The Sun.
London, England, 1864-10-19 00:00:00

The Duke of Newcastle, K. G,

The chequered life of the Duke of Newcastle was
brought to a premature, but not unexpected, close
yesterday evening, at 47 minutes plat six, at Clumo
bar. His grace had been suffering for a lengthened
period from the same incurable disease which killed
poor Lord Herbert, his old Oxford friend and poli-
tical colleague, at whose touching funeral at Wilton
a few years back, the duke might have been seen a
most deeply-grieved mourner. Like Lord Herbert,
the duke had resigned his office in the Ministry;
but if he did not actually die in harness, he died—
as Lord Herbert, too, died—from the tffects of
overwork in the public service—unspared labour—
ceaseless anxiety—insensibility to fatigue or sick-
ness—work to which both clung with a fatal tens=
city, and with a too conscientious and sensitive de-
votion, long after exhausted nature and the
entreaties of their dearest friends bade them rest.
The Duke of Newcastle was not a great states-
man, but he was emphatically en honest one, He
entered public life from no motives of self-aggranr
disement, but from the considerations of a noble
ambition with which the career of Peel had fired so
many of his young Oxford contemporaries. His
motive was the good of his country; his stronghold
was a firm religious belief. The latter he opposed
unflinchingly to the doctrines of expediency and
vacillation—political hedging, in fact—so prevalent
in more accommodating quarters ; the former he
pursued unswervingly, through difficulties and
obloquy which might have appalled a less con-
scientious man. He sacrificed the comforts of
domestic life ; he sacrificed his seat in Parliament ;
he sacrificed his popularity whenever and wherever
he considered that the claims of his country were
paramount to personal feelings. Happy it was for

the duke that he lived to see a varied political career
closed amid general honour and esteem ; bappy
that, after a brief period of undeserved ostracism, he
returned to public life, and that having passed a loyal
and honoured career in still greater services to his
country and his Sovereign, he has not now been corn.-
pelled to let his fame be posthumously re-established
in the sense of Horace's old but true apophthegm—
" Virtutem incolumem odimus,
Sublatam ex oculis qua3rimus invidi."

In good truth the sound sense and the good feelings
of Englishmen generally prevail over a momentary
panic of passion, and it is plain to calm thinkers that
the duke had been somewhat hardly dealt with in
being made a Jonah for the neglect of the entire Mi-
nistry in the Crimean war. He has served her Majesty
again with the highest distinction,and in the highest
posts of dignity; he was selected by her to accompany
the heir to the Throne to her Canadian possessions ;
and on his death-bed her Majesty twice came from
her long retirement and paid a visit of kindness to
her noble subject. The Prince of Wales came also
to see the duke the day after the Queen's first visit,
and it need hardly be said that the grief of his
royal highness for his grace's death will be no tran-
sitory or commonplace emotion. He was permitted,
just before his death, to see his infant grandson, the
future heir of his illustrious house; his tenants, who
painfully watched their lord as he was slowly borne
to his ancestral halls a dying man, made their
obeisances in silence more touching than words, and
the same tenants united in cordial congratulations
on the birth of the heir which his grace was unable

to receive, and to which he was obliged to depute
his younger son to respond. This was the last time
his, grace's name appeared before the public, and so
his eyes may be said to have closed in domestic
peace, alike with the respect of his countrymen and
the regard of his Sovereign.
Born in the good old Tory days (1811), the son
of a Tory of the Tories, it was the assumed busi
ness and interest of a Pelham-Clinton to keep up
the policy of a very curious father in a world which
was moving on. Like all his family he was educated
at Eton, where the brightest lustre is shed on his
father's fame in the present generation, by -his
munificence in founding, 35 years ago, the classical
scholarship which was named after him, and will be
gratefully remembered when his political weak•
nesses are forgotten. Entering Christ Church,
Oxford, Lord Lincoln became a contemporary of
that singular galaxy of men destined hereafter to
win high reputations in the political world—Glad.
stone, Bruce (Lord Elgin), Canning, Herbert,
Ramsay (Marquis of Dalhousie), an astonishing
list of fellow-collegians, four from Eton, two from
Harrow—an astonishing list and a mournful one,
too, when it is considered that of that brilliant

Lord Lincoln was not a brilliant speaker, or an
orator in any sense of the word. Like his great
master, Peel, cold, reserved, and methodical ; not
impulsive, or impetuous, or fervid, like his dis-
tinguished fellow-student, Mr. Gladstone, he
never much pleased the House of Commons, and
on one memorable occasion was even counted out.
His maiden speech was delivered July 29, 1835,
against the Polls at Elections Bill. We next find
him (Jane 28,1836) speaking against the Dissenters'
Marriages Bill. He proposed the postponement of
the bill to that day six months, as by it the Church
would be placed in the position of an inferior. On
the Ecclesiastical Bill for abolishing the collegiate
character of Southwell Church (1840)—which is
precisely what Mr Beresford-Hope and his friends
want to re-establish, not only in Southwell but in
all larges towns—Lord Lincoln and Mr Gladstone
were tellers for an alternative proposal to create
four canonries of £l6 asyear for.parochial purposes.
They received 15 votes, and their opponents 54, but
the soundness of their views has been vindicated
with thinking churchmen by the proposals which
have been recently put forward.
On the 7th of February, 1842, it was Lord Lin-
coln, then Chief Commissioner of Woods and
Forests, who was deputed by the House of Com-
mons to congratulate Prince Albert on the occasion
of the birth of the Prince of Wales. The same
noblemanorho heralded the heir's birth, officially,
to the Commons, became one of his royal highness's
highest officials in his Duchy, acted as his guardian
on his foreign tour, and was visited on his death-
bed by the prince in person.
As Chief Commissioner of Woods and Forests,
he signalised himself by providing out of the
Crown Lands for the neglected clergy of the
Forest of Dean, and for the spiritual interests of
11,000 souls dependent for their daily labour on
Crown property, Dr. Bowring, Mr. Joseph Hume,
and Mr. Thomas Duncombe opposed this " fresh
encroachment of the Church ;" but even Mr,
Henry Berkeley supported it, and it was carried.
I❑ 1843, when ho procured the suspension of the
writ for Nottingham on the ground of Mr.
Walker's bribery, his father, the duke, vehemently
condemned the step. With various services of prac-
tical utility, the improvements of drainage, the
widening of the streets, the establishment of Vic
toria park, the proposal of an embankment betwee❑
Westminster and Black friars, the Earl of Lincoln's
domestic career closed iu 1846. As Chief Secretary
for Ireland he left no mark, and indeed his tempera-
ment was hardly suited to Irish latitudes, especially
considering the perpetual political struggles on the
corn laws in which his duty to his chief compelled
him to mix at home. Between 1846 and 1852 he gave
a qualified support to Liberal principles, so far as
the free trade of Sir It. Peel was affected by them.
The duke had been a Lord of the Treasury in
1834-5, Chief Commissioner of Woods and Forests
_ _

from 1841 to January 1846, and Chief Secretary
for Ireland from January to July of that year.
He was now to try his hand at a higher class of
statesmanship. In December, 1852, he accepted the
post of Colonial and War Secretary (for both then
were combined) in Lord Aberdeen's Cabinet. The
singular state of affairs which brought about his
secession and the disruption of the Ministry is worth
a passing notice as ho
instance of the unthinking
violence of popular feeling, only good as evidencing
an ardent desire for the honour of the country.
Lord Aberdeen's Cabinet contained undoubt-
edly some of the wisest, most patriotic, most zealous
men in the nation ; but it wanted cohesion, and
unluckily it wanted something more, lacking which
no talents and no virtues can save a Ministry
from ruin—the loyalty of its members one to the
other. There seemed to be a malignant spirit in
it which knew no rest because it was not the guide
ing spirit of affairs, The departments broke down
under the work, to the details of which Ministers
and clerks were alike new. When the Colonial
was separated from the War Department, the duke,
in choosing the latter, had shown patriotism and

ambition, but he could not make or remodel a whole
vast disorganised system in face of the daily de-
mands of the war. Gradually tidings came home
which wrung all hearts. The troops had no great
coats, no medicines, but there was a vast quantity
of biscuit and coffee, only the biscuit was mouldy
and the coffee green. The opening of the session of
1855 witnessed the beginning of the end. Mr Roe-
buck gave notice in the House of Commons of a
committee of inquiry into the whole administration
of the war. On the day when he was to bring it on
Lord John Russell resigned office, The motion came
on. Lord Palmerston and all his colleagues man-
fully stood
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and indolence." I, my lords," he exclaimed, " as re.
garde the charge of indolence, I can only say that
the public have had, at all events, every hour and
every minute of my time. Not one hour of recrea.
tion or of amusement have I presumed to think that
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and the safety of our army ! My lords, I have
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tages
and naval services of the country to allow of such
a sentiment. I have two sons engaged in those
two services, and that alone, I think, would be
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sufficient to prevent me from being indifferent;
but, my lords, as a Minister—as a man—l should
be unworthy to stand in any assembly if the charge
of indifference under such circumrtances could be
truly made against me. Many a sleepless night I
have passed, my lords, thinking over the evils
which the public think, and say, I could have cured,
and which, God knows! I would have cured if it
had been within my power. Indolence and indiffe-
rence are not charges that can truly be brought
against me. I deny the charges ; and I trust that
my countrymen Will before long be satisfied, what.

tion, the Duke of Newcastle warmly defended his
old friend, observing that if the censures on Lord
Canning had been deserved he would not have
stood up for him, but he insisted that the Viceroy's
conduct had been firm and decisive. In the same
year (1858) he supported the admission of the Jews
to Parliament. His policy in regard to church-
rates was varied within two years, during
which he had been associated with Mr. Miall, it
is understood, on the Education Committee. In
1868 (July 2) he considered that no man had
a right to refuse _to pay taxes on religious
grounds, and he should vote against the Abolition
Bill as "an abstract proposition." In 1860 (June
19), however, he " had come down prepared to
vote against the Abolition Bill, but the altered tone
of the House of Commons rendered all com-
promise impossible. He regretted the bill, but
must vote for it, which he did, with 31 followers,
against 128 opponents.
It is proper still to say that the duke was always
one of the stanchest of Churchmen. To him is
owed a heavy debt of gratitude for his willing and
cordial concurrence in the establishment of so -many
new Colonial sees, and the selection of sound and
earnest men to fill them. ID his domestic relations
few have better proved their Churchmanship than
when, on succeeding, a poor man, to an impoverished
and encumbered inheritance, he applied himself first
of all to the restoration of every church in his gift,
the establishment of schools and rectories where
none existed before, and the careful regard for the
proprieties of the Church offices being observed by
the clergy, whom he chose for their merit only to
fill the livings in his gift. By these things he much
more merited, and in truth obtained, the honour of
true Churchmen than by being a careless indiffe•
rentist in practice, but a stickler for trumpery
points of ecclesiastical dues in Parliament.

The Duke of Newcastle was selected by her
Majesty to travel through her North American
dominions with the Prince of Wales in 1860. The
royal and distinguished party embarked in the
Hero, from Devonport, on the 10th July, arriving
at St. John's, Newfoundland, on the 23d of the
same month. From Newfoundland to Nova Scotia,
from Halifax to Quebec, to Montreal to Ottawa (the
new capital chosen by the Queen), at the Falls of
Niagara, on a gigantic timber-raft down the St.
Lawrence, from Canada to New York, through the
States now so bitterly at variance—in each city
through which he passed the glowing tale is never
varied. All newspaper readers are familiar with the
interesting details of the prince's visits to Montreal
and 1-I,:litax,as well as New York; the enthusiasm he
excited in and out of the Queen's territories, and the
opinions expressed of the firm and judicious bear-
ing of his Mentor, the duke—especially in the
notable skirmish with some indiscreet Canadian
Orangemen who desired to flaunt the emblems of
their party in the face of the youthful prince, who
could know no party.
Of a statesman so honoured and so regretted

it almost seems a mockery to give the ancestral
honours and personal dignities which he bears no
longer; but as a mere record, it may be stated that
Henry Pelham Fiennes Pelham-Clinton, K.G., Duke
of Newcastle-under• Lyme, in Staffordshire, Earl of
Lincoln, and Baron Clinton, Lord Warden of the
Stannaries of Cornwall and Devonshire (1862),
Lord Lieutenant of Nottinghamshire (1857), Rider
and Master Forester of Dartmoor, Lieut.-Colonel of
the Sherwood Rangers (1853), High Steward of
Retford (1851), Keeper of St. Briavel's Castle, &c.,
was born in Charlotte street, Berkeley-square, slay
22, 1811, and by his marriage (Nov. 27, 1832) with
Lady Susan Harriet Catherine Hamilton Douglas,
only daughter of the Duke of Hamilton, has sur-
viving issue four sons and a daughter. The latter,
Lady Susan Charlotte Catherine Pelham-Clinton,
married in April, 1860, Lord Adolphus Vane Tem-
pest, M.P. for South Durham, who died a few
months ago. The second son, Lord Ed ward William,
born in 1836, is an officer in the Rifle Brigade ; the
third and fourth, Lords Arthur and Albert, born
respectively in 1840 and 1845, are in the navy. His
grace, who became Duke of Newcastle in the sum-
mer of 1851, is succeeded in his titles and estates by
his eldest son, Henry Pelham, Earl of Lincoln, born
Jan. 25, 1834, and educated at Eton and Christ
Church, Oxford, who married, Feb. 11, 1861, Hen.
rietta Adele, daughter of Mr Henry Thomas Hope,
of Deepdene, by whom he has issue two daughters
and one son and heir, Lord Clinton, born a week or
two back. The present Duke sat for Newark from
1857 to 1859 as a Conservative, and unsuccessfully
contested the borough of Nottingham as a Liberal
against Sir R. J uckes Clifton, on the elevation of
Mr John Mellor, Q.C,, to the Judicial Bench. He
is a deputy-lieutenant of Nottinghamshire and
lieutenant in the Sherwood Rangers.
As to the family of the Clintons, it is uncertain
whether they trace their descent from " William
de Villa Tancredi, Chamberlain of Normandy and
Maude, his wife, daughter of William de Arches,
descended from Weirs, sister of Gunora, Duchess
of Normandy," and so were somehow connected
with Clinton near Woodstock, or whether they are
of purely Anglo. Saxon origin. We hear of a John
de Clinton of Arrington being summoned to the
House of Peers in the 27th year of Edward L's
reign (1299.) His younger son was created Justice
of Chester, Warden of the Cinque Ports, Lord Ad•
miral of the Seas from the Thames westward, and
Earl of Huntingdon ; while his grandson partici.
pated in the glorious achievements of the Black
Prince. Edward, ninth Lord Clinton, was created
Earl of Lincoln in 1572. The fourth earl was
heartily in favour of Charles 1., and was carver at
Charles IL's coronation. The seventh earl, who
was gentleman of the bedchamber to Prince George
of Denmark, married the sister of Thomas Duke
of Newcastle, and his second son inherited from
his uncle the dukedom, the remainder having been
granted in November, 1756. But whatever may
be the lineage of this great family, there is one
thing quite certain, and much more important, that
no member of either house—Pelham or Clinton
was a more honest and loyal servant of his Sove-
reign than the duke whose death we record this
day.

THE HIGHWAY ACT, 1862.—At the Quarter
Sessions held for the county of Monmouth, at Usk,
on Monday last, Lord Llanover, who had acted as chair-
man of the Committee of Justices, moved that the provi.
sional orders for the adoption of the Act throughout the
county, which were made at the previous sessions, ho con-
firmed. Lord Tradegar seconded the motion, which was
supported by Col. Clifford, M.P., Mr Morgan, M.P., and
others. Captain Tyler opposed it; and Sir Thos. Phillips
moved, and Mr Williams, of Llanjibby Castle, seconded an
amendment that the further consideration of the subject be
adjourned to the January sessions. On the question being
put from the chair, the original nioticn was carried ty a
large majority. The election of waywardens was then fixed
for the 25th March, and the first meeting of the Board will
take place ott the alet March,

Her Majesty's paddlewheel despatch vessel Salamis,
Commander F. G. Suttie, went alongside the wharf at
Woolwich yesterday, and unshipped the baggage of his
Royal Highness the Prince Victor Albert and suite, who
landed at Hull on the preceding day. Commander Suttie
proceeded to the Admiralty to receive his instructions, and
the salamis in the meantime went alongside the Mercury
coal depot to fill in her bunkers, as it was expected she
would be ordered to return immediately to Copenhagen.
At a naval court-martial assembled yesterday on board
her Majesty's ship Victory at Portsmouth, for the trial of
Thomas J. Turner, ordinary seaman, of her Majesty's ship
Vesuvius, on two serious charges of assault, Ito, the Court
found the charges proved, and sentenced the prisoner to
three years' penal servitude.
After the conclusion of the military display on Southsea
Common by the troops in Portsmouth Garrison on Monday,
the Duke of Cambridge, accompanied ,by Major-Gen. Lord
W. Paulet, C. 8., Sir R. Airey, Col. Clifton, and a nume-
rous staff, rode out along
.the line of sea beach, between
Southsea Castle, the southern entrance to Portsmouth.H.ar-
hour, Channel entrance from Spithead, and the sea to the
glacis of Fort Cumberland, which commands the entrance
over dangerous shoals and through tortuous and narrow
channels to Langston harbour. He inspected cursorily as
he passed along the new forts at Lumps now occupied
by the Royal Artillery, and the still more recently erected
fort at Eastney which stands on the line of shore in front of
the barracks now in course of erection for the accommo-
dation of the Royal Marine Artillery. The length of
the line of beach between Southsea Castle and Fort Cumber-
land is about 4,500 yards, and on this intermediate space at
about equal distances from each other, stand the Forts of
Lumps and Eastney. The former is a well-builtearthworh-,
with means, at present, of mounting nothing heavier than
68 or 100 pounder guns, but which may be strengthened, if
required, to carry much heavier ordnance. The work at
Eastney has been most expensive. So far as its offensive
powers exist they are comprised in a couple of bastions, on
the same principle as lumps Fort, but separated by a long
curtain, so that the entire work extends the length of the
new marine barracks building, some 200 yards in its rear,
The lavish expenditure, however, referred to has been be-
stowed upon the construction of a singularly expensive and
curious wall, built up in the dry ditch in front of the work,
and which in tee opinion of the majority of military men is
remarkable only for its complication in detail and its use-
lessness. The consideration of the junction of the waters of
Chichester, Langston, and Portsmouth—a series of inland
sea waters some 20 miles in length, parallel with the waters
of the Channel—could not have been undertaken in any
spot more favourable for the purpose than that where the
Duke and his staff drew up, at the end of their ride from
Southsea, on the glacis of Fort Cumberland. On the return
of the Duke to Portsmouth he alighted at the Government-
house, where, with his staff, he remains the guest of Major
Gen. Lord W. Paulet during his stay in the garrison.

Yesterday morning the Duke recommenced his inspection
accompanied by Major Gen. Lord W. Paulet, Sir R. Airey
and Staff, with a visit to the Royal Sovereign turret ship,
Capt. S. Osborne, C. 8,, lying alongside the railway jetty of
the yard. A considerable time was spent on board, and
every part of the ship on deck and below, with the turrets,
guns, and fittings, was examined minutely, and in the work-
ing of the turrets especially considerable interest was mani-
fested. From the Royal Sovereign the Duke proceeded to
the Anglesea Barracks, Portsea, occupied by the 21st Regi-
ment, which was drawn up on the parade ground for inspec-
tion. From the quarters of the 21st the Duke left the gar-
rison for Ililsea, where he visited and inspected in their bar-
racks, stables, and on parade the two batteries of field artil-
lery at present stationed there. He afterwards proceeded to
Portsdown and inspected there, necessarily in a cursory
manner, the stupendous forts now constructing along the
ridge of the Down; the central and western ones—Widley,
Southwick, Nelson, and Wallington, are rapidly approach-
ing completion, but those at the eastern end of the Down—
Purbrook, Crookhorn, and Farlington have not yet made
any progress beyond their excavations and the rough for-
mation of their glade. Admiration cannot but be freely
accorded to the comprehensiveness of the designs of these
works, either as taken singly or as parts of one general
plan. There is much to condemn in the want of judgment

shown in the execution of some portions of the work in more
than one of the forts. For instance, at Southwick the main

magazine (some 50ft below the surface of the parade ground)
collapsed from too early a removal of the supports, and the
ground had to be excavated, and the magazine recon-
structed, at great cost, and at Widloy some portions of the
brickwork and the composite wall of the escarp have been
carried out without any regard to the nature of the work it
would have to perform. The wall of the escarp is being re-
built after having fallen into the ditch of the fort, and
brickwork panels in the casemates. at the termination of the
rampart, on either side of the gorge, are now shored up by
timber supports, to prevent their giving way under the
pressure of the new made ramps of the earth at their back
From Portsdown-hill the Duke completed the circuit of
Portsmouth harbour shoreline by passing through the
village of Fareham and returning to Portsmouth by Gos-
' port, calling in and inspecting on his way the advanced forts
in front of Gosport at Brockhurst, Rowner, and Grange.
About sunset, on his return to Portsmouth, ho embarked on
board her Majesty's steamer Sprightly, Commander G.
Allen, and paid a short visit to the works on the Horse and
Noman shoals for the foundations of the intended marine
forts for the protection of Spithead. He also visited the
site of the proposed forts on the Spit Bank and the Hyde
Sand, where borings are being made to ascertain the suit-
ability of the underlying strata for the work. Tho site
selected on the Spit by the last commission has been
abandoned after examination by boring, it having been
found that nothing but silted up matter could be obtained
at a very considerable depth from the surface. A fresh site
having boon selected about 500 yards further in shore, the
nature of the ground at no great di,tauce from the surface
of the shoal has been found admirably adapted to support
a large work, and it is most probable that on this spot
will be erected the third of the Spithead forts.
The appointment of principal of the surveying and topo-
graphical departments at the Royal Engineer establishment,
Chatham, vacant by the appointment of Lieut.-Col. H. Y.
D. Scott to the charge of the South Kensington Museum,
has been conferred on Lieut,-Col. A. A. Fisher, C. 8., Royal
Engineers, who has commenced the duties of the depart-
ment. Lieut.-Col. Fisher has seal considerable active em•
ployment, having served during the Crimean campaign and
also in China from 1857 to the close of the war. Ho come
manded the Royal Engineers in the expedition to China in
1859, and was appointed one of the allied commissioners for
the government of Canton. Ho subsequently served with
the force under Sir Hope Grant in the campaign of 1860.
Capt. R. Harrison has been appointed adjutant to the
Royal Engineer establishment, Chathans, in succession to
Capt. C. E. Harvey, promoted and removed. Prior to his
appointment Capt. Harrison was attached to the staff of

William Ackrell, police-sergeant 15 F, said he was om
duty in plain clothes ab ut seven o'clock on Saturday even-
ing, October 1, when he saw the prisoners and another
man. Snowing them he followed them as far as Exeter-
hall, where there was an alarm of fire, and a great many
persons were assembled. He saw them pushing back-
wards and forwards on the pavement in the crowd. Sher-
man was in front, and the other prisoner was "covering'"
(hiding) him. He saw him feeling the dresses of different
females with his left hand. They went and stood in front
of a gentleman who was wearing a gold watch, and he
saw Sherman take the gentleman's watch from his pocket,
but before he had time to separate it from the chain the
gentleman pulled his coat together, buttoned it up, and
left the watch hanging by the guard. The prisoners
then crossed the :road and he followed them, and with
assistance took them into custody, He (witness) strug-
gled with Jones, and while doing so he saw him take a
pair of handcuffs from his pocket, which he threw from.
him amongst the crowd.
Mrs Gledden saw the prisoners at the station-house, and
picked them out from several other persons as those by
whom she had been successively visited about the two capes,
hearman as having sold them, and Jones as the man who
called, showed her the handcuffs, and took the capes away.
George Finnis, police-constable 45 B, said he had known
the prisoner Jones for many years, and ho was convicted in
1861 in this court, and sentenced to 12 months' imprison-
ment. He was a soldier in the Guards, but was discharged
on account of his bad character.

The Assistant Judge sentenced Jones to be kept in penal
servitude for 7 years, and Shearman for 5 years.
As soon as the sentence was pronounced Jones bawled
out " You -, when I como out again I'll shoot you 1"
and the other prisoner launched out into a volume of abuse
to the learned judge, and it was with some shoW of resis-
tance they were taken to the cells below.
John Sewell, Is, and John Sellwood, 20, were indicted
for stealing a silver watch, six silver teaspoons, a pair of
siver sugar tongs, six cut bottles, brooches, table-cloths,
table covers, and an immense quantity of wearing apparel,
the property of Henry Bradden. There were four other •
indictments of a similar description, and the enumeration
of the articles stolen occupied the court a considerable time
iu reading them.

In the case of Mr Bradden, it appeared that he was a gar-
dener, living at Colney Hatch, and on Monday, the 19th of
September, he went from home, locked up the house, and
left everything safe. On his return home about 3 o'clock in
the afternoon he found the doors and windows broken open,
and some slates taken off the roof. A. man named Jones saw
a costermonger's barrow with a pony standing in Colney
Hatch-road, and Selwood was sitting in it. Sewell put a
sack to a man who was inside a fence, and shortly after this
the man came back dragging a sack which was then quite
full. As soon as he saw the witness Jones he dropped the
sack, jumped over the fence, got into the barrow, and made
his escape. Sewell and Sellwood were also seen at the place
by other witnesses. The prisoners were subsequently taken
into custody on another charge, and on the person of Sewell,
on his being searched at the Tottenham station, a silver
thimble was found, which was identified by Mr Bradden as
one of the articles stolen from the premises.
The practice of the prisoners was, it appeared, to go round
Hornsey, Colney Hatch, and its neighbourhood, with a bar-
row and pony, under pretence of selling greengrocery, and
thus get access to premises to sell their articles. When they
saw a favourable opportunity they plundered the houses of
anything they could lay their hands upon and drove away
with it.
The jury found the prisoners guilty, and the other in..
dictments were not gone into.
The Assistant Judge said these were daring robberies,
and it became his duty to send the prisoners away. He
then sentenced them to be kept in penal servitude for five
years.