The Sun.
London, England, 1862-09-24 00:00:00

TIIE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 24, 1862.

tors should be furnished to the guardians of the
West London and City of London Unions ; and the
matter was also referred to the General Purposes
Committee, to confer with the guardians in refer-
ence thereto.

After transacting some other business the Court
adjourned.

THE BULL-FIGHT AT BAYONNE.

(From Punch.)
Mr. Punch happening to be at Bayonne the
other day, took the opportunity then afforded him
of witnessing a bull-fight, which came off in the
presence of the Emperor and Empress of the
French. If he had known that he was going to
see a cruel and filthy exhibition, he would still
have gone, not for amusement, but for instruction,
as he goes into the slums, to study human nature,
and as surgeons walk the hospitals and cultivate
morbid anatomy. But Mr. Punch, superior to
prejudice, considered that the common English
notion of a bull-fight must be quite a mistake, or
that spectacle would never receive the countenance
of the representatives of a people which esteems
itself to be at the head of civilisation.

The bull-fights at Bayonne take place in a circus
similar to that in which the British public contem-
plates performances of horsemanship, gymftastics,
and buffoonery. The shady side of the amphi-

theatre is the fashionable one in the torrid season.
Thereon stood the Imperial box, fitted up with
crimson velvet and gold ; thereon also, of course,
sat Mr. Punch, who wanted to have a near view

of their Imperial Majesties and not to be broiled

The performance commenced with the entrance
of the toreadors, or whole company of the establish-

went, horse and foot, who advanced across the ring
and then knelt to the Empress, or saluted her.

Ave Eugenia Imperatrix, morituri to salutant cen

tainly was rather more than their salutation meant ;
still, inasmuch as the Spanish bull-fighter runs
some risk of the fate of the Roman gladiator
(fourteen toreadors have been killed during the pre-
sent season), El Tato gets £3OO for his day's work,
and Calderon, the principal picador, £2OO. Our
toreadors were all of them prettily attired in gold-

laced velvet, like so many ballet dancers, save that

the picadors, or equestrian spearmen, wore iron
boots cased with wash-leather, which gave their
lower extremities the look of being affected with
dropsy or elephantiasis. Their feet were, in addi-
tion, protected by large iron stirrups. The rest
had on pink silk stockings and shiny pumps.
Her Imperial Majesty tossed a key to one of
these male coryphees, which is picked up and
danced off with. A few moments elapsed, and enter
the bull. He was two-and-a-half years old, had
been bred on purpose for fighting, and was quite
wild. As he entered, a picador stuck a dart into
the nape of his neck. The weapon was tastefully
decorated with a white satin rosette, intended to

make the bull smart, and also look pretty as he
kicked and plunged. He was then gently excited

by the banderilleros flourishing their scarfs in his
face, they, when the bull made at them with his
horns, effecting their escape by vaulting over the
inclosure of the arena with elegant agility.
The task of tickling up the bull a little more seri-
ously was now undertaken by two picadors who
alternately attracted his attention, and each of
whom, when the bull rushed on him, turned him
from his horse with the point of his spear, inflicting
several severe wounds on his head and shoulders,
which the bull took in very ill part, roaring, snort-
ing, and stamping furiously, to the delight of the
beholders. One unlucky picador, however, had
the misfortune to incur their indignation by not at
once shortening his lance so as to allow his horse to
be gored. They yelled, screamed, whooped, and
shouted " Coward," " Villain," " Scoundrel," blew
catcalls and tin trumpets, and made all manner of
noise expressive of frantic displeasure. So the pi-
cador complied with their demand ; shortened his
weapon to three feet, and, with his steed, was con-

torture are as essential as the bull's, they are by no
means the fiery steeds they have been represented.
There would be no harm in simply killing them if
they were only taken to the knacker's at once.
Justice requires 31r. Punch to observe that the
beastly spectacle which he has above described did
not appear to be much relished by the purely
French part of the spectators. It was the Spanish,
and the mongrel Spaniards, chiefly, who howled
like fiends and gloated on the torment and the
blood, So their ancestors revelled in the spectacle
of heretics burning alive in their robes of mockery
painted with devils and flames. Their descendants
cannot carry their faith to the extent of an auto-
dafe, they can only show forth its fruits in the zest
with which they gaze on the pangs of quadrupeds
inflicted by bedizened effeminate varlets, who
stand a good chance of being slain themselves.
They are what their priests have made them.

at the Old Bailey Sessions in 1856, and sentenced
to a long term of imprisonment and hard labour.
Mr. Beard thought the police had no right to
bring forward the antecedents.of the prisoner. The
only charge at present as he understood was of ob-
taining £2 2s. of Mr. Harper Twelvetrees by false

pretences.
Mr. Selfe—Of course, Mr. Beard would have as
little as possible said about the prisoner's history.
The transactions of the prisoner with Mr. Harper
Twelvetrees, of Bromley, and obtaining £2 2s. of
him towards the building of a new Congregational
Chapel ; his application to Mr. Peter Duval, of
Bermondsey, for a piece of ground on which to
erect the chapel; and his stealing some books from
the house of Mr, George Mirand, have already been
made public. The prisoner, who was represented
to have wonderful powers of lying, obtained an
organ, valued at £2OO, for his alleged new chapel,
which was with considerable difficulty got back
again by the makers, after being detained some
time for rent. The prisoner obtained £3O from a
woman, on loan, which he never paid, and a gold
watch and chain from the same person, which he
pledged. The woman had since taken it out of

pawn.
Richard Brockfield, 371 K, who had charge of
the case, said there waa plenty of evidence against

the prisoner, and called
Mr. Tudor Newling, tailor, of 21, Sidney-street
Commercial-road, who said that the prisoner came
to his house in August, 1860, and ordered clothes
to the amount of £l2 16s. The reference he gave
was satisfactory, the order was complied with, and
the clothes were supplied to the prisoner. They
were never paid for.
Mr. Selfe—And never will be.
Mr. Beard—This is only a matter of debt.
The Rev. John Grigg Hewlett, D.D., of Trafal-
gar -square, Mile-end-road, said Mr. Freeman came
to him some time ago, and asked for his assistance
to enable him to build a new chapel. He put some
questions to the prisoner, who said he was the Rev.
Thomas Aaron Freeman, Doctor of Divinity, that
Oberlin, in America, was his university, and a Mr.
Finney was his professor. He had some little doubt
about the accuracy of the prisoner's representations,
and be now regretted he did not adopt the course of
testing his points. The prisoner came again with
a letter from a Mr. Horner, which was a;follows
Mr. Beard objected—The letter could not be
read.
The Rev. Dr. Hewlett continued. The prisoner
produced a list of subscriptions, containing names I
knew. I made the remark, "They are all in the
same handwriting." The prisoner said " Yes, I
have had them copied." The prisoner also said he
wanted £2OO more to complete his chapel. I have
since seen my name on the prisoner's subscription
list taken from him by the police. My name was
put down for three guineas. I gave him nothing.
He has used my name to several persons I know,
and among others to the Rev. Mr. Duffield, the
Rector of Bow. He did so without my authority.
11r. Beard said be wished to ask a question of
Mr. Harper Twelvetrees. Did not the prisoner
refer him to a Mr. Marsh, of Hackney, who was to
build the chapel ?
Mr. Twelvetrees—Yes ; that was after he got the
money. Mr. Marsh said, "All I know of the man
is, he gave me an order for his new chapel."
Mr. Beard was proceeding to put other questions
to Mr. Twelvetrees, when the magistrate interposed,
and said, " This is quite irregular, Mr. Twelvetrees
is not upon his oath, and he is seated."
Mr. Beard—There was a subscription list.
Mr. Selfe--And many sham subscribers.
Mr. Beard—The prisoner has been preaching at
various chapels, and did intend to build a new one.
Mr. Selfe—l am very sorry such a fellow as this
has been preaching in any chapel.
Mr. Beard said the prisoner had been somewhat
indiscreet, and a little too zealous in representing
that the ground was taken, and the building about
to be erected, before he had made all his arrange-
ments; but it was really the intention of the pri-
soner to build a .chapel. The names of persons who
had not paid anything were on the subscription
list, but that was often done by persons and corn-
alittees getting up subscriptions for public objects.
Well-known names were put down as decoy ducks
to induce others to come forward. If the prisoner
was really collecting subscriptions to build a chapel
and preach the gospel, his object was a laudable one,
though he might have been a little irregular in his
pursuits. He understood the prisoner had an aged
mother and sisters to maintain, and he hoped the
magistrate would be lenient with the prisoner on
that account.
Inspector Griffin, of the IC division, said the pri-
soner had obtained two suits of clothes of tailors,
and pawned them directly.
Mr. Beard—Never mind. They are not here to
complain.
Inspector Griffin—Oh, yes, they are.
A gentleman who attended to watch the proceed-
ings from Stubbs' Trade Protection Office, said the
prisoner had defrauded some of Mr. Stubbs' clients,
and committed forgeries on others.
Mr. Selfe—The people are not here, and I can-
not take notice of these charges. Where is Oberlin?
The Rev. Dr. Hewlett—ln America.
Mr. Selfe—Not the New York Central College ?
The Rev. Dr. Hewlett—No, sir, it is not.
Brockfield—l have received numerous complaints
of the reverend gentleman from all quarters.
Mr. Selfe said no one could doubt the prisoner
was an impostor, assuming the character of a dis-
senting minister, and going about collecting sub-
scriptions for a new Congregational chapel, which
he never intended to build. There was also no
doubt the prisoner came within the terms of the
Vagrant Act the sth of George IV., cap. 83.
Among other definitions of a rogue and vagabond
in clause 4, was the following :—" Every per-
son going about as a gatherer or collector
of alms, or endeavouring to procure charitable con-
tribiktions of any nature or kind under any false or
fraudulent pretence." He had no hesitation in say-
ing the prisoner was a rogue and vagabond within
the meaning of the Vagrant Act, and that he had
falsely and wickedly represented to many respectable
persons that he wanted money to build a Congre-
gational chapel, of which he was to be the pastor,
and such a pastor to, and that he had spent the
money received by him, and that he never intended
to apply it to the purpose for which it was given.
It was no excuse for the prisoner to say that he had
placed a board on a piece of ground with the in-
scription, " Site of the intended new Congregational
chapel, the Rev. T. A. Freeman, 8.D., minister."
That was a subterfuge. The prisoner had made out
a fictitious subscription list, and induced people to
subscribe money for the erection of a chapel, which
money was expended by the prisoner in the main-
tenance of himself and the woman with whom he
cohabited. The prisoner was a disgraceful fellow,
an imposter living by his wits. He sentenced the
prisoner, as a rogue and vagabond, to three months'
imprisonment and hard labour in the House of Cor-
rection. The prisoner had better take warning and
not carry on his system of imposture in the garb of
religion, and not desecrate holy things by represent-
ing himself to be a minister of the Gospel, going
about to raise money to build a new chapel.
The prisoner, who put on the appearance of a
martyr, was then removed.
Brockfield said there was an important charge of
felony against the prisoner.
Mr. Selfe—You can prefer it three months hence,
when he comes out of prison.
Several well-dressed females, of all ages, were
lamenting and wringing their hands 'when they
heard the sentence on their " dear minister," as
they called him.

WORSHIP-STREET. SERIOUS CHARGE
AGAINST A TRADESMAN.—AIfred Bowring, a scale
maker. in Ann-street, Mile-end, was charged be-
fore Mr. Cooke with obtaining money under false
representations.
Mr. Abbott defended.
Mrs. Sarah Spriggs, the wife of a colour manu-
facturer in Spital-street, Mile-end, swore that on
the 29th July last the prisoner and another man
went to her shop
(hiring Mr. Spriggs' absence, and
said they had been sent by Mr. Reynolds, the high
constable of the Tower Hamlets, to adjust the scales
and weights; that they proceeded in behind the
counter and busied themselves apparently in so do-
ing, subsequently. making out a bill for 6s. Bd.,
which she then paid to prisoner's companion.
The receipt for the amount mentioned was pro-
duced, and seen to be written upon one of the pri-
soner's trade circulars.

Complainant's mother corroborated this evidence,
and

Oliver, 218 H, stated that when he took the pri-
soner into custody he insisted upon Mr. Reynolds
having sent him, but that on his way to the office
of Mr. Reynolds he denied it.
Mr. Thomas Reynolds, the chief constable and
inspector of weights and scales for the entire dis-
trict of the Tower Hamlets, made oath that he had
never authorised the prisoner or any other person
to examine weight or scales or to adjust them. He
and an assistant alone attended to his duties. Nor
did he ever adjust weights or scales. When he
found they were faulty he took them away. Nu-
merous similar offences to the present had recently
come under his notice, and he frequently found that
when shopkeepers were summoned before a magis-
trate for having short -weights they had been the
victims of a false pretence, as in this instance.
by Mr. Abbott—Had known pri-
Cross-examined
soner as a respectable man for a considerable time.
Mr. Abbott said he had not any witness to con-
tradict the prosecutrix's statement, but believed
the was mistaken in some portion of it, as he was
instructed .prisoner had called upon her to advise
that the scales and weights should be adjusted be-
fore Mr. iteynolda' went round to the shop, and that