The Sun.
London, England, 1855-07-26 00:00:00

eel that set them all to work. (Laughter.) The man
taken front the Serpentine had only a pair of trousers
on when he was put into a eat, and taken off.

Mr. J. M. Parker, bookbinder, 10, Park-street, West-
minster, was in the park from half-past 3 till 4 o'c;ock.
lie went there from curiosity. He heard much noise
and clamours, and some of the people address the police
as " sanguinary crushers"- (laughter)—there was a
bitter feeling evinced against them for preserving order,
and the people refused to go back when requested.
There were a number of roughs in the Park ; the con-
duct of those he saw reminded him more of what he
had read of " Wild Indians" than "civilised beings."
(Hisses.)
Mr. Chief Commissioner Wortley, addressing the
audience, said he hoped he should hear no further ebulli-
tions of feeling of that kind.
Witness said he should not have liked to have been
in the park without the protection of the police. He
saw a number of persons exciting the mob, who he con-
sidered were foreigners from their "moustachios, cada-
veious, and seedy appearance." (Laughter).
Cross•examined by Mr. Mitchell—The respectable
cases did not appear to thii,k the conduct of the
roughs so serious as he did. They rather sympathised
with them. He saw a large flourish of policy truncheons
in the air. Wfin a large concourse f people asseinb!ed
there should be a little forbearance, both on the pat of
the people and the police. He wrote to Sir Richard
Mayne, offering to give evidence, but his memory would
not serve him as to the contents of the letter.
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Colonel Lindsay, M.P., of the Guards, was in the
crowd in Park-,itreet, oppo.ite Lord Robert Gro,venor's
house. There were about 300 or 400 persons present.
He saw three carriages pass during the time he was there.
He heard shouting, oaths, and cries of "Chuck him out,"
which latter he undergood meant Lord Robert Grosve-
nor. The crowd wa menaciog in that respect. Two
policemen were at Lord Robert Grosvenor's door, and
three or four others walking about in front mixing with
the crowd. Afterwards a large body of police came up,
five abrtast, followed by a small crowd. Just beyond
Reeve's-mews the crowd received the police with yells
and groans, on which a person in authority desired a
rank of men to face about and charge the people behind
them, which was done, the others charging those in the
front at the same time. He did nut hear the police re-
quest the people to move off before charging them.
The police struck half a dozen of the foremost people on
the arm and shoulder. Some time after he sjtw a man
walking up the greet with blood on his face. It was
decidedly prudent the crowd should be dispersed. At
the time the police came up they were received with
groans and yells. They were surrounded on three sides
by the crowd.
By the Chief Commissioner—There were no sticks or
stones thrown to indicate alarm.

By Mr. Commissioner Henderson—lt might have been
alarming to the inmates of Lord Robert Grosvenor's
house. It would have been decidedly injudicious for
Lord Robert Grosvenor to have gone amongst the crowd.
It might have been dangerous had he done so.
Mr. George Weller, beer retailer, East-lane, Wal-
worth, deposed to the hooting and yelling in the park,
and Superintendent Hughes being struck by a clod of
mud thrown at him, accompanied with coarse expres-
sions ; the police used no violence whatever in clearing
the drive ; they had a great deal to bear that day, and
he considered they exercised great forbearance.
Cross-examined by Mr. Mitchell— He heard " epi-
taphs" applied to the police—(laughter)—such as " Who
stole the rabbit pie ?" alluding to a policeman who had
been in trouble about a rabbit pie. (Renewed laughter.)
Witness was in favour of the Sunday Beer Bill.
Watkyn Williams, barrister, King's Bench
Walk, was in the Park a`•out two hours, oti the north
side of the drive, near the Serpentine. . The police were
unable to keep the line, from men breaking through
without any apparent object. He saw some woAen
hurdles in the Park wilfully broken or three occasions by
young men. He became alarmed from seeing women
thrown down and the crowd in an excited state, anti he
moved away. The impression on his mind at the time
he saw the hurdles broken was that it was a wanton act,
and not for the purpose of arming themselves. He
thought the crowd more or less orderly. There was a
great deal of hooting. He was particularly struck with
the forbearance of several young policemen. He saw no
violence on the part of the police. He noticed an elderly
man, who was making sarcastic observations on the Go-
vernment, distributing drink he had in a bottle to some
persons near him.
The committee then adjourned till 11 o'clock this
day, when the police spoken of were brought up to be
identified.