty to ft »7ty police-
men rushed in the direction indicai td, using
their truncheons rapidly and indiscriminatel3- Witness
saw four elegantly-dressed ladies with childrt n rush into
the water to avoid being struck. He saw an elderly
gentleman who had been struck on the left, side of the
head. He was much struck at the brutal t conduct of
several policeman to a youth about 16 years , of age they
were taking in custody to the receiving-ho use. Two
policemen bad hold of him by the collar, with their
knuckles on each side of his neck, causing the lad much
pain, who, wreathing from agony, held back. On that
another policeman came up behind him, strsseek him a
violent blow on the head, and thrust his has id into the
boy's neck, and pushed him on. A gentlema.re who was
near cried "Shame," and Superintendent M artin told
him he was inciting the people to c ommit a
breach of the peace, and gave instructions sto. a parti-
cular policeman that, "if that fellow (an caning the
gentleman alluded to) opened his mouth again to take
him off." The gentleman, not wishing to come into
contact with the police, moved off. 354 A, rov 554 A,
he could not say which (but could identify the wan), ap-
peared to take particular delight in carrying out the
orders of his superior, and presented a marked contrast
to that of a policeman beside him, who co oily asked
the people to retire. The conduct of the police
was such, that had he had a stick with him,
and been attacked, he should have considered himself
justified in defending himself. The inmates of the
carriages having given " poputsnr offence," politically
speaking, from an observation of a member in the House
of Commons, that the higher classes observed the Sab-
bath better than the lower, they were subject to annoy-
ance. They bad nothing to fear personally, the tongue
being the only weapon used, whi c.h, although it cut deep
enough sometimes, did not break. 'heads.
Mr. Henry Hortyn, clerk, residing at 16, Nicholl's-
square, Hackney-road, saw sever al attacks of the police.
He saw 20 A strike an old gentheman wii,h violence on
the back and chest, and who moved away with difficulty.
A. boy, about 14 years of age, as lie passed 380 A, called
out " who stole the goose", on w:hich he struck the boy
severely on the back and shoulders. The people cried
"Shame," when the police in a body charged the people.
On witness remonstrating subsitquently with 380 A on
his digusting observations, he told him " he would have
it by and bye if he did not take (tare."
Mr. MgLeowlel, wholesale glover, 25, Cannon-street,
drove twice through the park on the afternoon of
Sundae, the Ist July. He drove through at a trot,
without interruption ; he was met with cries of " Go to
church" ; he pulled up on one occasion, and told the
people be sympathised with them.
The Chief Commi-sioner—T'hen are we to understand
you went there to join in the demonstration ?
Witness—Not at all. He went there more out of
curiosity, considering the *police notice would have the
effect of attracting persons to the park. He left his
vehicle and walked along; the path way. He saw Police
constable 63 A having some words with a young man,
the former saying, "Go along, you b-- barber.' I
Witness told the policeman lie should note what
he bad heard, and report it. The police-
man made a 'motion at witness with his trim-
cheese accompanying it with an observation which
he could not hear. Witness lifted his arm to defend
himself, saying he was determined to take the police-
man's number. Some soldiers came up at the time and
said ' they would see he was not . interfered with. He
took the number and went off. Re afterwards saw Su-
perintendent Hughes order a man into custody for com-
mitting no offence. He saw stones thrown, and was
inclined to think it was done at the instigation of the
police.
Mr. Commissioner Henderson—On what grounds do
you state that ?
Witness—Simply from their extraordinary conduct in
exciting thi people, and to have a person to pounce on.
He went on Monday to Marlborough-street to give evi-
dence on the part of the people, where he was treated in
a very unbecoming manner by the policemen. He was
told by one the Court was too full!; and by another that
the Court was not sitting. He went to the door arid
knocked, but it was not opened. An officer from the
House of Detention, who was at first refused admission
to the Court, told a policeman he was far exceeding his
duty. He saw a foreigner thrown over the railing by
some policemen. He saw Lords Derby and Maidstone
on foot in the park.
Cross-examined by Mr. Ellice—'When at Marlborough-
street he also stated he wanted to make a charge against
a policeman.
Mr. John Marsh, 2, Clarence-place, Kensington, a
retired tradesman, was in the park. He was much
excited at the conduct of the police in attacking men.
He saw a man in the custody of four policemen taken
along the road and a policeman leave his station run
ever and strike him three times on the bead with his
staff, and then walk off smiling. He particularly noticed
the misconduct of 155 A,
Mr. John Staples, law stationer, Lincoln's-inn-fields—
He detailed the unnecessary violence of the police to-
wards young men they had in custody. The police were
ordering the people to wa'k on in a very improper man-
ner, particularly witness. On his remonstrating, and
stating he was walking on as fast as he could, 376 A
held up his truncheon over his head, saying, "Do
You want your hat spoilt." The people cried "Shame"
at the conduct a the police, and the tone and ina,aner
in which be and others were directed to walk on were
more fitted for a gang of convicts than respectable
people. There was no intention on the part of any per-
-800 he saw to cause annoyance to the police. His lin-
presseon at the time was—in contrast with their previous
conduct—that the police must have been acting under
some particular orders.
Mr. William Sraith, fruiterer, 1, Prospect-place,
Kingsland, was in the park from three to eight o clock.
He saw a policeman strike an elderly gentleman
across the loins a violent blow. The gentleman appeared

On the orderof the day for the thiri reading or the
above bill, some discussion took placa on prop -mod
amendments in vrr:ous clauses that bad been postponed
in committee on the bill.

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On clause 45 being put as amended,
Mr. CHILDS moved a 3 an amendment to insert a.
proviso that the operation o: the clause should not inte riere
with the efficient working (3° trades, or be extended to
mines, or the smelting o' ores and minerals.
After some cons:Cerable discussion. in which Mr.
Henley, Lord R. Grosvenor, Mr. Dillwyn,
Muntz, and several other memberi took part,
The house divided, when there appeared_
For the proviso 35
Against it ..................
Majority for the proviso ..... .
The proviso was then added ti the bill, which was
read a third time and passed.
METROPOLITAN BUILDINGS BILL.
The house then went into committee on this bill, for
the purpose of considering the schedules.
After some short discussion the schedules, with some
verbal amendments, were agreed to, and the bill was
ordered to be reported.
PASSENGERS ACT AMENDMENT BILL.

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The house then went into committee on this bill.
Mss 18 to 26 were agreed to without opposition.
On clause 27, having reference to life-boats,
Capt. 800B-ELL proposed that instead of leaNieg a
vessel to choose her own I:fe-boat, that it be left to the
Admiralty to select a perfectly adapted boat for that
purpose, and that the Admiralty be also empowerf d to
order a second life-boat in vessels of large tonna, e, if
such should be considered advisable. The hon. and
gallant gentleman recommended for adoption the in ven-
tion of the Rev. Mr. Bartharn, a model of which wa:i
Libited in the -United Service'Musenm.
Mr. J. BALL thought it was rather premature to
make such a provision as that suggested by the hon. and
gallant member, inasmuch as the naval authorities of the
country had not yet come to adecision upon the l oint
in regard to troop ships,
in which most valuable ives
were usually embarked. He should imagine that :ship-
owners, as a matter of self-interest, would take ca! e to
provide
the best means of security in case of ehipwx eck,
Captain SCOBELL having replied, insisting ;hat
there was great responsibility resting upon the autliori-
ties to take every precaut:on in case of accident, and
that that object could be best attained by the meaiare
he advocated,
%nag further discussion took place in eppositio a to
the amendment of the hon. and gallant member forl3ath
(Captain Scobeli.)
Captain SCOBELL withdrew his amendment ; and
afterwards moved,aa a further amendment on the
that " every passenger ship carrying 50 persons awl up-
wards shall be provided avth one or more life rafts, or
buoyant contrivances, bapible of floating at least one-
tenth part of the passengers and crew the gad
such raft o.• contrivance trille:of the pattern or descrip-
tion approved of by the Board of Admiralty from time
to time.
After some discussion, is which Admiral WALCOTT

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY E'V'EN !Nom, JULY 23, 1855

Captain Tindal, many years manager of the Birming-
ham Branch of the Bank of England, is appointed
n. an Coe branch which, the same bank is about to

open a'

,•ost-c

DEPARTUE.E OF DEA FTS FOR, iII.CDkA. 11 Satur-
day morning, several drafts, amounting to 4DO young
men, from the 53d, 27th, 61st, and 32d Regiments, left
Chatham for Gravesend, to embark on board the ships
Marion and Bristol Merchant for their respective regi-
ments in India. Amongst the officers were Captains
Greig. 61st, Sutherland 53d, Phillipps, first battalion
60th Rifles, Lieut. Drew, 75th, for Bombay and Kur..
rachee.

ROBBERY OF Two HUNDRED POUNDS FIIOM THE
LIVERPOOL EXCHANGE.—A young man named Andrew
Moreland was on Saturday committed for trial at Liver-
pool on a charge of stealing two 1001. notes from a desk
in the exchange, where they bad been left for a few
minutes. The prisoner had got them exchanged by an
emigration agent, stating that he had received the notes
:rotn his friends in Belfast.
A letter from Berlin, in the Cablentz Gazette, says
"The King has expressed a desire to visit the Rhenish
province, after a stay of about a fortnight at E rdmanns-
dorff, but that step will depend entirely on the, state o
his health. Should he go, he will not be accompanied
by the Queen, but by the Prince of Prussia, a s soon as
his Royal Highness shall have returned from S t. Peters-
burg*"
PRISONERS TRIED AT ASSIZES.—A return obtained
by Mr. Cowper, M.P., shows that the total a umber of
prisoners tried at the amines of England and W ales from
1850 to 1855 (including a space of five years), was as
follows :--viz., on the Home Circuit, 2,501 (including
the prisoners tried before commissioners not judges) ;
on the Midland Circuit, 2,740 ; on the Norfolk Circuit,
2,093 ; on the Northern Circuit, 2,235 ; on the Oxford
Circuit, 4,223 ; on the Western Circuit, 3,493 ; and on
the South Wales and Chester Circuit, 975.
ATTEMPTED MURDER.—A man named Dunn, a cabi-
net-maker, is lying at the University College Hospital,
dangerously wounded, having been stabbed, on Satur-
day night last, by a young woman, named Emilia Curtis,
residing with her parents at 25, Phoenix-street. About a
twelvemonth ago Dunn induced Emma Curtin to leave
her home and to live with him as his wife. Suh;equently
he formed an acquaintance with a woman nam ed Gates,
with whose parents he went to live, and Curtis. returned
to her parents, but latterly they have met al a house,
No. 10, Placenix-place, Somers-town. They were all
talking together, when Dunn applied some opprobrious
terms to Curtis, who, in a fit of fury, seized a clasp-
knife, resembling a stiletto, and aimed a deadly blow at
his heart, inflicting a very severe wound.
FATAL ACOIDENT.—Mr. Dearden held an inquest on
Monday at Bury, on the body of John Thomas Yates,
of Wash Lane, Bury, a boy of 13, who was employed as
a doffer at the Brickhouee Mill of Messrs. Lawrence
Openshaw and Sons. While engaged in carrying some
bobbins to a woman who was winding he passed over
a horizontal shaft, fourteen inches from the floor, and
the torg portion of his trousers was caught by the shaft,
and heiwas thus dragged under and over the shalt re-
peatedly, his head coming in contact with the floor, in-
flicting dreadful injuries, which resulted in his imme-
diate death. No doubt was entertained respecting the
cause of death, and the chief point for inquiry was to
ascertain whether the accident was the result of culpable
and wilful neglect in not having the machinery properly
fenced off. The jury returned a verdict of " Accidental
death."

MORE MATERIAL ITOR THE BALAKLAVA RAILWAY.--
Another instance of the promptitude and celerity with
which private firms carry out their undertaking has just
presented itself. On Tuesday instructions were for-
warded to Messrs. Peto, Brassey, and Betts, from the
War-office, requesting them to take the necessary mea-
sures for hiring a steam-vessel to convey to the Crimea
130 railway waggons, 40 drivers, 10 shoeing smiths, and
a supply of iron for shoes, the want of which has been
much felt. The North uf. Europe Steam Navigation
Company's steam-ship Leipzig, of 700 tons, and 250-
horse power, was hired for the voyage, and on Saturday
was at Blackwail, with all her berths ready, and her
coals on board. The work of loading commenced imme-
diately, and on Saturday next she will sail. The men
who go out in the Leipzig are not to be confounded with
the navvy corps engaged by Sir J. Paxton for service in
the trenches before Sebastopol. These latter are in.
tended to relieve the army of some of its labours, and
will consequently be exposed, in common with it, to all
the risks of the siege, while the men sent out by Messrs.
Peto, Brassey, and Betts, are engaged for the purposes
of the railway alone.
CONFESSION OF THE ROTHWELL MIINDERER.—We are
authorised to state that Isaac Pinnock has made a full
and unreserved confession of his guilt, acknowledging
himseif the murderer of the unfortunate Mr. B. Cheney.
The particulars of the confession have not been handed to
us, but we are assured generally that Pinnock admits the

correctness of the evidence adduced upon his trial. He has
also informed the officers of the prison where he concealed
the money which he took from the pockets of Mr. Cheney,
and the suns has since been found on the spot indicated.
He further states that, on the Friday previous to the
day of fee murder, he waited at the stile for the deceased
with the intention (prompted by revenge) of murdering
him, but that he fell asleep, and when Le awoke, think-
ing Mr, Cheney must have passed, he got up and went
home. He returned to the spot, however, on the fol-
lowing Friday, and executed his fatalpurpose. A know-
ledge of these facts cannot but be extremely satisfactory
to the jury that tried the wretched man, and the judge
who awarded him the penalty of his fearful crime. They
would seem, too, to furnish a sufficient answer to those
, who would seek to shield the convict from the full con-
sequence of his act under the plea of impaired intellect.
He is proved to have been capable of harbouring re-
venge, of planning, waiting, and watching for its execu-
tion, and of concealing the evidence of his guilt. Not-
withstanding his deformity, and his apparent helpless-
' ness, no one who saw him in court could doubt his
sanitr for a moment, and his conduct since his condem-
nation has, we have reason to know, been that of a sane
pers: me—Northampton Herald.
DISTRUCTION OF AN EriEmetva—The large elephant
(120 years of age), late the property of Mr. Wombwell,
beingincapacle of locomotion from diseased feet, the
preseit proprietor gave directions for its destruction in
the ereiest manner possible. Accordingly, Mr. E. Price,
veterinary surgeon, and Mr. Flewitt, chemist, of Bir-
minghun, on Friday last, proceeded to carry his wishes
into elect. In 10 minutes, from the application of chlo-
roform, the animal became totally insensible. Prussic
acid was then administered without effect, and two
large does of strychnine, without producing any per-
ceptiblefeeling of pain. Not succeeding in these en-
deavouee, a continuous application of chloroform was
made, is the hope that the animal might sink under it ;
but after three hours' perseverance in this course, no
difference of respiration being observed, the administra-
tion wag stopped, and in one hour and a half all effects
of it had passed away. The only known means of de-
struction left were the knife anal the bullet. The latter
was first tried (the animal again being chloroformed),
and wounded a branch of the carotid artery, from which
blood flowed in a tolerably sized jet. The opening was
then enlar!ed by a knife, and the artery fully divided.
In a few minutes the huge animal ceased to live, having
died without a straggle, or evidencing the slightest feel-
ing of pain.
T„ Near G.C.B —We find the United Service
Gazette asserting distinctly that Admiral Sir Charles
Napier, being summoned to Court to be installed as a
Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath, declined the dis-
tinction. The reason attributed to him, as given very
unreservedly to his friends, is this :—" I have been cen-
sured and degraded, and have been denied the oppor-
tunity of clearing my reputa.tion. Yet now lam offered
a G.C.8." We believe that we should look in vain for
any precedent of such a slur cast upon the value of
British orders of knighthood, especially by a member of
the martial calling, to whom the Sovereign's favour, ex-
pressed in such tokens of honour, is the highest of all
rewards. Yet Sir Charles Napier is unquestionably in
the right. It is not for Ministers that are on their own
trial, or rather have been themselves condemned, to
compound with those they have injured by the lavish-
ing of decorations. Admiral Deans Diindas, and even
the Del of Luca; received different degrees of this
order, so Sir Charles Napier was fully entitled to be in-
cluded in the list of honour. The names of Admiral
Boxer and Capt. Christie were published to show that
they had been intended for decoration had they sur-
vived, a method of posthumous reconciliation, an offer-
ing to Vie manes of men sacrificed to the administrative
blunders of their superiors. But Sir Charles Napier is
neither dead nor soft-hearted. He sees that the Admi-
ralty is this year taking the utmost pains to prove that
he was in no fault in the last. He begged for gun-boats
then ; they have almost with the appearance of reluc-
tance in their niggardly sloth given a few now, and
with these Admiral Napier's successor cannot get up
to the walls that baffled the displaced commander.
When Sebastopol proved too much for Lyons, Na-
pier was thoroughly absolved for not attempting
Cronstadt, the more so as he had no land force to
mate a Russian army, and no ground to land it on,
had he been so strengthened. Instead of the
cowardly trick of endeavouring to throw the blame of
failure upon him, Sir James Graham should have at once
prepared the true means of vindicating British prowess
in the Baltic. It is almost plain that rafts and mortars
would have sufficed, if early provided. But every day
will show more of the truth ; and the late First Lord's
incompetency and meanness, and Sir Charles Napier's
ill-usage at his hands, will become more decisively appa-•
rent. Sir James Graham was made a G.C.B. for the
setting forth of ships utterly useless for their express
purpose. No wonder Sir Charles Napier has no great
respect for titles which may be so achieved. And let
this, we should say, be a warning to that literary pup-
pyisui that slavers at the mouth with longing for abadge
in the new order of merit.—Weekly Dispatch,.
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