The Sun.
London, England, 1855-07-09 00:00:00

the grass in the park, awl the straw lying on the ground
in Grosvenor-street, were set on fire, but the flames were
ipeedily 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
iiheet of glass worth 401., belonging to Mr. Curling, the
lace merchant, in Grosvenor-street West, is demolished,
arid other damage has been done to A vast number of
ho,ises 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day until the Beer Bill is repealed.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-
pier, on last Sunday, and to determine what steps should
he taken to prevent the recurrence of similar violence.
Tae chair was taken by Mr. Nash, who alluded 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 bad 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 else where ; but he was convinced
of this, that if the people would present the imposing
front of moral resistance, they would assume an attitude
which must convince the Government and the aristocra-

is classes that they were not prepared to see their

liberties as Englishmen taken from them. He was glad
to say that the mAropolitan press, with one exception,
expoused the cause of the people, and had condemned
the exercise of that brats 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 the 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 bold great macs 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 bad been
the victims of the brutal violence of the police. (Cheers.)
He would also suggest that the surplus subscriptions
should be applied either to the payment of the fines im-
posed 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.

Mr. Finley and other speakers having addressed the
meeting, a committeewa►s formed to carry the resolutions
into effect, and the proceedings terminated.

A TPFUL 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 laving been borne to the hospital. The fol-
lowing particulars, which we (Cork Examiner) have been
enabled to procure through the kindness of the Messrs.
Soott, Lloyds' agent at Queenstown, will be found to be
substantially correct

The Her Majesty is a brig of 221 tons, belonging to
Mr. J. Riekenson, of Whitby, mid sar.edfrom Salonica,
a Mediterranean port, about the beginning of May, with
a cargo of Indian corn consigned to. Messrs. Berthali and
Co., of London, and bound to Queenstown for orders, in-
eliding 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 captain had several entries in the log-
book. On the 28th of June, while the vessel was in lat.
44 deg. north, long. 14 deg. 4G min. west, the captain
came on deck about 12 o'clock at night, and found that,
his man Veale was not, as hd 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 started
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 hid
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
his design here, he went again upon deck, and it is sup-
posed while passing ho 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 meantime the two men in the captain's state-
room remained iu 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 the vessel,
which Veale was attempting with an axe, and he 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. Howe
replied that he would do no such thing—that he would
bring him to justice. He then went back on board his
own vessel to procure more assistance, and on his return
the whole body went forward to the forecastle. They
then waited for a while, but on looking down through the
bull's eye they saw his legs hanging down. They opened
the hatch and went down, and they found that the unheeP ar Ys
miscreant bad ended his misdeeds by suicide.
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