The Sun.
London, England, 1863-10-30 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, OCrOBER 30, 1861

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT—This Day.

OLD COURT.
(Before Mr. Baron Martin.)
OBTAINING GOODS BY FALSE PRETENCES.

Henry har wood andiohn Bryan, charged with obtaining
30 barrels of flour by forged orders, and William Day and
William Reed were charged with receiving the same well
knowing they were stolen.
The Messrs. Bovill and Co., the parties defrauded, are
wholesale dealers, carrying on business at Bolton's Wharf,
Shad Thames, and on the 27th March an order was pre-
sented to them for the delivery of 30 l'arrels of flour.
The property was delivered in cart, and it was proved
that in a short. time afterwards part of the flour
was left at the promises of Day and Reed, tradesmen in
Bermondsey. After the property had been obtained, the
order was discovered to be a forgery, and on the matter be-
ing placed in the hands of the police, the four prisoners
were taken into custody.
Evidence having been adduced,

Mr. Baron Martin said there did not appear to be the
slightest case against Reed and Day. On the contrary,
they appeared to have given straightforward answers to the
police, and therefore it would the duty of the jury t'
acquit them. With respect to the other two, there was
quite sufficient evidence to go on with the case.
Mr. Cooper, who appeared for the prisoner Bryan, said
he felt certain after the jury had fully considered the whole
facts of the case, they would be of opinion that the two
poor men at the bar were the dupes of other parties, and
that when they presented the order for the flour they had
not the slightest idea it was a forgery.
The jury acquitted Sherwood, but found Bryan guilty.
Baron Martin sentenced him to seven years' penal ser-
vitude.

UNLAWFUL WOUNDING.

John Morton, a seaman, pleaded guilty to a charge of
unlawfully wounding his superior officer with a knife.
Oa account of the provocation he was only sentenced to
six months' imprisonment.

NEW COURT.
(Before Commissioner Kerr.)

At the sitting of the court this morning Mr. Mlntyre
referred to the case of Alexander Johnston, who yesterday
pleaded guilty to stealing some shares in the South African
Bank, and applied that the shares, which were now in the
hands of the police, might be given up to Mr. Thompson,
the master of the prisoner, and from whose office the shares
were stolen.

Mr. Best, on the part of Mr. Chapman, the broker who
sold the shares, said it was from that gentleman's solicitor
the police had obtained the share for the purposes of the
prosecution; Mr. Lelame, to whom the prisoner had taken
the shares, could not sell them, not being a broker, and that
gentleman had been £4O out of pocket, and had brought
an action of trover to recover that sum, and he held that the
shares should be returned to Mr. Chapman.

After some discussion the shares were ordered to be
delivered up to Mr. Thompson, the gentleman from whom
the same had been stolen.

EMBEZZLEMENT.

George Taylor, 18, pleaded guilty to a charge of em-
bezzling £3O 155., the monies of Morris Wollsky, a mer-
chant in the City, to whom he had been clerk.
Mr. Beslay, on the part of the prosecution, recommended
him to mercy.
He was sentenced to nine months' imprisonment.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day,

MARLBOROUGH .STREET.

WIFE BEATING—MTJRDEROUS ASSAULT ON A WIFE.—
Michael Harrigan, of 9, Angel-court, King-street, St.
James's, was charged before Mr. Knox with assaulting his
wife in a violent manner.

On the prisoner being placed in the dock, William Duff,
138 C, informed the magistrate that the prosecutor was not
present,

Mr. Knox—Let the constable be sworn.
Duff (on being sworn) said—• About a quarter to 8 last
eveninz, hearing cries of murder, I went to 9, Anzel-court,
and on going up to the third floor I found the prisoner
standing over his wife beating her with the leg of a chair.
Mr. Knox—Go and fetch the wife.
On the wife being brought to the court, her head being
bandaged, she stepped into the witness-box and said—
Let me entreat you to discharge my husband, sir. I will
not press the charge, I had the leg of the chair [the
woman called it a stick—it was produced, and had blood
and hair on
Mr. Knox—Now don't tell me such lies as that.
Wife—Oh, don't send him to prison. He wont do it any
more, I'll answer for it.

Mr. Knox—Go down, you are no use to us. The con-
stable hears cries of "Murder!" finds you on the ground
and your husband standing over you beating you with a
stick on the head, there being your hair and blood on the
stick, and yet you tell um a parcel of lies, and say he wmit
do it again. You may consider it a fortunate thing that he
is not here for murder. I shall remand him for a week on
the constable's evidence, and I will turn the case over in
my m nd, as there is enough to send him to prison for six
months.

James Harweod, a gilder, was committed for a month
for assaulting his wife, Elizabeth, who said he had left Irr
entirely destitute, and that she had found him in bed with
anothf-r female.

CAUTION TO CAB PROPRIETORS.—Thos. Foster, of 2,
Woburn-mews West, Russell-square, cab proprietor,
attended before Mr Eluox, to answer a complaint of unlaw-
fully causing and procuring the driver of cab 3,0.12, to
cruelly illtreat and torture a horse.
Mr. W. Love, chief officer of the Royal Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, attended to watch the
case, the driver of the horse, Maurice Whitty, having been
charged by the Society's officers, on Saturday last, with
cruelly illusing the horse, and fined 20s.
Sell, one of the officers of the Royal Society for the Pre-
vention of Cruelty to Animals, saw the horse attached to a
cab in Coventry-street, about one on the morning of the
21st, and on examining the horse he found it to be ono of
those poor, old, worn-out horses only used in night cabs.
Both its hocks were cut and bleeding, and every step it took
seemed to cause it intense pain.
Mr. Henry, veterinary surgeon, corroborated the officer.
Mr. Kno having been informed that the horse had been
destroyed fined the defendant 20s. with costs.

THAMES.
STAIMING.—George Hill, a seaman, lately discharged
from an American ship, was brought up on remand before
Mr. Partridge, charged with feloniously cutting and
wounding Walter James Jennings, iron moulder, of No.
23, Brook-street, Rateliff.
It appeared from the evidence that the prosecutor was in
John's-place, Stepney, talking to a man on Monday morn-
ing last. The prisoner was there and frequently interfered
with him, and then attempted to pull a woman's shawl off
her back. He remonstrated with the prisoner, words en-
sued, and the prisoner stt uck Jennings a violent blow on
the eye with his fist. Jennings retaliated, and they
fought a round. The prisoner was getting the worst
of the fight, and took a knife from his pocket,2 with
which he made several blows at his head and body.
Singularly enough, only one blow took effect, and
that was on the prosecutor's left hand, which was severely
cut. Jennings lost a good deal of blood. His brace button
prevented one stab taking effect, and in making a blow at
his breast the knife got entangled with his clothes, which
were torn. On the people calling out " Police," the prisoner
fled. Dillon, a police-sergeant, No. 19 K, met him running
at the top of his speed, and stopped him, He asked him
why he was running, to which he replied that the people in
John's-place were going to ill-use him. Dillon soon
afterwards met the prosecutor in Sidney-street, Commercial-
road, very taint from loss of blood, and his hand bleeding
copiously. There was a track of blood on the footpath from
John's-place to Sidney-street. Dillon found a knife on the
prisoner. There were no stains of blood upon it, and it is
supposed the wound was inflicted with another knife.
Mr. James Horton, surgeon, of High-street, Stepney,
said the prosecutor was brought to his surgery with a severe
incised wound on the back of his left hand. It was an inch
and a half long. The man would not recover the use of his
hand for some time. The coat, waistcoat, and shirt of the
wounded man were cut. It had been done with a knife or
some other sharp instrument. A brace button was split.
In answer to a question by the magistrate, Mr. Horton said
—" la my opinion the brace button stopped the Wow taking
effect. It was delivered with great force,
Mr. Partridge—The case is now completed. I shall not
deal with such a case as this myself. The prisoner is com-
mitted for trial.

The Fine Old English Gentleman,

(From the Daily Telegraph.)

The " fine old English gentleman" is a type
which, we trust, will never be ranked as extinct
with dodos and ichthyosanri. Even clad in the old
doublet and trunk hose, and wrapped round with
Tory prejudices, the genial worth of the class was
irresistible. They stood like pillars of the state,
propping up a world of rubbish and antiquated no-
tions; but so valuable in themselves, that people
spared the superstructure a long time for their sakes.
When that crumbled away, despairing Tories cried
that the race was disappearing—it never could sur-
vive Ittform Bills and Emancipation Acts; if old
port and bigotry were to go, the " fine old English
gentleman" must go too, like one of the victims of
Mr. Darwin's " natural selection," for whom the
conditions of existence had ceased to be available.
But have we lost him ? Have modern legislation
and modern ideas buried him and his fellows fathoms
deep in the " new sandstone" of thought and things ?
Not a bit of it. Like the grand old boy he is and
was, he holds his own with civilisation, and is to be
found at his wonted diversions and virtues, as much
an institution as ever. Time has taken off his full-
bottomed wig, and changed the cut of his flowered
waistcoat. It has hung his hall about with breech-
loaders and fishing-rods, insteads of " pikes, and
bows, and staves ;" and whereas " when Christmas
came" the worthy old man wasapt to be found under
his table towards the small hours, he " lives cleanly
new, and forswears sack" beyond a justifiable degree,
and is fit company for the ladies after dinner, which
is more than could be eaid for his ancestors. It
was picturesque, perhaps, to see him at his
great door serving out a share of his good
things to the poor; but it is ten times better that
these poor should be honest workmen nowadays,
and not beggars, and that the English gentleman
should keep up this part of his character by being
an intelligent chairman of the board of guardians,
or a sensible justice of the peace. In a word, the
fine old fellow is changed, but changed for the better
rather than the worse, and we only hope that he
will long survive the process of such amelioration.
We like to come across him ; it does us good, in the
stormy atmosphere of politics and the confusion of
wars, to catch a glimpse of his honest, beamy coun-
tenance, and his contented, substantial air. We like
to hear of him from time to time, founding museums
and institutions at Liverpool, giving his hat-full of
thousand-pound notes at a time to the poor of Lon-
don, taking his pleasure and performing his duties
in the thoroughgoing way peculiar to bis kind; and,
life's jolly, easy, innocent, and yet earnest business
over, dying without a voice to speak ill of his silver
hairs. We need these men—large-hearted, big-
limbed, manly-thonghted Britishers—and we do
well to be proud of them, for it is an indigenous
strain. They don't set the Thames of science on
fire with discoveries, nor take always kindly to
those who do; they are largely given to Conserva-
tive politics, as being comfortably suitable to diges-
tion, which is usually more or less disturbed by
thinking. But, all in all, they are a worthy set,
and when we lose them it is a melancholy tribute
to make a note of it."

Such an one is just departed from among us in
‘ljoe Weld, of Lulworth Castle," as his neighbours
affectionately called him. Perhaps because he was
as good a Catholic as he was landlord, friend, citi-
zen, and yachtsman, we are expected not to rank
him with the class we have described. Saving
the presence of Alr. Newdegate, the circumstance
does not weigh with us in the slightest degree. The
theory of the constitution is that a man's con-
science is his own business—the practice of society
is to make it that of everybody else. We prefer the
theory, and consider it essentially a matter of in-
different detail, of what particular communion a
good, honest, truthful, and dutiful gentleman may
be. And nothing is more obvious than the healthy
set of public opinion towards this view of the
matter. It is not the priestly view on either side,
because its tendency is to disregard the dogmas and
rubrics of this and that Church, and to select and
stick to the points of agreement between them,
which, after all, are as a hundred to one. But it
is theimtviee: which, day by day, brings us nearer to
the
hen religion will be charitable, rational,
and universal, and not the instrument of sacerdotal
ambition or the apology for heathenish animosities.
There are two sides to Catholic profession in
1863, when, logically, it seems an anachro-
nism. There is the priestly and propagandist
side, with which we can have no manner of sym-
pathy, but au intensely contrary feeling; and there
is the hereditary and reasonable side, upon which
it comes to us invested with many an estimable
association. There are families in England amid
whom the profession of the old creed has descended
it,
n through
like
generations,and by these it is reverently
kept, jewel, precious for its asso-
rather than for any intrinsic
e es anda
householdsett setting,
g
fascination in the heir-loom. Mr. Weld's house has
in this way inherited its tenets, and honourably
maintained them. But, to one who never himself
asked whether an honest man was of this creed or
that, Protestant or Catholic, we owe the same
rational liberality. On Joseph Weld's ancestral
estate the religious screw was never turned down,
nor did any man ever link the name of "Weld of
Lulworth'' with anything so mean and absurd as
religious persecution. The best recompense we
can make to his memory is gladly to forget that he
Old not worship with the majority of his country-
men, or go towards the Heaven that is near all
by quite the same road as they. The proper way
by ignoring, as we do here, in ranking
to extend and propagate his example is to imi-
our " fine old Eaglish gentlemen,"
thaitme
witith
the slight difference in
the religious sanctions of
his manly life. His breviary in one hand shall never
make us overtook the brave old yachtsman as he
stood with his tiller in the other, guiding one of his
white-winged beauties to the winnin4-buoy. We
have touched here upon the pursuit which has made
his name known wherever the pleasure navy of
England carries its bright and saucy bunting. He
twhaast hae launchedtb(c)agli yachtsman, and the fleet vessels
and sailed from time to time are
known
bysight and fame in ail the ports of the
coast. Toe Alarm must hoist her flag half-mast,
for the old eyes that brightened when they saw her
stately hull careening to the leeward wash, her
spreading sails as white as a swan's pinion, and as
deftly set, "are glazed in death." If it was but a
pas
time which made his name known, it was a play
for men, in whose blood runs salt. The dancing
Lulworth, and the unconquered Alarm, if they were
playthings, were playthings for a man with manly
heart and tastes; and the liberal and tolerant lord
of Lulworth Castle blended these, and a hundred
other virtues, with the faith of the founder of
Stoneyhurst.

A CATHOLIC CHURCH of large . dimensions,
beautifully decorated inside, and built upon the plan
of one of thejltoman basilicas, has very recently been erected
upon Highgate Hill. Tho cost of the whole structure
has been considerable, and notwithstanding large dona-
tions from various members of that community, there is
still left a heavy debt to pay. The clergymen hove, in
order to liquidate this debt, improvised a distribution of
prizes on a large scale, calling upon the whole world to
send them something. Accordingly many valuables have
been sent from all quarters. One dressing
case, with gold
requisites (value £100), was the gift of a lady, who, in send-
ing it, simply remarked that she had no further use for it.
Several gold and silver watches have also been contributed.
Roman princesses and nobles have sent costly cam ios
and
mosaics. Pope Pius IX. has sent an exquisite cameo of the
Saviour set in gold. The collection, in fact, is said already
to exceed in value £l,OOO. And now that it is nearly coin_
pleted, it is to be distributed again on the Art
Union plan
of tickets at a small cost.—Camden Journal.
MISS BATEMAN'S LEAK.--As she enters, driven
by howling and infuriated peasants, vve become
aware that a genuine artist has appeared. We believe that
the actress, the silent maiden, surrounded by the throng,
Leenetrated with the deepest feeling ; you cannot strip off
the ch..,iracter and leave the woman untouched. There is,
a ,slight reaction when she first speaks. Nature
L
acting i her .a somewhat
an English ear. But the speechless
hard voice ; nor is her accent
has
trguitvhe,h
g the D,
ywipthleasin which
cone continues rivets us again; she
shudders at the priestly be:ediction, and shrinks back in
entirely
horror from the crucifix
h. w ict.‘ saves her from her persecu-
tors. As the curtain falls we fee: that we have seen an
actress who means intensely in all hoar play, and we lament
that the ear has not been satisfied . 'lwith
cou. y the eye.—
hceqon /47i,;;f ,

The Steam Rams in the Mersey,

The gunboat Heron, which arrived on Wednes-
day, remained up to last evening close to the en-
trance to the Great Float with her fires banked,
and a " slip" cable on. Both rams are now under a
guard of marines, and as the Goshawk is moored in
the Float it is impossible for either of the rams to
escape without observation. We understand, how-
ever, that :Messrs. Laird have no intention of smug-
gling the vessels out of port, but that they are await-
ing the result of the protest which has been entered
against the seizure by the Government officers. '
The bare facts, so far es they can be reliably
gathered at this early hour, are, that on Tuesday
morning Mr. Morgan, of the Customs, acting under
the authority of the Treasury, and not of the
Foreign-office, as stated, took possession of both rams
in a strictly formal manner, announcing the fact in
writing to Messrs. Laird, accompanied with the
intimation, also in writing, that, if necessary, force
would be employed. The men employed were con-
sequently at once discharged, and the ships passed
out of the Messrs. Laird's hands.

I❑ this posture matters remained until mid-clay
Thursday, when an armed force, under the orders
of Captain Inglefield, superseded the Customs offi-
cers in charge on board both ships, the officers and
marines entering Messrs. Laird's yard fully armed,
the officers with side arms and the marines with
muskets. The Messrs. Laird have protested against
these proceedings, as at once unlawful and uncalled
for in the present unfinished condition of the ships.
The universal feeling here is one of profound indig-
nation.

Installation of Earl De Grey and Ripon as
High Sheriff of Hull.

Yesterday the ceremony of the installation of
Earl de Grey and Ripon took place at the Town-
hall, Kingston-upon-Hull. For some time past the
most active preparations have been made for the re-
ception and entertainment of his lordship, and every-
thing was done both by the corporation and the
public to give iickit to the proceedings. Earl de
Grey arrived at Hull on Wednesday evening at
5.25 by the train from Studley Royal. He was re•

ceivedon the platform of the Paragon-street rai

way station by the mayor, Mr. W. H. Moss, the
sheriff, and several members of the corporation.
He was the guest of Mr. H. Blundell, Brunswick-
house, Beverley-road.
Messrs. Samuelson and Co., the extensive iron
shipbuilders, having determined to launch from
their yards four new iron vessels, the preparations
for the launch were completed shortly after seven
o'clock in the morning ; and soon after that hour
Earl de Grey, Mr. James Clay, M.P., and Mr.
Joseph Somes, M.P., together with the mayor and
several members of the corporation, as well as the
leading merchants of the town, entered the yard.
Soon afterwards a signal gun was fired from her
Majesty's ship Cornwallis, and the ships Countess
of Ripon and the Lightning, two fine East India-
men were released from their bondage to find a home
on the waters. The steamer Earl de Grey and
Ripon, which has been been built for a London fire,
and a small steamer for the French Government,
were to be knocked off the slips. The vessels were
all succesfully launched without any accident what-
ever.

After the launches, his lordship and about 250
invited guests sat down to breakfast in Messrs.
Samuelson's moulding loft. About eleven o'clock
his lordship proceeded to the Humber Lodge of Free-
masons, where, after an address of congratulation
had been presented to him, he was made an hono-
rary brother of the lodge. This interesting cere-
mony over, the members of the lodge accompanied
his lordship to the Trinity-house, at the entrance
to which he was met by the elder and younger
brethren. There were present the borough mem-
bers and Lord Hotham, one of the members for the
East Riding. Earl de Grey having been made an
honorary brother, he was entertained at luncheon.
About two o'clock his lordship proceeded to the
Town Hall, Lowgatc, for the purpose of being
installed in the office of high steward. Here were
assembled the members of the corporation, the
members of the consular body, as well as the various
orders, guilds, and societies of the town. On the
platform were the aldermen of the borough ; Mr.
Samuel Warren, Q C., D.C.L., the borough re-
corder, and Messrs. Clay and domes, borough mem-
bers. The mayor occupied the chair.
The preliminaries having been arranged, his
lordship formally accepted the office.
The Town clerk then administered the oaths of
the office, which were attested by the mayor and
recorder.
His LORDSHIP then briefly addressed the audience.
He said he felt grateful for the high office bestowed
upon him, grateful because he had thus an oppor-
tunity of renewing his connection with that ancient
and honourable borough; and as he had now be-
come an officer of the town, he should feel called
upon at all times to promote the interests of the
town, and guard them as he would guard his own.
A list of the high stewards from the establishment
of the office, and dated as far back as 1583, was then
handed to his lordship. The ceremony of instal-
lation over, a procession was formed for the purpose
of proceeding to the People's Park, where a magni-
ficent marble statue of her Majesty, executed by
Mr. Thomas Earle, London, was inaugurated.
In the evening a grand banquet was given to his
lordship in the Assembly-room. The chair was oceu-
pied by the mayor, and he was supported on his
right by the Earl de Grey and Ripon and Mr.
Samuel Warren, Q.C„ and on his left by Lord
Hotham, M.P., and Mr. James Clay, M.P. The
usual loyal and patriotic toasts having been dis-
posed of,
The CHAIRMAN gave the toast of the evening,
" The Right Hon. the Earl do Grey and Ripon."
His Lordship, on rising, was received with the
most deafening applause. After thanking the mayor
andcorporation for the high honour which had been
done him by conferring upon him so high an office
as that of the high stewardship of so important a
borough, in speaking of the volunteer movement,
his lordship remarked that that body would always
be a valuable auxiliary to the standing army. We
lived in times when no reasonable man who looked
abroad and contemp!ated the scenes which were
being witnessed in the East and the West, and in
various parts of the world, could doubt, be thought,
that it was the duty of this country to be prepared
to meet any contingency,having a due regard to the
economy of public money, which it is the duty of
any Government to look to. Nevertheless, it was
their duty to take care that they took no step which
would tend to diminish the efficiency of our military
forces, or in any way weakened our national de-
fences. His noble friend (Lord Hotham) had ex-
pressed a hope that it would be long before the services
of our army and navy were required ; he most sin-
cerely joined the noble Lord in that hope, and by
the appearances in various parts of the world, he
could Bee no ground for g
fear'l that the peace
which now existed would be broken.n (Applause.)
That peace would be best maintained if a great
which Power like England, had no aggressive
objects, took care to maintain her position in the
world, and make her voice heard iu the countries
of Europe and b
and also to manifest the great powers of the earth,
""a
desire not to interfere in
their affairs. It
was our duty towards foreign
countries to do to others as we would they should
do to us, and apply the principles and maxims that
WQ would have
we
to ourselves by remember-
ing that when e are neutral we might again be-
come
belligerents. (Applause.) It was in that
spirit that the Government of which he had the
honour
to he a member had undertaken to Bet'
(Applause.) After a few remarks on the duties
coif
the office in which he had that day been installed,
his Lordship resumed his seat amidst tremendous
bursts of applause.
I addressed by
The meeting was subsequent' d
Mr. sows.
Lord Hotham, Mr. James Clays 8"

STRIKE OF COLLIERS IN IE NoRTIL—Ot tf,e
unfortunate "strike" at the Auck TFland Collieries there is
ion.
e In one case, at least, the
yet no prospect of a terminat
door to compromise seems to be effectually closed, 37 fami-
lies, whose heads declined to resume work on the terms of
Messrs. Strakers and Love, having. yesterday betn forcibly
ejected from their dwellings at Suunbrow ; and
truly sad
and suggestive was the scene which the village Pr
—Netccastle
Under this harsh and trying treatment, h
men w praiseworthy
as most exemplary and conduct
evirtorethY cond of the
presented,

Chronic.