The Sun.
London, England, 1863-09-23 00:00:00

BURGLARY.

John Williams pleaded guilty to en indictment charging
him with burglary.
It appeared that the prisoner had been discovered in the
house of Mr. Ferris, at Islington, about two o'clock in the
morning, and a quantity of property had been made up for
removal but not taken away.
Nothing was known of the prisoner by the police.
Mr. Justice Byles said there were circumstances con-
nected with this case which differed from those generally
before the court. Under all the circutos,ances, he should
sentence the prisoner to six months' imprisonment with
hard labour. _ _

bearing the sentence, a person in the court gave a
sort of low whistle to attract the attention of the prisoner,
and then hurriedly left the court, exclaiming, " Good-bye,
Jack 1"]

NEW COURT.
(Before the Recorder.)
THE CHARGE OF ENLISTING FOR THE POLES.

Alfred Styles surrendered to his bail to answer the charge
of having induced one John Gregory to enlist as a soldier
for a foreign Power (to wit, Poland), without the leave and
license of her Majesty the Queen.

Mr. Poland appeared for the Russian Government, and
Mr. Gifford for the defendant.

The Clerk of Arraigns—Having heard the charge &gains'
you, how do you plead ?

Defendant, in a firm voice—Guilty.
Mr. Poland said he had been instructed in the present
case to prosecute on the part of the Russian Government.
The defendant, it became known, had engaged offices in
Buckingham-street, Strand, for the purpose of enlisting
young men to proceed to Poland and take part there in
opposing the Russian Government. The manner in which
he proceeded was shortly as follows:—He caused an adver-
tisement to be inserted in one of the daily papers, offering
employment to young men. Of course such an announce-
ment attracted general attention, and when the applicants
for employ ment went to the ,ffice they became aware
that the object of the advertisement was to ob-
tain soldiers for Poland. Amongst the applicants
were two persons who, on becoming aware of the
object of the defendant, immediately communicated with
the Russian consul, and an application was made to a
magistrate to grant a warrant for the apprehension of the
defendant for an infringement of the Act of Parliament.
On the officer proceeding to Buckingham-street he found
the defendant in the office, with a book before him, from
which it appeared that he had obtained about 250 persons
to join, On being informed by the officer that he held a
warrant for his apprehension, the defendant replied that he
did not know that he was doing anything contrary to the
laws of England, but, if it was so, he would give it
up. The whole of the books, papers, &c., found at his
office were taken possession of, and after an examination
at Bow-street police-court he was committed for trial. On
behalf of the Russian Government, if it met with the sanc-
tion of the court, ho proposed that the defendant should be
called upon to enter into recogaisances to appear when called
upon for judgment, but if he did not continue his enlisting
he would hear no more of the matter.

Mr. Gifford said he had simply to say that his client en-
listed these persons under the impression that he was not
transgressing the law. He had held a commission in her
Majesty's service, and also in that of General Garibaldi,
and believing the cause of Poland a good one, and that he
was guilty of no moral wrong in supporting it, he felt so
interested that he had no hesitation in perilling his life in
the enterprise. It was true he was morally wrong in
acting contrary to the law ; but it might be a question
whether he had committed a crime.

The Recorder said it was desirable that the law on the
point should be generally known, and this case would have
the effect of making it so. The defendant, therefore, would
have to enter into his own recognisances in the sum of XlOO
to appear for judgment when called upon.

The necessary arrangements having been made, the de-
fendant quitted the court with his friends.

THIRD COURT.
(Before the Common Sergeant.)
THE SCENE BETWEEN THE COMMON SERGEANT AND MR.

RIBTON.

In the course of the trial, yesterday evening, of Flynn,
Cassidy, and Miles, for wilfully assaulting George Smith of
the R division of police in the execution of his duty, when
Mr. Ribton was addressing the jury for the prisoner Flynn
in rather a loud tone, the Common Sergeant interrupted
him, on the ground that the unseemly and loud voice
in which the counsel was speaking could be heard outside
the court by the witnesses or the prisoners who had not
then been examined. Upon this a very angry discussion
arose, and the Common Sergeant ultimately refused to
hear anything further from Mr. Ribton, and suddenly ad-
journed the court.

This morning the prisoners were again placed at the bar.
Mr. Hibton, in addressing the court, said he hoped his
lordship would allow him before the business proceeded to
make a few observations in reference to that which
took place yesterday, and, in the first instance, he
had to say that he never had any intention to say any-
thing disrespectful to the learned judge, but in justice to
himself he was bound to eny that in the whole course of
the proceeding there was no intention in the slightest de-
gree to say anything which could be personally unpleasant.
As far as regarded other matters, he begged to repeat that
he was instructed by one of the most respectable attorneys
in Woolwich, and from these instructions he be-
lieved he had a substantive answer to the charge,
and he entirely was led into some excitement in the
mode of addressing the jury and might have been betrayed
into using language that might savour of being disrespect..
ful to the Court. He could assure his lordship that it was
not his intention to have said anything personally offensive,
and he trusted that the present explanation would be
deemed satisfactory,
The Common Sergeant said he was quite satisfied with
the explanation, as it was the tone of voice rather than the
observation which appeared disrespectful.