The Sun.
London, England, 1839-08-01 00:00:00

BIRMINGHAM RIOTS
WARWICK ASSIZES.

(Before :sir. Justice LITTLEDALE.
WEDNESDAY EVENING, Five o'CLocE.
After two or three cases had been disposed of,
William Parry was indicted for, that he on the 15th of
July, did feloniously break and enter the shop of Samuel
Vincent Horton, of Birmingham, and steal therefrom a
silver sugar basin value 10/.
Mr. MELLOR appeared for the prosecution.
Enoch Chumleigh-1 am a police-officer at Birming-
ham. I know the prisoner. I went to his house in New-
ton street on Saturday the 20th of July. There had been
some riots in the town on the previous Monday. In about
half an hour Parry came in, and I said I believed he had
got some of Mr. Horton's silver. Mr. Horton is a silver-
smith in the High-street, and his shop-windows had been
broken on the night of the 15th. The prisoner said he had
something his boy had found, but he did not know whose silver
it was. I asked him to give it up to me, but he refused to doso.
I then asked him to walk to Mr. Horton's shop with me,
and he did so. I showed the silver to Mr. Horton. The
prisoner appeared to have got his head broken in the riots.
When Mr. Horton had owned the silver, I took Parry to
the public office. Mr. Redfern was there and asked him
how he got the mark on his head, and he said he had
got it in High-street on Monday night, by one of the
constables.
Samuel Vincent Horton—l have a shop in High-street,
Birmingham. My father occupies the house and myself
and my two brothers, with whom I am in partnership, oc-
cupy the shop and another adjoining room. There are three
entrances to the house the back and front shop doors
and the house-door. The arrangement we had made with
our father was that we should occupy the shop and pay the
rent, and that he should occupy the remainder of the house.
On the night of the 15th July there was a noise in the
street, between nine and ten o'clock. The shop was shut
up, and I heard a great noise at the shutters. Presently
one of the panels of the window-shutter next the gateway
was broken in, and then all the shutters were pulled down.
A general scramble then took place for the contents of the
indow, which contained various silver and plated articles.
The silver sugar-basin now produced is one of the articles
taken ; its selling price is 101., but it is injured now, and
the old silver is worth about 41. It is old fashioned, and I
should perhaps have taken bl for it.
The Learned JUDGE here said he did not think it ne-
cessary to go further into the case unless the Jury wished
it. When property was lost, and found immediately
afterwards in the possession of any party, the presumption
was that he had stolen it. Here the prosecutor's shop had
been broken open by a mob of persons in a riotous way, but
there was no proof before them that the prisoner was
one of the persons engaged in that riot, and although he
bad a cut on his head, he might have received it in some
other way. Before, however, they could convict the pri-
soner of the charge laid in the indictment, they must
be satisfied that he was one of the persons en-
gaged in that riot. Possession was certainly some
evidence, but where a riotous mob broke open a house in
the way that had been described, there must be something
more. • If it was a case, as often occurred, of one or two
persons breaking into a house at night, and stealing pro-
perty therefrom, the possession would in such case be
evidence of the party having taken it, but the present case
as they would see, was of a different character.
The Jury, after consulting for a few minutes, returned
a verdict of Not guilty.
In the course of yesterday, a true bill was found against
Dr. John Taylor; and to-day tne
.Grand Jury came into
Court, and returned [true bills against Jeremiah Bowel,
Francis Roberts, John Jones, and Thomas Aston, for
feloniously breaking and demolishing the house of James
and Henry Bourne, tea-dealers, on the night of the 15th
of July. There is a second indictment for breaking and
entering, and a third for the riot. Also against John
Birch, for demolishing the house of George Naden, grocer,
High-street. Also a true bill against Dr. John Taylor,
for a riot on the night of the 4th of July.
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Neal, William Shears, William
Eades,
True bills against John Smith, William Clift, and
Thomas King, for a riot on the 4th of July.
Against John Rhode, Eleazer Hughes, Thomas Salter,
and John Duckworth, for a riot on the 4th of July ; and
against Hughes for an assault on the London Police.
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Against
wiiiamjam
Gees, and George Best,orgePomeroy, George Baker, John Tutlow,
for a riot on the sth of
July; and against James for an assault on Robert Chalk,
of the London police.
Three true bills against Edward Brown, and true bills
against John Joseph Fussell, and George Julian Harney,
for seditious language.
True bills against John Ingram for a riot on the 15th of
July, and against William Lovett and John Collins, for
writing and publishing a seditious placard.
The Grand Jury were then discharged.
Nearly all the cases on the calendar, with the exception
of those connected with the disturbances at Birmingham,
have been disposed of, and to-morrow at the sitting of the
Court the cases of riot and burning will be proceeded with.
The Attorney-General arrived here this evening. Mr,
Sergeant Goulburn and Mr. Daniel have been retained to
defend some of the Delegates. The former for Doctor
Taylor and the latter for Mr. Fussell.
The town is quiet and extremely dull. With the ex-
ception of some dozen or two persons loitering in front of
the Court House, there is nothing to denote the holding
of the Assizes and general Gaol Delivery—the only thing
approaching to a Chartist demonstration is the javelin men
and their pikes, who are strutting about with all the im-
portance of men " dressed in a little brief authority." So
far as Warwick is concerned, there does not appear to be
the slightest interest attached to the approaching trials.
AYLESBURY ELECTION.

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intention—whatever might be the wishes or plans of Lord
Nugent—not to allow a Tory candidate to walk quietly
over the field. As if to complete the farce which Lord
Nugent has played in the whole of this transaction, his
Lordship, at half-past eight o'clock this murning, penned
the following letter, which was addressed to the electors of
Aylesbury :
" Gentlemen,—Having redeemed my pledge, and having
no wish to become an actor in the exhibition which has
become so truly ridiculous, and which, as I foresaw, can
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(Signed) " NUGENT."
The polling notwithstanding proceeded, and was kept
open till the usual hour, four o'clock, when the Returning
Officers having been called upon for their decision, the
following was given as the result :
For Captain Hamilton ... 620
For Mr. Lockart ..................... 72
For Lord Nugent... .................. 3
This announcement was, of course,
received as might
be expected by the adherents of the different parties, and
Captain Hamilton then proceeded to the George Inn, and
addressed the electors amidst cheers, groans, and hisses.
The Tories are chuckling themselves, of course.
upon their imaginary triumph a triumph which
is destined to be short— but they seem to
be little aware of the energy and determined
resistance to their machinations, which the events of
the last fortnight have called into play. The borough
is sure to be emancipated from the thraldom of Bucking_
ham influence, and in the event of a general election, the
weight is sure to preponderate in the Liberal scale.
The official declaration of the poll, and the return of the
successful candidate, will, of course, be announced to-
morrow.

THE WEATHER AND THE CROPS.

The question whether we shall have an abundant or a
deficient harvest, is a matter of so much moment to every
member of a community, cursed as ours is by laws which
will not permit a supply of wheat to be landed on our
shores until bread reach an enormous price, and the poor
are starving—that a frequent recurrence to such accounts
as assist, however imperfectly, in forming some opinion on
the subject, is natural, and we not altogether without
its uses.

SCOTLAND. —A writer in the DuiVries Courier of
Tuesday describes the weather in that locality as being all
that can be
wished for, and that the damage done by the
previous rain is partial only. He adds :—" After travel-
ling over about a dozen counties, some Highland, some
Lowland, and comprising every variety of soil, surface and
sub, exposure and situation, we have arrived, not hastily,
but slowly, at the conclusion that, should August and Sep-
tember prove favourable months, there is grain enough on
the surface of the earth to furnish, not merely a full ave-
rage crop. but about a crop and a fourth." .
" There is great cause at present for thankfulness to
the Divine giver of all good ; and our own grateful im-
pression decidedly is, that the forthcoming crop, from
the moment it is reaped, will do more to cool the fever
fit which has taken such strange possession of the public
mind, than the addition about to be made to the army, of
5,000 men, the rural police projected for the disturbed
districts, and all other means and appliances to boot.
IRELAND.—We regret to say that the weather has as.
sunned a very unfavourable aspect. The rain is falling
heavily, and it is to be feared that should such continue to
be the case, the wheat crops will be materially injured. As
yet, however, no serious damage has been done ; for al-
though the frequent and heavy showers that we have had
for some days, were inimical to haymaking, yet the warm
sunshine, and the drying winds, in theintervals, prevented
any mischief accruing to the forward and heavy corn ;
while for the late oats and potatoes, the moisture was ra-
ther beneficial than otherwise. There never was in the
memory of man such a prospect of a bountiful harvest ;
and we must only hope and pray that the realization of
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mencement of their engagements for a week or two.
Da. CHALMERS.— Previous to the procession
at the laying of the foundation stone of the Mechanics'
Institution, the Committee invited several distinguished
individuals to the ceremony. Among others they wrote
to Dr. Chalmers, requesting him to preach a sermon on the
occasion. A reply was received from him dated on the 2d
instant, which we have perused with melancholy interest;
it is addressed to the Secretary. After stating his inability
to attend, the Rev. Doctor says :--" I look forward with
great interest to my intercourse with you and the Me-
chanics of Greenock next summer; and all the more that
it will probably be the last public service at a distance from
home which I shall ever undertake, as I now find, both
from the state of my engagements and my strength, that
I must withdraw from the labours of active life as speedily
as possible."--Greenock Advertiser.