The Sun.
London, England, 1863-04-02 00:00:00

THE LATE RIOTS.

Mr. Justice Mellor sat in the Crown Court at
Chester on Monday, and in concluding his charge
to the grand jury, spoke as follows :
" There is one class of cases which I cannot ap-
proach without the most unfeigned and serious re-
gret. A great many persons ate charged before
you with rioting at Staleybridge and Dukinfield.
Gentlemen, it is not my duty, nor would it become
me, to offer any general observations upon this
question. lam only here to administer the law,
and to lay down the principles which are to guide
you in discharging your duty with reference to the
bill presented to you. But, gentlemen, it is lameot-
qble that that peace and quietness, that wonderful
endurance under privations, which have hitherto
distinguished the operative classes of this country
,hould be rudely disturbed. The disturbance
may probably have the effect of drying up, to
.- ome extent, the sources of sympathy which
'.eve hitherto induced people to come forward
and contribute funds for the relief of the dis-
tress. Wben those persons who volunteered
their services to aid the distressed by undertak-
ing the distribution of the charitable funds sup-
lied to their—l do not mean charity in the
mustthey
of the spon-
to do so, but the voluntary cffering.
el avwe r of
b ut ch..; siSainudl
rdinary sense of the word, for I should be eshamed
LAncashire-and Cheshire—
violentlyen those persons are
taneous sympathy felt for the buffering messes of
is inconeilvable foily, and can
may be in gaining 601110 miserable temporary object,
osv th o
those
personsterfere d
tstviaitth:_htoh;
sh
only
tend to produce the most deplorable mischief both
to themselves and to those peacekbl y disposed per-
their conduct
5000 who are in the same circumstances as them-
selves. Ido hope these most. insane, foolibb, and
wicked riots will cease to disgrace the county. I
call these riots wicked, for they not only do mis-
chief to those actually engaged in them, but also to
those who have hitherto borne their privations with
eucti creditable forfearance. I have only to request
you to let these cases have your attention last. They
should be tried last, being 'el such importance as to
demand the most serious attention."

COLOURS OF THE CHAMELEON.—" Perhaps the
handsomest, though not the most brilliant, colour
assumed by the chameleon was a warm brown, mottled and
spot,ed with black, or black mottled and spotted with rich
brown, so that it presented an appearance wonderfully like
that of a jaguar. It very seldom assumed this hue, and
only seemed to io Po under much excitement. Fly-catch-
ing would occasionally bring out tLe beautiful spots; but
the finest instance of jaguar-like marks that it ever exhi-
bited in my presance was whin a blue-bottle fly was buzz-
ing and bumping against a window-pane, too high for the
chameleon to reach it. I could not at first imagine what
could be the matter, for a chameleon is ordinarily one of the
most impassive of reptiles, and to see it really excited
quite an unique event. In the early morning, after
it
had gained some warmth through the sunbeams,
it mostly
touk a greenish-grey colour, with two rows of oblong buff
spots on each side. The spots were sharply
defined, and
varied from an eighth to halt an inch in length, keeping,
however, to the same width, a. ahuut one line or the
twelfth tart of an inch. Bright yellow
bands frequently
appeared round its legs, as if it were wearing a number of
ghoulindeann brraacce',letisTB'ulowdaVgius J!ke the oriental beauties of the
then it would be with
wholly grey,
ber of round black spots. '
—Front 61 Oeitnys,,,- two
a number
rCeOrng, (Ms fie e. G. vod, 41,4.