The Sun.
London, England, 1862-08-09 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURD A Y EVENING, AUGUST 9, 1862.

LO2?D PALMERSTON AT SHEFFIELD.-
GRAND BANQUET.

SHEFFIELD, FRIDAY.

This evening the Mayor of Sheffield, John Brown,
Esq., gave a grand banquet in the Cutler's Hall.
There was a large and influential attendance, in-
cluding Lord Palmerston, J. A. Roebuck, Esq.,
M.P., G. Hadfield, Esq., M.P., Mr. Sheriff Twenty -
man, London ; Mr. Alderman Gibbon, London ;
most of the principal mayors, and other leading
gentlemen in the country. The guests numbered
about 300. The reception given to Lord Palmer-
ston was most enthusiastic, and most of the interval
passed in the reception-room. His; lordship en-
tered freely into conversation with the gentlemen
present, and was in an excellent mood for
cracking jokes, many of which were provocative
of much laughter. The banquet which was
provided by Mr. Meyer, of the Victoria Hotel,
included every delicacy of the season. After the
cloth was drawn the usual loyal and patriotic toasts
were duly honoured; the healths of the Dukes of
Norfolk and Wharncliffe were next heartily re-
sponded to.

His Lordship the MAYOR, amidst great cheering,
then proceeded to propose the health of the greatest
man the kingdom possessed—(applause)—the Right
Hon. Lord Palmerston. He did so on behalf of the
corporation of Sheffield and the town generally.
(Great cheers.) On this occasion, his lordship said,
he had the company of not only the greatest man
in England but the greatest man in the world.
(Hear, hear.) Lord Palmerston accepted the in-
visitations of the mayor and corporation with the
greatest cordiality, and they were honoured with
the company of the man who was great in council,
and whose word must be respected. He would
only remind his hearers of the deep anxiety which
Lord Palmerston on all occasions manifested on be-
half of the interest of the country. He was always
ready to raise his voice in the interest of the
country, and he had, therefore, great pleasure in
calling on the company to drink the health of Lord
Palmerston. (Enthusiastic cheers.)
Lord PALMERSTON, in reply, said it would require
more eloquence than fell to the lot of man to ex-
press the deep feelings he entertained for the
manner in which the company had received his
name, and also for the kind and cordial reception
he had met with on his first entrance into the town.
He had on former occasions been invited to the
Cutlers' feast, but circumstances had unfortunately
prevented him from accepting the invitations. The
Mayor had on this occasion, however, selected a day
after the prorogation of Parliament, which, for-
tunately for him (Lord Palmerston), enabled him to
accept the invitation, and he was now in Sheffield,
and felt grateful for the cordial reception he had
met with. He regarded his reception in Sheffield
as an approval of a great and intelligent constitu-
ency, and that approval was the more valuable,
because on one side of the chairman he saw his
friend Mr. Roebuck, and on the other Mr. Hadfield,
the two representatives of Sheffield in the House of
Commons_ He (Lord Palmerston) had a high value
of the choice of Sheffield in two such representa-
tives. They were English in their feelings and
sentiments, and on that account he attached greater
'weight to the opinions the people of Sheffield might
attach to his conduct, as one of her Majesty's Go-
vernment. Nothing could be more interesting to
those who were charged with the conduct of the
affairs of the country, than to visit those places of
national industry, to see in the first place men, who,
by their industry, their energy, and their integrity,
had amassed large fortunes, which exposed them,
not to the jealousy of their neighbours, but obtained
for them the universal approbation of those by
whom they were surrounded, They saw in these
communities first of all men who had attained this
position, they thus saw men struggling in the course
destined, perhaps, some day to overtake those who
had gone before ; but they were all employed in the
most honourable pursuits, in amassing wealth,
which was not only wealth to them, but wealth,
honour, and prosperity to their country ; and not
least of all was gratifying to him to see those steady
and honest workmen, the strength and stamina of
the,country;specimens of that stubborn, manly, and
honourable class of Englishmen, who formed the
strength of the country, and made it the admiration
of all who came amongst us. (Cheers.) Some of
these, though now in the humblest walks of life, as
is the case in many manufacturing and commercial
cities, might be possessed of wealth, which they
would know how to employ. Such were the results
of our free institutions ; they were also the results
of the general enlightenment which pervaded all
classes of the community, and they had in late years
been greatly increased by the practical application
of those principles of freedom in commerce and ex-
change which, though late in acquirement, had
been imparted in practice, and had contributed
much to the prosperity of the country. The mayor
had adverted to the general principles, which,
though not immediately connected with commercial
prosperity, were yet in reality connected with
it—
he meant those principles of providing for the de-
fence of the country—(cheers)—and engaging in
needless wars; not preparing for aggression, as our
neighbours—(hear)--not defiant ncr insulting, but
ready to maintain our defences. That was a course
which every nation that respected itself ought to
follow, and surely a nation like this,which depended
upon the freedom of the seas, which lived and pros-
pered by bringing to its shores, from the remotest
parts of the world,all the products which supported
our trade and supplied our luxuries, ought to main-
tain its defences. A nation so situated was pecu-
liarly interested in its means of defence not only
for its honour, but for its commerce ; that principle
ought, however, to be carried out with a due regard
to economy ; but economy consisted,not in keeping
our money in our pockets, but in spending it care-
fully and wisely,and in purchasing what was
wanted, and giving no more than it was worth,
Tat was the principle which animated people of
'Aigland,and although we all wished to pay as little
tax as Possible, they could pay wh at was necessary,
at the sane, time see that it was properly applied. His
lordship then referred to the distress in Lancashire,
complimenting the
operatives on their endurance ;
but thought all would admit that Government was
wise in not attempting
to relieve that distress by
an interference in the American war; such an inter-
ference, he considered, would
only make matters
worse, and therefore the G
overnment advised her
co te
Majesty to observe a strict
rigid neutrality in
that unhappy' nfliet. ed e
',met
hope said his
lordship, that all evils will have at, '
end, and that
would yet
side of the Atlantic, and that another
year might
which cearaetef
not see the deluge of blood 'Bed the
'
present period. His lordship, after having again
thanked the company for their kind reception, ~
binned his seat amid great applause' Health
EDWARD BiLemeEY, Esq., propo-
ced "The
of the Borough Members ;" to which
Mr. ItOEl3 u ex. replied. The bun. gen tleman spoke
at considerable length, and with more than his usual
eloquence, on Many topics. Referring to the civil
war in America, he said he had no doubt that Ame-
rica would be divided into two. He thought she
would be divided into five, and for ever cease to be
" United States." (Cheers.) An irresponsible
people, possessed of almost omnipotent power, was
not to be trusted. The conduct of the North in
endeavouring to re-unite the State of America was
an immoral proceeding, and totally incapable of
success. (No, and Yes.) They never could be re-
united. (Cheers.) The present fight was a mere
waste of blood and treasure—it was no war against
slavery. In the North the feeling against the black
man was stronger than in the South, and to-morrow'
if the States were re-united slavery would be more
strongly fixed than ever. (Hear.) He spoke of
the insolent overbearing conduct of the Americans,
remarking that we had been wonderfully careful of
their sensitive feelings, but the brightest spot upon
the noble Premier's escutcheon was the bold, the
grand
stand he took •
in the name of the people of
England in the cause of America. (Cheers.) Ame-
rica would be better governed if divided, and one
of the divided States would be able to bully the
whole world. we did not like to be bullied ; they
had tried it on us, and the noble lord, had shown
them the result on one occasion. Ile tur.
Roebucki
now came to the moral of his tale. lie
looked to
the sufferings of the British people, and he entreated

the noble lord to weigh well the consequences of
so called perfect neutrality. There had not yet
been perfect neutrality. England had shipped to
the shores of America every possible means of ag-
gression. At this moment we were supplying the
Northern States of America with every possible
means of offence and aggression, and he asked the
noble lord (Lord Palmerston) to consider whether
the time had not come for him to be the first in
Europe to ask the great Powers of Europe to re-
cognise the Southern States. (No, no, and cheers.)
Six months would not pass over before it was done.
After speaking in the highest terms of the patient
fortitude manifested by the Lancashire operatives
amid their sufferings arising from want of
the usual supply of American cotton, he referred
to the topic of European intervention, remarking
that a hand held out from Europe would put a stop
to the great effusion of blood, and stop the exhaus-
tion of the Treasury, and, at the same time, restore
happiness to the homes of many hard-working men
in this country. (Loud applause.)
Lord PALMERSTON proposed the " Health of the
Mayor, and prosperity of the Corporation of Shef-
field," and, in so doing, spoke favourably of the
working of municipal and local self-government.
At a later period the noble PREMIER proposed the
" Health of the Ladies," in terms of facetious gaiety.
The proceedings terminated about half-past 10
o'clock.

on the ground floor, with a shop adjoining it. The
kitchen was the place in which he lived, and in
which he carried on a small trade in groceries. In
his shop he carried on the business of a carpenter ;
there was a room over the kitchen, in which he slept.
There was a door leading into the public road, and
another leading into his yard. Under the same
roof dwelt a man named Cory, who occupied a room
on the ground-floor and a room over it. Cory's
back door led into Drew's yard. The parti-
tion between the two dwellings was so thin
that ordinary noises taking place in the house
of one could be heard in the house of the other.
Drew:was a man of very quiet and temperate habits,
and although his circumstances were not known to
his neighbours he was reputed to be a man in the
possession of money. He was in the habit of spend-
ing his evenings at the Smith's Arms, kept by a
man named Bassett, and there he smoked his pipe,
taking one pint of ale, which he never exceeded.
Bassett's house was on the opposite side of the road,
150 feet from Drew's house. On the evening of
Saturday, the 7th of June, Drew passed his evening
at Bassett's house, remaining there till half-past 10,
when he left for home. Nobody who could be called
ever saw him again alive. On the morning of
Sun-
day, the Bth of June, a woman named Mary Martin
went to Drew's house to make a small purchase.
She found the shutter had not been put up, and the
outer door of the kitchen was locked. She looked
through the window, and just inside she saw. the
body of Drew lying upon his face a pool of blood.
She was much alarmed, and gave immeliateinfor-
mation to Bassett, and Bassett and Cory went directly
to the house. The body was lying onthe face, one arm
under it, and the other down by the side. There was a
large quantity of blood on the flopr and splashes of
blood on the wall and on the ceiling. The injuries
which the deceased man had received were on and
about the back of the head. They were most fear-
ful, and one of them would of itself have been suffi-
cient to cause death. The deceased was in the habit
of taking off his shoes and putting on his slippers
to go to bed. The body had one shoe off and the
other partly unlaced, and the wounds being on the
back of the head, the inference which must he
drawn was that he was killed by one or more blows
inflicted. from behind when he was in the act of
taking off his shoes. He fell upon his face, after
which the other blows were inflicted, and as he fell
so in all probability he died. There was blood on the
table and also on the drawer which had been opened,
and out of which had been taken a match-box, in
which he ordinarily kept his silver. It was empty,
but in another drawer was a little percussion-cap
box in which five sovereigns were found after
his death. It appeared from the evidence that
the murderer afterwards went about the house,
as marks of blood were found, but nothing
of consequence was taken away. Then came
the question, who was the murderer? The prisoner
was a labourer working about in the neighbourhood,
lodging at the house of one Sutton, on the opposite
side of the road to the deceased and a little farther
up the road, the distance between the public-house
and Sutton's being only 90 feet. The prisoner had
been latterly out of work, and Sutton having ceased
to supply him with food as he had previously done,
threatened to turn him out. The prisoner was well
acquainted with the deceased, and was in the habit
of frequenting the same public-house. He was there
on the Saturday night, and talked to the deceased.
The prisoner left the public-house about a quarter-past
10 that night. The deceased did not leave till half-past
10. Just before 11 o'clock Cory, who lived under the
same roof as the deceased, had occasion to go out of
his back door, and while there he heard the deceased
and the prisoner in Drew's kitchen in conversation,
and it appeared to be a quiet friendly conversation.
Cory's wife also heard the voices. The Corys went
to bed about 12 o'clock that night. The man fell
asleep, but was awakened by a loud noise iu Drew's
kitchen, like a heavy fall, and he made a remark to
his wife about it, and then he fell asleep again.
Cory's wife then heard what she believed to be the
steps of a man going upstairs in Drew's house.
Shortly before the murder the prisoner told a per-
son he wanted to get a little money, and that he
would leave the country. On the Sunday morning
the prisoner got up at six o'clock and went out.
Although he had lodsed at Sutton's for two years,
on no former occasion had he ever been known to
leave his bed-room before eight or nine o'clock on a
Sunday morning. He continued going in and out
of the house until taken into custody later in the
day. These, connected with the finding of some of
Drew's tobacco concealed in Sutton's garden, the
finding of blood on the prisoner's clothes, and other
circumstances, were the facts relied upon for bring-
ing the murder home to the prisoner. •
Dr. Taylor examined these spots of blood, and
declared they were recent, as were also marks of
blood on a bill-book belonging to the prisoner, and
with which there was a probability that he com-
mitted the murder.

The learned judge having summed up, the jury
retired at half-past 4 o'clock, and after an absence
of 20 minutes came into court and returned a verdict
of Guilty.
The learned Judge then, having put on the
black cap, addressed the prisoner in the following
terms :—After a full investigation of this dreadful
charge the jury have thought it right to find you
guilty of murder, and I am bound to say that I
quite concur in their verdict. It is not my duty
nor my inclination to aggravate the horrors of your
present condition by dwelling upon the enormity of
your guilt, I only mention it in order that you may
be deeply sensible that there are no hopes of mercy
for you on this side of the grave. The learned
judge then passed upon the prisoner the awful sen-
tence of death.
The prisoner, who had been unmoved during the
whole of the trial, then walked from the bar.

SOUTH WALES CIRCUIT.—AUG. 8.
(Before Mr. Baron Channell.)
THE MURDER AT BIRKENHEAD.

James Craig, 21, labourer, Birkenhead, was in-
dicted on the charge of feloniously murdering James
Caine, at Birkenhead, on the 22d of June last.
Mr. Brandt stated the case, and said that deceased,
in company with several other men, went into the
Grapes public-house on Sunday evening, June 22,
and remained until about 10 o'clock, when most of
them left the house, the deceased being last. About
five minutes after he had left the house he was
found upon the pavement dead. A man named
Jones, of Liverpool, was near to the Grapes at the
time deceased came out of the house, and then three
or four men stood round him. He distinctly saw
the prisoner strike a man with what was ap-
parently a life-preserver, and the other three men
stood by at the time. After the deceased had
been atruck by the man he fell on the
ground, when he (the prisoner) kicked him
twice or three times about the back of the head.
Jones ran away and crossed over to Liverpool, and
never mentioned anything about the matter until
about a month after, when he told the police at
Birkenhead what he saw, and he was at once taken
to Chester to see if he could identify the prisoner,
who was put in a yard with other prisoners. On
the prisoner passing him Jones said, " That is the
man, I am sure of it ; he is dressed now in the same
way as he was on the Sunday night the murder
was committed."

The Jury, after cousulting about 20 minutes, re-
turned a verdict of not guilty.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS, Aug 8.

Henry Walton, alias Henry Spiller, known as
" Dr. Walton," was indicted for keeping a brothe
in Castle-street, Leicester-square.
Mr. Metcalfe prosecuted, instructed by Mr. J.
Allen, the parish solicitor, St. Ann's ; and Mr. Bes-
ley defended.
From the evidence adduced it appeared that the
defendant kept a surgery, or an imitation one,
called " The Lock Dispensary," as he advertised by
bills and placards, No, 77, Castle-street, but it was
the regular resort of old men, 60, 70, or 80 years of
age, who picked up and decoyed young girls, some
no older than 12 years, to his place, and called them
" patients," the prisoner receiving the profits of this
atrocious traffic. The real character of this "dis-
pensary" was put beyond all doubt by the evidence
of the police, who had had the establishment under
their eyes for scme time.
Witnesses were examined for the defence, but
their evidence did not affect that for the prosecu-
tion, indeed confirmed it.
The defendant was found guilty, and

His Lordship, who concurred entirely in the ver-
dict, sentenced him to hard labour tor 12 calendar
months, to pay a fine of £2O, and to be kept in pri-
son till the fine be paid.
The defendant, who seemed taken not a little
aback at the sentence, was then removed.
(Before Mr. Payne.)

Rosa Lewis, a young woman, smart, but possess-
ing a most determined expression of countenance,
was indicted for assaulting the police.
Mr. Abram prosecuted ; Mr. H. Giffard defended.
caused
Orlando Kinsey, the prosecutor, said he was on
dutY nu the
was trying
road, itni h night of the 14th of July, in the High-
° jaitsbridge, when a great disturbance was
the prisoner:
tc.le the Trevor Arms public-house. He
he received get the quarreling people away,when
wttaacked him furiously. The first blow
into custody, wie,:tl the nose. He then took her
tore, and screamed
threw herself down, fought,
the lower part of hi„and kicked him violently on
was put lii)netB". A stretcher was sent
kicked herself off it th`riee
for, and she
ti!; but she shulled and
witness's coat to rags, leaviit:nes, and then tore the
sembiing 4 jacket and thal ecilitu
o but a thing re-
back of the garment ripped up. -
wrotched one, the
when after great difficulty tx the way to the
station, she was secured

on the stretcher, she succeeded in kicking the wit-
ness again, and she seized the arm of the assisting
constable, and bit his coat sleeve through to the
flesh. When at the station she was taken to a cell,
and when at the door she seized the constable who
then held her in charge by the hair of his head, got
his thumb into her mouth, and severely bit it, and
tried to kick him, and the policeman was obliged to
hit her to make her let go.
The defence was that the origin of the affair was
a woman calling the defendant a foul name in the
front of the bar of a public-house, for which she
wanted to fight her and pursued her into the road.
Then there was a charge of a robbery of a watch
and chain, but the policeman would not take the
person to whom that offence was imputed, but in-
stead took the prisoner.
After a long trial the prisoner was found guilty,
and the learned Judge sentenced her to four months'
hard labour. She said she could do that asleep.

morning her master had a little drink, and her mis-
tress kept nagging at him about, being drunk and
his women. Witness called her on one side, and
advised her to leave him alone until he was sober.
She, however, persisted in aggravating him, when
he put the money in his pocket and went upstairs
out of her way. She persisted in following him, and
witness heard her abusicg him upstairs. She
came down again and told witnetir3 her master as
putting on his best clothes to go to the
Exhibition
with his women, and she was determined to fol-
low him. Her master went out of the house, and
she followed him at 11 o'clock, and did not return
till past three. Her master returned at one, and
attended to business. He was always kind to his
wife, and carried her breakfast up to bed, but she
was the most aggravating woman she ever knew.
Her clothes were never torn at all, and her master
never struck her.
The complainant here came forward and said all
that the witness had stated was false. It was a con-
spiracy against her to get her out of her own house,
which she had purchased with her own money, as
when she married him he was only a poor policeman.
Mr. Burcham told her that he had listened very
patiently to the evidence, and he should be very
sorry to convict a man on the unsupported testimony
of a woman who had the, demon of jealousy about
her. The servant had given her evidence in a very
respectable manner, and he felt bound to say he be-
lieved her, therefore he should discharge the war-
rant. It was a great pity women should be pos-
sessed of such animosity ab to impose upon a magis-
trate to issue his warrant, which he would not have
done had he known the exaggerations which had
come out in evidence.

The defendant then left the court with his friends.
A FEMALE CANNIBAL: Mary Sullivan, a dissi-
pated-looking woman, was charged with nearly
biting the nose off the face of Catherine Hughes.
The prosecutrix said she lived in Webb-street,
Bermondsey, and the prisoner lodged near her, and
was fighting all day Thursday with the neighbours.
About three o'clock in the afternoon witness was
going out, when the prisoner called her bad names,
and because she remonstrated with her, she turned
round upon her and struck her. They had a strug-
gle together, and fell, and while on the ground the
prisoner bit her nose nearly off, in fact, it was only
kept in its place with strapping as his worship
could see.

The prisoner here said that the witness struck
her first, and then they had a fight, and fell down ;
but she had no knowledge !of prosecutrix's nose
coming into her mouth or she would not have bit it.
Police-constable 128 M, said he was on duty in
Bermondsey-street, when he received information of
a disturbance in Webb-street. On proceeding there
he saw the prisoner fighting, and the prosecutrix
with her nose nearly off, bleeding profusely. He
secured the prisoner, and conveyed the complainant
to a doctor's close by, where her nose was strapped
up.
The magistrate told the prisoner that she had
shown herself to be a perfect cannibal by biting
another female's nose in such a brutal manner. He
should take care that her temper was under control
for some time by directing her to find two good
sureties for two months, and in default he committed
her to prison for that period.

THAMES.--HIGHWAY ROBBERY WITH VIO-
LENCE.—Henry Harris, aged 24, a well-known
thief, describing himself as a hawker, with no fixed
abode, was charged with highway robbery, attended
with garotting.
The prosecutor, Mr. Edward Baruch, an elderly
gentleman, •is a clerk in the London Docks, resid-
ing at 92, Pennington-street, Ratcliff-highway, and
was on his way home soon after 10 o'clock on the
night of the 31st of last month, when he was sud-
denly attacked by the prisoner and another man,
who rushed from a dark and narrow alley, called
Pennington-place. One of them struck him a se-
vere blow on the head, and, the prisoner seized him
by the neck, compressed it forcibly and put him to
considerable pain and inconvenience. He struggled
hard. to release himself, and while he was doing so
the other villain made a snatch at his watch, and
in forcing it from his waistcoat pocket used so much
force that he tore the waistcoat to pieces. The thief,
having secured the watch, ran away with it, and
the prisoner having released Mr. Baruch also fled.
As soon as the prosecutor could recover his breath
he pursued the prisoners, and called out " Stop
thief." A police constable named John Chatley,
212 H, was in Ratcliff-highway when he heard the
cry of stop thief, and saw two men coming up
Breezers-hill, and Mr. Baruch pursuing them with
his watchguard dangling loosely before him. He
said "Policeman, I have lost my watch, there are
the two men who robbed me." The constable
joined in the pursuit, and came up with the
prisoner in Wellclose-square, 600 yards from
where he first saw him, and was so close to
him that he was about to seize him when
by some misfortune he fell and hurt himself. The
pursuit was then taken up by George Foster, 207
H, who was close upon the thieves, when the pri-
soner rushed into a barber's shop, and his compa-
nion dashed into a passage of the same house and
made his escape over some yards and outhouses in
the rear. Thomas Fitzgerald, 189 H, opened the
door of the barber's shop, and found the prisoner
seated on a chair, a cloth tucked under his chin
and a barber about to shave him. The policeman
allowed the operation to be completed, and then
took the prisoner into custody.
In answer to questions put by the prisoner,
Foster, 207 H, said he was only 12 yards behind
the prisoner when he dashed into the barber's shop,
and he was sure he was the man who was running
along with the other man.
The Prisoner--I had a lather on me, and the bar-
ber was about to shave me when you and the other
policeman entered the shop. You must have been
more than 12 yards behind me.
Foster—No, I was not. You were soon operated

upon.
The Prisoner—I saw other people run and I ran.
I went into the barber's shop, and paid a penny for
a shave. As to that man and his watch, I never
saw either until I was taken into custody.
Robert Livingston said—l keep a barber's shop,
at 51, Cable-street, St. George's-in-the-East. The
prisoner came into my shop in a hurried manner,
as if ho had been running. A man I had shaved
was just rising from the chair, and the prisoner
took the vacant seat di▪
rectly, and I had just began
to shave him when the police entered and took him
into custody.
Mr. Selfe—l shall commit the prisoner for trial
at the Old Bailey Sessions for highway robbery,
attended with violence. It is a very bad case
indeed.
CARRYING COALS TO. NEWCAATLE.--john Ware-
ham, aged 48, of 9, Kin•
g's-terrace, Homerton, la-
bourer, was brought before Mr. Selfe, charged with
stealing a bottle of sherry.
Edward Ellis, a
.London Docks constable, stated
that he saw the prisoner coming out of the dock
on Thursday evening, with a leather apron on his
arm, and evidently attempting to elude ob-
servation. He stopped him, and found in his
trousers pocket a bottle of sherry wine, holding
rather more than a pint and a half. The prisoner
was employed in the wine department of the dock
as a corker, and was corking the whole of Thurs-
day.
The prisoner said, in his defence, the wine Was
his own, and that he carried it into the dock in the
morning, and took it out again in the evening.
Mr. Selfe—Carry wine into the London Dock ?
The Prisoner—Yes, sir, indeed I did.
Mr. Selfe—Something like carrying coals to
Newcastle.
The Prisoner—So it is, sir; but I have often
done so.
Mr. Selfe—Then, I don't believe you; but this is
very probable, that you have often carried
the Dock
Company's wine from their premises.
Ellis—We have discovered the very cask from
which the bottle of wine was taken ; and here is a
sample from the same cask. It is a very peculiar
smelling sherry.
Mr. Selfe—So it is. Y
our defence is quite ab-
surd, Wareham, and can impose on none but fools.
You have made your case worse by that defence.
You have stolen the wine, the property of your
employers. I sentence you to three weeks' impri-
sonment and hard labour for the unlawful posses.
sion of the wine.

WESTMINSTER.—STICKS AND UMBRELLAS
AT TILE EXHIBITION.—Henry Balk, Commis-
sionaire, 285, appeared to a summons charging
him with assaulting Mr. Lesser Friedlander, mer-
chant, at the Exhibition.
Mr. F. H. Lewis, barrister, conducted the com-
plaint, and Mr. Fladgate, solicitor to the Commis •
stoners, attended for the defendant.
Mr.,
Lewis, in opening his case, as afterwards
stated in evidence, said that his client had felt it
his duty to bring the complaint forward upon pub-
lic grounds, to protect others from the indignity
which had been committed upon him. He had
taken the proper course at the moment of com-
plaining to the assistant-secretary, but had received
no redress, and had therefore brought the matter
before this Court.
Mr. Friedlander said—On the Ist of August be-
tween three and four o'clock, I entered the Foreign
Picture Gallery at the Exhibition with my little
son. I saw the defendant when I had advanced five
or six yards into the gallery. He placed himself be-
fore me, and said, " You must not walk through
here with a stick." I had my walking-stick in my
hand at the time. I replied, " Why not ? I do not
see any harm in walking with my stick through
what he had before said, add.:
here." He repeated
ing, 44 You must go out, or I must turn you out."
I again said that I could not see I was doing any

harm in walking through there with the stick in my'
hand, when he collared me. I said, "Tyke off your
hands; how dare you collar me ? You may do it to
the pickpocket, but not to me." He then took hold
of me with both hands, and by main force put me
out of the picture gallery. I said that that was very
shameful behaviour, when he replied that he had
only done his duty. I said, " You have exceeded
your duty ;" upon which he observed, " You are no
gentleman, and if I had you outside I would give
you a good thrashing." I was in the presence of
-,veral ladies and gentlemen when this indignity
was ccomitted upon me. I have been in the Eng-
lish Picture Gallery with my stick, and my wife
with her parasol, two or three times, without ob-
jection.
Cross-examined—l am not aware of L:kny regula-
tion respecting season ticket holders lenOng their
umbrellas and stick. I did not know what had been
prohibited. I have been eight or nine times in the
Exhibition with my stick. I invariably waILK with
it. I rely upon my stick for support. Defendant
did not point out a paper of regulations to me whcn
he stopped me. I did not push on. I stopped entirely.
If he had allowed me time I should have given up
my stick or walked out, but he collared me imme-
diately. I did not say to defendant " I defy you or
any Commissioner to turn me out." I did not shake
my stick at him. lam quite certain of that.
By Mr. Arnold—Defendant said, "You must not
walk with your stick through here." He did not
ask me to give it up.
Albert Friedlander, a little boy eight years of
age, son of complainant, was called to confirm his
statement. In cross-examination he said his father
was very angry when put out of the gallery, and
spoke loud, but did not shake his stick at the de-

fen d ant.
George Cant, police-constable 166 X, said—l was
in the picture gallery, and saw the complainant about
four or five yards in the gallery, I was on duty
there. I have orders not to interfere about sticks
and umbrellas. Defendant and others are placed
there not to allow sticks, umbrellas, or parasols. I
saw the defendant go up to the complainant. Com-
plainant gave the same account immediately after-
wards to the assistant-secretary as he has given
here to-day ; but it is not correct in all particulars.
I saw defendant take hold of him and put him out-
side the gallery. Before that he several times told
him that it was the Commissioners' order there
should be no sticks or umbrellas there, and pointed
to a board with a notice on it to that effect. He
put his hand on each arm, and forced him out.
The board says, " Sticks, umbrellas, and parasols
are not admitted into the picture-gallery."
Cross-examined—l heard him repeatedly tell the
complainant that sticks were not permitted there,
and that that was the Commissioners' order. Com-
plainant got very excited, and, taking up his stick,
shook it at defendant. Then defendant said he had
served his country honourably twenty-five years,
and would not mind giving him a thrashing. Com-
plainant caused a great crowd to assemble. Defen-
dant said if he had behaved so to him outside he
would not have minded giving him a thrashing. I
do not think defendant said, " You are no gentle-
man."
By Mr. Lewis—Complainant was much excited,
and shook his stick in his face outside the gallery,
saying, " How dare you do it ?"
By Mr. Arnold—Defendant, besides pointing to
the board, told him four or five times that he must
not be there with a stick.
Mr. Fladgate said it would be a question of law
rather than of fact upon which the case would
turn, for, if the defendant was authorised in put-
ting the complainant out, it would be quite clear
there was no more violence use d to put complainant
out of the gallery than was necessary. Mr. Flad-
gate then quoted the case of " Wood v. Led-
bitter," where the former was expelled from the
Doncaster Grand Stand, and was about to raise
other arguments to show that the Commis-
sioners had a right, and were under an obligation
to the public, to exclude umbrellas, sticks, &c.,
from the picture gallery, when
Mr. Arnold obserVed that there was no question
about it ; the Commissioners had a right to do so.
He could not entertain a doubt that the Commis-
sioners had full power to lay down such regulations
as they considered necessary for the protection of
the valuable property in their charge. The ques-
tion for him to decide would be one of fact, whether
the defendant used excess of violence, and had con-
ducted himself in a rude and overbearing manner.
Mr. Lewis urged that defendant might have had
a right to prevent his entering the gallery with a
stick, but had no right to remove him when there.
He might have taken the stick from him perhaps.
Mr. Arnold differed in opinion. He clearly con-
sidered if defendant had a right to prevent his ad-
mission he had a right to remove him when there.
Mr. Fladgate observed that it was quite clear
complainant had lost his temper, and when he shook
his stick in defendant's face it could hardly be won-
dered at that an old English soldier should say that
if he were outside, not in the building where he was
employed, he should like to give him a thrashing.
Thomas Froggett, another -commissionaire em-
ployed in the gallery, was called for the defence,
and proved that complainant defied defendant or
the Commissioners to put him out, as he bad a sea-
son ticket. Witness otherwise supported the de-
fence.

Mr. Fladgate was about to call another witness,
when
The Magistrate said there was no necessity, as he
had quite made up his mind. He thought the com-
plainant had been very ill advised to bring the
matter forward, as the exercise of a little cool re-
flection should have convinced him that he was in
the wrong. He must repeat that he had no doubt
the Commissioners had a right to lay down rules for
the protection of the valuable property in their charge,
and it was a well-known and well-understood
thing that the public were prohibited taking sticks
or umbrellas into all picture galleries. All who went
to the Royal Academy, and other such exhibitions,
must be well aware of the rule, and he should have
thought common sense would have suggested that
it was the same at the picture gallery of the Exhi-
bition as elsewhere; but to prevent all dispute or
doubt, the Commissioners had adopted the prudent
course of having the prohibition pasted up. Persons
were employed there to prevent others entering
with sticks or umbrellas, but it might easily happen
that they got in with them. The complainant did
so; he had only just got in when the defendant ac-
costed him in the exercise of his duty there. There
was no doubt that complainant thought it an im-
proper and officious interference with him, and re-
sisted it. It was very likely he was not aware of
the rules, and was very much annoyed, but if de-
fendant had not stopped him he would not have
discharged his duty. Complainant used strong
language, and they both got into an altercation, and
complainant was so much out of temper that he
shook his fist in defendant's face. He (Mr. Arnold)
had no doubt that the complainant had spoken the
truth to the very best of hire belief, but his temper
had got the better of his memory, and he had for-
gotten part of what had occurred. It would be
better that a sharp look-out should be kept, and
that persons should not be admitted within the
gallery with the prohibited articles. In this case
there was no extreme or unnecessry violence used ;
if complainant had no right to be there, he had a
right, when found there, to be put out, and he (Mr.
Arnold) could only repeat that it was much to be
regretted the case had been brought there at all.
Defendant was then discharged.

WANDSWORTH.—Mr. Timothy Black, the
landlord of the Stag public-house, Wandsworth-
road, was summoned before Mr. Dayman for open-
ing his house for the sale of spirits, &c., before one
o'clock on Sunday morning last.
Mr. Child appeared for the defendant, and pleaded
not guilty.
Inspector Bushnell, of the V division, stated that
on Saturday night last he was on duty in the
Wandsworth-road. About half-past twelve o'clock
he was in the act of removing several men from the
front, of the Stag public-house, when the defendant
opened his door and let out three men. Witness
said it was time that his house was closed, to which
the defendant replied that they were his waiters.
Witness then said it was convenient to term them
waiters when he was half an hour late. The de-
fendant became very excited, and called them into
his house and told them to do some more work
and have some more beer. They went in front
of the bar and turned up their sleeves. The defend-
ant stood with his back to the door for a quarter
of an hour, and he let out the three men when he
thought proper.
In cross-examination the inspector denied that he
had any feeling in the matter. He was not ex-
cited at the time. When he remarked that it was
convenient to term the men waiters, he meant that
he did not believe they were waiters.
Mr. Child—You suggest to a man who has keptnh_
his house for ten years that he is telling an
truth ?
untrut
Inspector Bushnell—l did not inhs.inulahtaevteosilkhicre
Black that he was telling an.
a meeting of Foresters
ascertained that there was
night.
quarterly meeting
tlimade for the festival at
in the house on Saturday
at
Mr. Child—lt was
which preparations were
didnnigoht ts.uspect there were
the house. I was quite satin-
any Crystal Palace.
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Inspector Bushnell—
cleared, excepting
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the h
the three
Mr. Child, in answer to the summons, said that
nnpueearnea. o nws a
ai
when the defendant told the inspector the men
were his writers it was the truth. One was con-
stantly employed, and the other two on special
occasions. the house was cleared before 12 o'clock,
and after the waiters had removed the glasses and A