The Sun.
London, England, 1863-10-28 00:00:00

THAMES.

A POLICE PENSIONER FlNED.—Joseph Burton, a beer-
seller, and formerly a police-constable of the K division,
who has been In the receipt of a pension for the last four
years, was charged on a summons with having his house
°penal for the sale of ale and beer on the morning of Sun-
day, the 18th instant, before the hour of one o'clock in the
afternoon, the same not being then and there for the ro•
ireshment of travellers.

George Clark, a police-constable, No. 14:5 K, said that he
saw a little girl leave the defendant's house at half past
l 0 o'clock on the morning in question with beer in a jug,
At 11 another girl came out with malt liquor in a mug and
another person went in. At 20 minutes past 12 a man
came out with a bottle under his coat. It contained a
pint of malt liquor. The defendant afterwards met him
and abused him. lie was called a b•—•.---y scamp, and other
opprobrious names.
The defendant said he served no one on the morning in
question, and the man who left his house had some cod
liver oil in a bottle, and he would defy any policeman to
distnguish between cad liver oil and beer.
Inspector Griffin of the K division, said the defendant
had been three times convicted for selling beer during the
prohibited hours on Sunday, and although he was a
pensioner on the Metropolitan Police Fund, he was very
abusive to the police, and had used very bad language.
The defendant—Now what sort of convictions were they,
no fines were inflicted.
Griffin---On the first two occasions he was fined 25., end
on the third couv!ction, 63.

The defendant—There, 2s. costs, first time, 2s. costs the
second time, and ss. fine the third time.

The defendant was fined 10s.

FIFTEEN TIMES CONVICTED,—A well-known and despe.
rate thief, who gave the name of John Walbrook, was
charged with stealing money from a till in the Shakspere
Head public-house, in Jubilee. street, Stepney.
Miss Grace Mare, barmaid, said—l was in the bar parlour
this morning, and heard the jingling of money. I went
into the bar, and saw the prisoner leaning over the counter,
with his band in the till, which was open. He was in the
act of taking some halfpence out of the till. He dropped
them when he saw me, and rushed out of the house. I
called out '• Stop thief," and he was caught and detained.
Mr. James Griffin, laspector of the K division, said—l
know the prisoner well. I believe his real name is John
Middleton. He was here on tit) 221 of May last for
opening a parlour window and stealing a watch. He was
remanded, and when he was brought up a second time
Hawkes, a City police-officer, proved twelve convictions
against him. Two of :hem were at the Sessions, and ten
wen, summary ones. I know of three more.
Mr. Partridga—What became of him last time ho was
here.

Witness—Mr. Woolrych sentenced him to three months'
imprisonment and hard labour.

Dlr. Partridge—Then I shall commit him for trial.

The Great Confederate Chiefs Be-

Sketched.

JEFFERSON DAVIS.

"During the week, after the battle of Manassas, when
the weather had cleared and the scorching July sun blazed
again as of old, by common consent we all took to the woods,
and encamped there. As for Jeff Davis,' it appears that
when the rout of the enemy was complete, he had ridden
without escort along the lines—but his features and figure
were so well known that he was quickly discovered, and
loud yells of delight rang out from our whole army. Taking
advantage of the fall of the evening, he dropped in' upon
our officers (many of whom were fellow-townsmen), or
ez•niembers of the U.S. branches of Legislature) to
have a quiet chat. As I had never seen a live Pre-
sident, my curiosity was on tha qui rive, and when
his presence was whispered to me, I found him sitting at
our colonel's tent door, with a circle of captains and lieu-
tenants, conversing very quietly on State affairs, but with
no more animation or sign of pleasure than if a victorious
army was not around, or a beaten one flying from him. In
citivn attire, with beaver hat, and smoking a cigar, he lis-
tened to all that was said, assented cr dissented with a nod
of tho head, and some time after, mounting his grey mare,
ambled off to Manassas, as unostentatiously as if he were
the least person in the Confederacy. Since then I have
seen the President frequently on different fields of battle,
and have observed little change in his habitualy modest and
thoughtful demeanour, although on many occasions his
proud and victorious troops, unconscious of his presence,
were rending the skies with their shouts, or charging the
enemy with unexampled fury.''

" STONEWALL" JACKSON,

"Stonewall" may be a very fine old gentleman, and an
honest, good-tempered, industrious man, but I should
admire him much more in a state of rest than continually
seeing him moving in the front. And such a dry old stick,
too ! As for uniform, he has none—his wardrobe isn't worth
a dollar, and his horse is quite in keeping, being a poor lean
animal of little spirit or activity. And don't he keep his
aides moving about! Thirty miles' ride at night through
the mud is nothing of a job ; and if they don't come up to
time, I'd as soon face the devil, for Jackson takes no ex-
cuses when duty is on hand. He is about thirty-five
of medium height, strongly built, solemn and
years old,
thoughtful, speaks but little, and always in a calm, de-
cided tone; and from what he rays there is no appeal,
for he seams to know every hole and corner of
the Valley, as if he made it, or, at least, as if it had
been designed for his own use. Ile knows all the distances,
all the roads, even to cow-paths through the woods, and
("oat tracks along the hills. Ho sits his horse very awk-
wardly, although, generally speaking, all Virginians are
fine horsemen, and has a fashion of holding his head very
high, and chin up, as if searching for something skywards ;
yet although you can never see his eyes for the cap-peak
drawn down over them, nothing escapes his observation.
His movements are sudden and unaccountable ; his staff
don't pretend to keep up with him, and, consequently, he
is frequently seen alone poking about in all sorts of holes
and corners, at all times of night and day. I have fre-
quently seen him approach in the dead of night and enter
into conversation with sentinels, and rido off through
the darkness without saying, God bless you,' or any-
thing civil to the officers. The cons€ quence is, that the
officers are scared, and the men love him. He was a student
at West Point, but never remarkable for any brilliancy.
IVhat service he has seen was in Mexico, where he served
as lieutenant of artillerY. At one of the battles there his
captain was about to withdraw the guns, because of the loss
suffered by the battery, and also because the range was too
great. This did not suit our hero ; he advanced his piece
several hundred yards, and 'shortened the distance,' dis-
mounted his opponent's guns, and remained master of the
position,"
To the above the writer appends the following
note
"General Jackson was never known to put his
horse out of a trot, except when desirous of escaping
the cheering of his men, on which • occasions he
would raise his cap, discovering a high, bald fore-
head, and force his old 'sorrel' into a gallop. This
oldsorrel' war-horse is well known throughout the army;
with head down it seldom attempts more than a trot, bat
stands fire well, and that may be the reason why the gene-
ral prefers and always rides him. Many gentlemen, im-
agining that the hero would appear to better advantage on
a blood animal, have presented several to him, but they are
seldom used. When our army entered Maryland, in Sep-
tember, 1862, in order to get in the rear of General Miles at
Harper's Ferry, and secure the 14,C00 men under his com-
mand, Jackson's corps was stationed east of Frederick, and
an influential citizen, in token of admiration, gave the com-
mander a very valuable horse, that he might appear to
advantage. Jackson mounted in the public street, and was
immediately thrown into the mud I The old sorrel' was
again brought forth, and the general ambled off, very good•
humouredly, never essaying to mount fine' horses again."

Statue of the Emperor Napoleon I.

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The Moniteztr has the following on the statue of
the Place Vendome :—" A modification which will
be viewed with satisfaction by all artists is at this
moment in course of execution at the column of the
Place Vendome. The present statue of the Em-
peror Napoleon I. is to be replaced by one similar
to that which was fixed on the column under the
first Empire. It is well known that the Emperor,
wishing to perpetuate the memory of the glorious
campaign terminated by the. battle of Austerlitz,
ordered the erection of a column with the bronze
of the cannon taken from the enemy. This monu-
ment, begun in 1806 and terminated in 1810, was
surmounted by a statue of Napoleon I. in heroic
costume, in conformity with traditional usage.
This statue, the work of the eculptor
Chaudet, was taken down in 1814, and afterwards
melted to cast the statue of Henry IV., now on
the Pont-Neuf. A Royal ordonnance of the Bth of
April, 1831, ordered the restoration of the Imperial
statue only ; instead of preserving the original cos-
tume the Emperor was represented in the dress he
usually wore when with the army. This new statue
was placed on the column in 1833. Since that date
the change made in the costume has been much
criticised. It must not be forgotten that this occa-
sion was a kind of apotheosis, and that, if it is
allowable to give the statues which commonly de-
corate our public places the costumes habitually
worn by the men they represent, it cannot bs the
same with statues intended to surmount a triumphal
column. The ancients were well aware of this,
as shown by Trojan's column, of which the
column in the Place Vendome is an imitation. The
Emperor Napoleon 111., faithful to the reminis-
cences of the First Empire, wished that the effigy
of the founder of the dynasty should be re-estab-
lished on conditions in conformity with tradition.
The new statue, confided to the talent of lkil.ft n
t
member of the Institute, and cast by M. -
is completed, and will be shortly put in its place. It
eu
bmaoui t ,
holds in one of its hands the same winged Victory
as the statue had in 1810, and which has been
comprehended
h thirtynd ed
with those of the column. At the B anie
pre-
served, and the beauty of its lines willhtaimrme ba
otniset
the Emperor ordered this chang
that the present statue, con seec hraetce
years, and representing the military costume
so well known throughout the whole world,
ought to remain before the oyes of the people and of
the army ; and he ordered that a pedestal should be
erected for it at the Rond-Point of Courbevoie, at
the corner of tt.e Avenue de Neuilly. This place is
admirably chosen for such a monument. The
ground, which from the Are de Triomphe de l'Etoile
declines towards the Seine, again rises on the other
side of the river, and offers a rend-point which takes
the name of Courbevoie, and from which several
avenues branch off. It
es in the middle of this
place that the pedestal is being built, under the
direction of M. Deb D, the architect. The grandeur
i_
and simplicity of the monument, as well as the
beauty of the granite used in its construction, will
form a worthy support to the statue of the great
men."

EXTRAORDINARY CASE,
At the Ashbourn (Derbyshire) Petty Sessions, on Satur-
day last, before Sir Wm. Fitzhubert, Bart., Hon. E. W.
K. Coke, Mr. F. Wright, and other magistrates, a most ex-
traordinary charge was preferred against Mr. James Clif-
ford, of Shardlow, for that he, the said James Clifford, of
Broughton House, Shardlow, in the county of Derby, gen-
tleman, in and about the year 1804, at the parish church of
Longford, did feloniously steal, take, and carry away one
leaf from the parish register of the parish of Longford, con-
taining thereon the entry of the baptism of 'William, son of
Mary Tatlow, of Bentley, dated Bth November, 1827, the
goods and chattels of the then incumbent and church wardens
of the said parish of Longford, against the peace of the late
King George 111 , his crown and cignity. Mr. Clifford is a
gentleman of independent means, having with others be-
come possessed of a large fortune, amounting to £40,000.
The case, from its extraordinary nature, excited great into.
rest. Mr. Quarles, solicitor, Nottingham, appeared for the
prosecution; and Mr. Bristo we, barrister, it. etructed by Mr.
Whiston, solicitor, D.;rby, for the defence. Mr. Clifford sat
beside his solicitor in c mrt. Mr. Quarles addressed the bench
at considerable length, and called the following important
evidence :—James Lipscomb, parish clerk of Longford, said
—I produce the register book of births, deaths, and bap-
tisms for the parish of Longford. The entries in it are from
1538 to 1812. There is a leaf extracted containing a register
of baptisms from the year 1724 to 1729. Mr. Quarles here
put in a duplicate copy of the Longford registry obtained
from the court at Lichfield. In it was the entry of the bap-
tism of William, son of Mary Tatlow, on Nov. 8, 1727.
When the Archdeacon of Derby made bis visitation, dupli-
cates of all registers were handed to him, and thus they
were enabled to obtain a copy of the original that was stolen
from Longford Church.—Wm. E wart of Derby,out of busi-
ness, said—l knew the late Mr. Thos. Sutton, of Shard-
low, and have seen him write his name. The certificate pro-
duced is in the handwriting of Thos. Sutton. I saw him
sign it. I was the attesting witness. I lodged with him at
the time." The certificate ran as follows :—" I hereby cer-
tify that James Clifford, at the request of my brother, James
Sutton, of Shardlow, Derbyshire, did about, or in the year
1805, search the registry of Longford, Derby, for the bap-
tism of my late uncle, Wm. Tatlow, which he found there
duly registered, and in my presence extracted the leaf con-
taining the same from the book. After obtaining this docu-
ment he, in company with the late James Minton, of Shard-
low, conveyed it to my late brother in London, making
claim foe the parties interested to the property left unto
them by Wm. Tatlow. Witness my hand this 19th day of
August, 1837, THOMAS SUTTON. Witness of the signa-
ture of Thomas Sutton —WILLIAM Ewa.nr."

John Brassington said—ln 1816 I was 18 years of age.
I knew Elizabeth Swindell. She was daughter of Thomas
and Mary Swindell. In 1816 I accompanied Elizabeth
Swindell to James Sutton's, Broughton House, Shardlow.
We were shown into the hall. There was a mail-coach at
the door. Mr. Clifford and Mrs. Sutton were there. I said
to Clifford, "Are you Mr. Clifford?" He said, "I am." I
said, " You are the man that went to Longford Church to
obtain the register of Wm.Tatlow, which register you and
Mr. Minton took to London the next day in order that Mr.
Sutton might prove his relationship." My remark caused
great consternation to Mr. Clifford, and he sank down in a
chair, and Mrs. Sutton wes so alarmed that she did not
speak for a minute or two.
Thomas Bowen said—l am a bobbin-netter. I live at
Derby. In 1851 I went to Shardlow along with Mr Gaskill
and Mr. Hill. We went to Mr. Sutton's, Shardlow Hall,
and afterwards called at Mr. Clifford's, Broughton House.
I asked Mr. Clifford whether he went with Mr. Sutton to
find Wm. Tatlow's register. He answered, "We went to
Cubley, but I could not find it." I said, " You are the gen-
tleman that cut the leaf out." He replied, "It was a trick
of youth," and asked us to have something to drink. Mr.
Clifford also added that Mr. Sutton, of Shardlow Hall, was
a nice gentleman, that he had done a deal of good in the
village, had given the ground for the church, and had also
got up a bazaar for the church clock.
The Hon. E. Coke—What Mr. Sutton do you refer to ?
Witness—The present Mr. Jas. Sutton, of Shardlow Hall.

Wm. Gaskill, coal agent, Belper, corroborated last wit-
ness. Heard Bowen say to Mr. Clifford " You are the gen-
tleman that cut the leaf out of the registsr." to which he
replied "I did, it was only a trick of youth."
Anthony Stone—l live at Derby. I saw Mr. Clifford at
Shardlow about a year ago. John Brassington was with
me, and he said to Mr. Clifford, "Mr Clifford, did you not
go to Longford to cut a leaf out of the book ?" He replied
"No, I did not ; I only went to Cubley." Mr. Brassington
then said "You went forward to Longford." Mr. Clifford
made no reply and walked into his office.

Mr. Brietowe made an able defence to the bench.

Mr. Wright said—lt is my duty, as chairman of the bench,
to give our decision ; and, in the first place, I must say that
it has been very painful to us to hear the case, involving as
it does so much on both sides. We feel, however, that the
evidence has been straightforward, and that there has been
no attempt to upset it, and although it was a long time ago
we cannot help feeling that a leaf was extracted from the
Longford register. From the evidence before ue, Mr. Clifford
was the person who extracted it, and we commit him for
that offence. We will take bail, Mr. Clifford in £5OO, and
two others in £250 each.

The decision caused the greatest excitement in court, Mr.
Clifford and his solicitor being taken quite aback at it.
The bail was entered into, and the witnesses bound over
to prosecute.