The Sun.
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THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY E' ING, OCTOBER 3l 1855

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intending to steal the watch. The fact is, the prosecu-
tor thought he had money, and could impose upon him,
consequently, when he got hold of the watch, he called
the constable, so that his imposition should be exposed.
His worship would see that the watch was block tin,
washed lightly over with silver, and of the coarsest
make. It might have done for a drunken man.
Police-constable 462 said he was on duty in Duke-
street, last evening, when the prisoner called him over to
the door of the public-house, and handed him the watch,
saying that the prosecutor attempted to sell it him, but
believing it was a " duffer" he would not buy it. The
prosecutor then said that he should give the prisoner
into custody for stealing his watch, and he then took
him to the station-house.

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The prisoner said that the prosecutor actually followed
him up after he had said he would give him 203. for it,
but on looking at it he saw it was a " duffer " and he
gave it him back. He, however, handed the watch again
to him (prisoner) and said he would take 15F. for it,
when he called over a constable and gave him the watch.
The prosecutor then gave him into custody for steal-

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SPAIN.

ing it.

The Madrid journals of the 25th have reached
us. The Queen had received M. Olozaga. New
assemblages of workmen had taken place, but though
some men appeared in them in arms, and endea-
voured to excite disturbances, they after a while
peacefully dispersed. A number of men also assem-
bled at the Ministry of Public Works, but the Mi-
nister caused their leaders to be brought to him,
and he told them where work might be obtained.
On that, the greater part of the men went in bands
of 30 or 40 to the places indicated. Placards were
afterwards posted up, informing workmen that they
might obtain work in various specified places. A
committee of the Cortes on the bill for the establish-
ment of banks of issue had struck out all the
clauses relative to the Bank of San Fernando, but
had adopted the others which provide for the esta,
blishment of similar banks in places where they
may be needed. The Gazette states that an en-
gineer of Rio Santo, having remarked that the cho-
lera never visits manufactories and workshops in
which sulphur is employed, has suggested that the
smell of it may be a preservative against the malady.
A letter of the 26th, received in advance of the re-
gular mail, says :

Mr. A'Beckett, to the prosecutor—How much is this
watch worth/

Prosecutor—About ten or fifteen shillings, sir. I,
however, would have sold it for the latter sum.
Mr. A'Beckett, after examining the watch, said under
the circumstances, which looked rather strange on the
prosecutor's part, he did not think any jury would con-
vict if he sent the prisoner for trial. He should there-
fore discharge him with a caution to have nothing more
to do with public-house hawkers.

"In the Cortex, yesterday, the bill authorising the
company for the canalisation of the Ebro to wise a loan
was adopted without discussion, and the debate on the
bill relative to substitutes for the army was resumed.
The attendance of deputies was not numerous. The
Committee on the Budget has accepted the plans of the
Minister of Finance. The last return of the sales of
national and ecclesiastical property shows that the
number of estates sold was 2,079, and that they rea-
lised 40,680,828 reals, or 19,670,772 reals more than
the upset price fixed by the government agents. Va-
rious bills for regulating the liberty of the press have
been presented to the Cortes ; and they all propose
that offences, except those of libel, shall be tried by a
jury. The cholera is sensibly declining. The Naciom,
a ministerial journal, referring to an assertion in an op-
position paper, declares that the Spanish Government
is on the most cordial terms with that of France.
The last news from Porto Rico are satisfactory; seven
artillerymen who had taken part in the last military in-
surrection had been shot."

THE MURDER OF MISS BINDS.

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The quarter sessions for the Belturbet division of
th county Cavan was opened at Bailyconnell ore
Thursday, by Mr. P. M. Murphy, the Chairman.
The court was unusually crowded. The learned
gentleman addressed the grand jury as follows :
,‘ Mr. Foreman and Gentlemen of the Grand Jury,—
I deeply regret I am unable to repeat on this occasion
those congratulations on the peaceable condition of the
district which I have had so much pleasure in address.-
ing to you for a considerable time back. I regret it the
more because there is but one solitary case for your in-
vestigation during these sessions ; this, however, only
proves what experience has long taught us, namely,
how fallacious a criterion the calendar, either at sessions
or assizes, affords of the condition of society. which I
exists among us ; and how strikingly exemplified has I
this observation been by the appalling event which has
taken place ! It is a matter of notoriety that some
years back this part of the country was in a fearful
state of disorganisation, arising, as we all know, from
the secret proceedings of an illegal confederacy but
too well and too familiarly known as the Riband
Society. However, from the almost complete disap-
pearance of those crimes usually denominated agrarian
outrages, in common with yourselves I had shared
the hope that a sound state of society had been perma-
nently established. Is it permitted us still to indulge
those pleasing hopes, or must we join in the apprehen-
sions of those who tell us that under this smooth and ,
tranquil surface there still runs that treacherous under-
current which bears along in its poisonous course the
seeds of crime, of desolation, and death ? God forbid
that by any word of mine I should prejudge a case which
may yet, I trust, undergo a solemn judicial inveitiga-
tion ; nay, so far, indeed, from doing so, I would fain
hope that this surpassing crime, which has just affrighted
the heart of every man in the community, is an isolated
case, and has no connection with a more extended com-

bination. But if, indeed, the fears of many should prove
to be true, and the dreadful crime is symptomatic of a
return to those evil days to which I have adverted, then
should I say, Woe betide this unhappy and devoted
district.' I have already said I shall abstain from allu-
sion to the circumstances of this case ; but hiving bad
a long experience, both at the bar and on the bench, of
the disastrous consequences springing from those illegal
confederacies, I can speak with something like authority
on this subject ; and, therefore, I think it not out of
place on this occasion to raise my warning voice, and
to supplicate every man whom my words may reach
to consider deliberately the character, the objects,
and consequences of this Riband confederacy. In-
quire, then, in the first instance, of any man, the
oldest and the most experienced in the community,
if he can point out one single benefit arising to any
human being from this association. Now, let this
question be fairly considered and canvassed in a candid
spirit, and I pledge my experience there will be but one
answer, and it is this—that misery, and misery alone,
has been the result. Let us next examine the object of
these associations. That object is clearly this—by the
influence of terror and intimidation to establish an au-

thority paramount to the law of the land, and, through
the instrumentality of this machinery, to deter men from
prosecuting their rights, whether for the recovery of
lands or rents, or the execution of any legal process in
connection therewith. This I conceive to be a succinct
but perfectly accurate description of their objects. Now,
suppose for a moment that these confederacies had even
a temporary euccess ; is it to be believed that soy man
having the power to cast his fortunes in any part of the
world out of Ireland would remain among us ? What,
them, would be the inevitable result? Why, that all the
evils of absenteeism which are so generally deplored
would be aggravated tenfold ; rents would be collected—
of course they would—by the agents of absentees, and
enforced with increased vigour ; all avenues and ap-
proaches to the proprietor would be shut up, he would be
far away in a distant land, while the poor cultivator,
bound down by necessity to the soil, would be compelled
to struggle on in adversity and distress, unregarded and
unpitied ; and to complete the picture of this misery,
in no respect overdrawn, all these calamities would fall
indiscriminately on the innocent as well as the guilty.
Now, mark well, this is the result of the Ribandman's
success—his complete success. Let us now turn to
the consequences of his failure. He has brought
down the vengeance of the law upon his district ; he
has stimulated the activity of every magistrate and
policeman around him ; he has compelled the Govern-
ment to put forth all the terrors of the law, and, if these
are found insufficient, he has induced the Parliament to
forge now fetters for the Irish peasant. He it is who
has revived the Coercion Acts, the Arms Acts, the In-
surrection Acts, the Whitoboy Acts ; in fact, he it is
that has drawn forth the sward that has long remained
rusty in the scabbard, to fall upon the devoted heads of
his countrymen. Then, let him count the gains. He
has turned the heart of the landlord against the tenant,
of the tenant against the landlord ; the kind and affec-
tionate regard he has converted into the averted look of
mutual distrust, and then, perhaps, he terminates his
guilty career by becoming the informer against those
very associates in crime whom he first seduced and after-
wards betrayed. Is this an exaggerated picture, or is
it the experience of every man among us S Trace the
career and progress of the youthful Irish peasant who
has been seduced into these illegal associations, and is
met, perhaps, at some gathering or dance by some
artful knave, who, at the very moment the unconscious
boy consents to take the unlawful oath, is gloating over
the price he will receive for his betrayal. How many
and many an artless lad has thus been inveigled !
His youthful vanity is first flattered by being enrolled,'
is Ribandnion call it, in this association. His young
heart would then have recoiled at the bare con-
templation of murder, but soon, through the vile
companionship of wicked and dissclute associate",
ho becomes familiar with crime, the barriers of vir-
tue aro broken down, and, step by step, he descends in
tie paths of guilt. He is afraid either to advance or
retie(' ; he is oppressed with terror at every step he
hears, and at length he terminates a wretched existence
either by the hands of the hangman or the assassin.
Who, then, that has a heart to feel, or a Olive to give
the feeling utterance, will not join me in imploring all
men to unite in crushing in the bud the reviving efforts
of this hell-born confederacy ? Away with all recreant
fear, and, still more, all guilty connivance. Ido not
appeal to those higher sanctions which, I doubt not,
have been, and will continue to be, inculcated upon the
hearts of the people by their spiritual instructors. They
will tell them, no doubt, that from the day of the first
murderer the wrath of the offended God has ever pur-
sued the footsteps of the assassin. I purposely abstain
from alluding to the circumstances connected with the
outrage upon the hapless lady who now lies almost in
view of •this court a lifeless corpse. The sad story of
Charlotte Hinds has reached every corner of the earth.
She, poor mangled and mutilated victim, has just been
released from the indescribable agonies of her seven
deadly wounds ; her bruised spirit has been summoned
before that dread tribunal where one day assuredly she
will be confronted face to face with her ruthless mur-
derers. There is, however, one caution which I desire
to circulate far and wide, it is this—that every man
or woman who harbours or conceals, or assists in
any way whatever in the escape of the murderers,
does, in fact, by so doing become an accessory to the fact,
or, in more intelligible language, an actual party to the
murder ; and I have reason to know that the Govern-
ment is intent on hunting out and punishing to the ex-
tremity of the law any man who harbours or conceals
the assassin. Let every man, therefore, use his best
exertions to bring those wretches to justice. In this
way, and this only, can you wipe away the stain which
has been cast upon this district, by the perpetration of
an outrage which, I will say, amid all the dark and dis-
mal records of Irish crime, stands forth without a
parallel."
This address was listened to with breathless
silence, and produced a profound sensation. At
the conclusion of its delivery the grand jury and
magistrates presented an address to the learned
Chairman, and requested a copy of his charge, as
they considered its publication would be attended
with the most lacneficial results. The interest of
the proceedings was heightened by the fact that
during the delivery of the learned Chairman's charge
the coroner was holding his inquest in the imme-
diate neighbourhood on the remains of the unfor-
tunate Charlotte Hinds.

BATn THEATRE.—The performances at this establish-
ment, both on Saturday and Wednesday, were well at-
tended. On the first-named night, after the drama of
Susan Repley, which seems to retain its full amount or,
interest with a large class of "the patrons of the stage
in this city, there was presented a military spectacle
ien-
titled the Fall of Sebastopol. With the characteristic
energy which distinguishes the management, Mr. Chute,
no doubt, contemplated an amusement which should
satisfy the cravings of the public appetite in the present
excitable period ; so far as scenery, machinery,leftst
to be
and stage effect were concerned, nothing 7ask
desired. But though an exhibition of thuillicied
Applause
receive, as it would deserve, universal might
Presentations to
elsewhere, people expect in stage
witness the development of some j Stocqueler,
cation of character. The author,
t.O
his own talents,
plot, or the exempfifi.
has scarcely done justice, howeversk
etch to be put upon
in allowing this evidently
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fnoariginn stanc
excision—
the stage without some rev
racters so unreal—the sennotitilnatnienettalwni
that we regret they had 2,
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hv vcy o
and others seem to be bur-
lesquesnt the hands of the
their
b intended to be so ; whilst it
without thei
would require a keenly indulgent critic to discover any-
ee
thing approaching tn
plot in the pieces. The scenery,
to
Sebastopol by moonlight
capital as it - w. 9--1
a Trench and Battery therefore'
and the views 0
scarcely saved the piece.. from failure, which is the mere
to be regretted since the expense indulged in by the libe.
rlity of the management must make a serious inroad
upona the treasury. On Wednesday, Madame Celeste
and Mr. B. Webster were the great attraction, and well
did they sustain their well-earned reputation as leading
artistes in their peculiar walk of the drama. The first
piece, Janet Pride, is a drama of intense interest, ex-
hibiting vividly the awful effects of the vice of drunken-
nese. Truly might the stage be made a school for
morals, were people only willing to be taught. The
career of Richard Pride is a homily more powerful than
a score of sermons, or of ten score teetotal disquisi-
tions. The after piece was The Pretty Girls of StilberTh
so well known for the opportunity it affords Mr. Web-
ster of exhibiting his extraordinary portraiture of the
Emperor Napoleon. The general applause by which
the audience testified their satisfaction was the best evi-
dence both of the morits of the pieces and of the actors.
To-night Madame Celeste and Mr. Webster will appeardoubt a
large audience will be again assembled.. ARft a ato itna Journal.
our Zinc,
Da. EsaTON.—Mr. Easton, surgeon in
was taken prisoner at Tfango, arrived in Edinburgh, of
which ho is a native, on Thursday.