The Sun.
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rHE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 19, 1863

Senators, they might, perhaps, chill the ardour they
were intended to inflame, and damage the cause
they were spoken to encourage.

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

to the Senate of the
unTiftemdEss.ratTeahheas6:hina a
prayer offered up before the
commencement of Senatorial business, called upon
the Almighty God of Mercy " to stifle the foolish
gibberish of those who profess to follow the illusion
of an unholy peace, and to silence for ever the
tongue which shall wag with such madness and
folly." So horrible a curse, so solemnly and pub-
licly, and in national form, invoked upon those
" peacemakers" who have been somewhere pro-
nounced " blessed" has a tendency to make quiet
people shudder. But nothing is too fierce for a
fanatic or too false for a hypocrite. Probably there
were individuals of both classes present to say
" Amen" to that prayer. Perhaps, also, there are
a few people in this country who would pray with
them in all fervour, at .d by whom peace in America
would be detested as a curse, if unaccompanied with
the realisation of their own especial theories. Let
this be so. We cannot help the operation of feeble
judgment or morbid vanity. We cannot prevent
these mental diseases showing themselves in violent
language, fierce hatreds, and personal animosities.
There is a certain principle of honesty, hoa ever,
which ought to run through even these matters. A
man may have his foolish crotchets or may advocate
absurd ideas, but there is an honest way and a dis-
honest way of doing this. The people who assume
the name and character of the Old Anti-Slavery
Society, and who, by the way, had another of
their gatherings last night, offend against the ordi-
nary decencies even of English agitation. What we
complain of in them is that they are dishonest. They
are exhibiting themselves under false pretences.
They are falsely palming themselves upon Europe
and America as the survivors and descendants of
the great men who abolished the Slave Trade first,
and then abolished slavery itself in our colonies.
They have usurped the name of the position hereto-
fore held by the Wilberforces, the Bustons, and the
Brougham of former days. They rest all their
hope of an audience and all their claims to atten-
tion upon the assumption that they are sitting in
the places of the old emancipators, and are speak-
ing the sentiments of the old antagonists of slavery.
It is a matter of very serious import that the grand
old cause of the Anti-Slave Trade and Anti Slavery
movement should be thought to have degenerated
into a mere cat's-paw to Mr. Seward, and that one
of the most glorious bands of disinterested philan-
thropists which this or any other country has pro-
duced should be thought to have sunk into a few
dupes of President Lincoln, advocating a measure
which is not freedom to the blacks, but is as far
as possible massacre to the women and children
of the whites. We ask, therefore, publicly whether
there is the least truth in the suggestion that these
people have ever received the authority of Lord
Brougham, or the Bishop of Oxford, or Sir F.
Buxton, or any other man of ancient connection
with this question, to associate the name of
Brougham, Wilberforce, or Buxton with their pre-
sant doings. If they have, let us have the proofs;
if they have not, it is only honest to the public to
let it be known that these Northern political de-
monstrations are but cuckoo eggs, fraudently laid
in the old nest, but utterly repudiated by the old
birds. In a case like this the suppressed yeti is
scarcely a step removed from the suggestio Jain.
If they have any letters at all from these men,
who are the natural guardians of the Slave, those
letters ought to be produced. Perhaps we can jog
the memory of these worthies as to some of the pro-
tests they have conveniently suppressed. Was
there no letter from Lord Brougham upon the sub-
ject of the address to Mr. Lincoln ? Did not that
venerable patriarch of the cause of negro liberty
telegraph to beseech the persons who have now
usurped the places of the real friends of liberty,
not to dishonour the cause by carrying that docu-
ment up to Mr. Adams ? Did he not even ask
for a little space of delay in order that time
might be given for further reflection; and was
not the presentation still persisted in, and rather
hurried, to avoid the possibility of a damaging
public protest, with the signature of " Henry
Brougham" attached to it ? If these gentlemen,
who take upon themselves to represent the
old Anti- Slavery agitation, have such a letter as this
it would have been only honest in them to publish
it ; if they have not such a letter, we have been very
much misinformed. Perhaps the very small dogs
who have taken possession of the old lions' den,
and are making such vain efforts to imitate the roar
of the old occupants, will tell us also whether they
have taken any means to obtain information as to
whether the sons of Wilberforce and of Buxton,
who have all been brought up in the teaching of
their fathers, now share the opinions of the present
Emancipation Society as to the Proclamation of
Mr. Lincoln. Without pretending to any very ex-
clusive information as to the opinions of the Wil-
berforces and Buxtons, we are strongly inclined to
believe that there is not one of them who would not
repudiate the doings of these people as an indignity
to the memory of their fathers. Perhaps they will
tell us what the Bishop of Oxford may have said on
the matter. When they have told the public the
whole truth as to their relations with the old apos-
tles of Anti-Slavery, we will then hold further con-
troversy with them, bat, at present, we utterly re-
fuse to recognise them as a respectable agitation.

tion of all these works, supposing they cut off some
portions which would not destroy the value of the
works, and which the wine and coal duties would
ultimately enable them to effect.
Mr. Deputy HARRISON asked whether the finan-
cial difficulty that was on the mind of the First Com-
missioner of Works a few days ago had been re-
moved.

The CHAIRMAN said he was satisfied the coal
duties would produce the figures he had stated, but
he was opposed to cutting the new street short of
the Mansion-house.

Mr.DOULTON; M.P., said, that after the statement
of the Chairman, he would not proceed with the
motion of which he had given notice; but he thought
the whole subject should be referred to the Main
Drainage Committee. He would therefore move,
" That the consideration of the plans proposed for
the north embankment and the new street, as well
as of the south side, be referred to the Thames Em-
bankment Committee, with instructions to report
to the board on such modifications or other details,
and on the estimates of their cost, as may be advised
by the engineer and architect of the board."
Mr. HALL seconded the motion.
Mr, BENNETT moved an amendment to the fol-
lowing effect:—" The board desires to record its
opinion that any curtailment of the proposed street
by stopping at Cannon-street, would materially
alter and seriously depreciate both its usefulness
and the utmost value of the ground for building
purposes, and would cause an entire failure in its
principal object."
Mr. LE BRETON seconded the motion.

After a short discussion, the amendment was put
as a rider to the resolution, and carried unani-
mously.
The board then adjourned.

Southwark. About four months the prisoner had
been the manager at the latter place, and had charge
of the whole of his stock. His duty was to effect
sales, enter the same in a book, and account to the
prosecutor. In the course of the business the pro-
secutor suspected his honesty, and sent persons to
purchase goods. The prisoner sold them, received
the cash, and, instead of accounting for the whole
entered in the books a considerably less sum.
Evidence to that effect was given, and the Jury
found him Guilty,
Sentence, nine months hard labour.

OLD COURT.
(Before Mr. 'Filson.)
James Yardley, 21, Edward Dark, 22, and John
Brown, 18, were indicted for stealing .1 bag contain-
ing three shirts and other articles of wearing ap-
parel, the property of Ann White.
The prisoners Yardley and Brown pleaded guilty,
but Dark was put upon his trial.
The evidence was very conclusive against all the
prisoners, who were seen loitering together in the
Blackfriars-road, on the evening of the 2d inst., by
Sergeant Barrett and Young, detective officers.
They were observed first to follow a gentleman's
carriage, from which they returned, Dark saying
to his companions that there was nothing there.
The officers continued to watch them, and at last
they (the prisoners) went after the cart of a laun-
dress, from which Dark secured the bag in question,
which he handed to Brown, and then they were
making off together. The officers, however, pur-
sued them and secured them, and conveyed them
to the station-house. _ _

Dark made an appeal to the jury, contending that
he had no connection with the other prisoners, and
that the officers were mistaken as to his identity.

The jury, without hesitation, found the prisoner
guilty, and the other prisoners were brought for-
ward for sentence,

A former conviction for felony, after a previous
conviction, was proved against Yardley, when
Mr. Keene, the governor of the gaol, informed.
the Court that Brown had been summarily con-
victed as a rogue and vagabond.
Detective-sergeant Palmer, of the A division,
stated that Yardley had also been in custody for
having skeleton keys in his possession.
Yardley— Yes, and I was discharged, you mon-
key-faced chap. (Laughter.)
The Deputy-Chairman sentenced Yardley to four
years' penal servitude, and Dark and Brown to
twelve months' imprisonment each with hard
labour.

James Beale, 23, was indicted for stealing 561bs.
of pieces of undressed hides, the property of John
Isaacson. _ _ _

Mr. Sleigh, specially retained, with !Mr. Collier,
prosecuted, and Mr. Thompson defended.
It appeared that the prosecutor carried on an ex-
tensive business as a hide merchant, in Leadenhall
and Bermondsey-markets, and the prisoner had
been his foreman for some time. It was his duty to
collect the hides from the butchers, and bring them
to the premises in a perfect state. He was not en-
titled to any perquisites, unless it was the teats or
udders which were cut from cow hides. He Lied,
however, cut off tail pieces and pieces from the
bellies and shoulders, which he converted to his
own use.

A great deal of evidence was gone into, and the
jury found him guilty.
He was sentenced to three months' hard labour.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE--Feb. 18.

MANSION-HOUSE.—James Howes, a returned con-
vict, was placed at the bar before the Lord Mayor, on re-
mand, charged with attempting to steal a parcel containing
articles of the value of £l4 from a van in Old 'Change on
the evening of Monday week.
The evidence clearly established the charge, and the
Lord Mayor sentenced the prisoner to three months' con-
finement, with hard labour.

GUILDHALL —John Alldritt, a draper, lately carry-
ing on business at Capel St. Mary, near Ipswich, was
placed at the bar, before Mr. Alderman Hale, charged,
under the 221st section of the new Bankruptcy Act of 1861,
with having concealed and embezzled his estate, with hav-
ing attempted to account for his poverty by fictitious losses,
and with having committed wilful and corrupt perjury.
Mr. Alfred Jones, who conducted the prosecution, stated
that the prisoner was adjudicated a bankrupt upon his own
petition. Having filed certain accounts and surrendered,
he was examined relative to his property. He stated that
on the 21st of June last he sold his stock-in-trade and
furniture for about £l3O to a Mr. Brown, of Fore-street.
He cashed the cheque given him by Mr. Brown for £l3l
75., and ,the notes he received in exchange he took down to
Mr. Pittock, a relative at Capel, and repaid him the sum of
£lOO which he borrowed of him about two years ago. Two
documents were produced, purporting to be receipts for the
money in both transactions. The one referring to the loan
was dated September, 1860, while that referring to the re-
payment was dated September, 1862. The prisoner and
Pittock swore that the signatures on the receipt stamps
were written at the dates the receipts bore, although the
paper of both was precisely the same, and the stamps were
not issued by the Government until about two months after
the date of the first receipt, so that the signature on that
stamp could not have been written by the prisoner at the
time he had sworn. The prisoner swore most distinctly
that he paid the notes he received fer the cheque to Pit-
tock.

Mr. Henry Dowsett, a clerk in the Inland Revenue-
office, deposed that tae stamps in question ;were not issued
by the Government before Oct. the 23d, 1862, the stamps
issued previously being altogether different.
Mr. William Abbott, a clerk to the London and West-
minster Bank, Lothbury, said he paid the cheque produced
for £l3l 7s. on the 24th of June, and gave out one £lOO
note, No. 89178, one £2O-note, No. 15751; one £lO-note
No. 60327, and £1 7s. in cash.
Mr. R. A. Baily, the trial clerk of the Bank of England,
produced the £lOO-note and the £lO-note referred to by the
last witness. The first was paid into the Bank on the Ist
of January last, and the latter on the Bth of the October
previous. The names of T. Elliot and Joseph Pittock, both
of 34, Penton-street, Islington, were on the notes.
A member of the firm of Pawson and Co., St. Paul's-
churchyard, identified the handwriting on the notes as that
of the prisoner, after which the case was adjourned until
Tuesday next.

The case against Mr. John Bruce, stockbroker, 4, Bank-
chambers, Lothbury, was proceeded with yesterday, but the
cross-examination of the prosecutor, who was the first wit-
ness, had not been completed when the Court rose. The
report is reserved.

B Wr- ST REE T Post -office letter-carrier named
Thomas Hugh, who has been several years in the service,
and has hitherto borne an excellent character, appeared to
answer a summons charging him with delaying the delivery
of letters.
He pleaded guilty.

Mr. Peacock, the solicitor for the Post-office, informed
the magistrate that the defendant, having about 30 letters
to deliver, got drunk, and was unable to perform his duty.
He went home in a cab, in which he left his letters, and
they were afterwards found there by the cabman, who took
them to the Post-office and stated the facts.

Mr. Henry said if it was known to latter-carriers gene-
rally that by delaying letters they were liable to a fine of
£2O, which could be enforced by distraint upon their goods,
these cases would probably be of less frequent occurrence.
Considering the defendant's previous good character, he
would mitigate the penalty to £lO.

MARYLEBONE.—Ed ward H. Merritt, aged 17, clerk
to Messrs. Gray and Davidson, organ builders, 370, Euston.
road, was charged with having robbed his employers.

The prisoner had been about five months in the service of
the firm. On the 127th ult, the sum of £36 4s. was given to
him in checques and notes to pay into the Union Bank of
London, Regent-street, on his employers' account. On Mon-
day last he had £25 12s. given to him for the same purpose,
and on the following day Mr. Davidson ascertained that the
sums alluded to had not been paid in at the bank. He
therefore questioned the prisoner, when he became much
agitated, and fainted. He was given into the custody of
Last, 181 S, and when searched at the station-house he had
in his possession a £lO note, a£s note, two cheques for
eight guineas each, and about 16s, in silver and copper.
Sergeant Mulvey, 8 S, subsequently went to the lodging of
the prisoner, and in his bed-room he found a pocket-book,
in which were six sovereigns. He also found in the apart-
ment an opera-glass, a telescope, a pistol loaded and capped,
a silver vinaigrette, and a pair of dumb-bells.
The prisoner, who seemed much dejected, had no answer
to make to the charge.
He was committed (having pleaded guilty) to hard labour
in the House of Correction for six months.

WESTMINSTER.—Thomas Underwood was charged
with housebreaking.
At about half-past Bon Tuesday evening Mrs. Pearce, of
1, Smith's-terrace, King's-road, Chelsea, on going into her
back parlour, found the prisoner and another man there.
She.screamed as loud as she could, and the prisoner seized
her with both hands by the throat and threw her on the
ground. He and his companion then rushed out of the
house, but her husband promptly followed the prisoner,
who was calling out " Stop thief !" He was seized by a
constable in plain clothes, who met him. The other fellow
escaped. The prisoner and his companion had Emptied
some drawers and boxes of their contents, and packed them
in a couple of bags ready to carry them off when they were
interrupted.

The prisoner very coolly interrupted the proceedings
and said he would plead guilty.
Mr. Arnold refused to dispose of the case, and the pri-
soner was remanded until Wednesday next.

LAMBETH.—Charies Lawrence, alias Roberts, alias
Leafer, who stands charged with being concerned in several
burglaries, and who has also suffered penal servitude, was
.
brought up on remand for final examination, on a charge of
being concerned with Matilda Quentrill in robbing the

house of Mr. Rudd, of Brixton, of plate, cash, and other
property, to the amoant of LIGO.

Great efforts have been made to apprehend the prisoner
while the young woman Quentrill was in custody, but he
managed to keep out of the way, and it was not until he
was apprehended at Portsmouth for another robbery that
the officers obtained any tidings of him. The prisoner had
been permitted to visit the young woman Quentrill as her
lover. It was also a fact at the very hour when the robbery
had been committed the prisoner was said to have been seen
at the house of Mr. Rudd, but the person who saw him did
not like to swear positively to his identity.
In reply to the Magistrate's questions, Sergeant Dun-
nington said the prisoner stood committed for trial, but
some way or other had been admitted to bail on a charge of
burglary and robbery, when a policeman was very nearly
killed in attempting to capture him and his companions,
and was also liable to be tried for robbery at Portsmouth,
so that he was not likely to escape justice.
In the case of Mr. Rudd, Mr. Norton did not think the
evidence sufficient to sustain the charge, and discharged the
prisoner.

CLERKEN WELL.--John Harrold, a young man about
20 years of age, a cash clerk in the employ of Messrs. Meek..
ing and Co., drapers, Holborn-hill, was charged with steal-
ing several sums of money belonging to his employers.
Mr. Warrand appeared for the prosecution ; Mr. Thomas
Wakeling for the defence.
The prisoner has been in the employ of the prosecutors
for about two years and a half, and his duty was to receive
the money from the salesmen, and each day at 4 o'clock he
handed it over to the chief cashier. Tfie salesman hands in
a check and keeps a counterpart. While one of the salesmen
was absent the prisoner took the counterpart and destroyed
it, and in that case appropriated a sum of £4 ls. lld. He
never accounted for that money, and as other cases were
found out against the prisoner he was given into the custody
of Police-constable Richard Fawcett, 425 A. The constable
told him the charge, on which the prisoner said that he was
very sorry, that he was guilty, and that he had destroyed
the check papers and put the money in his pocket.
Mr. Wakeling asked that the case might be dealt with at
once, but the magistrate declining to accede to the applica-
tion he said the prisoner would reserve his defence.
Mr. Barker fully committed the prisoner to the Middle-
sex Sessions for trial and refused bail.

SOUTHWARK.—Mr. Louis Dumont, a watchmaker, of
Baden-place, Crosby-row, White-street, Southwark, was
charged with unlawfully pledging a watch, the property of
Cecilia Eliza Wilson, of Bethlehem Hospital.
The prosecutrix, assistant matron of King Edward's
School, attached to Bethlehem Hospital, deposed that on
the 18th of December last she handed the prisoner her
watch to repair. She several times went for it, and on every
occasion the prisoner put her off by saying he would bring
it home. At last, finding she could not get her watch, she
obtained a warrant for his apprehension.
William Fensum, 227 M, one of the warrant officers of
the Court, said he apprehended the prisoner after consider-
able trouble, and ascertained that he had pledged the watch
for n 10s. two days after he had received it.
A pawnbroker produced the watch.
The prisoner admitted the pledging, but said he intended
to have redeemed it had not unfortunate circumstances in-
terfered to prevent him.
Mr. Combe sentenced him to pay a fine of £5, and a fur-
ther sum of £2 10s. the price for which the watch was
pledged, or go to prison for two months,
Just as the prisoner was removed another person said that
he intrusted the prisoner with a gold watch in December,
which was not forthcoming. He understood that he had
pledged it.
Mr. Combo told him to lodge a warrant for the prisoner
to answer that charge on his release from prison.

The Late Fatal Accident at the Coal Depot
at Paddington.

Yesterday Dr. Lankester resumed and concluded
the inquiry at the Bank of England Tavern, Cam-
bridge-place, Paddington, on the bodies of Thomas
Downes, John Stafford, and Stephen Langston,
who lost their lives at the station of the Ruabon
Coal Company on the morning of the 4th ult.
Mr. Metcalfe attended on the part of Messrs.
Smith and Knight, the contractors.
Some evidence having been given as to the
sufficiency of the strutts,
Mr. John Edwards, by advice of his counsel, was
next sworn. He said he was manager to Messrs.
Smith and Knight, who were the contractors.
Lester acted under his instructions. Lester under-
took some part of the contract, the removal of the
soil and sinking a well. Witness was on the plat-
form about 10 days or a fortnight before the acci-
dent, and saw the bunkers were clear of coal. It
the coals had been there and his orders had been car-
ried out there would have been no danger. He
ordered the girder which broke to be shored. On the
Tuesday before the accident he saw they had soil
enough removed in the arch which fell up to an
upright, and he told Downes he would go to Barnes
and get him to put one up before he removed the
first column. He told him to get the round oat be-
tween the columns and 3ft. from the first column, to
be ready for the bricklayers. He made a mark on
the ground, and further said it was not to be re-
moved until that had been done. He (Edwards)
went to the works about twenty minutes past nine,
and found that the strutt was in. They had no
directions to remove the second column, and had no
right to be working within sft. of that column.
They ought not to have been working in the arch
et all until the new column was in, but they worked
contrary to the directions that were left. He meant
Stafford and Downes, they being the only two men
at work there. There were no definite instructions
given them. He believed that the bunker would
not have given way if his directions had been fol-
lowed out ; and he did not believe there were coals
in the bunker, as on looking up he could see the
daylight.
By Mr. Metcalfe—Witness had no control over
the company in putting coals into the bunkers.
There were sixty tons of coals in toe bunker; that
would be 21 cwt. to the superficial foot. If he had
thought there had been any danger he should have
used the lateral strutts ; but the accident was of a
vertical character. If he had known the clay was
faking away from the stanchion he would not have
allowed a dog to remain there. He took the same
precaution in the other arches. The men objected
to have strutts put up, as they considered it hindered
them in their work.

By the Coroner—The men had everything neces-
sary—timber, nails, &c. ; and when the stanchion
fell, and ;they saw the clay slipping, they should,
the first thing have had strutts put up. The men
were employed by the day.
William Lester, on being sworn, said he was an
excavator, and had taken work under Mr. Ed wards
at the Great Western Station. He undertook the
removal of the soil under the arch which tell. He,
employed Downes and Stafford. On the morning of
the accident the first pier was down but the strutt
was up. The second pier was up. The men were
digging when the first one fell. He did not tell
them to work round the second pier, but they
were working towards it. He went again a little
after nine, and he did not observe the second pillar
was down. He was not told that it was, and if he
had known so he would not have worked there. He
then went to the wall, where he had nine men at
work—a dangerous place, 20ft deep and 16ft wide
Ho was not told there were eoals in the bunkers : if
there had been, it would have been dangerous. He
did not think anything about it. He worked with
the men. Ford never told him there were coals in
the bunkers. He made no inquiries. The bunkers
might be empty at night, but when the men went
to work they might be full, and no one know any-
thing about it.
By the Jury—Witness never thought of any dan-
ger, nor did he think it necessary to go and look.
Mr. Robert J. Hood, civil engineer, said he hid
visited the scene of the accident, and he felt that Mr.
Edwards had exercised a sound discretion in the
orders he had given, and he believed that if his orders
had been carried out there was plenty of support to
prevent accident to the men, even if the bunkers bad
been full. The cause of the accident was the falling
of the second stanchion. If the earth had not been
dug away beyond the three feet ordered by Mr. Ed-
wards that stanchion would not have fallen. He saw
no connexion between the coals and the accident.
The accident might have occurred without the weight
of coal, and the clay, though too near the excavation,
would have squeezed out by the weight of the iron
column. When the pier fell, without the weight of
coal the accident would have happened, as there
was a joint over the second column which Mr. Kerr
when he visited it was unaware of.
The Coroner summed up.
The court was then cleared, and on the re assem-
blage of the public the following verdict was deli-
vered :—" We find John Edwards and William
Lester guilty of the manslaughter of Thor. Downes,
John Stafford, and Stephen Langston."
Application was then made by Mr. Hargrove for
bail on the part of Edwards and Lester; and as both
men had left the house,
The Coroner said they had better be sent for, and
he would receive Mr. Knight's bail for their ap-
pearance at the Old Bailey to meet the charge.

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