The Sun.
London, England, 1852-10-07 00:00:00

THURSDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 7, 1852.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE,
GUILDHALL.
John Wells was charged with committing an as-
sault upon Matthew Gamble.
The prosecutor, who appeared with a dreadfully
lacerated nose and his arm strapped to his side, said
he was returning home on Monday night, and while
talking and laughing with a friend in Little Bell-
alley the prisoner came up, and thinking they were
laughing at him, after sundry and divers threats of
personal violence towards them, he struck prosecutor's
friend, knocked him down, and while insensible on
the ground commenced kicking him about the head
and body. Prosecutor, having remained mae'ive up
to that moment, then proceeded to assist his friend in
rising, when the prisoner struck him on the nose,
and, seizing him round the waist, threw him with
great force on the ground, end grasping his hair with
both hands was about to inflict further punishment,
when the officer interfered and took prisoner away.

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Prosecutor was taken to the hospital, and on being
examined by the surgeon it was found that his collar

bone bad been fractured.
Wiltiam Chase said That while he was in conversa-
tion with the prosecutor the prisoner came up and,
without any provocation, struck him (witness) a blow
o❑ the mouth. He returned it, and the prisoner then
knocked him down and kicked him on the nose with
sufficient force to render him insensible, and he re-

metnhered nothing further.
William Barrage, 130, said he slw th 9 prisoner
pulling the prosecutor's hair with both hands, and
with the assistance of the sergeant he took the pri-
soner home. The prosecutor and his friend were
sober, and bleeding very much abcut the face.
The prisoner was very drunk, and bleeding from the

nose.
The prisoner was then fined 40a., and in default
committed for twenty-one days to the new House of
Correction at Holloway.
BOW-STREET.
A deputation of tradesmen occupying shops in
Clare-street, Clare-market, headed by Mr. Scrivener,
butcher, waited upor. Mr. Henry with a memorial,
signed by twenty-four out of the twenty-six inhabi-
tants of the street, begging that the poor people who
kept stalls in front of their houses might be allowed
to continue their avocation.
Mr. Scrivener stated, that the privilege of occu-
pying stalls for the sale of fish, vegetables, toys,
&c., had been enjoyed by the poor inhabitants of the
parish for upwards of fifty years, and the occupiers
were, in fact, solely dependent upon them for the
means of living. The police had from time to time
enforced certain regulations as to the extent of the
stalls, so as to keep the footway and road clear for
the ordinary traffic, and with few exceptions these
directions had been complied with by the stallkeepers.
Now, however, it appeared there had been a general
order issued to clear the street entirely of these poor
people, who would be ruined in consequence. As it
might be inferred that the tradesmen in Clare-street
were the persons most likely to complain of the
alleged nuisance, he (Mr. Scrivener) assured his wor-
ship that only one person in the whole street was
opposed to it.
Mr. HENRY wished it to be understood that he was
not the executive in this matter. Complaints were

Standard Theatre, in Shoreditch, stated, that during
the performances on the previous evening his atten-
tion was attracted by a sudden uproar in the gallery,
accompanied by terrific exclamations from persons
on the front seat, and on hastening to that part of the
house to ascertain the cause of the disturbance, he
observed the prisoner, who had been drinking, at the
extreme end of the seat, with a little boy, 13 years
old, in his arms, and in the act of precipitating him
headlong into the pit. The prisoner, who appeared
to be determinedly bent upon his purpose, had suc-
ceeded in getting the little tellow's legs over the iron
bar, but the boy clung with desperation to the rail,
and screamed for help in the greatest terror, as the
depth from the gallery to the pit was but little short
of 70 feet, and if he had been hurled over there
could be but very little doubt that he would have
been killed. Witness, however, instantly caught hold
of the lad, and succeede i with some difficulty in
rescuing him from his perilous position, but he had
no sooner done so than the prisoner made a rush at
him, and after striking him several sharp blows in
the face, declared with an oath that he would fling
him over next. The prisoner then seized hold of him
by the hair of his head, and forcibly dragged him
down until the upper part of his person projected
over the barrier, and he felt perfectly satisfied that
his assailant would speedily have effected his purpose
as he was on the point of losing his balance, if it had
not been for the fortunate arrival of several other
officers, with whose assistance the prisoner was at
length overpowered and secured.
Abraham SLannerd, an assistant-constable of the
theatre, fully corroborated the evidence of the last
witness in its leading particulars, and added, that as
soon as he attempted to extricate Lambert from the
grasp of the prisoner, who was at that time holding
him down by the hair: of his head, and making
desperate efforts to force him over the railing, the
prisoner commenced a similar attack upon him also,
and endeavoured to hurl him down into the pit with
such an exertion of muscular strength that they were
both in imminent danger of losing their lives.
Henry Morgan, the son of a mechanic in John's-
place, Old-street, and the first object of the prisoner's
violence, stated that he felt very thirsty during the
performance, and, having gone out to procure a
draught of water, returned quietly to the seat he had
left, but before he could take possession of it he was
seized by the prisoner under both his arms and
assailed in the manner the other witnesses had de-
scribed. He was wholly at a loss to account for the
savage conduct the prisoner had exhibited towards
him, as the prisoner was an entire stranger to him,
and he had not offered him the slightest provocation
previously to his seizing him up and attempting to
pitch him over into the pit.
On being called upon for his defence, the prisoner,
who had repeatedly interrupted the witnesses while
giving their evidence, and assailed them with the
foulest invectives, vociferously denied that there was
the slightest truth in the charge, and declared in the
coarsest language that the whole account they had
given of the transaction was a tissue of falsehood from
beginning to end.
Mr. IYETNCOURT, however, characterised it as a
most wanton outrage, and at once sentenced him to
pay penalties to the joint amount of 5/. for the double
assault, or in default to stand committed to the House
of Correction for two separate terms of one month
each, one to take effect at the expiration of the other ;
and the prisoner, being unable to pay either penalty,
was carried off at the close of the court in the van.
C'LEI?KENW ELL.

made by some tradesmen in the neighbourhood, and
al►o by inhabitants of other parts of the metropolis, who
wished to use. Clare• street as an easy mode of getting
from the Strand to Lincoln's Inn-fields, but were
at present unable to effect a passage, owing to the
obstruction caused by stalls and crowds collected in
that street. Now, a rece❑t Act of Parliament autho-
rised magistrates to inflict certain penalties on any
and every person " who shall expose anything for
sale, or hang anything over a carriage or fo.,t way, so
as to cause an annoyance or obstruction to any tho-
roughfare," &c. ; and, in the event of any complaint
being made and proved, the magistrate had no
alternative but to carry out the directions of the Act
of Parliament. This was his public duty, but he
(Mr. Henry) might as well express his private
opinion also, that these stalls in the crowded streets
of London were a very great nuisance, although,
when originally permitted, the traffic might have
been so ;much smaller as to make the nuisance of
less moment. The Act was passed, however, because
the increased traffic in these streets rendered it neces-
sary.
Another of the deputation (a publican) reminded
his worship that it would be very hard upon these
poor people if the law were carried out rigorously,
against them, and the stallkeepers in Tottenham-
court-road, Somers-town, and other places (which
were notoriously blockaded by them) were permitted
to remain unmolested.
Mr. HENRY had no control over these districts, but
he intended to show no partiality within his own
jurisdiction. 'With respect to the alleged hardship
upon the stallkeepers, he could only repeat the famous
maxim of Lord Ten terden, that "Hardship makes
bad laws." The family of a drunken man no doubt
endured great hardship when he was fined or impri-
soned, but their grievances must not be taken into
consideration.
The publican complained that he had invested his
capital in the premises now occupied by him, with
the understanding that the market would be continued
as of old. The only persons who complained really
were the tradespeople in the neighbouring streets,
who fancied they were injured by their customers
going to the stallkeepers.
Mr. HENRY said it might be taken for granted, as
a general rule, that people did not trouble themselves
much about a matter without having some personal
interest in it. Possibly the tradesmen alluded to had
taken up the matter in this spirit, and, on the other
ha❑d, it was clear that if these crowds were removed
from Clare-street, it would be a great loss to the pub-
lican. However, he had no feeling in the matter. If
complaints were made the law must be enforced, and
the police could hardly be sanctioned in enforcing
regulations for the management of the stalls, for that
would be giving a limited sanction to the nuisance.
After some further discussion of a similar character
the deputation withdrew.
MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

James Smith and George Langley, well-known
desperate-looking fellows, were charmed by Mr. Wil-
liam Frederick Nieve, engineer, of Pembroke-villas,
Caledonia❑-road, Islington, with having been con-
cerned i❑ committing an extensive burglary in his
dwelling- house.
The prosecutor deposed that on Sunday night last
he retired to rest wish his family after the windows
and doors were carefully fastened. On the following
morning, at an early hour, he was alarmed out of his
sleep by the police, who informed him that the house
had been entered by thieves, and that the prisoners
were in custody at the Islington station-house. The
place had been rifled, and valuable property was
packed up ready to be taken away.
Benjamin Goodwin, an active officer of the N divi-
sion, deposed that at three o'clock in the morning he
saw the prisoners making their way over the garden
wall at the back of Mr. Nieve's house. He immedi-
ately sprang his rattle, the sound of which brought
other officers to the spot. Both prisoners ran away,
but they were pursued and taken into custody after a
desperate resistance, and locked up. The prisoners
had entered the premises by a back window, which
they had forced open. The prisoner Langley was
recognised as having been concerned with others in a
burglary at St. Pancras workhouse.
Smith, another officer of the N division, said that he
was on duty in the Caledonian-road, Islington, on
Sunday morning last, at about three o'clock, when
he heard the springing of a rattle and the cry of
" Stop thief." He saw the prisoner Smith running
and being pursued. Witness attempted to stop him,
but Smith made a rush at him, knocked him down
by a severe blow on the head, and ran off; he, how-
ever, go' up and pursued the prisoner, whom he over-
took, and they had a desperate struggle together,
when witness overpowered him. Several officers came
up, and, after a determined and violent resistance, he
was secured and locked up in the station-house with
the other prisoner. They both refused to give their
address, but they were recognised by the police as
being well known.
Mr. Inspector Thatcher, N division, said that bur-
glaries had been so numerous of late in the above
neighbourhood that extra officers had been employed
to be on the constant watch after the thieves and the
property of the inhabitants, which bad greatly checked
the depredations.
Mr. Wakeling, fur the prisoners, reserved their
defence, and they were fully committed to Newgate
for trial.

John Puddington was brought up for final exami-
nation, charged with stealing two gold snuffboxes,
value 1001., the property of the Earl of Lonsdale.
Since the prisoner's last examination on a charge
of stealing one gold box from Lord Lonsdale's v.si-
dence in Carlton-gardens, a second box has been dis-
covered in the hands of a pawnbroker, who identified
the prisoner as having pledged it.
The prisoner was fully committed.
MARY LEB ENE.

John Berrington, a cl.ergyman of the Established
Church, and who has upon a former occasion been in
custody, was placed at the bar before Mr. Broughton,
charged with having obtained four halves of Bank of
England notes for 5/. each by false and fraudulent
representations ; and a well-dressed woman, named
Caroline Clarke, was also charged with being con-
cerned in the transaction.
Anne Richardson, residing at Denton-hall, near
Grantham, Lincolnshire, gave evidence to the effect
that, about five weeks ago, in consequence of an ad-
vertisement which she saw in one of the papers, she
went to Rottingdean, near Brighton, and there saw
the prisoner Berrington, who alleged that be was
fitting up a ship to go to Australia. His wife and
family were going out, and she (Miss Richardson)
was offered by him a salary of 1201. a year as gover-
ness. He stated that the ship was to sail very
speedily, and questioned her as to whether she had
any money at her command, at the same time giving
her to understand that he would allow her liberal
interest in the event of her placing it in his hands.
She returned home, and soon afterwards forwarded to
him four halves of 51. notes, being all the cash she
had at her immediate disposal. She requested him
to acknowledge the receipt of the halves, but he did
not do so, and upon her instituting inquiries she felt
convinced, from what she had heard, that the Rev.
Gentleman had swindled her out of her money.
M‘Leish, 230 S, deposed to his having taken the
prisoner into custody on the same afternoon (yester-
day), at a house in Munster-street, Regent's-park.
Lockbury, 180, and Mason, 168, alleged that Ber-
riagton had for a long time past been sought after by
the police, and that he had no doubt carried on a
system of fraud to a considerable extent. If the pub-
lic was made acquainted with the fact of his now
being in the hands of the law, a great many other
charges would no doubt be brought against him.
Miss Richardson further stated that she had made
all possiblo inquiry with regard to the Diligent, the
name of the ship mentioned to her by Barrington, and
she found that no vessel of that name was known as
being about to go to Australia.
It was stated that the capture of the prisoners in
Munster-street was owing to their having been in-
duced to go to the house through the medium of an
advertisement, which it was rightly imagined would
have the desired effect. The female prisoner had
been for some time living with Barrington, and the
latter, who had lately l►ved in the Borough, had
deserted his three children, leaving them in the
greatest distress. He had obtained 3/. upon one of the
halves of the notes sent to him.
M`Leish produced numerous papers which he found
upon Berrington, and among them were some manu-
script sermons.
Berrington denied having had any intention of act-

ing di!honestly towards Miss Richardson, and said
that he was actually in treaty with parties at the
present time for a ship with the view of going to
Australia with his wife and children. In point of tact,
he intended to fit it out hiinselt for the conveyance
also of passengers.
The woman, who said she knew nothing about the
matter, was discharged, and Berrington was remanded
till next Monday.
The case will no d.ubt be eventually sent to
Brighton, to be dealt with by the magistrates there.
WORSHIP-S 7 BEET.
Charles Jones, eu nttiletic, resolute-looking fellow,
was charged with a series of scandalous outrages.
William Lambert, one of the doorkeepers of the

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.
TIMES.—The progress of Louis Napoleon to the
Imperial throne is no long.r to be measured by
stealthy advances or puerile imitations of state and
dignity, for his journey through the southern pro-
vinces of France has been so contrived as to present

an apparent crescendo of popular acclamation ; the
authorities already wind up their fulsome addresses
and proclamations by the cry of " Vise l'Empereur;"
and it is only a question of a few weeks and a few
idle formalities when and how the empire is to be

proclaimed. A more veracious chronicle than the
~Yloniteur, and a closer investigation of the real state
of the country, would indeed lead to the conclusion

that all this entbusiasrn is not quite so spontaneous
and genuine as the French Government would have
the world believe. At Valence and at Toulon the

Mayors of those cities intimated to the householders
that persons who neglec-erl to illuminate on the
passage of the Prince would be mark-d men, and
might even be subj-cted to fide and annoyance.
At Nimes the cry of "Vine l' Anznistie" was so
loudly raised by the populace as to elicit a
reproof from the Prince himself. The municipal
elections, which are going on at the same
time, have everywhere bfen remarkable for the
indifference of the people, except in those places
(which are more numerous than was supposed) where
the Government candidates have been defeated. The
chief obstacle to the success of the opposition has been
the disinclination of persons of note to come forward
at all, since the elections have been immediately
quashed by the prefects wherever they have gone
against their own candidates. The most extravagant
language and unscrupulous efforts have been em-
ployed by the agents of the Administration, who, of
course, vie with each other in those services which
may give them a claim to the gratitude or the favour
of the rising power, and the Minister of the Interior
has issued a circular directing that a strict account be
kept of the amount of zeal or servility shown by in-
dividuals in every class of society, in order, no
doubt, that their future claims upon the Govern-
ment may be measured by their eagerness to pros-

titute themselves to its ambition. So vast a
speculation on the hopes and fears, the vanity,
and the apprehensions of a whole nation, cannot
fail to produce its effect, where all the prizes of
the State may be the rewards of obedience, and all
the terrors of absolute power may be the penalty of
disaffection. Within the last week one ship-load of

political offenders has been di.patched to Cayenne
and another to Algeria, by virtue of the decree of
the Bth of December last; that is without any sem-

blance of a trial. But, in spite of this double mode
of persuasion, we still find scarcely a name of emi-
nence among those persons who have welcomed Louis
Napoleon in the provinces, and it is b, the absence or
silence of the upper classes that we can alone judge
of what is passing in their minds. In France nothing
is strong but the Government, and in the present
state of the country the inherent weskne,s of private
opposition is reduced to total impotence. It is diffi-
cult to persuade ourselves that in a country which has
so often made the world ring with its opinions and
its rights every channel is now closed against the
utterance of truth : a man dares not tell his neigh-

bour what he thinks ; to abstain from all participa
tion in public affairs is the only refuge of the free
citizen, and even that course exposes him to suspi-
cion, and he must be supposed to do and
to be whatever it may please the Government and the
Moniteur to call the opinions of France. The le-
public itself, which inspired the same terror, though
it never resorted to the same odious means of coercion
and falsification, was received in somewhat the same
manner. In three days Marshal Bugeaud tendered
his sword to the service of a Government which he
hated and despised, but which he also feared. More
than two months after the 24th of February the Re-
public was legally proclaimed by the unanimous
shout of the representatives of the people. Not a voice
was raised to denounce the imposture, or to expose the
utter worthlessness of that fantastic experiment, for
France accepted and ratified the form of govern-
ment which the immense majority of the nation
abhorred. All that has since befallen her, the po-
sition in which she now lies prostrate, and the
curse of a Government without law and without
morality, are no more than the expiation of the
gigantic act of folly which overthrew the constitu-
tional monarchy. The first and principal cause of
the popularity of Louis Napoleon—a cause more
powerful than the name of his uncle or the tricks
of his prefets—is the horror and aversion of the
French nation for the republican form of govern-
ment. Their politicians and statesmen rendered it
ridiculous in the National Assembly—their Socialists
and demagogues rendered it odious and formidable
throughout the land. In electing their first Presi-
dent they thought only
.of the man who was most
certain to destroy the institutions which they bad
weakly and passively submitted to, and the despotism
of Louis Napoleon finds a people not altogether re,
luctant to pay even that price to be released from the
fetters of M. Marrast's incorrigible Constitution.
These events have demonstrated that a nation is never
less mistress of its own fate than when it affects to
give itself totally new laws and to root up all pre-ex-
isting notions of right, but in reality to obey the im-
pulse and yield to the acts of some small body of men
whom accident or audacity has placed in a dominant
position. Although, therefore, we view the internal
policy and lawless despotism of the French Govern-
ment with the feelings we have very frequently
and freely expressed, and although the English press
has laboured, not in vain, to publish to the world
facts which would otherwise have been entirely
stifled and unknown, we have never felt much sur-
prise at this course of events, and we even doubt
whether after the catastrophe of 1848 any different
termination of such a state of things could be antici-
pated. The proclamation of the Empire is the natural
climax of this tide in public opinion, and in itself it is
a matter of no more importance to the world than the
proclamation of M. de Lamartine at the Hotel de
Ville, or of M. Louis Blanc at the Luxembourg. All
these Governments and potentates have pretty much
the same foundation and the same value; and se
only regret that none of them have governed well
enough to retain the power he had chanced to win.
We believe, therefore, that the revival of the Imperial
dignity in France ought to be viewed just as the other
evolutions of that nation have been; and we entirely
concur in the opinion recently expressed by the chief
organ of Russian diplomacy in the continental press, to
the effect that the clause in the treaties of 1814 and
1815 by which the great Powers bound themselves to
maintain the perpetual exclusion of the family of
Napoleon Bonaparte from supreme power in France
may now be regarded as null and void. That clause
was intended especially to protect the monarchy of
Bourbons, then restored in the person of Louis
XVIII.; but, as that monarchy and its heirs have
long since been overthrown and ejected by several
successive revolutions, all of which have been recog-
nised by the rest of Europe, it would be absurd to
insist upon a stipulation which has no further any
object. It is now a matter of indifference to this
country, and we may probably add to all Europe,
whether a member of the Bonaparte family does or
does not exercise supreme power in France. But
what is of the highest consequence to this country
and to all Europe is, that whosoever does exercise
supreme power in France should recognise the
territorial limits, and give us all the reasonable
pledges and assurances of peace, which we
have had from the French nation under the two
branches of the monarchy and under the Repub-
lic. Eugland, Austria, Russia, and Prussia are the
more entitled to a clear and explicit declaration from
the head of the French Government on this point, as
they do not hesitate to express their desire to main-
tain amicable relations with the new Government,
and they are evidently ready to wave any objection
which might be founded on the first article of the
Peace of Paris, by which Napoleon " renounced for
himself, his successors and descendants, as well as
each of the members of his family, all right of sove-
reignty and dominion as well over the French empire
and the kingdom of Italy as over all other coun-
tries ;" although this acs of exclusion was confirmed
and made perpetual by a further agreethent between
the four Powers at the termination of the war.
But, in exchange for this mark of deference to the
will of the French people, Europe has a right to
expect from Louis Napoleon a full and complete
acceptance of the terms upon which the relations
of France towards all her neighbours and allies have
rested for the last thirty-seven years, and of all the
engagements entered into by various French Go-
vernnents in that interval. For the welfare of France
and of mankind we sincerely hope that the second
French Empire may be as pacific and prosperous as
the first empire was warlike and calamitous; but the
least to be expected and required of it is as full end
I satisfactory an assurance on this point as such a Go-
; vernment can give. There need be no unnecessary
haste in establishing the public relaions of foreign
States with a Government whose policy is obscure, if
not suspicious; but the dignity and The safet \of Europe
require that before the principal Powers place them-
selves on a footing of familiar intercouse with another
French Empire, they shall obtain from that Govern-
ment a distinct recognition of all those obligations
which constitute the public law of Europe, and which
no State can repudiate with impunity.
CHRONICLE.—When Lord Broughton de Gyf-
ford, then plain Mr. Hobhouse, was censured in the
House of Commons for using expressions calculated
to hurt the feelings of the Sublime Porte, he inquired
whether Honourbai Members supposed that the Lon-
don new papers were laid regularly every morning
on the breakfast-tahle of the Sultan or the Grand
Vizier. When we and some of our contemporaries
are accused of wounding the self-love of the French
army, already sufficiently eager for a fresh trial of
strength with la perfide 'Albion, we cannot but ask,
in our turn, whether our critics fancy that English
journals form an established part of the daily reading