The Sun.
London, England, 1852-08-05 00:00:00

Mr. Cooke conducted the prosecution, and Mr. Skin-
ner the de;once.
The 17;h of July was the second
polling-day for the
county election, and a Mr. Palmer, who W 35 active for
the Conervalive candidates,
having induced rt body of
eighteen " lo leave the town of Ross, which
was one of the paling places For the county, and to go
to the Weetoncross inn, at Weston-under..Penyard,
under a promise of getting some refreshmen*, they
reached that place, and were enjoying themselves quietly
with bred and cheese and cid, r, when a party of the
friends of the Liberal candidate came up from Ross and
made an attack on them, smashed almost all the win-
d,ws of the inn, broke the front door, and cid altogether
such an amount of damage that the pzoprietur has
' claime i from the hundred 71. compensation.
'rhe following is the material
portion. of the evi-
dence

Sir R W. CARDEN—I am cu-prised that Mr. REMd
to employ kind,
thought it neeetssetry, after what I stated to him us to. bii
think it wet:ler:l°u: aid vuranble thins
complete exoneratien from bleme or charge of any
to hear the
whole case.
foz
The witness, cross-examined by Mr. B:ckley
Tgipe—Tne overtures I spoak of were made to m 0 133„'
Mr. Railten, who, I bt,lieve, belongs to the firm or
Stevens and Co. I was told it wee on behalf of a gold'
mining company. During the c.mvirsatiou I had above te
offices or the company
an offer from him nexti‘lontahcicor
to stay
y I, how. vet,
James Abraham Thorne, one of the lads alio wore
and vv"
exam-ned on the last day of the investigations
had been acting as clet k in the " Australian Gold Wl'
hog and Emigration Company," mute the following a
to
d:
ditienal communications :—" An alteration took pi tog
morning.o e saidT That
drat(ff Ir shouldne
ve
never
came'
the n .me of the company a month after I
Montague and Tripe generally sat iu the inner or board
room
Ste R. W. CARDEN—DO you (n. any gentleman in
room w h-tn you have seen et y our office on busines. r
itness—Yes. I saw Mr. Greenwood nearly every rit'Y'
He used to go into the room io which Tripe and We:
tegue sat. I know Mr. Brown. I cannot say how ratulid
times I have seen bleu at the office. I beliave 115:0
to go into the hoard rocm. I cannot way the; VIP° whe
ever there at the time. Ho used to go in direct to to.
board-room without ,ppakin- went there
6 to me. There woBaAs
ther door to the bawd- room and sometimes that „b.
opened. It was wire n Tripe and Montague sver° f
soot that names were entered in the otillt-b°''tbe
can't say they, I ever saw Mr. Brown sitting at
t,ble tbe 'aril room I kat,. Cap-nio Smith, glee
ate him here to chty, Bk,,n him at. the .-'OOO
Lb:ee or tour tithes. Ha weni; into the ho'adl
and remains d there, I dare say, half an h""..,r• "megulf
not say that I ever saw7C,,ptain Smith and kLyn-,,`as
and Tripe together in the board-room. The dourh-ere
generally abut utter poisons entered. o,e "Yhto-tere
was a board meeting. It was about a fortnight
or
we lett Awtin-triarsi. I dare say that 12 geatleateuwas
more attended it. I cannot say whether Mr. 131°Itbel
one of those who attended. I did not notice thew as
wenthvo naow greatslajmoar many wi
times a who
thhoe7lfinee°7llll:lles.titic;
friars. He getser_dly went into the board-'atom o'lrrpee
rmtro,oosninqt)a.pgatlegitoodedt:emmeneti
jwoahreo he came. I have son 'JO'
bited here in the board
r - - prospectus con ts,l,ed-i.
the names of several gentlemen who were called , 1
rectors.") I did not see the prospectuses di.
.aitlteut
have not heard of more than one meeting of the diirteeet
tors. Ido not know Mr: Lurwyche. Ido not reocn
prospectusrllook e(
s b togethersim il similar tob this
ever having seen him, but I have heard him sP°ken of.
(Here Mr. tout wyche stood up, and the witness
P
eeved that he did not know the gentleman.) ar a
The wittists continued—The pr_ specials aPPe—e os'
the Times newspaper. Several persons called for Prere
p touts a, but none were (left, ered to Lb, w.
the
told that the prospectuses weresnet yet ready Them who
printers. We did not give prospectuses to there 00
came about the passage to Australia. We reeralli geek,
to thFoi the dietary scale. I was to have bad 70. ale
hut I receive) only two weeks' pay during the wb°,.`e
I was there. I never asked any of the directors r°l;o4
money. I never receive d any instructions as to An)
who came to remonstrate ab tast tbe company. the
(Here Mr. Brown, who had been absent frog
court on business, tntered.) g bar'
Witness—l cannot undertake to 59y a before
Brown - fore
Brown at the office more than once. That wag

William Palmer—l reside with my brother at Weston-
under-Yenyard. Oa Friday, the 16th of July, my bro-
ther gave the " navvies ' a treat of ceder to in-
duce them to remain away from the election.
as they were to have a holiday. Oct Saturday I
found a party of them in Ross—about eighteen, I
induced them to leave the town and gc to the Western-
cross-inn, where I gave them bread and cheese and
cyder to keep them there. I had been at the Western-
cross Inn ahem a quarter of an hour when a carriage
drove up, containing some people armed with pike-
staves and short bludgeons. This was shortly followed
by two others, cremmed with people, similarly armed.
When they drove up the men in the inn were peaceable
and quiet. When the first carriage arrived a man cell).
into the bar where I was seated. He had orange and
gre,n in his coat. He neked if there were Jny voters?
To which I answered "No." He then left the bar, and
went back to the carriage. I then saw ivvo or three of
his companions coming towards the inn. I moved from
my seat near the window, and went to the bar door
leading to the kitchen. I spoke to the " navvies." I
said, " Here's a body of armed men come up; it looks
as if they intended some mischief." While I was lean-
ing over the bar door I heard two or three enter the
bar. One approached me very nearly, loiiking inie
the kitchin over my shoulder. The man s%id, " Ohl
here they are, all right enough." I did not lack
round, so I cannot say who the man was. I
then returned to where I had been seated, and
saw three or four men retureieg to their car-
riages, into which they got, and their horses' beetle
were turned towards Ross. Then the two other car-
riages came up. A tremendous rush was made by ti e
men who got out of them. They rushed up the passage.
I distinctly saw Trigg's face, who was one of the iore-
most; and when his race as towarna me I heard one of
h iron bey," There is Palmer; let us have him i ut."
I saw a body of men rush round the corner into the
kitchen, wh, n I heard a tremeedeus sceffi e I saw the
men from the oarrieges dash the window* in, and a vele
ley of scones came into the bar where I was. The bee
window was beaten in by pikestaves and stones. I saw
a great number of cups and glasses smashed. One stone
want rich: through the bar tote the kitchen, through a
window in the dour. Tee woos we're road stones. .The
three carriages contained from 45 to 50 men. While
this was going on the " navvi.f," were in the kin hen.
The work of destruction lasted between five and ten mi-
nutes. They went off in a party to the carriages, and
the carriages rattled off in the din ction of Rose. I only
saw Trigg that one time. The party passed by me slung
the passage. There was in the house a servant girl. I
Oidc nrnostss-eeexatmheinleadndlei
dryo.ok an active part in the election
on behalf of Booker, King, and Hanbury. Only one of
the " navvies" had a stick—a walking-stick. One of
them bad a blue rosette, and two pieces of blue riband.
I met Mr. Cole, an innkeeper, near Ross, and a carriage
containing orange and green voters shortly after. Two
or three " navvies" cried " Blue for ever!" as the carriage
passed. I did not see Trigg with any stick. Die man
who came in asked if there were any voters there?
Trigg was not one of the parry who came in immedi-
ately. I did not see Trigg strike anybody or anything.
A body of men bad been tieing violence at the door, and
ne rushed in immediately after. From the place where
I waseta
nding
object
could notsea n k
ing h
tthaevoters e there.
Re-examined—My
"navvies" out
of Ross was to avoid a riot.

the board day. - •Dter•
Mr. Edward Collier, of 17, Fenchurch-streef, Prl cute
said— I was applied to to pfint, cards and a Pr"'li, -,the
for the oompaby. The first transaction I bttd:iel"
company took place, I think, upon the ad of "11,7i-tien
Toe witness was directed to bring up the /I.t-- f the
structions which he had received upon the Pahr":6
company on the next day of 'salmi. talon, Whiel'a.fill be
ponved for Friday, when it is tApeeted the OS- I
concluded. „ rli
The CO, Solioi,or, who had been sent for in a -,s
part of the du)'s Pr, oeedilig4, here undertook, be
of
direction of the Alderman
this cornplic4ted case, at the estiie
, the whole msnageraellioet
the emigrants having most igxraPt'enfusellyofatchceepCtedrPt°b7:6:r
1;
of the Alderman to render comp!.-te juaice
without the expense of a farthing to any one of
to
'-
number.
Mr. Sleigh said his client (Montague) was row, /do
give, without the least reservation, all the knoOd
to
he po.sessed of the transactions of the company, I'oog
submit to the consequences of a trial if, alter 6tri'abs
everything he was acquainted with, it should be thab •
necessary to prosecute him elsewhere. the
Mr. Bickley expressed, upon the part of Tripe,i the
greatest willingness to state the particulars of s
proceedings and acts to which be had been stitnee9
clerk engaged in the office of the company. jot
The City Solicitor said it was his intention fe °H
-who
the evidence with a view to the prosecution of ise
were concerned in the transactions which bade- 11.
to the complaints of the emigrants.
The professional gentlemen who attended for
th%sey
scrupulous
said
sp•uhineuisurms names
evanept,pst
iegai appeared nvvrtath.leo
cb,prospectuseodu tttoo htaekaoref
thatthe et; Plo.Btobs:
transactionsaffairs
watchmp,ny ,t h
eayn
repudiated. yonkenainwdleadlgl ernoofstitelliegliar--131°11r1

Thomas Hodges, a farmer, living in the parish of
Ross, said—l went to the Westerrecross Inn on the Sa-
turday, just as the first, carriage drove up. I saw Mr.
Palmer in the bar. I saw one or two come into the
house and ask about voters, and rec4e.ng for answer
that there were no voters there, turn back and walk out
I saw the other carriages drawn up as the first was
leaving. In a few minutes a party of about sixty, car-
rying in their hands pikestavea, came in; they were
shouting. The party rushed into the kitchen along the
passage, The " navvies" were bound to get up to de-
feud themselves. The party used their weapons, and
seemed preparing for battle. One of them swore he
would knock me down if I did not leave the door open.
I pushed the door to and fastened it. After they had
rushed on the " navvies" in the kitchen they returned
back into the room. In two minutes the bar-window
was hit in with stones and sticks. I saw Trigg on one
of the carriages before the windows were broken, and I
saw him rush down the passage by the bar-door where
I was. There was much noise. He was very active
rushing and pushing forward. He was pretty nearly
foremost. I bad known him for years. I saw stones in
the house. One of them came flatterieg by the hair of
my head. I did not see Trigg afterwards in the house.
Cross-examined—As they were going away the " na-
vies" went to the windows, end showed the blue colours.
There were 15 or 16 in the paessge. I should judge
they were driven back from the kitchen door, and then
went out and did this violence. Atter they went out the
door was fast, and there was a great hammering at the
door. _

THE t ;Ear • tv
si ~,T it I in A itiVET `4°
LIVERPOOL, AUGUST 3 —Having only tir
moderate, t,
rivals, abd the weather this morning bang, !etir,/,b-tebe
holders showed a little more fi•muess. 'eel!
demand tor wheat and Hour was moderate, the,"l—
dull
o ed
of last week weru realist d. Oats and oatuteiti
and neglected. Bean_, peas, bath y, and malt, "eh°, tb
in value, but in moderate (It wand. Indian eort'LnaeOt
spot was neglected, but flos • d for PPP-
nog cargoes an Arlo
were in requeiv, at 6d per quarter in advevee' ditto oia,7;
—Foreign wheat, 6 580; ditto barley. 6701 d
1,610; ditto flour, 631 sacks and 25,750 bri°' otstOt
peas, 362. luland and coastwise malt, 57; ditto
28 042.
NEWCASTLE CATTLE MARKET,AUGUST g
hich
supply of beef nOteprised 417 head, she quality 01 a all
was middling. Trade was blow at lismer rates'
sold. The number of abeop and lambs in the but
was 6.770. The sheep trade was in a sluggish State, but
lambs were exceedingly brisk, and all sold at
_,ll"tp ‘"-511a
rates. Betf, 5s to 6s 3d per sionq muttoht 414
lamb, 64 so 6id per lb. /wg
NEWCASTLE CORN MARKET, AUGUST 3'.,"v $01:1°
only a gap t supply of wbe4t as. our mai ket le""&nit
ruled rather firm. but last week's rates were fa flout
ceeded. Barley sold slowly at about late We'
other ariele. tt'ere way Do pl,.refou
EDI/Mum:ln MEAL 141A4aicicT Aug. •lu_cerei, ;1011
re in
2801bs. imperial, which sold 2 at sacks
11
the meat market to-dayirotsmealt,
(new), which sod at 245. sacks pot-barley (Ike '
sold at 27s
EDi NBUaGHHAT AND STRAW MARKET, A-(l..tfoa.'
s,cl.
Oat straw, from 7s Od to 8s 6d per kemple of 16 stns
tis
wheat ditto, 6s kid to 7s Od ; barley ditto. Os 00
Hay, from 9d tolld per stone sce
, • new ditto, 6d to 8d- fey"
• [OOl

Joseph Davis, a tailor, saw the three carriages come
from the direction of Roes The men were very riotous.
Trigg took a very active Tart in the proceedings.
Mary Wake, a waitress at the inn, corroborated the
preceding witnesses as to the violence of the mob. Atter
he mob went away a great many large stones were
found in the housr>. (One, which was driven through
the panel of the tiont door, was produced in court, and
'" S.° large that a man must have had great Oiffici!lly
lifting it.) Thomas Williams, one of the " navies"
who went from Ross to the Western cross lon, was hit on
the bead with a staff.

Mr. SKINNER addressed the jury for the prisoner.
The jury, utter a short ocnbul,4tion, found him Not
Guilty.

POLICE _INTELLIGENCE.
MANSIUIV-IWUSE.
The investigation into the case or Montague and Tripe,
on the charge of having defrauded mil tin persons who
were desirous of emigreing to Australia, was resumed
before Alderman Sir R. Carden.
Mr. Sleigh appeared as counsel for Montague. and
Mr. Bickley attended as solicitor for Tripe. Major A.
Hawkes, Mr. Charles Brows, and Mr. John Lu. w sae,
whose names had appeared in the prospectus of the
" Australian Gold Mining and Emigration Ceinpane,"
and who had been summoned to apeear upon the exa-
mination, were present, and were also repress nted by
Mr. Robinson, Mr. Parry, and Mr. Beilantine, of the
bar, whom it was considered necessary to employ to
watch the evidence, and to protest against the neari,ay
statements with which charges involving printed lists of
directors ...are so frequent!) and so improperly encum-
bered. Mr. flobler appeared for Captain Ed ward Seam
who attended in cons, queue', of a summona issued to ie.,_
him as secretary to the company, his name having been Barleymeal, per ue,--
els° conspicuously used iu the prospectus. Mr. K Reed, Peaserneal ... *** :::
who bad appeared upon the former examination, was Flour ... ... •••
also present, although he was then told by the Alds r-
man that there would be no occasion for his attendance,
as he had shown that the moment he found the " com-
pany" had taken the liberty of using his name, be had
published an advertisement denying all connexion with
or knowledgeof it. Captain Lean attended for the Emi-
gration Commissioners, and the numerous emigrants
who had parted with their money.
refession,
em-
ployment of so many members of the lee 13_
_erecop
After some delay, necessarily occasionedl by the
some of whom complained very strongly othretne P
merely prcceedings
tory course adopted towards their chanty,
were vigorously resumed. . _
i, es groom's assistant at
James Barker, who had bee
in
con-
firmatory We
omit
of all
the t he d
evidenceePsi t juts
Erith, said,—to Au-tr l
who were in en
iinener room.
who has given evidence, to Nu.
6, was desirous oafdwgYl 20iPenhbl hisVi
eh
reed:
a assist
and
.1 accompanied Jones,
where. we were intrednced by two or.
erenenndwi.tiooda rth'ealc'hniarngerfor sitting ,, see here
next day for a dee a d answer.
ritt"jrnieeedboyds2ths each, and they would take four fur 901.
6, Austin .friars,
We asked Tripe .ur.
theandcweellntm rim in Austin-feiars run-
re
Greenwood,tue ewl 'd
to
eCT i
saw Montague and Mr. Green-
Next day w°
„, Be asked us whether w
Ding al""' 'd 6 and h
--o Went 9.1;t1 us to the
we came to pay the
We we
anon. We went up, a.nd,
Green-
wood sitting togetheroflll in an inner r0,,t0. We pee Mon-
tague deposits each, and I also paid a deposit of
Ili. for my brother.
Sir B. W. CARDEN—When Montague said the cora-
Pan)! was constituted of respectable didyou ask
persons,
him who the parties were?
Witness—No; I was setts-
fird with what Montague had said
about them. We
atterwarda saw Tripe, and
money back, and he
promised that we should have it on
Thursday, but we
persons than those never got any of it. I saw no other.
I have mentioned. On the first in-
terview Greenwood and Tthe only persons
present. All I heard
Tripeinviroenewyes.raei
Tripe were
was"" It is too
much to take off ," in Greenwood a
Tripe'sa was,
the
price. Tripe allusionto , , , _
Tripe said h
and Greenwood consulted togitner b•-fore
Ley would take anything off the demand.
Tripe iippeartd to be the leading man when we paid the
in mentioned as belong-
"U. I did nut hear any Hewes
ing to the company, at any of the interview we bad.
Cross-examined byTripe—Tripe told
Mr. Bickley for
il,i_ e
us the company had engaged the Janette Mite .I,l_alfht r
they bad paid the menty to go in the Camille!a d
We did .tp4it
it Was 511 tight and we Aunt,' go in tiedr.
Tripe didL
refuse to go in the Janette elitcnell, ar
.i not
tell me that the reason we could not go in . the Camilla
wita the dmctora as
was that Montague could not agree
to the terms.
clerk to Mes4s. Willis and Co,Mr. Robert E. Sbaw, , . , ;
____------i---------
d given emit-roe at the fi.rtaer exa- ' MEI". Ile'
shipbrokers, who ha k the
the - to the tact that company were
na,ni.t. a asnewt : On the Ist inst., at Whatfield Rectory, Suffol , , ,
itib • rai
authorized to ship passengers on board the Camil (I was F. Calvert, M.A., rector of Whatfield and Chelsvvo_, Genera
wed. He h A never, he said, bEen any , f On the 2d inst., at Wendover- house, Sarah, wife v.
a4ain exam therlcs,
directors of the company. 1 . , B aged
Sir James Watson, N. C. •9 76.
'denbea '
d IR
Cr,eeee-esu,ined by Mr. S►eign for Montague—I
called On the 2d lost., at Altwoo-bouse, near Mai
lAte
,
Montague Oren or tour days after Joseph Clark E- q , aged 62. Webb,
upon friars, .
~. the 24th of at Bower-street, Captain John
On the 30th ult., of
June in Austin - 1u consequence of overtures ,-rich ' r 'merit unattached. st
had been made shout charteringof the 41at ~egi ,
1110 Camilleand .
~ two On the 2d ,n- •,
octet which I bad.receiyed from Tripe jot'
on the subject. ' Deomark-bill, Surrey, ag,..d 63 a Als
Montague principally corried on ttp conversai..c * At .13.-kliton, on the lit inst , Mrs. WAlis,widow
Here Mr. Ballantine rc-qwto stud
be informed w.h, tiler General Willis, of the Bombay Army. _1
there was eby one in court tot, ,-_,...r.,,.--.-----____
.3
as anytht: g ielat ve to ---- ----: - - - -:---- '-- '- eo TOO l' Si
Mr. Reed, Whose first knowledge ~f the ~,,,w,,,,
ce . f the London: Printed and Published by filEJ_ltloince,• No.ti of
company was communicated .by a -demand fat ' money , No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The '"" i., the cola's
QUO far‘hing of which he of course never paid. , I strand, in tl'' Precinct of the Saone, its
J ItitidlslsZ• ThursclaiA August 5,1868'

15ALKEITH Masi MARKET, AUG. 2.—Tbere 1 _
the market to-day 43 bags of oatmeal 18 of barleyraegs'rkel,
2of potbarley. There was no peasemeal or Hour in Wiley'
Oatmeal down on the top and second price is per bag; P'"
meal (new), Is Od up on the top. rd.
Oatmeal, per sack, et 'LSO tbs. First Second 113, 16i
imperial .. - 2SB lid 26s Od 0,..'6 61
Barleymeal, per ditto •24s Od —s Od 21/' oil
Peasemeal ••• 6 " —9 Od Od
Flour ... - —s
Od —a Od '—' Od
Potbarley 27s Od —s Od '''s

2.-4711STIRDAY. A
the close of the marsow•ls9
11.-antflon ............. •
Pensher ................. 155 Ocid
Russell's Hettoo •••'" 13
Scarborough .......... ••• 15. vod
Stewart's ••• "" 149 6d
Shotton Oi
Cassop ......... •••••• ... ..
Hartlepool ....... • ...• 153 pd
Kenos ........... .... fd
South v
Hartlepoo, "". 14- •„")
South Kelloe ............ 14i
ITnorriley . ............
Nixon's MerthYr 113
9C Cardiff ardil:
. .....
. .. ....
5 so