The Sun.
London, England, 1865-10-02 00:00:00

THAMES.

ILLEGAL GIN SHOPS ON SATURDAY AND SUNDAY NIGHT.
—Timothy Hayes, a young man, son of Irish parents, was
brought before Mr. Paget, charged with violently assault-
ing Adam Carr, a police constable, 40 11, in an Irish colony
called Glasshouse-street, Rosemary-lane, near the back of
the Royal Mint, on Sunday morning, at half-past 1 o'clock.
It appeared from the statement of Carr, himself an Irish-
man, that there was a tow among his countrymen in Glass-
house-street, and it assumed such formidable proportions
that ho was obliged to call upon other constables to assist
him in suppressing it. The prisoner was among the
rioters, and was very noisy and quarrelsome. The
prisoner pulled his coat off, used much foul language, struck
him and knocked him down, and while he was down he
was kicked. He could not say the prisoner was the man
who kicked him. The statement of Carr was confirmed
by another constable, who said the Irish were very noisy
and quarrelsome, and they were all fighting with each other
before the police interfered.

The prisoner alleged that he was improperly interfered
with by Carr and ill-used on his way home: and that his
coat was off all the evening in eut4equence of the heat of

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Janies Jl,ayes, an Irishman; the father of the prisoner,
said his son came home "lull .of blood," and went • out to
look at Carr's' number and was immediately. seized bp him.
The witness, Who is a very respectable and sensible fellow,
said, " Ther6 will never:be any peace in the neighbourhood
until Mrs: Barry's ginhouse is suppressed." All the dis
orderly actions, and 'rows were" caused: by thi's place, to
which people were admitted by signs or introduced by old
customers. :It::Was No. 8, Glasshouse-street. .4e had been
17 years. in England, and no policeman over put his hand
on his Shont-der.;

Roche, the gaoler' of the court, said that Hayes, the
witness, was an honest,.induStrious man, and his character'
stood high with his employers, the Corporation of the
Trinity•Houso: -Hayes was a ballast getter, and his son
was in the same employ, and was a hard-working boy. He
knew him since he went to school.

Mr. Paget said he intended to let the good character of
the prisoner and his father have its effect. Roche was
an old and valuable officer, and could be depended
upon. He intended to send the prisoner to the
House of Correction for one month, and to be kept to hard
labour, but after the character given of him he should fine
him 40s only. He was satisfied the police had acted pro-
perly and with discretion in the matter, and that Carr had
been ill used. With respect to the illegal gin shop where
beer and spirits were- illicitly sold, he had no doubt the
inspector
.of the police of the district and the revenue
officers would look after it, and take measures for its
speedy suppression.
Inspector Bendy, H division, said he would look after
Mrs. Barry's house directly.

Memorial to the Secretary ,of State on

behalf of Madame Valentin.

(From the Sunday limes)

Yesterday Mr. Montague Leverson, of No. 66,
Bishopsgate-street, the solicitor in the case of Louise
Pierrette Valentin, convicted of perjury at the re-
cent sittings of the Central Criminal Court, waited
upon Sir George Grey, and 'presented the following
memorial on her behalf, viz. :
" To THE RIGHT HON. SIR GEORGE GREY, ONE of HER

MAJESTY'S PRINCIPAL SECRETARIES OF STATE.

" Tho Humble Petition of Louise Pierrette Valentin,

sheweth,

"1. That upon the 25th of November, 1864, Jean Lafour-
cade made an affidavit iu the Court of Exchequer of Pleas
in which he swore that I was about to leave England and
go to America with all possible despatch.
"2. That upon such affidavit Mr. Baron Martin granted
a capias ; but, although the plaintiff's attorney knew well
where to find me, I was not arrested until the sth of De-
cember, 1864.
"3. On the 15th of December I was further detained in
a further action, at the suit of the same plaintiff, on an
order obtained from Mr. Baron. Pigott on another affida-
vit of the said Jean Lafourcade.
" 4. The action was tried, and a verdict given in my
favour, on the 9th day of June last, after a trial which
lasted five days.
"5. After the trial 1 prosecuted the said Jean Lafourcade
for perjury committed in the affidavit on which I had been
arrested, as having sworn that I had told him I intended
to leave this country and proceed to America with the
utmost possible despatch.
"6. The trial of the said Jean Lafourcade commenced
on the 15th day of August last, and lasted two days, and
was tried before Russell Gurney, Esq., Q.C., the Recorder
of the City of London ; and on the 16th day of August
last said Jean Lafourcade was convicted, the jury who
tried the said prisoner accompanying their verdict with a
censure upon the plaintiff's attorney, who was also the
attorney for the prisoner.

"On the 22d of August one Eugene Thion, a perfect
stranger to me, applied for and obtained a summons for
perjury,*alleged to have been committed by me on the trial
of the said Jean Lafourcade, in that I had stated (as the
fact in truth was) that I only came to London towards the
end of Sept. 1864, and had never been in London before ;
whereas the said Eugene Thion alleged I arrived in Lon-
don on the Bth of September.
" I was committed to take my trial on that charge, but
was admitted to bail ; no evidence of any kind being ad-
duced before the magistrate of any other charge or assign-
ment of perjury.

" 9. My trial came on before the said Russell Gurney,
Esq., Q.C., on Thursday, the 21st of September inst., when
I was tried on the above assignment iho
learned Recorder to have been wholly immaterial.
10. M. Berryer Fontaine, physician to the Emperor of
tlw French, and many other persons attended on the trial,
who were ready to prove distinctly that I was in Paris at
the time it was pretended I was in London, and the hotel
keeper and his wife, where it was sworn I lodged, and two
of their guests, proved before the magistrate that I was not
there at the time alleged, nor until the end of September.
"11. The indictment against me contained two other as-
signments for perjury, viz.":—
" That by deposing upon the trial of one Jean Lafourcade
at the August sessions of the Central Criminal Court, that
that from the time I came to England till I was taken in
custody I never told Jean Lafourcade or any one else that
I was going to America or that I intended to leave Eng-
land and go abroad, and that by deposing at the time and
place aforesaid that on May sth when Jean Lafourcade
came to me in Whitecross-street prison I did nct speak to
him, I did commit wilful and corrupt perjury.
" 12. Notice of the above additional assignments of per-
jury was given to me and my attorney, but notice of the
witnesses intended to bocalled in support thereof was not
given to either of us.

13. The jury found me guilty upon the said two last-
mentioned assignments, but I solemnly declare I am wholly
innocent thereof, and I respectfully solicit that this my pe-
tition may be referred to the said Russell Gurney,• Esq.,
Q.C., for his opinion.

_ .
4414. I am prepared with abundant evidence of my in-
nocence, if any evidence whatever be thought necessary
beyond what is already known to the said Russell Gur-
ney, Esq., Q.C.
6.15. That my proper counsel, W. C. Sleigh, Esq , be-
ing engaged in a trial in which the life of a prisoner was
at stake, and which he, therefore, could not leave, several
hundred sheets of brief were handed to an able member
of the bar at ten o'clock on Thursday, the very day and
hour on which my case was called on, and such counsel
was ignorant of the facts except as he was able to gather
the same as the trial proceeded.

~ And your petitioner most humbly prays that her most
gracious Majesty may be advised to grant me a free par-
don on the ground that I am wholly innocent of the
charge of which I have been convicted.

(Signed) " J. H. VALSTIN."
Accompanying the above document the following cer
tificate was handed to the Hoine Secretary by Mr. Lever
son, viz.:—

" 66, Bishopsgate-street Within.
"I solemnly declare upon my honour that I- believe
every word of the above memorial to be true. Numerous
members of the bar have volunteered to sign any memo-
rial which may be necessary : but I feel so confident that
a mere reference to the learned Recorder is sufficient that
I would not lose time to get further evidence or to procure
such memorial to counsel before -sending in this petition.
(Signed) " W. R. LEVERSON."
Up to a late hour yesterday Mr. Leverson had not re-
ceived a reply from the Secretary of State, but It was ex-
pected that a free pardon would be granted before Monday
passed Aver.

SERIOUS CHARGE AGAINST A RAILWAY GUARD.

—At the Guildford potty sessions on Saturday, before the
Hon. W. BrodriCk and a full bench, Charles Matthews, late
guard in the employ of the South Eastern Railway Com-
pany, was convicted of being drunk while in the exercise.
of his duty. The prisoner wore upon his breast Crimean
and Indian medals, with several clasps. He was fined 405.,
with 18s. 6d. costs, and has also been discharged from the
service of the company.
[AbvEßTlSEMENT.]—Consumption, and all nervous, bilious,
stomach, and liver complaints, in every stage, are Only ag-
gravated and accelerated by drugs of every description, but
perfec.ly curable by Du Barry's health restoring Revalen to
&rabica Food, as proved by thousands of cases which had
been considered hopeless ; such as indigestion (dyspepsia),
cough, asthma, consumption, habitual constipation, diarr-
hoea, all gastric derangements, hcemorrhoids, liver com-
plaints, flatulency, nervousness, biliousness' fevers, sore
throats, diphtheria, catarrhs, colds, influenza, noises in the
head and ears, rheumatism, gout, impurities, eruptions,
hysteria, neuralgia, irritability, sleeplessness, acidity, pal-
pitation, heartburn, headache, debility, dropsy, cramps,
spasms, nausea and sickness even in pregnancy or at sea,
sinking fits, bronchitis, scrofula, tightness of the chest,
pains in the pit ol the stomach and between the shoulders,
&c. We quote a few.—Cure, No. 46,270. Mr. James Roberts,
timber merchant, of Prim iey Surrey, of thirty years' diseased
lungs, spitting:of blood, liver derangement, and partial deaf-
ness.—Cure, No. 47,121. Miss Elizabeth Jacobs, of extreme
nervousness, indigestion, gatherings, low spirits, and nervous
flu:Leics.—Cure, kit,. 1,771. Lord Stuart de Decies, Lord-Lieu-
tenant of Waterford, of many years' dyspepsia.—No.49,B32
Fifty years' indescribable agony from dyspepsia, nervousness,
asthma, cough, const patios, flatulency, spasms, sickness, and
vomiting—Maria Jolly.- Cure No. 54,816. the Rev. James V.
Campbell, Fakenham, Norfolk, of indigestion and torpidity
of the liver, which had resisted all medical treatment.—
In tins, 1 lb., 2s. 9d. ; 21b., 4s. 6d ; 51b., Its. ; i2lb., 22a. ; s4lb,
40s.—Barry Du Barry and. Co., No. 77, Regent-street, London;
also Phillips, tea dealers, !, King William-street ; hkewi e
at 61, Gracechurch-street ; 4, Cheapside ; 49, Bishopsgate-
street Within; 63, 150, and 298, Oxford-street; 330, Strand;
54, Upper Baker-street ; 103, Tottenham-court-road ; 96
Upper-street, Islington, N.; Harvey, Notting-hill; Close
Brothers, 6i, High-street ; and Stubbs, Queen's-terrace, St.
John's-wood, London ; .and all respectable grocers and ehe-
paists.—Beware of spariop

the weather. His face and person were besmeared wi t
blood, .owing to the violence of the police. The row was
entirely owing .to the existence of an illegal, gin and
rum shop in Glasshouse-street. It was kept by a woman
named Barry. The house was opened for the sale of rum,
gin, and beer altar the publichouses were closed. Mrs.
Barry received two half-crowns for pennies, and would not
give change, and a jar of beer was completely smashed,
and it was only water. Carr seized him during the row,
when everybody was hitting and kicking everybody, and
aecused him of striking and kicking him. The two con-
stables bent his arms up to his head, and in that position
dragged him to the station-house.