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

TEE LATE RIOTS.

Mr. Justice Mellor sat in the Crown Court at
Cheater 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 are 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
5 ou in discharging your duty with reference to the
bill presented to you. But, gentlemen, it is lameut-
,,ble that that peace and quietness, that wonderful
,ndurance coder privations, which have hitherto
listinguished the operative classes of this country
-nould be rudely disturbed. The disturbance
:nay probably have the effect of drying up, to
iota° extent, the sources of sympathy which
nave hitherto induced people to come forward
and contribute funds for the relief of the dis-
ress. When those persons who volunteered
• heir services to aid the distressed by undertak-
ing the distribution of the charitable funds sib
plied
be ashamed
ordinary sense of the wort, for I should
plied to them-1 do not mean charity in the
wi,b, the law of the land must
taneous bympathy felt for t
to do so, but the voluntary
Lancashire and Cheshire—when thwe persons are
hair: ruiffnegr i no fg
show those persons that, however successful they
in
gaining some miserable temporary object,
~.t is ir,ble f
their coproduce y, and can only
tend to p theconceiva
must deplorable mischief both
to th,mselves and to those
peacebt bl .y disposed per-
sons who are it the same ci • rcumstances as them-
selves. Ido hope these most insane, foolish, and
wicked riots will
cease to disgrace the county. I
call these dots
wicked,
for they not only do mis-
chief to those actually
engaged in them, bait also to
those who have hitherto
borne their privations with
such creditable forfearance. I have
only to request
you to let these cases have your attention last. They
should be tried last, being of au h c 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 lo so under much excitement. Fly-catch-
ing would occasionally bring out the 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 nut at first imagine what
could be the matter, for a chameleon is ordinarily one of the
or the
most impassive of reptiles, and to see it really one
quite an unique event. In the early
it mostly
had gained some warmth through the sunbeams,
took a greenish-grey colour, with two rows a oblong buff
Yellow bands. frequently
morning, after it
spots on each side. The spots were sharply defined, and
tabsßeinfriigtthwwt,ould be wholly grey, with
varied from an eighth to half an inch in length,
. keeping,
black spots. '—From WiMpSe; int°
however, to the same width, ee.
appearedtweltlh arrotuonfdaint inch.le.gsd
a number of
golden bract lets and bangles the oriental beauties ot the
11.0 and," (14 .80, I, G, Wood, ALA.
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