The Sun.
London, England, 1863-12-18 00:00:00

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ship.
The pr'soners, haVing both begged for mercy, were then
severally sentenced to be kept in penal servitude for six

years.

The Fire Brigade System of London,

Last evening, at the usual meeting of the parish
of St. Mary, Lambeth, held at the vestry room of
the parish, Kennington-green, Mr. Churchwarden
Rhodes in the chair,
Mr. KNIGHT called the attention of the vestry to
a report which he had heard, that Sir George Grey,
the Secretary for the Home Department, intended,
during next session of Parliament, to introduce a
bill for the abrogation of their present fire brigade
establishment, and of
piecing it under the superin-
tendence of a different body. lie understood that
such transference of management would cause an
expense to the ratepayers of from X 40,000 to i 50,000
a year. He wanted, therefore, to know whether
the vestry had received any information on the sub-

r the
pct.
Mr. F. DOULTON, M.P., said ho was n
that any such question would be asked; but at
aware
same tine, as he was in possession of some inf
tion on the subject, he had much pleasure in °con" -
-
municating it to the meeting. The matter was very
important, and in the course of a week or two the
vestry, together with the other vestries of the
metropolis, would have their attention called to it,
and have placed before them the whole facts of the
case. The insurance companies, as they were aware,
had hitherto supported the fire brigade at a cost of
about £30,000 per annum. In the last two or
three years, however, these companies had protested
against charges thus placed upon them, as a large
number of the premises where fires occurred, and
where their engines attended, yielded them no-
thing, in consequence of the premises burnt down
not having been insured. They stated, in fact, that
the properties were not insured at nine-tenths of
the fires their engines aided in putting out. They,
therefore, under these circumstances, hinted in the
course of last year that they were not prepared any
longer to carry on the system. On that circum-
stance becoming known, the question arose what
was to be done ? Or course the Home Secretary
was the party to apply to on the subject; and feel-
ing a deep interest in it, he put a question to Sir
George Grey respecting it, and the result of that
was that a committee of the House of Commons
was appointed on the subject. The committee cer-
tainly did not report that the insurance companies
should support and maintain the fire brigade of the
metropolis. He believed Sir George Grey had
recently baen in communication with the Metropo-
litan Board of Works on the subject, and within the
last two days he believed that that board had received
notice of a measure to be introduced into the next
session of Parliament for placing the fire brigade
of the metropolis under the superintendence of that
board. He believed there was a provision of that
communication to the effect thereat if the Beard of
Works objeced to take the supndence of the
brigade, the Home Secretary was prepared to piece
the same under the superintendence of the 'Metro-
politan Police. in either case, however, the metro-
polis would have to pay. for the matter. The esti-
mated cost was, he believed, from £50,000 to
£60,000 per annum, or a halfpenny rate
over the
whole of the metropolis in perpetuity. He
certainly
thought that if the ratepayers of the metropolis had
to
itU they had much better place the super-
is under the control of the
super-
vision forf it Board of Works
than under the police, who were an irresponsible
body. (Hear.)
Mr. KNIGIIT then said he considered the subject
most important, and gave notice of .
a motion for next
meeting respecting it.

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at AEdinbur held
Chelsea, was
told the followinggt'l on Inesday, Dr. Norman
resided near
oii story :—A gentlemean;3
when he was;
eight
to
attacked by aggargotbterlow
aaabkriad
ogeekeDd down, had his watch
taken from him, and wea's leftw insensible on the ground. Every
effort was made to apprehend the robber, but inn
who
vain ;
when one evening a man called upon the gentlem
had been robbed, and said :—,, I am the man who garotted
glimpse of you, I remembered
You ; but, on catching a
having heard yon more 'hen once speaking at reformatery
meetings, and I em ashamed
id to him :—" of having done
How is i such a t
that
thing
to you." The gentleman sa
one possessing so much truth and kindness should commit
and place himself in such a position ?" To
such an action,
this the man replied, ~ Who will employ a thief ? who
will have mercy upon one who in his youth led a life of
crime such as I-have done ? who will live an honest confidence
lite ?" in me
that I shall forget my old ways and
The gen
tleman, struck by the man's contrition, and his de-
sire to get some employment, procured him a situation, and
found that he behaved himself well, and redeemed in a
measure the errors of his past life.
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once of the footprints, and further :pointed out thlti 41,111A-reN
which might apply to any one of the accused mi '' •=ll. 10,, V.--1/1
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cessarily apply to any one of the others. ::: eft* % 4el fa 14;,,
His Lordship having summed up, the jury re '' - Aki --%; A.:___77-
having been absent for about an hour, returned w4.:•47
diet of guilty against all the prisoners. Hartley, Shepi;oo , ~.,."4"4":1 -;
son, and Haigh were thereupon sentenced to be kept in. II S
penal servitude four and Seotts for three years.
Henry Smith Evans was indicted for stealing and Thomas .-
Dryhurst for feloniously receiving a large quantity of silver 9.
the property of Joseph Bradbury and another, at Sheffield, ese,:'
on the 19th of October last.
Mr. Blackburn and Mr. Gully, holding the brief of Mr.
MrCampbellwd Foster, who was absent from illness, prosecuted
dY appeared for Evans; and Mr. Middleton for!
the other prisoner.
For some time past Evans it appeared,employed
had been
by the prosecutors, who had extensive silver plates, ying
in his cure almost the whole of their .
large stock of silver
From events which occurred, it appeared that Evans was in
the constant habit of making up parcels, which he said were
eut;og,d in a house ery. and forwarding
in E
dingthirmeo titoot he other p: isoner, who was
er.g
acaerti) ti. Ono of these parcels
falling into the hands of the police
to some
latter town, it was
taken to uryhurst, who, fn ;li i
sold,
Evans,n:iulaed
m questions,
iatnt
edd tthh eat said
hh ee
that he had got parcels of silver from a
had disposed of them nn his account,
got nearly £3O for the last let he had he himself re-
ceived something like £5 as a sort of
the person
for the
W transactions. hen asked whether :na
whore vi uf
o
s lr
y.
warded the silver was the came Evans whophersonv
o:1 i cos:
ho
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the
eb taken
been in the same house as he then was,
further stated that he had sold the silver to souni"ebYpoeerltlasniel,
Birmingham. Thereupon he and Evans were
into custody, and, inquiries having been made b
both the prisoners were omreittedup en the presentmeleuPs
The only point really contested throughout the easear-::
whether the silver had been sufficiently identified ; and
The learned Judge lold the jury that they
course, before they convicted either of the prisoners, be
satisfied that the silver was Messrs. Bradbury's property ,
and it they were eo, then the question, so far as Dryhure;
was concerned , still remained—did he know that it had
been stolen when he received it ? If so, he was guilty.
His lordship also took the opportunity of remarkiug that
he considered the plan pursued by the policeman of obtain-
in g a statement from Dryhuret was extremely objectionable,
and he also made some strong observations with reference
to the facilities apparently afforded, in this case, to the pd..
sonera for getting rid of property evidentiy so valuable as
this, by purchasers being found almost immediately.
The jury found each prisoner Uuiity, at the same time
adding their lull concurrence in the last remark of his lord-