The Sun.
London, England, 1863-05-12 00:00:00

THAMES.

SERIOUS CHARGE.—DTSGRACED POR EVER.—George
J. Johnson, a tall well-dressed man, about 32 years of age,
a c erk in the Royal Arsenal, at Woolwich, was brought
before Mr. Woolrych, charged with indecently exposing his
person to some children, in Albert-square, Commercial-
road East.
The principal evidence against the prisoner was given by
a girl named Jane Turner, about 14 years of age. She was
taking care of her little brothers and a sister, and passing
Along the eastern side of Albert. square, which is open to
the Commercial.road, when the prisoner passe l her and
flourished a stick, with which he tapped her on the shoulder
and laughed at her. He walked in advance of the girl, her
mothers, and sister, and whistled to a tract her atten-
tion. She looked towards him and he beckoned
to her to approach him. His clothes were thegin a disordered
state and his pet son exposed. As the children walked on-
sards the prisoner walkt.d before them with his person
exposed, and he c ntinued insulting them for 10 or lo
minutes. At last the girl saw a policeman, to whom she
pointed out the prisoner, who adjusted his clothes and ran
Away. He was pursued across Arbour-square to Arbour-
street West, at the back of the Thames Police-court. The
policeman called to him and he stopped, and was taken into
custody.

Joseph Turner, a boy 12 years of age, confirmed the state-
ment of his sister in every particular, and clearly E stablished
the charge against the prisoner.
Patrick Condon, 365 K, said the girl came to me in th e
Commercial-road and called my attention to the prisoner,
who was walking down Arbour-street East. He turned
round, and on seeing me he ran away. I called to him
and he stopped. I told him the charge, and he said he
knew nothing about it ; he never saw the girl before. The
prisoner afterwards said, if I did do it, I did it uninten-
tionally. His vest was open,
his eyes were " bloated," and
1 have no doubt he was the worse for liquor.
Inspector Griffin, of the K division, said he took the
charge, and all the children related clearly, in Mr. John-
son's prasence, the indecent conduct he had manifested
towards them. The prisoner stood collected and calm, and
said, " This will ruin me, I can look no one in. the face
afterwards."
The girl was re-called and very strictly questioned by
Mr. Woolrych. She said what the gentleman did could
not have been accidental ; le whistled to me to take notice
of him.

Mr. Stoddard, solicitor, after cross-examining the wit-
nesses, said that the prisoner was a man of hitherto irre •
proachable character, married, and had been two years in
the Royal Arsenal as clerk. The prisoner would be :he
last person to act as was lepresented, and it rues strange and
improbable that he could have acted in the disgusting way
represented.

A clerk, living near the Court, said the prisoner was his
brother-in-law, and came to his house intoxicated yesterday,
dined, and then went away flourishing his stick zv. he Was
la the practice of doing.
_ _ _

Air. Woolrych said—ln proportion to the gravity of the
charge was his anxiety to investigate it very fully, He was
satisfied th a case was made out, and that the prisoner had
acted in a most scandalous manner and insulted the chil
dren in a public square. Drunkenness was no palliation of
crime, but in this case he believed it was the sole cause of
the prisoner acting so disgracefully and so irmi orally as he
had done, and divested it in some measure of the grossness
which often attended exposures of this kind. He sentenced
the prisoner as a rogue and vagabond to two months' im-
prisonment and hard labour.
The Prisoner—l am disgraced and ruined for ever,

SHIPPING7-Tliis Day,

May 12.—Wind this day at noon—South-
WLesOtNerDlyo7,
strong breeze, and cloudy weather, with
rain.

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_ from Calcutta; her Alajesty's ship Edgar, from

.Spuykeso.—Sailed—Glendower, and Sir
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Alcyon, from Dinan ; Havre
SOUTHAMPTON, Tuesday Morning.
apd Minerva, from Sunder-
land ; Anna Dixon, Anne, and West Lothian, from Cardiff ;
Gipsey, from Llanelly.
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from Callao.
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from Frederickstadt.
Sailed—Cissy and Cym line, for Shanghai ; Nasdes-
y, cheda, for Cowie River ; Seuerk, steamer, for Copenhagen.
DEAL, Tuesday Morning.
Passed--Criterion, Larque, from Porto Rico, Electric
spark, from Callao. Skimmer of the Seas, from Ceylon ;
all for London.
la Anchorboth ed—Water Lily, from Japan, Irene, from Ade-
ide for London.

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Strongest and most delicious imported. Agents in every
town eupply it in packets._

Magnetic toys were, until lately, the only application of
Ileumll
the magnet to anything like a useful purpose, now
states,
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we have
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regard them as the most perfect brushes hitherto
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as respects their mechanical construction and their
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THE AMERICAN BLOCKADE.

ingale, Five Brothers, Charm, Brothers, John Wil-
liams, Ida, Clara (Mobile pilot-boat), Gipsy, Ascen-
sion, Anna Bee, Pacific, Theresa, Agnea (No. 3), Ida
(No. 2), Maggie Fulton ; the sloops Minnie, Enter
prise, Rela wpago, Rosalia, Ranger, Clotilde. The
value of these vessels and cargoes cannot be less
than 250,000 dots. Despatches have been received
giving an account of a boatexpedition for the purpose
of scouting the coast between the Suwannee River
and the Anclote Keys. The sloop Helen, of Cry sta
River. loaded with corn, was burnt, and the boats
made a movement towards a large schooner at
anchor inside, laden with cotton, but were arres'ed
by the fire of a two gun battery on the shore and a
number of riflemen concealed in the wood After a
brisk action, the Confederates were driven from

their guns, and the schooner set fire, and entirely
destroyed. The Confederate schooner Alabama,
from Havannah, was captured off Mobile, on the
17th inst., by the Federal steamer Susquehanna,
and towed here. The Tampico (British schooner)
was also captured running the blockade from Sabine
Pass. New York, April 28.—The prize schooner
Clone, of Nassau, went ashore on Lewes Beach, near
the breakwater, on the 24th inst., and went to
pieces; all hands saved. A vessel arrived at this
port from Palermo reports the capture of the ship
Morning Star, of this city by a confederate privateer.
The ship was released on giving bonds, the cargo
being, probably, on English account. A brig
arrived at this port from Ponce, P. R., reports that
the privateer Alabama arrived off that harbour on
the evening of the 7th inst., arid sent a schooner
tender into port for powder and coal, was supplied
by the Spanish authorities, and sailed the same
❑ight. The steamship St. John arrived at this port,
captured by the steamship Stettin, while endeavour-
ing to make a Confederate port. The Stettin first
sighted her off Cape Roman. After giving chase
for two hours, the St. John was run ashore at Cape
Roman. The captain and crew (with the exception
of four firemen) escaped in boats. After 12 hours of
hard and laborious work and throwing overboard a
portion of the cargo (salt), got her off. Labourers
were yesterday removing the cargo of the Peterhofi
from the wharf to the Government stores, where it
wilt be examined, and will subsequently be turned
over to the Prize Commissioners.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer on the

Treatment of the Blind,

The annual meeting of the members and friends
of the Association for Promoting the General Wel-
fare of the Blind, was held at St. James's Hall
yesterday afternoon. His Grace the Archbishop of
York occupied the chair, and was supported by the
Bishop of Chichester, the Bishop of 6t. Asaph, the
Right Hon, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Lord
Eburc, Professor Owen, Mr. W. Cotton, Rev. Dr.
Kaynston, &c. The meeting was numerously
attended.
The CHAIRMAN having briefly explained the
objects of the association, the report was read, and
the Bishop of Chichester having moved its adoption,
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER then rose
amid loud cheering, and said,—l rise with great
satisfaction and cordiality to second the motion
which has been proposed by the right reverend
prelate. This association is not founded on the idea
that the blind, because they have suffered a great
and heavy visitation are, therefore, to be the mere
passive recipients of that which the liberality of
their OEOw-creatures may bestow. It does not pro-
ceed on the idea that because the blind are so, they
have, therefore, ceased to partake in other respects
of that mysterious nature of which we are all par-
takers, with its immense capabilities and powers,
with its high hopes and great dangers; for in all
other respects the blind continue to be sharers in

everything pertaining to us as men, and if I rightly
apprehend the idea of this institution it is this,
that while we minister to the wants of the blind in
a specific manner, yet that we still consider them
as rational beings, es members of society, escapable
of various purposes, as not intended to be sent
into a corner or to be excommunicated from
but as intended to bear their parts as citizens
as enlightened and civilised creatures, and as Chris.
tians. Employment is a blessing for us all, but it is
much more so for the blind. Employment ti the
blind is the condition of mental serenity, of comfort,
and resignation. Employment to the blind is also

the condition of subsistence—that is, of honourable
end independent subsistence. The equipment and
strength of faculties is sufficient with the mass of
mankind to enable them by their labour to find the
means of support; but in the case of the blind it

comes some what short of that. Now the associatien
attempts to fill up the gap, but it does not supply
the blind with the means of living without nar
own exertions. Is there anything harsh in that ?
No ; it is the curse which enlightened benevolence
dictates. In doing that we recognise the position of
the blind as beings belonging to civilised society, and
we do not remove them one inch further from it than
they are removed by the dispensation of God. (Ap-
plause.) There is serious danger and inconveni.
ence in all plans of benevolence which tend to
throw the blind too much on themselves and on
one snarler. I find in the second rule it is stated
that " the immediate objects of this association shall
be to afford employment to those blind persons who
for want of work have been compelled to solicit
alms, or who may likely be tempted to do so; to
cause those unacquainted with a trade to be in.

strutted in some industrial art, and to introduce
trades hitherto unpractised by the blind," and BO
on. He concluded, amid much applause, by saying
that he cordially seconded the motion.
The motion was carried unanimously, and the
claims of the association having been advocated by
Lord Ebury, Professor Owen, and other gentlemen,
a cordial vote of thanks wab given to the chairman,
which brought the meeting to a olose.

THE LATE MURDER AT ALDERSHOT.—The
murder of Mr. Henry Holton, of Bagshot, appeals
to be one of those unfortunate cases in which the ends of
justice are likely to be defeated. Reward bills offering
£lOO for the conviction of the murderer or murderers have
now been issued more than two months, but, although the
police have been unremitting in their exertions, not the
slightest clue likely to lead to the apprchensioi of the
guilty party or panes has been discovered. The deed was
without doubt committed under cover of the night, and, as
the body
the chance had
of Unravelling the mystery surrounding the
crime was considerably diminished, and itis feared that
nothing farther Will be elucidated,

SAN FRANCISCO, April 26.—The Government
has purchased the steamships Weenie gton ,Panama,
Oregon, and California, to be razed and used as
war vessels. Savannah, April 24.—The sloop
Eagle, laden with cotton and tobacco, outward
bound, was beached and fired in Warsaw Sound,
on Thursday night, to prevent her capture by the
blockaders. The crew are safe. Boston, April 29.
—The bark Lysander, from Cienfuegos, arrived
here. She reports, April 10, while standing in to-
wards Colorado Reef, about 20 miles distant, saw a
vessel on fire, probably the work of some of the
privateers; tacked and stood off. On the 12th, 11
a.m., saw a small privateer schooner c;.ming down
for us. The wind being light we could not escape
by keepii.g off. He was soon alongside, hailed uq,
ascertained where we were from and bound, and
ordered us to heave to and send a boat alongside.
Captain Glover refused to comply, but called all
hands and ordered the small arms to be rondo ready.
The enemy must have seen the men coming aft
with a rush, and passing the guns to each other, as
we were only 10 or 12 rods distant. He then tacked
ship, and came under our lee again, and took a
good look, when he apparently concluded to let us
pass, as he said nothing, but ran a short distance
ahead, tacked ship, and stood for us again, came up
and asked my longitude. He then saw a small
vessel under my lee, and kept off for him. I think
he wanted me to send a boat so as to divide my men,
and make easier work for him. His crew were a
hard-lookieg set ; some barefooted, with red shirts.
The one that hailed the Lysander was an Irish-
man. My longitude was 83 45, lat. 23 18. Key
West, April 21.—The following captures have been
made by Admiral Bailey's squadron :—The boat
Alligator, the brig Atlantic (since restored, there
being no proof to warrant her condemnation) ; the
schooners Surprise (condemned), Florence Nigh

THIRD EDITION

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SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.—This Day,

BATH RACES-THIS DAY.

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BATH HANDICAP.

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LATEST BETTING.
THE DERBY.
9to 2on the field (off red)
16 to 1 age! National Guard (taken)
25 to 1 agst King of the Vale (taken)
40 to 1 agst Fantastic (taken)