The Sun.
London, England, 1862-11-24 00:00:00

WESTMINSTER.

DISGRACEFUL CONDUCT OF A GENTLEMAN.—A gentle-
man who gave the name of William Humphries, residing
at 8, Waterloo-terrace, clerk, 22 years of age, was charged
with being drunk and riotous.

Alfred Matthews, 332 B, said he was nn duty at half-
past two on Sunday morning in College-place, Chelsea,
when he saw the prisoner standing with a prostitute making
a great disturbance by making use of most disgraceful
language. Witness told him he mutt go away and not
make that noise and disturb respectable people at that time
in the morning, when he turned round and said he would
knock witness' head off, and would not go away for a
thing like him. Witness again told him to go away, and,
on his refusing, took him into custody.
Defendant denied the charge in Coto, alleging that he
was perfectly sober. Ho had just come home he said in a
cab, when he saw the constable talking to a prostitute and
another constable. He watched them some time, and
went over and told them they ought to be on their beat,
when the constable Matthews knocked him down, and then
took him into custody.

This was denied by Matthews, and the sergeant who
took the charge said the defendant was drunk (also proved
by another constable) and Matthews was a steady con-
stable, who had been in the force for nearly three years.
Mr. Paynter observed so he had always found him, and

it was not likely he was going to believe the word of a
drunken man before the sworn testimony of two constables
and a sergeant. Defendant's conduct WAS very bad all
through, and he should fine him 155., or send him for 14
days to pl ison.

THAMES.
CIIARGE Or MANSLAUGHTER.—SCANDALOUS NEGLECT
or A MOTHER,.--A young woman named Charlotte Jack-
son, the wife of a sailor, was brought before Mr. Woolrych
charged with causing the death of her child, aged 18 months,
by neglecting to take proper care of it, and also with being
drunk in the workhouse of St. George's-in-the-East.
Mr. Win. Ralston, one of the relieving officers of St.
Georeg's, said theprisener:came to the workhouse on Satur-
day evening with her female child, and presented an order
from Dr. Turtle, one of the medical officers of the parish,
directing the admission of the prisoner into the workhouse.
The prisoner was intoxicated, and very abusive aatl noisy.
He looked at the child and saw that it was very ill. He
called a police-contable and gave the prisonermto custody.
The child was admitted into the workhouse under the care
of a nurse. The child died this morning.

Mr. Woolrych—From what cause ?
Mr. Ralston—From neglect. The child has been
grossly neglected.
Mr. Woolrych—l suppose a coroners inquest wi.l be held
on the body of the child.
Mr. Ralston.—Yes, sir. I believe that will be done,
notice has been sent to the coroner.
She is the wife of a sailor
Mr Woolrych—Was the prisoner in a condition to pro-
vide for the child ?
Mr. Ralston—Yesi sir.
who allows her £2 5 per month, which she has been in the
practice of receiving at Duncan Dunbar's offices in Limo.
house. Her husband has been away some time.
Mr. Woolrych—There must be a full investigation, and
you must collect the necessary evidence. I shall remand
theprisonerf offered
orlweektO
Mr. Ralston read a medical certificate of death,
on which Mr. Woolrych said he must have oral evidence of
the cause of .death. 'lhe certificate could not be received.

Her Majesty will, it is expected, prolong her
stay at Windsor Castle until within a week or ten days of
Christmas.
GAROTTING IN THE PROVINCES.—The infamous
system of garotting has, we are sorry to find, found its way
into the country, and it is much to be feared that, unless
the police are very vigilant, many of these atrocities will be
committed during the coming winter. It appears that an
attempt at garotting occurred recently. Shortly after 6
o'clock Mr. H. Usher, of Boddicote, was retaining home
from Banbury, and when nearly opposite the first milestone
he was accosted by a man who solicited alms. On being
refused he followed Mr. Usher, cursing both " loud and
deep." Mr. Usher continued on his way ; but fearing an
assault, drew his pocket-knife and opened it. Scarcely had
he done so when he was attacked by a man who sprang
from the hedge and attempted to throttle him. A short
struggle ensued ; Mr. Usher succeeded in inflicting a wound
in the scoundrel's right shoulder, and in knocking him
backwards by a tremendous blow with his fist. The fellow.n
screamed out to his " pal," using a frightful oath,
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•-•
NEWS FROM THE GOI?ILLA COUNTRY.

The Atheneum, pubiLl es the followi
from Mr. Rer.de

" Loana, Sept. 7.
"Having spent five'active mouth in the Gorilla country,
I am in a position to state that M. du Chanu has shot
neither leopards, buffaloes, nor gorillas ; that the gorilla
does not beat his breast like a drum ; that the kulu-kamba
does not utter the cry of kooloo,' or anything like it ; that
the young gorilla in captivity is not savage; and that
while M. du Chaillu affects to have been a poor fever-
stricken wretch' at Camma (June 1, 1859), he was really
residing in robust health at the Gaboon.
" Mongilomba, who is not a native hunter at all, and who
was in my service three months as steward and natural-
history assistant, duped Mr. R. B. Walker in asserting that
M. du Chaillu had killed two gorillas; nor did he ever
accompany that gentleman except in the above capacity.
" From the Balengi of the Muni, from the Shekani and
Fans of Gaboon, from the Commi Bakele, &c., of tilt)
Fernand Vaz, upon the banks of which rivers I have bunted
(always unsuccessfully) gm illas, examining those only who
were bunters, and reserving alone such evidence as was
atio o f his proximity; at
cor-
roborative, I have gleaned the following facts respecting this
ape of contention. The gorilla dwells only in the densest
parts ofe the
kind f
forests;
gr 4 grass
is
he feeds
sureexclusivelyn iaic on vegetable matter,
and on
noon and eve he approaches the village plantations for the
o
sake of the plantains, occasionally uttering a wild cry, but
which in rage (as imitated by Etia) becomes a quick sharp
bark. By day he moves along the ground on all fours (as
having crawled for hours on their track, I can testify), some-
times ascending the trees. By night he chooses a large tree
to sleep in. He is exceedingly wary and keen of scent.
Mien the female is pregnant, he builds 'a nest (as do also
the kulu-kamba and the chimpanzee), where she is delivered,
and which is then abandoned. These nests, several of which
I have seen. are simply rude layers of dry sticks, and small
branches evidently torn off the live trees by the hand. Wiih
regard to his ferocity, as a rule, when missed or wounded,
he will charge. His charge, from which the natives often
escape, being themselves nimble as apes, is made on all-
fours. Etia, whose left hand has been severely crippled,
informed me that the gorilla seized his wrist with his hind
foot, and dragged his hand into his mouth as he would have
done a bunch of plantains. two things are at least certain,
that the gorilla is less feared than the leopard ; and the
story of a man killed by a gorilla at Camma is a complete
fabrication; Traditional accounts of such an incident exist,
but nothing of the kind has happened Within the memory
of man. The tale of thegorillh assuming a boxingattitude,
and beating his breast like a drum, originated from Quen-
gueza, and was unanimously refuted by all hunters from
the Muni on the north, to the Fernand Vaz on the south.
Thus in an obscure African village an old savage could tell
a lie, which has blazed through Europe.
"The Apingi country, which is the Ultitna Thule of M.
do Chaillu's explorations, is distant from Gumbi (Ngumbi)
four foot-days's journey, in a southerly direction. In
tracing the course of the Rembo, however, he adopted a
longer route.

"His description of the Fans (Bafanh), whom he visited
in company with Mr. Mackey, of Corisco, is very good. In
ascending the Gaboon to its rapids in the bosom of the
Sierra der Crystal, I advanced some distance into their
country, and found them gentle, hospitable, but cannibals
undoubtedly, as one of them confessed to me. Even the
account of their ghoul-like propensities is in one case sup-
ported by evidence which I find it impossible to disbelieve.
" This book, so strange a melange of truth and fiction
was prepared by a gentleman well known in the New York
literary world, from copious notes made by M. du Chaillu
when engaged in these expeditions. And I must do the
latter the justice to confess, that from the same salami; which
afforded me proofs of his impostures, I learn that he is a
good marksman ; possessed of no common courage and
endurance ; that he has suffered many privations and mis-
fortunes of which he has said nothing; that his character as
a trader has been unjustly blemished ; that his labours as a
naturalist have been very remarkable; and that during his
residence in Africa he won the affection of the natives and
the esteem of those who most merit to be esteemed—the
missionaries. And a fellow-labourer, though an humble one,
siay be permitted to regret that, actuated by a foolish vanity
or by ill-advice, he should have attempted to add artificial
flowers to wreaths of laurels which he had fairly and hardly
earned, " W. WI/MOOD READE."