The Sun.
London, England, 1830-08-19 00:00:00

OF THE POLICE.

" About two o'clock this day a body of workmen,
about 400 in number, repaired to the► Prefecture of
the Police, where they arrived in the greatest order,
formed in battalion, four in front, and carrying at
their head a tricoloured flag. On reaching the court
of the Prefecture, they ranged themselves in the
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those industrious men.

" The Prefect, after listening attentively to the
observations of the workmen, neglected nothing to
convince them that their request could not be com-
plied with, not only on the score of liberty, whieh
Paris had not conquered for itself, but with refer-
ences to the interests of the workmen themselves,
who would be injured by renouncing a competition
which excited emulation and invigorated Frolleh
duetry by the secrets it berrovred from feettlieffet.f

bit it' Writ ea .generous and so 'brave, -was it to be
ask t - the Parisian workmen--r Whyl have yon
ettddenly become so unjust ? What Would you say
Were reprisal; used at London-, Borlitt, torl Vienna,
end all the French who have settled in those cities,
with their families, were expelled ? For every hun-
dred of foreigners you might expel from France, you
would get back a hundred Frenchmen. You would
thus be cruel, without bettering your situation.
" Abendon, theo a pretension which you cer-
tainly have not broughtl forward of your own accord,
and to which you have doubtless been instigated by
MR who thirst for trouble, who hate the liberty you
have purchased with your blood, and who hope,
through the means of disorder, to re-establish the
titters) you have destroyed by your heroic courage.
flees your guard against pet folious enemies who, in
order to deceive you, affect to speak for your Ruyan-
tage, but whose counsels are only treachery. Nett-
cures ere taken to secure yeu employment. Theo
redotible your industry, and surpass the foreign
workmen instead of driving them away, which would
be on your part a confession of ioferiority. By work-
ing better than they, you will have no reason to
fear them; that is the sure way to render their com-
petition of no importance. To overcome them io
that way is a real honour, worthy of men who have
shed their blood for the freedom of the country.'
" The workmen, who were men of sense, felt the
justice of this reasoning, and withdrew in the best
order,"

THE MURDEEI OF JOHN LONG, THE

POLICEMAN.

Yesterday morning, at eleVen o'clock, an Inquest
was held at the Crown Tavern, Clerkenwell, on the
body of John Long, whose death wail described in
our Halton-garden police report in yesterday's Sun.
Mr. John. Holmes, surgeon, of 111, Guildford-
street, deposed to the decea-sed's being brought to
him on Monday night. lie was quite dead, and
he had no doubt his death was occasioned by a stab
which he had between the fourth and fifth ribs; the
knife was still sticking in the wound ; he tried to
draw it, and was not able; it was afterwards taken
Out by another iniiividual ; the deceased could not
have lived more than three minutes after the in-
fliction of the wound. • -

This witness, at the request of the Jury, went to
the vaults underneath the church of Sr. John, Clerk-
enwell,'Where the body had been removed from the
place of the murder, unit opened the body, in order
tits be satisfied us to whether the knife had
pene-
trated the heart. On his return he said that it had,

Mary Anne Ste,vent gave similar evidence to what
she had stated at Hatton..gartlen. She saw the
deceased fall, and a man In a brawn coat run away ;
she had a distant view of his hire; she saw a
man in custody at the station afterwsrds, who gave
Lir name Smith, and she watt certain he will the man
Who ran away. The witness said she was once the
wife of a respectable surgeon. She was now an on.
fortunate woman—her real name was Griffiths.

John Cole, a • bricklayer, deposed to hearing
screams of murder, and to picking the deceased up
in the Gray's Inn-road. He said he was choked,
and expired immediately.
Amos Dennis, a milkman's snit, said he was
coming along the Gray's-inn-road, when he ob-
served four men walking on before him !maids
Battle-bridge---one .was a policeman—one Mall
was on his right, and the other two on his left.
They appeared to be walking on by the police—
man's orders. He saw one of the men, who
was dressed in brown, on the left of the policeman,
Strike his'atm towards the latter in a back hand.
The men then ran off in different directions.—Wit-
nese made towards the policeman, who said, " Oh,
my toan- I am stabbed." When other persons came
up, he teak the deceased's rattle from 'his side, and
pursued the man in. broWn. - He spring the rattle
all the way, and never lost sight of the man from
the time he struck the deceased till he was taken
into eitstody.•
Thomas Prenderbill„
,private watchman, deposed
lo•iseinta Matfiti brown running, and to taking him
into -custody. He said he knew nothing of the
robbery---he made no resistance.
• Peter Millikin, a bricklayer, gave evidence similar
to what he stated at Hatton-garden. He fully eon-
armed Dennis's testimony.
Mr. John Basalt!, inspector of the division, letter
0, deposed to the.deceased being a policeman in the
division, No. 43. He apprehended a young Min
named Stunners who was going at a quick rate, into
Tyson-street, Wilmington square ; he knew him to
be a bad character; he said he was wailing for an
aequaintance, but no person appeared. lie took
him to the station-house, and be wee recognized as
one of the persons who were present near
Holtneass• shop when the deceased was taken there.
The woman Stevens spoke to his having been
amongst the crowd soon after the murder.
• The Jury said that this evidence did tint criminate
Slitnn6rC •

'William Wilson, a policemao, produced the handle
of the knife 'Which was found near the spot where
the prisoner Smith was apprehended. A coat and
erow-bar were produced, which were found near a
place where one of the men had been seen to throw
something as he ran away. The blade was shown
to the Jury; it was highly sharpened and donblt-
edged et the point, and was still wined with blood.
The Column thought that the knife laid been
prepared for the purpose of committing murder. In
summing up the avideneo, he said u stronger ease of
murder could hardly be made out against Smith.
The Jury, without hesitation, returned their ver-
dict of wilful murder against John Smith, and two
other persons unknown. Some time after this vet,.
diet, the prisoners, Smither! Stunners, were brought
before the Jury, from the New Prison. The Como.
mot informed them of the result of the verdict, anti
asked if they had any thing to soy ? Smith said he
was innocent of the crime. He had been a porter.
H. declined giving his employer's name or his own
address, fur fear that his friends, who were respects
able, should know the situation he was placed in.
&inners said be was by trade a smith, and he
lived at 3, Laystall-street, Clerkenwell. He knew
nothing of the murder nor of Smith.
The prisoners were then taken Itway.

VIHIT or THE DUKE or WELLINGTON.—
The Duke of WitI3,I)4UTOPI,' its tillr readers are already
aware, has aecepted an invitation to attend the ceremoi;iel
ef the opening of the rait.roa.l, on the 'loth of September
nat. ilia Grace, we are Wormed, will aril* at Heaton
Pak, near this town (the scat of the Berl et Wit.rox), on
the 11th of September, and the Earl of WILTON having
intimated to the boroughrieve and corietablee of Man.
theater his expectation of a visit from the Noble Duke, a
meeting ef Gentlemen, convened by the authorities of this
town anti Salford, was held on Monday week in the
botoughreeve'e room, in the Town Hall, when it was de-
terinined to invite his Grace to a public dinner. The
invitation was forwarded through the Earl of Wit,ToN;
and on Saturday evening a reply was received from his
Grate, who accepts the invitation, but stator himself to
be at present linable to fit the exact day on which, eon
pl_ace.--
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