The Sun.
London, England, 1839-10-08 00:00:00

with them should not Be permitted to go further.
as it would be late before they rettirtred with Lo-
vett and Collins. The procession then moved on,
till it got to the corner of the Coventry-road, when
a man came running after it, without a hat. When
he got dp to the rear of the procession, he said,
" The p'olic'e were heating the people who were
left in the Bull-ring," and urged them to go back.
The people, however, still kept moving on, and the man
made hi; war to the head of the procession, stating, as
he went, that the police were beating the people in the
Bull-ring; When he reached the head uf the procession,
it was just beyond Trinity Chapel. He kept persuading
them to go back, and at last induced many of them to
listen to him. Some wooden palisade, and an iron hurdle
were then broken up, and the people armed themselves
with the fragments. Some of then, begged of the others
not to go near the Bull•ring, and said they would
not go with them. The bulk, however, paid no at-
tention to this, but returned towards the Bull-ring,
in the direction in which they had come. I, with
many others, who had recommended them not to
do so, left them, and went down Bradford-street. I
went home, but afterwards went up Spiceal-street, and
into the Bull-ring, to see what was going en. I saw
the armed mob come up the Bull-ring. There were
many with them who looked like navigators, and whom
I had not seen attending the meetings which bad been
previously held. These persons were not with them
when I left them at Trinity Chapel. When they got
to the end of Moor-street, many of them threw down
their weapons in the middle of the street, and left the
others, apparently afraid of the police or soldiers. I
was standing by the churchyard gates, opposite Moor-
street. The main body of the mob went along Moor-
street. When opposite the police-office they shouted,
and soon after I heard glass broken there. The mob
then ran along Moor-street, towards the Bull-ring, as
if afraid, but finding the police did not come, returned
again. This they did several times. At length the mob
came into the Bull-ring, and commenced an attack
upon Bournes' house. I heard Bournes' names men-
tioned in connection with the London police, and a re-
spectable man near me, who was smoking a cigar, said
the mob had got it that Bournes had given something
towards bringing the London police down. Another
gentleman, with whom he seemed to be in company,
said, " What ! are they paid ?" to which the first one
replied, " Yes, by voluntary contributions." The mob
then broke the windows of several houses in High-street,
and brought out the stock of Mr. Leggett, and made a
bonfire of it, just below Nelson's Monument. They
took fire from this towards Bournes' shop. I went up
to the shop just as some young lads were throwing
through the doorway some lighted ticking. They were
all lads. I saw no man engaged in this work. I laid
hold of one who had lighted ticking in his hand, and
said, " For God's sake don't go to set fire to anything,
do go into the shop, and doubt' it." A lad who was
near, with a stick in his hand, struck at me, saying,
" He's a spy, give it him." I missed the blow, and,
being ;harmed, made the best of my way home, running
all the way. I did not come out again that night.
The Committee, at its rising, adjourned until
Thursday.
THURSDAY, OCT. S.

Mr. Alderman Sturge in the chair. The following
witnesses were examined this day.
Henry Green, of No. 4 Court, Fordrough-street,
lamp-maker, examined. On Friday, the 12th of July
last, 1 was coming up Peck-lane, about two o'clock in
the day ; there was then no excitement whatever, and
nothing more than the usual traffic in the streets.
I had just , turned the corner of New-street, when I
saw at the top of Peck-lane one of the London
police strike a very respectable old lady, whom I judged
to be about sixty years of age, upon the shoulders with
his staff, and knocked her down in the horse road ; he
then struck a man who was near, and knocked him down ;
the man had on the dress of a stonemason. I did
not hear the policeman previously speak to either of the
persons he so knocked down. Immediately after he had
knocked down the man, he met another, near the en-
trance to the Grammar School, with a whetstone, such
as is used to sharpen scythes under his arm. The po-
liceman stopped the man, and took the stone from him,
and asked him where he had it from ; the man replied he
had bought it for his use ; policeman said he was a d—d
liar, he had got it to strike somebody with. The man
said he had not, upon which, the policeman gave him
back the stone, and struck him with his staff across the
shoulders, and told him to go on. The man asked him
what that was for, and the policeman told him again
to "go on," at the same time giving him a poke with
the end of his staff, and pushing him on. He
then left the man, and walked towards High-
street. I followed him. When at the corner of High-
street and New-street, he said exultingly. to two of his
comrades who were standing there, " he would lay a
wager the b—'s shoulders would ache for a month,"
or words to that effect. On the night of the 15th July,
I was crossing from Edgbaston-street to Moor-street,
about half-past seven in the evening ; there was then no
crowd, either in the Bull Ring, or the streets adja-
cent, and nothing more than the ordinary traffic
going on. At the corner of Moor-street and High-
street, I saw six or eight of the Birmingham street-
keepers talking together. I passed up Moor-street,
and at the Public-office gate I saw several of the
London police standing. Moor street was perfectly
clear, until I got to Castle-street, where there were about
half-a dozen people standing. One of these was a
neighbour of mine, a master stonemason, who was talk-
ing to another man whom I also knew, and was telling
him that the procession had passed• down Digbeth, to
meet Lovett and Collins. Having spoken with them
a short time, I parted with them, and went on business
to Mr. James's, at the Star, in Lichfield-street. Whilst
there, between eight and nine o'clock, a man came in
and said they had been breaking the public office win-
dows. I and Mr. James went out together, between
nine and ten o'clock, to see what was going on in the
town. We came down Bull-street and along High-
street ; when near Carr's-lane, we heard a noise
in High-street. We passed down Carr's-lane, and
when near the chapel, we were overtaken by forty
or fifty boys and youths, of from fourteen to eighteen
years of age. Ido not think there was a man among
them. They did not look like persons who worked for
their living, but idle vagabonds and thieves. They were
running quickly, and one of them, with a velveteen
jacket on, said, as he passed me, to one of those about
him, " Well, l'll be d—d if I haven't done my share."
When I got into Moor-street I saw flames issuing
from Bournes' house, and I met the soldiers coming
down Moor-street. I then returned to Mr. James's,
in Lichfield-street.

William Blaxland, of Bull-street, woollen-draper,
examined.—On the Bth of July last, I was coming
along Dale End, towards High-street, about nine
o'clock in the evening, when I saw a number of the
London police, attended by a party of dragoons. There
was no crowd in the street, and nothing unusual going
on. I went up the Lower Priory, and when about
half way up, two or three boys ran past me, followed
by four or five London policemen. The last policeman,
in passing me, struck me a severe blow with his staff,
on the left arm, and ran on without speaking, either
before or after the blow. At the same time I saw a
man or boy before me, struck to the ground
by a blow from another policeman. I ran af-
ter the police, one of whom turned round.
I said to him, " I am returning home from public
business, and I demand, that you either arrest me,
or see me safe home." They made way for me,
and I passed them, and went home. I inquired the
next day, of persons living in the street, whether they
had observed anything in the street on the night before
to occasion the police to act in the way I now describe,
when I was told by two boys at Phillips's hat shop they
believed that, immediately after I passed up the Priory,
the police were either hissed at or a stone thrown at
them. I did not throw, nor did Ido or say anything
to the police until after I was struck.
The Committee, at its rising, adjourned until Tues-
day, the Bth instant.

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and highly restorative properties.
The Aberdeen Herald says--There is a great
effort making to get up " Revival" demonstrations here,
but hitherto, thanks to the good sense of our citizens,
without any perceptible effect. Dr. Dewar detailed to
a meeting in the East Church, on Monday evening,
what he had witnessed at the recent celebration of the
sacrament in Kilsyth. He tried to throw discredit on
the newspaper reports that have reached us, but he was
not very successful. As he was actively engaged in the
peculiarbusiness himself, and felt a assistance—or, in
other words, thought himself inspired—it was not to
be expected that he could be able to give so impartial
and accurate an account of what was going on as a cool
spectator. Of the preaching all night—the bathinc, in
the mill-dam—and other facts, about which there could
be no dispute, the Rev. Principal, so far as we are
aware, wisely said nothing. Wednesday was our fast-
day, and, from the nature of the sermons delivered in
some of the Established Churches, there seemed to be
a preconcerted attempt to get up some unusual excite-
ment. Nothing, however, worthy of notice happened—
even the flaming appeal of the Glasgow Mr. Smith, in
which he advised the audience to " agitate in the mat-
ter that very evening," produced no remarkable effect.
RAPID RAILWAY TRAVELLING.—The rate
of travelling o I the London and Birmingham and
Grand Junction Railway line has recently exhibited
a very considerable acceleration. Tuesday last, the
London morning mail train to Liverpool and Man-
chester completed its journey from station to station
under nine hours.—Doncaster Gazelle.