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magistrate was not to be trusted, or as if the magistrates •':,„
in this court' Were not as competent to a,' with the - 4
charges as any magistrate in the Metropolis: The pres'Ent
was no trifling matter, and the dettignoranoe exhibited
that day would hardly indnee the public to give credit to
the police for having conducted themselves propirly
during the occurrences of Sunday. He *mild gree, st -
cording to his instmc'tfons, that the police had mterfcred
improperly in the case of the -boy now charged. He
would prove that what took place on the part of the
people was not calculated to create ;terror, but that it
' was owing to the insulting manner of the police, that
any violence or 'disorder took place. No magistrate was
ever
placed in a more
,important position than the magis-
trate he was then addressipg was at that moment.
A great national calatnity had occurred, owing to the
imProPer exercise of authority. It would be wise if
those in power profited by what had occurred and put
an end to discontent by concession. The masses re-
quired indulgence, the masses-underwent great sacrifices
and-great- hardships, and the least Government could
do was to make allowances for excitement, and not to
oppress them by interfering with their pleasures and
comforts. The struggles and the disorder that had oc-
curred were solely "vine; to the stupidity of those who
wished to interfere with the poor man's enjoyments. He
was anxious for the well-being of the people, and that
outrages. should not occur, and he therefore asked the
favourable attention of the Court to the cases about to
be brought before it. There was hardly a person in
Hyde Park on Sunday who had not either a friend or a
relation shedding his blood elsewhere for their country.
It ought to be the duty of those in station and autho-
rity to conciliate that class, for it was by that class the
country was principally protected ancimaintained. The
present. was, not a time to make that class believe that
the upper classes, for whom they suffered so much,
-were-their-enemies. Ha wished those who assembled in ,
Hyde-park to understand clearly that neither the middle
nor the upper classes were parties to the injuries inflicts d
on them. He believed in the upper ranks of society
there was but one opinion entertained of the folly and
the scandal of the proceedings that had called forth the
recent public demonstrations. He hoped the offence
that had occurred would be leniently dealt with. He
hoped the youth at the bar would not be subjected to
fine, or sent home to his friends and family disgraced.
He hoped the Court would, by its wi,e decision, let the
people know that the law would be dispensed leniently
and in a spirit of conciliation. The public peace would
be kept unbroken, nal it would then be for our
' rulers to see the expediency of withdrawing the ob-
noxious bill. Let the people feel that the poor man's
errors were dealt with leniently and kindly, aid he
therefore addressed the magistrate on the bench
—one of the oldest magistrates—a Magistrate whont
he had known for year and respected—he might
-even use a warmer term—and whose opinions on
this matter he believed he knew—with the view of call-
ing his attention to the importance of so administering
the law that it should have a good effect not only on
the defendants, but on the country.
Mr. Hardwick said, he would adjourn his decision
until more of the evidence was brought before him. If
the case was a mere isolated case of stone-throwing, he
should not be disposed to deal with it otherwise than
leniently ; but, if it turned out that the case was of a
riotous character, it would require severe treatment.
Mr. Clarkson said he was instructed by Mr. Reynolds,
on the part of the Government, to say that all persons
who had not been engaged in committing an act of vio-
lence, and now, in custody, might be set at liberty.
Mr. Ballantine thought that all parties might be re-
leased on their own recognisance to appear on a future
day.

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Mr. Hardwick could not agree to that.
Mr. Fiancis Henry Mair was then put to the bar.
From the evidence of A 370, it appeared'that Mr.
Mair was close to the railings at a time when the police
were-ordered to clear the people from them ; that Mr.
Mair called out to the people not to go back ; that wit-
ness told him he was obeying orders ; that Mr. Mair
replied " - your orders, I shall not go back ;" that
a crowd was collecting about them, that he went round
the railings to take Mr. Mair into custody ; that Mr.
Mair put up his stick, that he struck the stick down,
that be received a pieth from the stick, that he took Mr.
Mair into custody, and that Mr. Mair said to him he
was sorry for having assaulted him, as he did not mean
to do so. ad not strike Mr. Mair with his truncheon.
Constable A 337, heard Mr. Nair say he did not like
to be mixed up with such a lot of " roughs," and that
he was sorry he had assaulted Zbe police. The defendant
raid that on Sunday, and repeated it to-day. .
Mr. Bailaatine said, the defendant was a highly
respectable gentleman, a clerical agent, and editor
of a periodical. He was elderly aid &ling, and
bad been treated with great brutality by the police.
He should prove that the police rushed among
the people with their truncheons, striking old
and young, men, women, and children. He should,
after the evidence, ask the Court to dismiss the charge,
jau7lry.to place the can4ablee making it at the bar for per.

A gentleman named Bruce said he saw the defendant
dragged away by several policemen. The defendant was
doing nothing, and he believed saying nothing, though
he was too far off to hear the defendant had he spoken.
The police acted with the greatest brutality, sparing
neither man, woman, nor child. Did not see the de-
fendant commit any assault. The defendant only held
up his stick to guard himself from blows.
Mr. Hay thought the police behaved very roughly.
The defendant denied the assault and the admission of
the.assault to the police.
Mr. Hardwick would only require the defendant to
enter into his own recognisanre.
Mr. Ballantine %idled to know if the charge against
the policeman would be taken.
Mr. Hardwick said, not then ; and, as it was past six
o'clock, adjourned the proceedings till this day.

THE EXCAVATIONS AT FOUNTAINS

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ABBEY.

It will be remembered that the excavations at Foun-
tains Abbey terminated last year, a few feet down the
north exterior wall of the nave of the church. The ope-
rations were resumed as soon as the winter of 1554 5
set in, and an exteesive staff of workmen have been
employed from November last up to the present time in
cleariug the whole of the soil (in many parts from 7
to 12 feet deep) from the north face of the base of
the Abbey, viz :—the nave, the great tower and tran-
sept, the choir, and the nine altars' chapel. This has
been one of the heaviest jobs yet accomplished. As
was anticipated very few curiosities or relics have been
discovered ; but the wonderfully fine effect gained must
be seen to be appreciated ; and visitants now gaze in
astonishment again and again on the immense im-
provement achieved, and marvel how the beautiful and
natural elope from the Abbey to the rocks has
been attained so beautiful, so natural, and so
green has that space become which was so recently
blurred with railway waggons, rails, picks, spades, and
navvy-barrows. From the face of the rocks—whence
the monks quarried the stone for the building—a quan-
tity of rubbish has also lem removed. Py order of
Lord de Grey, too, an angle of the beautiful Galilee, or
western porch of the nave, discovered in 1853-4, has
been restored. The whole of the materials were tumbled
in a heap, and so easily pat together that his lordship
con4.tered that he was fully authorised in eenter:ng on
this slight restoration. The Galilee at GAA:lies has
been a very curious an I interesting appendage to the
nave ; and the present ra,toretioe is a good samp!e of
this open recede work, which the recent excavations
lace proved has been somewhat extmsii.ely u-e iin and
about the monastery. When tl!e workmen reached the
tower it was discovered that its foundatien was on a level
two or three feet higher than that of the rest of the
church. This tower—now known as the work of Abbot
Tinhy—was in building about the year 1500 and after-
wards, and the soil that had been gradually accumu-
lating for the previous four hundred years around the
base of the abbey church, was no doubt the cause of the
Heiler level being adopted. In faking out the earth
from the east base of the Tower it was discovered that a
building of the decorated period had feralerly been at-
tached to the north face of the Norman transept. Its
width occupies nearly the sane space as the breadth o.
the tower between its buttresses ; and it has had a door
to the east. It is built of that peculiar fine limestoneh
found on the Markenield and Marker estates, and t e
springers of the gracing ribs, yet remaininge tn.a.the
angles, show that it has been of no great
the whole
that, if it has not been a low porch running
beneath the sur-
facea necessary appendage occasioned by. the great
which
breadth of the north transept, it may height
beenand
in-
crease of ehantry chapels in the period 1.. -t,
termination Of the tran-
sept eorfecttheed.
TeAwerlitfitloe
against the outside wall
orexwamouilndatitohnrow more light on
show whether Mr Sharpe's
the subject, and also
sceopntjeicstourreids
notpla
of the north end of the Chapel of the Nine Altars were
no doubt, to the side aisles of the
several fine centarceoosiTefotfchtge.rNoiPn:lnniage-aen.rdib-s,of the Early-English
laced
period, most of them cut in the grey marble of Nidder-
" all in a row," ready for re-
moval, which some now unknown occurrence had pre-
vented. In turning up the soil in the course of the ex-
edhaelei,nandThbeeylonwgeirneg,p
cavations several fragments of sculptured caps., bits of
window mullions, scraps of shafts, and other moulded
stones were found. Some bad been thrown away on
account of being broke or spoilt whilst cutting ; and
some had belonged to portions of the building that had
been pulled down to make way for more fashionable
styles or necessary alterations. There were some bits
that had unquestionably belonged to the older gables of
the nine-altar chapels, now occupied by Abbot Darntou's
inserted perpendicular windows. There are also some
fragments of the Norman period very curious, and al-
most unique. In concluding this short notice of the
year's excavations at Fountains, we cannot too highly
praise the great liberality and spirit of the noble pro-
prietor, or the skill and energy displayed by his lord-
ship's agents in fully carrying out his wishes and instruc-
tions. The ignorant clods of the valley that daily pass
the remains of this great work of great souls long since
called to their final reward, and see "nowt bud an awd
Habba'," may be'insensihle to the improvements created
before their eyes, and acknowledge nothing but the visible
and tangible benefit that arises from the extensive employ-
ment of labour; but there are hundreds of gallant
hearts and gentle and refined spirits who will read this
inadequate account with eager interest—many now far
away in the powder-scorched and blood-stained fields of
the Crimea ; many in happy homes in the great forests
and by the giant streams of the far-we,‘A ; in the golden-
etrewed land of Australia ; amidst the burning sands of
Egypt ; under the waving palms and in the beauteous
climes of the islands of the sea—many, we say, to whom
the remembrance of a sight of the "mighty carcase of
`'Fountains," "standing on its little green," is a pleasant,
and a holy, and an ever•cheriehed picture,

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