The Sun.
London, England, 1864-01-12 00:00:00

and confidence in the arrangements, and Dr. Fea-
therstone, the peace man par excellence of that day,
the superintendent of the province of Wellington,

one of the most able and honest men in the colony,

by whose influence with the Nga•li-awa the peace
of the South was maintained during the Taranaki

war, also expressed his confidence in the new Mini-
stry. These sentiments are generally echoed by

the press.
The policy of the Ministry was enunciated by Mr.
Fox on the 3d inst. When he took office in 1861,

though opposed to the war;and believing it originated
in an unjust dealing with the land sold by Teira,
but to which Kingi had substantial claims, he stated

that if peaceable methods proved unsuccessful, if
the natives, rejecting the overtures which should be

made to them, were determined to continue their
armed resistance, he should be found as firm to
strike as he was then disposed to conciliate. Now

he seems to be convinced that to strike is the only
course left to the Government. The suppression of
this rebellion is now announced to be the primary

object to which everything else must yield and
minister. As a natural consequence of rebellion

comes punishment, in the shape of confiscation of

land in Waikato and at Taranaki. Indeed, this was

in a measure the foregone conclusion, for Mr. Ball,

a member of the late Ministry, when here with Col.
Pitt to raise the volunteer corps for service in New
Zealand, plainly told thoee who enlisted that the

lands wherewith to reward them were to be ac-

quired by conquest from the Waikatos. Military
settlements are to be established in the conquered
and confiscated lands throughout the Waikato dis-
tricts, and from New Plymouth to Wanganui. For
this purpose the Ministry proposes a new levy of
5,000 men in Australia, and, "if possible," no less
than 15,000 in Great Britain and Ireland. This
will, of course, be a work of time. The sale of land
is to afford the means of paying whatever loans may
be contracted, in order to carry out this scheme.
Roads are to be steadily pushed forward through
the Waikato country. The outbreak is to be treated

as a " rebellion," and anything in the nature of

belligerent rights is denied to the natives. Indeed,
already a bill has been introduced to establish mar-

tial law in Waikato, Mr. Fos, a barrister, being seem

ingly well aware that the proclamation of martin'
law, as in 1861, is absolutely illegal. This measure is
based upon an Irish statute. When peace is restored
by force of arms it is to be secured by making the
natives give up their arms. In short, the Waikatos
have made conquests a stern necessity to the Go-
vernment. The issue raised by them is, " Which
shall be master ?''
There is one question which is often put, and
which is not easy to answer—Will this war be con-
fined to Waikato and Taranaki I have very little
doubt that if the Waikatos, acting more promptly
than they have done when our force in New Zealand
was scanty, had achieved a marked success against
the troops a great number of the "friendly natives"
would have joined in the war. The prestige in favour
of the savage against the soldier would have been
contagious, and hostility to the Pakeha might have
developed itself throughout the northern island.
But latterly, even in bush fighting, the success of
the flying column and of parties of troops in several
encounters with larger parties of natives has turned
the prestige the other way. Some of the natives in
the south entertained for a while considerable alarm
lest the Pakehas should attack them. A few months
ago the Nga-li-awa of the Wasrarapa Valley, near
Wellington, had a meeting to consider what course
they should adopt. This meeting originated in the
alarm I have mentioned. They observed that the
settlers were enrolling as militia or volunteers, and
they could not avoid a suspicion that the first blow
might be struck by the Europeans. Very wisely,
one or two of the leading settlers—Mr. Revans and
Mr. Smith, in whom the natives have confidence—
attended the meeting, and explained that the arming
and drilling was not for attack of any kind, but for
defence in case of any hostile invasion by hostile
natives from other parts. Mattel' assurances of
support to preserve peace ensued, and I am assured
that in that district Maori and Pakeha no longer
look suspiciously on each other. The same
line of policy was also pursued by Dr. Feather-
stone, the superintendent, at some meetings at
Olaki, with the same happy result. The Nga-pui
north of Auckland, who are numerous and intel-
ligent, have on several occasions expressed their
satisfaction with the Government. They are the
old enemies of the Waikato, and many of their ceiefs
like Sir G. Grey personally. Whether they might
not have been drawn into hostility if the Waikatos
had been successful is scarcely worth while to specu-
late about, but certainly their " friendly " character
is confirmed by the repeated successes of the troops
in bush encounters. Thus the war is principally
confined to the Waikato country, for even at Tara-
naki it is comparatively insignificant, having only
a certain degree of importance from its acting as a
diversion in favour of the Waikato, by keeping a
body of troops employed there. The Thames natives,
too, are by no means unanimous in favour of Thomp-
eon's party. Many natives there call themselves
" friendly," and, although some of the newspapers
look upin their friendliness with a very natural sus-
picion, they may be deemed waiters on Providence,
who will not imperil their lands, if they think, as
they are likely to do, that the troops must prevail
sooner or later. Though the Maories who occupied
Mere-Mere have escaped without loss, the whole
length and breadth of Maoridom will understand
this as a sore defeat. Gen. Cameron has the perfect
command of the river, at ;least, as far as Rangiriri,
and the possession of Mere-Mere makes the whole
country, as far as Rangiriri untenable to the Maories.
This latter place is so placed as to be liable to be
knocked about their ears from the river, so that in
all probehility it will be abandoned on the very
first demonstration of the troops before it. How
long the natives will be able to hold out and
continue to harass the troops without any deci-
sive engagement it would be rash to say, " They
have achieved their eighteenth murder," says a
private letter, " and must be hunted like wild
beasts." You will see from the very terms of
the Ministerial policy that continued war is
adopted by the Government and forced upon the
natives, for they can scarcely desire peace in the
terms of confiscation. It should seem that nothing
is left to the natives but despair and vengeance,
while to the settlers the natives have made absolute
conquest a necessity and an instinct.
There has been a good deal of skirmishing,
in which the troops and volunteers are rapidly be
coming accustomed to bush fighting, and in some
instances the Europeans have prevailed against
numbers. One of these encounters deserves notice.
On Saturday, the 17th of October, some firing being
heard at Mauku, a party of 50 volunteers, under
Lieut. Lusk, started for that place. They came
within sight of the natives ; and Lieutenant Lusk,
thinking his party small, sent to the stockade for
more. Twelve men, under Lieut. Percival, left the
stockade, but seem to have missed their way, for
they came upon a large body of natives, and with-
stood an encounter for about half an hour, but,
finding themselves so greatly outnumbered, they
succeeded in retiring and joining the main body.
The whole body of between 60 and 70 men then
marched towards where the natives were firing at
random, when they were completely surrounded
and fired on in all directions. The men behaved
with great steadiness and gallantry, and the native
loss was considerable ; but, of course, the volunteers
could not prevail against such odds. Lieut. Per-
ceval was shot, and six or seven were wounded, of
whom twa have since died. Poor Perceval behaves
with great coolness and gallantry. He was well
known in this colony, and was, it is sa:d, a grand-
son of Mr. Perceval who was shot by Bellingham.

ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, GRAY'S INN-ROAD.—
The numlo,:,r of patients relieved at this hospital during the
week ending Jan. 9 was 2,472, of which 745 were new cases.
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can form an idea of the comfort it bestows by restraining
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TIM SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 12, 1864.

CHARGE OF SWINDLING.

Yesterday afternoon, at the Justice-room of the Mansion-
house, Alderman Waterlow was for some time engaged in
investigating the circumstances connected with an extraor-
dinary charge of swindling preferred against Henry Horace
Linguarde, described as an actor, and as residing at Butler-
street-buildings, East Smithfield, who had been remanded
from the previous Monday.
The case excited considerable interest, and the court was
crowded during the examination,
To render the proceedings of yesterday intelligible it is
necessary shortly to recapitulate the evidence given on the
first examinationtof the prisoner before the Lord Mayor. It
was then proved that on Saturday week the prisoner, alight-
ing from a carriage, entered the shop of Mr. Thos. Mills, a
clothier in Aldgate, where he was an entire stranger, and
selected clothes to the amount of £2l 175., for which sum
he wrote on a sheet of note paper a check on the Provident
Savings bank in St. Martin's-place, Trafalgar-square.
From among the clothes he bought he selected a full suit,
which he put on at once, including an overcoat. He then
went to the hosiery department, and selected goods to the
amount of £5B 145., which he directed to be sent to No. 4,
Ovington-square, Brompton. He complained of being
thirsty, upon which the attendant, Joseph Milhous°, gave
him some wine and a cigar. He then asked if he could dine
in the neighbourhood, and the shopman mentioned the name
of a house a few doors off. The shopman, whom he invited
to dine, accompanied him there. After dinner the prisoner
asked him to pay the bill, Bs. 7d., and place the amount to
his account, which the shopman did, and they returned to-
gether to the shop. By this time a messenger who had been
sent to get the check cashed had returned and reported
that the bank was closed for the day, and he had not got
the money. Upon that the prisoner said he had no money
about him, but that if the shopman would ride with him
in his carriage to Ovington-square ho would pay for
the clothes he had on and hand him a check upon
Messrs. Coutta for the balance, amounting to £69
odd, The attendant went with him there accordingly,
and the prisoner asked at the house No, 4 for some one by
name. The reply was that no such person resided there,upon
which the prisoner, still attended by the shopman, drove to
some livery stables near Russell-square, where he had hired
the carriage. Arrived there he was going away without
paying for the use of it, when the proprietor presentedhim-
self, and, in the result, the prisoner, who had stated he had
no money about him, left the undercoat he had shortly be-
fore selected at Mr. Mills's shop in pledge for 255., the hire
of the carriage, the shopman Millhouse strongly remonstra-
ting, on the ground that the garment had not been paid for,
and eventually giving the prisoner into custody.
On that evidence the prisoner had been remanded, and
yesterday Mr. Wontner, solicitor, of Bucklersbury, who at-
tended to conduct the prosecution, said it was necessary that
he should state some circumstances in the prisoner's career.
He had, in the first instance, given an address at the Goat
Inn, Farnham, but that statement was incorrect. He was
certainly known at Farnham, and that to the cost of some of
the inhabitants, but the landlord of the Goat disclaimed his
acquaintance a'together. In November last ho was convic-
ted in 40s, and costs for riding to Aldershot by railway
without a ticket, and refusing to pay the fare, and in default
of payment hr was sent to the House of Correction for a
month. Tba:, ought to have had some effect in improving
his morals, btt not so, as was shown by the fraud he had
since practised upon Mr. Mills on Saturday week. With
respect to histransactions with the livery-stable keeper,Mr
Hicks, he, inthe first instance, wanted to buy a horse and
carriage then, but a servant whom he saw declined, in the
absence of hs master, to undertake the sale, and the pri-
soner contented himself with hiring a carriage for the day.
He went to ,he shop of Mr. Medwin, in Regent- street,:and
bought goofs to the amount of £3 13s, which he took
away in the carriage, paying for them with a sham cheque
and thinkitg it beneath his dignity to take either the
invoice or meipt, which was tendered him. Thence he
went to the shop of a tailor at the west end of the
town, and, representing that he was about to be married,
selected a :mart overcoat, tendering a similar check in
payment, which, however, was declined, and " my lord,"
teking umlvage, drove off in his carriage. He next pre-
sented himself at the shop of Mr. Dant, the jeweller in the
Strand, andordered jewellery to the amount of £6O, for which
he gave a check on the Provident Savings Bank, but that
was refused and the prisoner tsok nothingby the transaction.
Since his wrest the result of inquiry at the Provident
Savings Balk in St. Martin's-place showed that in March,
1860, the p•isoner, who then described himself as an actor,
and resided in Nicholas-equate, Hackney, deposited £25 in
the bank, tut drew it out about ten days afterwards, and he
had never lad any transactions with the bank since, though
many of hi! sham checks had been from time to time pre-
sented then to be cr.shed. Probably the Court would think
it would be for the benefit of the public that this man's ca-
reer of fraud should be put an end to, and that the proper
course would bo to send him to the Old Bailey, where a jury
would deal with him and his checks in an exemplary
manner.

Mr. James Down was called. lie said—l am a tailor and
outifiter in the Strand. On Saturday, Jan. 2, the prisoner
called on me about 12 o'clock in the day in a carriage, with
a servant, and selected a light brown overcoat, the price of
which was £2 ss, for which he offered to give a check, I
said it was not usual with me to take checks from strangers,
but that if he would write a check I would get it cashed
and then send the coat to his address, or he could call again
That he agreed to do, and wrote the check produced on the
Provident Savings Bank. In less than hour he called again.
I had presented the check in the meantime, and it was dis-
honoured. I told him it was an ungentlemanly transaction;
my father, who was present, went further, and called him a
swindler. The prisoner merely said something about " an-
other man in the Strand having taken his check," and then
entered his carriage and drove off. He hed mentioned Mr.
Dent, and I supposed it was he who had taken the cheek.
Robert Verity, foreman to lair. James Medwin, of 86,
Regent-street, bootmaker, deposed that on Saturday, the
2d of January, the prisoner called there in a phaeton, be-
tweea 12 and 1 o'clock, and said he wanted to be fitted with
some boots. Witness showed him some, and he selected
four pairs of boots, one pair of leggings, and a pair or
slippers, which came to £1 13s. Ho made out a bill and
gave it receipted to the prisoner, who then wrote the check
produced for the amount on the Providence Savings-bank.
On being asked for his address, he said, " Goat's Head Hotel,
Farnham." He took the goods away in the phaeton, leav-
ing the bill and receipt on the counter. Later in the day
the check was returned to witness dishonoured.
John Level Dening, clerk at the Provident Savings-
bank, St. Martin's-place, Trafalgar-square, said the pri-
soner had no account there, and that the directors of the
bank never paid by checks, Since March, 1860, he had had
no money there at all.
Alderman Waterlow--What did you then know of him ?
Witness—He attended at the bank on the:l7th of March,
1860, and paid in £25, which he drew out on the 30th. He
had been there since in Connection with another account
which was not in his name but in that of a minor,
Alderman Waterlow--Had he any power to draw on any
other account ?
Witness—No.
The prisoner said the minor referred to was his son.
Witness said money at the bank belonging to a minor
could no; be touched by a third Party, unless with the
minor's consent indicated oy a power of attorney.
Mr. Charles Hicks, a livery stable-keeper in Keppel-street,
Russell-square, said,—Ox the 2d of January the prisoner
had a phaeton from my establishment. I was not at home
when it was hired, but I was when he brought it back. The
charge was 255., including the driver. lie was getting into
a cab to go away without paying or returning the phaeton.
He said he skould require a carriage next morning, and he
would pay then, I asked for payment at once, he being a
stranger. He replied that ho had got no money about him,
and then walking into the efiunting-house with me ho said,
"Give me some paper and I'll write you a check." I mid
a check was no use to rae, and that I had had trouble
enough with him already, without his check. He rep,ied
that he could not pay, upon which I said he must have
some deposit with me for the charge. He said he had got
nothing to leave. I remarked that ho was wearing a good
greatcoat, upon which the tailor who was with him stepped
forward and said, "That belongs to me." The prisoner then
took off his under coat sad handed it to me. The tailor,
interposing, said "That belongs to me also," (A. laugh.) I
said I woald take care of it until I was paid. The WIG: and
he then went away, and jest as they were leaving a cabman
drove us and said to me, " Mr. Hicks, I want to see you.
I drove this gentleman (Pointing to the prisoner) to your
yard this morning, who came to hire a carriage, aid on
leaving the cob ho told me you would pay his fare.' (A
laugh) I said I would not. The prisoner, who was then
standing by my side, heard that.
TI-o prisoner—That is rather a high price for your trap
for aalf a day, Mr. Hicks, is it not ?
Witness was told by the Court he need not enema. that
question, and he did not.
Wontner said it was right be should state that a few
weeks ago the prisoner was taken before Mr. Nortek, the
Lambeth police magistrate, as a common cheat. IT was
then charged with obtaining provisions from tradesmen in
Lambeth on various pretences. The evidence, howeve., did
not quite establish the offence, and Mr. Norton discharged
him. On that occasion a number of cabmen, whom hi had
defrauded, attended, and it then appeared that he was well
known to their fraternity, and went by the soubriqtet of
" The Ghost," A gentleman from Fa:nham also saic that
recently the prisoner got up an entertainment there, at
which he was announced to play " The Ghost." A number
of people went and paid their money at the door, and when
the time arrived for the commencement of the performance
The Ghost was nowhere to be found,
hence the cognomen
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til now, so that he lost the price of the supper and his fare.
He hoped the prisoner enjoyed hs supper. (A. laugh.)
Mr. Anidjah, looking-glass niainfacturer in Bishopsgate-
street-without, said the prisoner, who was a stranger to