The Sun.
London, England, 1862-02-11 00:00:00

MR. 31ILNER GIBSON A 2 ASHTON.

ASHTON-UNDER-LYNE, MONDAY NIGHT.
This evening the President of the Board of Trade
delivered his annual address to his constituents in
the town hall. Several thousand persons were pre-
sent. Mr. Ken worthy, the mayor, presided.
Mr. GIBSON was received with great enthusiasm.
A considerable portion of the right hon. gentleman's
speech, which lasted nearly an hour, was devoted
) to illustrations of the beneficial effect of the com-
mercial policy with which he and others had been
associated for the last 20 years. Great as had been
the pressure on trade during the past year, as shown
by the decrease of exports, it did not appear to have
been so severe as was the pressure from the autumn
of 1857 to the autumn of 1858. The total value of
our exports from the United Kingdom in 1861 was
£125,115,000, against £135,891,000 in 1860; the
decrease in the 12 months from Nov. 1857, to Oct,
1858, was about £15,000,000. In the year just
ended the percentage decrease of our exports had
been heavier upon linens and iron than upon cotton,
while in coal, machinery, end pig iron the exports
showed an increase. Our exports to the United
States had decreased by £12,500,000, or 42 per cent.
Our exports to France, exclusive of corn, had been
£7,944,724 in 1861, against £5,244,703 in 1860
But if the increased exports to France for the whole
year had been in the same ratio as it was from
Sept. to Dec., 1861, since the new treaty had been
in operation, the year's total would have been
over 10 millions. (Cheers.) Comparing the last
four months in 1861 with the same period of 1860,
the exports to France had increased by 81 per cent
The imports from France in 1861 had been nearly
151 millions sterling, against £12,783,000 in 1860.
The exports to Italy during 1861 had been
£5,780,980 against £4,514,287 in 1860, the chief
increase being to Naples and Sicily. (Applause.)
After expressing his satisfaction at the repeal of
the paper duty, Mr, Gibson referred to the civil war
in America. He looked upon the severance of the
United States as a calamity for the world; hut be
spoke strongly in behalf of a strict neutrality as the
duty of England. (Cheers.) He thought our Go.
vernment had done its duty in the Trent dispute—
(applause)—•and he was very sorry to hear Lord
Derby express his regret that the new rule was
being adjusted by England of not taking our ene
my's goods from the ship of our friend. In the course
of his speech Mr. Gibson referred to a letter written
to him on behalf of the Church Defence Association,
and declared that he held it to be not inconsistent
with his position as a member of the Church of
England to believe in the great Protestant princi-
ple of the right of private judgment and of religious
equality. Mr. Gibson concluded his speech amid
great cheering.

Subsequently the meeting, which was extremely
crowded, terminated in disorder on the apparent,
opening of a discussion by some partisans of the
Church Association, which led to a rush on the
platform, and the mayor declared the proceedings
closed.

POLICE INTELLMENC 10.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET. Ruth Elsden
was brought up for final examination, charged with
stabbing Thomas Fosketh, potrnan at the Duke of
York, Union•street, Bond-street.

Mr. Edward Lewis, of Great Marlborough-street,
appeared for the prosecution.
The complainant said—On the night of the 20th
of January, the prisoner, who was known for her
violence, and who had been forbidden the house,
came into the taproom, and shortly afterwards he
felt a blow on the ear, but did not know for the
moment that he had been stabbed. The prisoner
had a knife in her hand. She said, " I did it with
this, and I meant to do it." Complainant was taken
to the hospital, and had been under medical treat-
ment ever since. Some short time back complainant
had been a witness against the prisoner in a case of
disorderly conduct, on which occasion the prisoner
was sentenced to seven days' imprisonment.
_ _

Air. Norris Marshall, assistant surgeon at the
Middlesex Hospital, said he examined the com-
plainant, and found a punctured wound in the ear
at least an inch and a half in depth. Such a wound
would be inflicted by the knife now produced.
The prisoner said she should reserve her defence,
and was fully committed for trial.
Mr. David Llewellyn WZ3 summoned for having
assaulted Mr. Conway Dign am.

Mr. Edward Lewis, of 6-mat Marlborough-street,
appeared for the defendant.

The complainant said he was stopping at a coffee.
house in the London-road. He was walking in the
Burlington-arcade with his sister, in the early part
of January, when the defendant came up; laid hold
of him, saying," These are the two -- thieves who
perjured themselves at Brompton, and who are going
to perjure themselves in the Windham case." The
defendant then used disgusting language to his
sister, and on complainant going for the protection
of the police, the defendant said he would lock him
up to prevent him from giving false evidence in the
Windham case. Complainant, however, gave the
defendant in charge for the assault.
Cross-examined—The assault was confined to
seizing hold of him in the arcade. Had not lived
in any regular place for some time. "Went out with
his sister merely to view the shops. Did not go out
with the intention of meeting the defendant. Had
seen the defendant on the 24th of December, but
had not brought a mob round his house. A police-
constable was fetched to remove him, but complain-
ant was not removed, because ho went away of his
own accord. Was a clerk, but out of a situation. Did
not call out in the Arcade " Here comes one-eyed
Llewellyn." Was brother-in-law to the defendant.
Mr. Tyrwhitt—The Windham case is all over
now.

Mr. Lewis—lt is, and I think this ought to have
been over likewise.

Miss Dignarn gave her evidence to the same effect
as that of her brother.

Mr. Lewis said he was prepared to show that no
assault had been committed ; but he was quite wil-
ling for the sake of peace that each party should be
bound over to keep the peace towards each other.
Mr. Tyrwhitt said this course would be the best.
It generally happened that where parties belonging
to the same family gave e-iidence in cases of lunacy
on opposite sides a bad feeling prevailed for some
time. He really thought that as the Windham case
had terminated this case, which had arisen out of
it, should end also.

Mr. Llewellyn was not satisfied with this settle-
ment of the matter, and was proceeding to enter
into scandalous personal statements, when he was
stopped by Mr. Tyrwbitt, who refused to heer any-
thing more, and ordered both parties to enter into
reeognisances.

LAMBETH—John Bruce, a notorious card-sharp,
who stood remanded from Friday last on a charge
of being concerned with three confederates, not in
custody, in drugging and cheating a French gentle-
man out of £7, was placed at the bar before Mr.
Elliott for further examination.

On Saturday week the prosecutor was picked up
in the vicinity of the House of Lords by one of the
gang who pretended to be a Frenchman, and who
spoke the French language fluently, This person
invited him first to a coffee-house in Hungerford-
market, and next to the Old Guildford Barge beer-
house, in Belvidere, road, which he represented to
be his hotel. They were joined there by the pri-
soner and two others; and the prisoner exhibited
that which the prosecutor believed to be banknotes
and sovereigns, and introduced the three-card
dodge, and urged the prosecutor to bet. He did se,
and lost seven sovereigns, all the money be bad
about him, when the sharpers managed to step
.off
one after another. The prosecutor having been in-
formed by a friend that he had been. grossly
cheated out of his money, he seized the prisoner on
subsequently meeting him in Leicester-square, and
gave him into custody. On the prisoner being put
to the bar yesterday the officer in charge of the case
informed the magistrate that the prosecutor had
been obliged to start for Paris on the day before on
urgent business, and would not be in London for
several months, and
consequence, was obliged to dis-
charge the prisoner.
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A hulking Italian, who gave the Mime of Charles
monkey
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ferocious appearance, was begging charged with
and alarming several ladies by his monkey.
Police-constable 307 P said, that on Saturday
evening last he was on duty in front of the Crystal
Palace, and saw the prisoner there begging and
allowing his monkey to run about to the very great
terror of the ladies leaving the palace. Many of
them were obliged to run into the road to avoid
the animal, and several having also complained to
him of the danger, he took the prisoner into cus-
tody.

Oakes, the gaolor, here informed the magistrate
that so numerous were the complaints of this mon-
key nuisance that the commissioners of police had
issued directions that all persons exhibiting monkeys
should be taken up.
The prisoner, who offered nothing in defence, was
committed to prison for 14 days, Soon afterwards