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11108 LAW

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Lord Robot Grosvenor bas taken with-
drawn bis bill, " letting I dare not Wait upon I would ;"
but he has not consigned the abomination to the.limbo
of abortions without much whimpering and whining over
its character, which he says has been cruellrtraduced.
He especially hoped that Parliament and the public
would bear in mind that the measure was not a measure
for the better observance of the Sabbath, inasmuch as
it was a measure interfering with no man's recreation
and with no man's religious convictions. Thus his lord-
ship plainly implies that measures for the better observ-
ance of the Sabbath must have the two evil effects which
he denies to have been fairly ascribable to his bill.
But we cannot assent to the assertion that the better
observance of the Sabbath would involve the conse-
quences imputed. The better observance would be a
more cheerful observance, an observance not only of
religious duties, but of the rights of labour to re-
creation. Something has been taken from the Sunday
which ought to be restored to it—something which be-
longed to it when our country bore the name of merry
England, in place of which gloom and sadness have been
introduced, the detestable refuge against which is the
excitement of drink.
Having thus enlightened the house as to what his bill
.vvas not, and cleared it from the imputation of tending
to the better observance of the Sabbath, his lordship
proceeded to reveal what it was, and proclaimed it a
measure for maximising the holiday. This astounding
discovery is Lord Robert's revenge. See what the pub-
lic has lost. Little did the thoughtless mob in Hyde-
park suspect that they were raising their voices against
a larger share of holiday, and getting their heads
broken in opposition to a measure purely for their
pleasure. But perhaps their notions of a holiday
may have differed somewhat from that of Lord Robert
Grosvenor ; and a poor man who was far from sure
of the opportunity of purchasing the materials for a
meal within the prescribed hours, may have thought
that going without his diluter on Sunday would not be
holiday entertainment. The interdict of shaving, or of
-buying a newspaper after a certain hour, may also not
have appeared holiday regulations, but to savour more
of the character of a fast. The fact seems to be that
Lord Robert Grosvenor has made the mistake of pre-
ferring the interests of the few to those of the many.
Certain tradesmen ministering to the wants of the poor
would be very glad to be relieved from their occupations
on Sunday, provided they caa be thoroughly secured
against loss of profits. They will trade against scruples
of conscience rather than be losers by shutting up and
letting the custom go to rivals ; but they say to Lord Ro-
bert Grosvenor and the Legislature, "Make it the same
thing to us as regards the till, and we will be devout.
We are for serving God, provided we can do so without
breaking with Mammon. Make it broad as it is long,
the Bible and the ledger square, and we will shut up
and go to church. Let us bring ourselves round with
Mammon on Monday, nothing lost meanwhile, and
Heaven shall have our devotion on the Sabbath."
We may be told to be satisfied with the withdrawal
of the bill, as " all's well that ends well," but the ques-
tion is whether we have got to a good ending or to a
bad beginning. The example of the triumph of a mob
over the Legislature is a very ugly one, and may have
grave consequences ; and why did not the Government
avert it ? Ministers did not, forsooth, foresee the hos-
tile feelings which the proposed measure has roused ;
and what do they ever foresee ? And for what are cer-
tain men placed in her Majesty's counsels, if they have
not the sagacity to anticipate consequences which every
one of common sense and common knowledge of the
public mind must have pretty plainly foreknown I The
Beer Act had filled the people brimful with discontent,
and it was certain that another drop of gall would make
the cup overflow. Yet Government took no part upon
Lord R. Grosvenor's Bill, and indeed Sir G. Grey coun-
tenanced and supported it. And hence the dangerous
example which it was the duty of a prudent Govern-
ment to have averted. A Minister worthy of his
petition and his trust would have opposed the bill as a
dangerous provocation to the people, whose comforts
and pleasures it threatened, and would have warned its
officious author that the peace of the country would not
bear such vexatious meddling with popular habits. But
it is the peculiarity of our State pilots that they never
look ahead, and like the Irish skipper, they made ac-
quaintance with the rocks by striking on them. Who'd
have thought it!" is the standing word with Them from
Sebastopol to Hyde Park, from a Crimean campaign to
a Sunday riot. When a man goes into high office be
seems to take leave of all knowledge of the world, and to
become in a marvellous degree unprepared for all the work-
ings of opinion. The mind appears to be narrowed to the
four walls of Parliament, and to lose sight of the external
worli. The eye becomes for ever fixed on the weather-
cock of the representation, and is never directed to the
sky, where the presage of the coming change and gale is
to be read. It sees which way tbe,,wind blows, but not
which way the wind will blow, which is to be weather-
wise.

the grass in the park, and the straw lying on the ground
in Grosvenor-street, were set on fire, but the flames were
speedily subdued. The town residence of the King of
Hanover has most of the windows broken, and so has
the premises of Sir William Myddleton. A splendid
sheet of glass worth 401., belonging to Mr. Curling, the
lace merchant, in Grosvenor-street West, is demolished,
and other damage has been done to a vast number of
houses in the immediate neighbourhood.

The police at length succeeded in clearing the park
and bye-streets, but even at midnight much dissatisfac•
tion prevailed among those looking on. An attempt
was made at one time to break the windows of St. Peter's
Church, Pimlico, but the police came marching down in
a body, and thereby prevented. the mob from doing so.
One of the speakers stated that it was the intention of
the committee to keep up a similar excitement each Sun-
day until the Beer Bill is repealed.

On Saturday night a meeting was held at the Literary
and Scientific Institution, Doctors'-commons, to take
into consideration the conduct of the police in Hyde-
park, on last Sunday, and to determine what steps should
be taken to prevent the recurrence of similar violence.
The chair was taken by Mr. Nash, who aliuded to
the unconstitutional act committed by the police in pre
venting the people from speaking, and afterwards punish-
ing them for groaning and shouting. The bill which
Lord Robert Grosvenor and Lord Ebrington had intro-
duced was a direct attack upon the liberties of the people,
as it pronounced, with the authority of law, that while
the rich were to have club-houses, powdered servants,
and prancing horses for their recreation on a Sunday, the
humbler classes of the community were to be excluded
from enjoying the few recreations which were within
their reach. He did not approve of any unlawful assem-
blages in Hyde-park or elsewhere ; but he was convinced
of this, that if the people would present the imposing
front f moral resistance, they would assume an attitude
which must convince the Government and the aristocra.
tic classes that they were not prepared to see their
liberties as Englishmen taken from them. He was glad
to say that the metropolitan press, with one exception,
espoused the cause of the people, and had condemned
the exercise of that brute force which Sir Richard
Mayne and his men seemed so willing to employ. In his
opinion the most practical course for the public to adopt
would be to meet peaceably in large masses to petition
Parliament for an inquiry into the conduct of the police,
to form a deputation to wait upon Lord Palmerston, and
to represent in firm and respectful language their feel-
ings upon the present occasion. _ _

Mr. ERNEST JONES moved the first resolution, con-
demning in strong terms the violence used by the police,
and pledging the meeting to support Mr. Duncombe and
the other Liberal members of the House of Commons in
their endeavour to obtain a strict and searching inquiry
into :he conduct of the police. He recommended them
not to resort to the expedient of sacking houses or break-
ing the windows of club-houses; as some persons had
suggested, but to hold great mass meetings in Hyde-
park, or some other suitable place; and to express their
sentiments in language which, while respectful to the
authorities, and in strict conformity to the law, would
express in intelligible terms their sense of the injustice
of anything approaching class legislation. He hoped
that the meeting would not separate without appointing
a committee to raise a fund for entertaining at a public
dinner at St. Martin's Hall those persons who had been
the victims of the brutal violence of the police. (Cheers.)
He s'ould also suggest that the surplus subscriptions
should be applied either to the payment of the fines im-
po..,ed by Mr. Hardwick, the police magistrate, or as an
indemnity to the sufferers for the pain and inconvenience
they had suffered. A member of the House of Commons
had made a suggestion to Sir George Grey which was
worthy of the source from which it emanated. (Hisses
and cries of "Six-pounder.") Mr. George Dundas—
(groans)--had hinted that nothing was more effective for
the dispersion of a peaceful multitude than the clatter of
a six-pounder on the pavement--(hisses)—but no such
deadly instruments would be required to-morrow, as the
people were determined not to do any act which could
be construed (even by Sir Richard Mayne) into a breach
of the law. He regarded all Sabbatarian legislation as
unnecessary, and only calculated to defeat the object
intended ; but if public-houses were to be closed by
the Government, let the Government give some allure.
ments more healthful and less exciting. Let them open
the British Museum, the Crystal. Palace, and other
places of the kind, and then the toiling thousands of the
metropolis would have less reason to deprecate the Legis-
lature which interfered with their freedom of action.
Above all, he recommended them to hold mass meetings,
and to pass resolutions condemnatory of that absolute
form of government which Sir Richard Mayne and his
force appeared resolved to establish in the centre of the
empire.

kr. Finley and other speakers having addressed the
meeting, a committee was formed to carry the resolutions
into effect, and the proceedings terminated.

As if to make up for the want of common foresight,
which might have served for prevention, by getting rid
of the cause of discontent, much rigour, miscalled .vigour,
has been exercised in suppressing the disturbances in
Hyde-park. The police were probably out of humour at
being put on extra duty on Sunday, for which they had
primarily to thank Lord Robert Grosvenor ; and they
had moreover, perhaps, some hint that a little severity
would not be unacceptable at bead-quarters. Certain it
is that, to say the least, they did not display their usual
forbearance and discrimination. Blackguards and ruf-
fians of course there were in so large an assemblage, and
their outrages may have excited wrath, which discharged
itself, not on the offender, but the first that came to
hand, like the retributive justice we mark in pantomimes,
where the thumps and buffets due to one are always
misdelivered to another.

A TVFUL TRAGEDY ON BOARD A SHIP.

DUBLIN, Saturday.—About eight o'clock yesterday
morning (Friday) the brig Her Majesty arrived at
Queenstown, and cast anchor opposite the Barracks.
Shortly after her arrival rumours began to spread of a
most dreadful tragedyhaving been enacted on board, and
these were confirmed by the fact of a seaman, badly
wounded ba•ving been borne to the hospital. The fol-
lowing particulars, which we (Cork Examiner) have been
enabled to procure through the kindness of the Messrs.
Scott, Lloyds' agent at Queenstown, will be found to be
substantially correct : •

The Her I‘. lajesty is a brig of 221 tons, belonging to
Mr. J. Rickenson, of Whitby, and sailed from Salonica,
a Mediterranean port, about the beginning of May, with
a cargo of Indian corn consigned to,Messrs. Barthali and
of London, and bound to Queenstown for orders, in-
cluding the captain, William Wright, of Whitby, and
the mate, Samuel Cole, the crew amounted in all to about
nine. Amongst the crew was a man named James Veale,
a seaman, a native, we regret to say, of this country,
who had been very badly conducted on the voyage, and
against whom the exiptain had several entries in the log-
book. On the 28th of June, while the vessel was in lat.
44 deg. north, long. 14 deg. 46 min. west, the captain
came on deck about 12 o'clock at night, and found that
hi; man Veale was not, as he should have been, on deck,
it being his watch. On searching for him, he found him
lying asleep in the galley, and he got a bucket of water
and threw it over him. Veale awoke in a rage and sta:•ted
up. The captain walked towards the cabin, and Vealeran
round at the other side of the masts, drew out a large
case knife and stabbed him in several places. The man
at the wheel, George Bald, a native of Fifeshire, ob-
serving the transaction, called out, to another man,
" Take the wheel till I go and call the mate."
Veale, hearing these words, ran down the companion
and got into the state room of the mate, and
stabbed him three several times, exclaiming "There,
there !" The mate struggled faintly with him, but had
only strength to extricate himself from his berth, and
crawl up the companion, when he fell upon the deck,
While the murderer was engaged in the attack upon
the mate, Bald and an old man went down the compa-
nion and into the state-room of the captain, to look for
fire-arms. While they were there they shut the state-
room door, and only barely in time, for Veale, after
completing his terrible work in the cabin of the mate,
rushed over, drove the knife through the panel of the
door they had shut, in an effort to break it in. Foiled in
Lis design here, he went again upon deck, and it is sup-
posed while passing he threw overboard the bodies of
the mate and captain, as they were never seen again. He
then went forward to the forecastle, where two men were
sleeping, and stabbed them both savagely, killing one of
them, the cook, Samuel Weekes, and inflicting upon the
other, George Bald, the man who was taken to hospi-
tal, no less than six wounds.

In the punishment of the offences at the Police Court
we are also struck with a severity which seems dispropor-
tioned.to the circumstances ; especially remembering, as
we well do, the lenity with which the assaults on the
police were treated on the memorable 10th of April.
There was some fright then, and possibly there is some
anger now, to account for the difference.
The delay in bringing up the prisoners for examina-
tion is another circumstance from which inferences of
spiteful intention have been drawn, and far from satis-
factory was Sir G. Grey's explanation that counsel hav-
ing been engaged for the accused, it became necessary
to employ also counsel for the prosecution, barristers
not being so rare and difficult to find in this town, as to
require nearly a whole day to catch one. And it was
nearly five o'clock on Monday afternoon before the first
case was heard. A day of unnecessary confinement at
this season is a punishment in itself ; and besides, to a
poor man it is the loss of a day's wages, perhaps of his
employment atlogether. Considering the whole con-
duct of the police on this occasion, people are beginning
to ask whether the Mayne Police Law has any connec-
tion or sympathy with the Maine Liquor Law. -
'We had written thus far when the statements of Mr.
Roebuck and Mr. T. Duncombo in the House of Com-
mons appeared, and have Bono far towards establishing
a case of wanton and savage violence against the police.
That this misconduct is at variance with the general cha-
racter of 'the force we readily admit, but that very fact
makes inquiry the more necessary and proper, for there
must have been some very extraordinary cause for the
deviation from the customary temper and moderation of
the police. Sir G. Grey is for dealing with special cases,
but the right course is to trace up the special cases to
the special causes. What orders had the men, or had
they any intimations that extraordinary zeal (for that is
the word, the sense of which is well understood) would
be acceptable to authorities in high places. The mob
were bestirring themselves to defeat a measure sanctioned
and supported by the Home Minister, under whom are
the police, and did that circumstance inflame the parti-
zanship or servile zeal of the directors of the force, and
put the truncheons in motion, as alleged, with savage
and indiscriminate violence I

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there is the legal remedy ; but supposing the poor could
afford the recourse to law, which they cannot, there Is_
something more to be considered than the redress
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individual wrongs. The discipline and conduct of th
police are concerned. It is of the highestofim,puoaratialdnscpelrtiot
maintain the character of the force for
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bearance, and promptly to check any
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hatred, not thrice the force will
suffice for the peace of the metropolis. Sir G. Grey has
a graver respooso!Lt.ltY
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and a serious and lasting. mischief may be done to a
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In the meantime the two men in the captain's state-
room remained in a state of dreadful alarm and anxiety,
until at length, hearing everything silent, George Bald
stole up the companion with a pair of loaded pistols,
which he had got in the state-room of the captain. As he
got near the head of the companion, his head being in a
bent posture, he was met by -V eale. returning from his
work of blood in the forecastle, and received two stabs,
one in the back and one in the shoulder. He fell down
the ladder, and one of the pistols went off in the fall.
Bald got into the state-room and secured himself there,
and remained there for some time preparing a musket.
After a little he heard the noise as of scuttling thevessel,
which Veale was attempting with an axe, and ho came
up with a musket which he fired at Veale and wounded
him in the leg. This in all probability saved the
vessel, as there was found afterwards in the deck and
in the side of the vessel holes about from eight inches
to a foot square. Veale retreated to the forecastle
and shut himself up there, and Bald then came after
him and secured the scuttle. He then, it is said, broke
the bull's eye, and fired another shot at Veale, but this
did not hit him. When Veale was below Bald and the
other man hoisted signals of distress, which were an-
swered by the Isabella, of Liverpool, bound for Bristol,
and the mate, James C. Howe, and two men, came on
board. Howe went to the forecastle, and Veale called
out from within, begging of Howe to shoot him. Hope
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bring that he would do no such thing—that he
d'°72ls
bring him to justice. He then went back on board
own vessel to procure more assistance, and on he
.They return
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through
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then waited for a while, but on looking downney
opened
bull's eye they saw his legs hanoing do ;
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the hatch and went down, and they
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himself from the post of
miscreant had ended his misdeeds by sinci e. appears
that in the interval between the first and
efr Fouling on
the leather
board of the mate of the Isabella, 11°'
which was only between three and
belt, which ho was in the habit of wearing round his waist,
across. the berth, and
and with this attempted to. hang
the bunk, or bed place,
four feet high.
~. self-destruction in this way shows
his attempt to commit,
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the utmost determination. broad leathern belt,
did not produce suff • ocation s he took the
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however, He threw his legs
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which had already performed such fatal work and
his throat, so
drew it across , terminating his miserable
existence. - When tne men had entered the forecastle he
was quite dead. He was taken out, and it was then
ascertained that the shot fired by Bald from the head of
the companion had taken effect on him. The body and
that of the cook, who lived 24 hours after he received
his wound, were both thrown overboard. Mr. Howe,
the mate of the Isabella, then took charge of the vessel,
and 4avigateil her into Quemtown. On her arrival,

Sunderland Larracks (says one of the local journals)
are untenanted A CONCERT by a single soldier.
BISHOP IN A CHURCH INTERDICTED BY THE
Or
LONDON.—For some time past a concert of
vocal and instrumental sacred music has been announced
to take
place in the church of the united parishes of St.
Mary, Somerset, and St. Mary Mounthaw, Thames-
street, in the ward of Queenhithe ; the public were to
be admitted on payment of is. and 25., and the funds
thus raised were to be devoted to the school charities
and repairs of the organ. Yesterday, however, the
Bishop of London interdicted the performance, on the
ground of the indecency of making any charge for ad.
mission to an edifice devoted to divine worship according
to the forms of the Established Church.
GENERAL SIMPSON.—We see and hear the question
frequently asked, since the last few days have brought
notice, as Commander-in-Chief of the British army—who
is General Simpson ? In answer to this we beg to state
that General Simpson is a native of Roxburghshire, and
was, until lately, the proprietor of the pretty little estate
of Teviotbauk, near 11a,wick, as also was his late father.
His grandfather was minister of the parish of Wilton ;
and many will remember his uncle, the colleague of the
late Dr. Brunton, of the Tron Church, Edinburgh. He
is married to a daughter of the late Sir Robert Dundas,
of Duneira ; and our member of Parliament, A. Elliott
Lockhart, of Borthwickbrae, Esq., is married toanother,
Two other sisters were married, one to the late R. Wig.
ham, Esq., advocate, and another to Mr. DaTidEon,
Sheriff of Aberdeenshire,..-.B9rder Acketliger.