The Sun.
London, England, 1864-12-14 00:00:00

Mr BROMLEY, who was received with much
cheering, then came forward to return thanks. He
said—l feel I come before you under very great
disadvantages, although I have just received the
honour of being elected your representative, because
having been so ably proposed and seconded, any re-
marks which I may make must be very inferior to
those which have been heard before. I cannot but
remember that when these hustings were last erected
there stood here a man who was far superior to mye
self and whose great ability far better fitted him to
be your representative in every respect—in addition
to that he was well known to you all, and had
shown himself to be a man of ability, which I grieve
to say lam not, I have now to explain to you, so
far as I can, what my principles and policy will be
when in Parliament, although I have nothing to add
to what has been said by Mr Adderley and Mr
Sampson Lloyd. I am a Conservative (cheers)—and
when they described me as a Liberal Conservative
I was very glad that they put in that adjective, bee
cause that actually describes my principles. (Cheers)
I am satisfied that in these days extreme opinions
—on whatever side—can be of no use whatever.
They are completely isolated—either ultra-Radical
or ultra-Conservative opinions—from the common
sense of the great mass of the people. I think'
that Earl Russell was not particularly happy in his
nunc diinittis, as I may call it, which has been ale
laded to by Mr. Adderley. I consider that that
was little bit of a slip on his part as an old Whig ;
but at the same time I feel the force of that remark,
and I consider it much preferable to the democratic
maxim which has been, I am sorry to say, approved
by talented men who ought to have known better,
and to have known that they were promulgating a
dangerous doctrine when they said, " Whatever is,
is not right." (Cheers.) We must remember that in
these days civilisation is increasing, and consider it
as much madness to keep all as it is, as it is to turn
everything upside down. I have said that I will
support Lord Derby,:because I recognise him as the
great head of the Conservative party. (Cheers.) I
have said that I will offer no factious opposition to
Lord Palmerston, because although I do not approve
of his Administration, I recognise in him the man
whom this nation has respected and honoured more
than any other man alive. (Hear, hear.) I respect
him because he is a true Conservative at heart.
(Cheers.) There are those with him in the Minis-
try who try to pull him another way; but as I have
said before, he is a true Conservative, and he will
die one. (Cheers.) I am in favour of strict economy
in our armaments by land and sea—especially by
sea, because there I consider has been the greatest
waste and the most profligate expenditure. (Hear.)
I am for having useful vessels—not vessels con-
structed or seat out merely for an admiral to
be comfortable in. (Hear.) We want fights
ing ships. These must be built of iron—
a recommendation which will no doubt be
grateful to the ears of this constitnercy. (Hear.)
You have heard of the Victoria, which has just
been fitted out for the Mediterranean, and which
has been shown to be utterly useless in the capacity
for which she was intended. (Hear.) Ir, as some of
the defenders of that arrangement say, she was only
to be a sort of floating office for the admiral and his
clerks, what was the use of encumbering her with
1,000 men and 100 guns ? If she was intended, as
some of her defenders assert, as a hospital shi p,why
not put up a white flag and send her out ire that
capacity ? For my part, I consider that one of the
most marvellous instances of profligate expenditure
combined with Admiralty stupidity I ever heard of
i❑ my life. (Hear.) At the same time, I did not wish
it to be understood that I am not for keeping up the
defences of the country in- a thoroughly effective
condition. I say, while you economise, do not dis-
arm, Other nations have their eyes upon you, and
with no pleasant expression. They are jealous of
your liberty, jealous of your prosperity, jealous of
your wealth, and of your state of peace. We must
therefore take care, and not disarm. Depend upon
it, if John Bull does not keep a look-out in his
house, and take care that he has his gun loaded on
his mautlepieca and his dog loose in the yard, his
house will not long be safe. (Cheers.) lam for
the removal of those taxes which press heavily on
the general industry of the country. Among these
is the malt tax. (Cheers.) I will tell you what I
consider the position of the malt tax to be at this
moment. It seems as if the Government had said
we are to have free trade in this country for the
benefit of everybody and everything except the
British farmer—(cheers)—but on him we will
levy a protective duty for our own benefit, and we
will trust to his apathy not to find it out. (Much
cheering.) But, unfortunately, or fortunately
for himself, the B:itish farmer has found it out
—(laughter) —and, what is more, he makes him-
self heard about it, and states his case with
much clearness. Therefore, I say there is just
about as much force in the reason the Government
give for keeping up the malt tax, as if some thieves
ware to rob a man of his money, and then, when he
expostulated, to say, "No doubt it is a great injus•
tine, but the fact is you have such a lot of money that
we must have it. We cannot do without it," (Hear.)
So the Government say, " Although we are robbing
you, although we know wo aro acting in direct op-
position to the great principles of free trade
that we have been talking so much about—(hear,
hear)—yet you have such a lot of money that we
cannot do without it, and will keep the tax on." I
say that this is no argument. I say that in some
way or other, though it is net for a sucking politician
like myself to suggest bow, there must be some mode
devised of making up the deficiency that could be
caused by the repeal of this tax. (Cheers.) With
respect to church rates the present position of the
question is not very satisfactory, although it might
become much more unsatisfactory if some measure
were passed by which the people were not left
so much to themselves in this matter as at present.
They are now subject to the will of the majority,
that is a very great thing; and until some more
practical scheme be suggested than has been hitherto
it will be better to leave it alone. (Cheers.) I
think this grant to Maynooth had better be left in
its present state ; I am as staunch a Protestant as
any man here--(cheers)—yet I question the policy
of promoting party strife and discussion by keeping
up the agitation year after year. (Cheers.) Gentle-
men, I feel that I labour under the great disadvan-
tage of being personally unknown to many of you ;
it has been urged by a portion of the Liberal press
that lam not a Warwickshire man. I beg to say
that I am as much a Warwickshire man as any one
hero. (Cheers.) One hundred and fifty years ago
the Mr Bromley whoa© house I inhabit was Speaker
of the House of Commons; another member of his
family represented the borough of Warwick.
(Hear.) I consider, then, that if lam not a War•
wickshire man I don't know who is, (Cheers.) The
hon. gentleman adverted briefly to one or two other
unimportant objections which had been urged
against him. Those who bad held him up to deci-
sion and ridicule had, be said, done him a great in-
justice and wrong, but he hoped hereafter to satisfy
the eonstituanay that ho honestly endeavoured to do
his duty.

The hon. gentleman retired amid much applause.
Mr T. S. WRIGHT, manufacturer, of Birming-
ham, then stepped forward and asked Mr Bromley
whether he would support a £6 franchise fur
boroughs?
Mr BROMLEY replied that he would not.
Mr WaiQnl nest asked the hon. gentleman

This was rather a remarkable case. The prosecutor is a
farmer at St. Osyth, in the neighbourhood of Colchester,
and he is a member of a society for the prosecution of felons
in the district. It appeared that about twoyesrs ago a quan-
tity of geese were stolen from one of the members of the
association, and a reward of £lO was offered for the detection
of the guilty party. This did not lead to any result, but
some time after the robbery had been committed the prisoner
had a quarrel with another man and accused him of being
concerned, with himself, in stealing the geese. The result
of this was that both were taken into custody and tried with
two others for the robbery, and they were convicted and the
prisoner was sentenced to 12 months' imprisoment. At the
expiration of his sentence the prisoner returned to St. Osyth,
and he applied to the prosecutor for the reward of £lO that
had been offered by the association for the discovery of the
persons who had stolen the geese, but he was told, of course,
that he had no claim to it, and it appeared that he also re-
fused to give him any work, and there was no doubt that
there was a general unwillingness on the part of the farmers
in the neighbourhood to employ the prisoner, and this
seemed to make him very angry, and he was heard to utter
threats against the prosecutor. About ten o'clock on the
night of Nov. 21 the premises of the prosecutor were all
safe, but ab-ut an hour afterwards several stacks were dis-
covered to be on fire, and in the result property worth £2OO
was destroyed. With regard to the guilt of the prisoner, it
appeared to be established by the most conclusive evi-
dence. It seemed that on the night of the fire
the prisoner went to a public-house kept by a person
named Coles, about a mile from the prosecutor's farm, and
asked him to give him some lucifer matches, but he refused
to do so. He had previously told him that he would hear
of something before morning, and after ho had refused him
the lucifers he said it did not signify, as he knew where he
could get some, and ho added that he intended to burn down
Mr Matson's premises. The witness told him he had better
not do so or he would suffer for it, and the prisoner said that
he did not care, he would rather be shot than oontinue in
the state he was, and that he was bent upon doing what he
said. The prisoner then appeared to have gone to the cottage
of a labouring man named Willett, who was his brother-in-
law, and ho knocked him up and asked him to give him
some lucifer matches. He gave him three matches, and the
prisoner said they were not enough, and Willett then gave
him several more. When he had got the matches, the pri-
soner said that he was going to set fire to Matson's stacks.
and that he should be in Thorpe police-station on the fol-
lowing night, The prisoner then walked away, and the
witness Willett returned to his bed, and very soon afterwards
the alarm. of fire given. It appeared that on the day after
the fire the prisoner went to the police-station at Thorpe,
and told Mr Bankee, the inspector of police who was on
duty, that he had set fire to Mr Matson's stacks, and when
he was asked how he came to do such a thing, he replied
that everybody was "down" upon him, and that he could
not get any work, and therefore he was determined to do
what he had done. The prisoner made a similar statement
to several other persons.
When ho was called upon for his defence, he merely said
that he could. not get any work and he did not know what
to do. The prosecutor and other farmers had all agreed
together not to give him any work, and he thought it was
hard to starve. lie was willing to work, but they would
not give him any to do.

The Jury, without any hesitation, found the prisoner
Guilty.
Evidence was then given that the prisoner had been on
two previous occasions convicted of felony, and sentenced
to 6 and 12 months' imprisonment.
Baron Channell, in passing sentence, said that the prisoner
had been convicted upon clear evidence of a very wicked
crime, and the only Excuse he appeared to make for his con-
duit was, that the prosecutor and the other farmers would
not give him employment. , It might be advisable that per-
sons should have an opportunity of retrieving their charac-
ters after coming out of prison, and of obtaining employ-
ment, but he was not prepared to say that the prosecutor
and the other farmers were not perfectly justified in refus-
ing to employ a man who had been twice convicted of felony,
and whO they believed was not likely to do any gad. How-
ever this might be it was no excuse for the prisoner's con-
duct, and having regard to the serious character of the offence
he felt himself compelled to pass a revere sentence, which
was that he be kept in penal servitude for 15 years.
The prisoner, who had conducted himself with very great
effrontery during the trial, exclaimed, in an impudent tone,
" Thank you, my lord ; that is the Lest thing that was over
done for me in my life."

William Stockton Bertie, 18, pleaded guilty to a charge
of feloniously setting fire to a stack of barley, the property
of Helen Anne Tasker.

He was sentenced to six years' penal servitude.

When the sentence was pronounced, the prisoner called
out, "Thank you, my lord. I hope you may sit there till
I come back."

Henry Augustus Munns, a private in the Royal Marines,
was feloniously wounding Charlotte Turner,
with intent. to murder her.
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The prosecutrix, a rather good looking young woman, it
appeared, was in the service of a Mr Nicholson, a woollen
draper at Chelmsford, and Major Masters, Royal Marines,
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to whom the prisoner was servant, lodged in the house, and
the prosecutrix was engaged to wait upcn him, and she
thus became acquainted with the prisoner, who appeared to
have paid her attentions and to have expressed a desire that
she should marry him. The prosecutrix did not seem to
have given him any encouragement, and this greatly excited
the prisoner, who was heard to utter threats of violence
against her. About a fortnight before the transaction in
question took place, the priscner met the prosecutrix walk-
ing with a young man to whom she was engaged to be mar-
ried, in the New.road at Chelmsford, and he went up to
them and said to the companion of the prosecutrix,
" You are the fellow I want," and struck him, and the
prosecutrix was very much alarmed at the violence of his
conduct. On the 11th of October it appeared that the pro-
secutrix was making the bed in Major Masters' room, when
prosecuted.
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the prisoner came in and accused her of having told some-
thing about him to hie mistress, but she denied having done
so, and told him to leave the room. Immediately she did so
the prisoner put his arm round her neck and inflicted a very
severe wound on her throat with a razor. The prosecutrix
screamed and sty roped on the floor, and Major Masters west
up to see what was the matter, and the prisoner ran past
him out of the house. He was shortly afterwards taken into
custody, and when he was told what he was charged with he
said that the prosecntrix had been aggravating him to do it
a long time, and, now he had done it, and ho at the same
time inquired if the prosecutrix was dead. 'When he was
asked what he had done with the razor with which the
wound had been inflicted, he at first denied having had a
razor in his Possession, but he afterwards said that he might
as well tell the truth ; he had thrown the razor into the
river as he walked up the London-road, and he intended to
to have thrown himself in.

The prisoner put several questions to the prosecutrix with
a view to show that there had been an improper intimacy
between them, and that 14 had given her a great many pre.
gents, and she had promised to marry him. The prosecu-
trix, however, positively declared that there was not any
truth in the suggestions made by the prisoner.
The prisoner put in a long written statement, in which
he imputed most disgusting conduct to the prosecutrix, for
which there did not appear to be the slightest foundation,
He also declared that at the time he committed the act, he
was not in a right state of mind, and did not know what he
was doing.

The Jury found tho prisoner guilty of wouuding the pro-
eecutlix, with intent to do her grievous bodily harm.
Thu learned Judge said he would take Uwe to consider
what sentence should bo pronounced.

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A DAY'S SPORT IN DEVONSHIRE.—Last week Et
shooting party, consisting of the Right Hon. Lord Methuen,
the Rev. E. A. Sanford, and B. A. Sanford, of Nynehead
Park, Wellington, killed in two covers at Pugham (in this
county) 90 pheasants, 44 hares, and partridges and rabbits
numbering about 200 head, in the course of a few hours.
The total extent of the two covers is but seven acres, and
belongs to the worthy squire of Nynehead.—Tivertan
Gazfita.

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