The Sun.
London, England, 1862-11-13 00:00:00

violence inflicted with instruments to procure abor-
tion ; and the jurors find that who the person was
who inflicted the said injuries to procure abortion,
there was not sufficient evidence to show."

GOVERNMENT PROSECT7ION OF

DROVERS'.

Yesterday, at the Clerkenwell Police Court, Charles
Howard, Frederick James Lewis, Robert Holwell, Frede-
rick Spencer, Thomas Hall, Alfred Crittenden, John Free-
man, John Hall, Charles Maxaw, Alexander Reynolds,
James Priam, Edmund Pinchber, and Alfred Slaughter,
drovers in the new Metropolitan Cattle Market, were sum-
moned before Mr. Barker for unlawfully acting contrary to
the rules and regulations made according to la iv, for the
driving of cattle within the metropolis—to wit by driving
cattle and sheep between the hours of 12 at noon and 7 in
, the afternoon. _ _

Mr. T. Beard, solicitor, of Basinghall- street, appeared for
some of the defendants, and the court was crowded by per-
sons anxious to hear the proceedings, and who are interested

in the sale of live and dead stock in the metropolis.
Mr. Beard, before the cases were gone into, asked his
worship to adjourn the hearing of them for a few days, as
he was about to draw up and lay before Sir Richard Mayne
a memorial asking for an extension of the hours during
which the cattle could be driven through the streets. lie
was aware that when the persecution—he would not call it
fair prosecution—against these men commenced, u deputa-
tion waited upon the commissioner, and a slight concession
was made to the drovers and their employers, but it was
not sufficient. Why, only on Monday last there were over
6,000 head of beasts in the market, and as it was dark the
sales did not commence until late, how was it possible to
get them all out before 12 o'clock in the day? He (Mr.
Beard) might be told that those that could not be removed,
could be put into the lairs ; but that increased the expenses
and was one of the causes why meat was so dear at the
present time.
Mr. Barker said he did not see how he could interfere to
prevent the cases going on without he had the sanction of
the Commissioner of Police.
Mr. Beard said that the gran era, cattle salesmen, and
slaughterers that he represented felt that the drovers were
very hardly dealt with at this and some other courts. He
might state that the magistrates were divided in opinion as
whether these men should be convicted or not. The worthy
magistrates at the Thames Police-court had refused to issue
any more summonses against these poor men, and sail
that they worked hard enough for their little money
without being continually mulct of it in fines by them. The
case of the licensed drovers in this matter was really very
hard. They had to earn their livelihood in about two or
three days of the week. In many instances their pay was
very scanty. Many of them were incessantly employed on
the Sundays, and through the whole of the night, as well
as having to attend the market at Copenhagen-fields till
the close of the market on Monday at 2 o'clock. Now, cattle
may be driven through the streets and out of the market
until 12 o'clock in the day, but after that time, when he
(Mr. Beard) contended that the streets were really clearer of
traffic, they may not be driven until after 7 in the evening.
Very often at 12 o'clock there remained at least 2,000 head
of cattle, lambs, sheep, &c., in the market, which, in the
course of things, would be quietly drawing away in tens or
twenties, really to the discomfort of no one that he (Mr.
Beard) could see, in comparison to the confusion caused by
the packing this large number of cattle in the lairs until
the specified time when all the drovers got to work. The
consequence was that the greatest confusion prevailed, the
poor animals of the different droves got mixed together,the
men,even by the use of lamps,could not see the marks upon
them,and a source of the greatest cruelty was thus practised
upon both the men and the cattle. But what made the
matter worse in his (Mr.Beard's)eyes was that the thorough-
fares became crowded with cattle, and the scene of a con-
tinued noise and tumult which could otherwise have been
easily avoided. He (Mr. Beard) might add, that by this
arbitrary rule the poor drovers, who were for the moat part
already tired, were compelled to suspend thefr labours for
seven hours, when they might have finished their work and
gone home. As it was, they cep.ld not leave the market
until it closed at 2 o'clock, and then, on these cold and
cheerless days, they could not loiter about the lairs,and they
had only one place to go to, viz., the public-house. He(Mr.
Beard) contended thatthe new rule only tended to debase the
drover instead of raising him. He was ready to admit the
necessity of some stringent rule to prohibit the driving the
cattle in certain places during the day, taking, for instance,
Cheapside, the free bridges, and other crowded thorough.
fares, but the masters themselves would not allow that, as
the cattle would get bruised by the constant knocking
against the wheels, and the collision with the carts and
drays. As many of these poor men had widowed mothers
and helpless sisters depending on them for support, he (Mr.
Baird) hoped the magistrate would not be hard on them
and fine them for offences like those they were now sum-
moned for, merely to suit the caprice of those in power, to
the ruin of the drovers and also the inconvenience of a large
and respectable body of the trade.
Inspector Judge, N division, said he would lay the mat-
ter again before the commissioner.
Mr. Barker said he had begun with fining 55., but as that
did not do he had increased it to 30s. In each case in which
the offence was preyed he inflicted a fine of 30s. and costs,
and said if they were again brought before him he ehould
increase the fine. In default of payment the defendants
would have to go to prison for 14 days.

THE GAME LAW DISTURBANCE AT
BLACKB URN.

Yesterday nine of the rioters, of 18 in custody, named
Roger Livesey, John Richmond, John Livesey, Nicholas
Hindle, John Hindle, James Waddington, James Ashton,
Samuel Rigby, and John Stones, were charged with insti-
gating the riot, by assailing the police and the gamekeepers
on their way from the Town-hall to Pleasington, on Thurs-
day last.
They were placed in the dock at the Town-hall before the
Mayor, and Messrs. Bztynes, Land, W. B. Coddington, and
James Johnston.

The case was opened at half• past 9 o'clock by Mr. Clough
calling the following witnesses for the prosecution :
Police-constable Robinson, of the county constabulary, '
stated that he assisted several other county policemen to
escort four of Col. Bowdon's gamekeepers from the Town-
hall on their way home. Before they had gone far a crowd
of 2,000 persons assembled around them, and hooted and
hissed and threw stones at the gamekeepers. Before they
had got to Messrs. Dugdale's shop they ware assailed with
a perfect storm of stones and mud, and they found it neces-
sary to go into Mr. Dugdale's shop for safety. Presently a
posse of borough police came and a cab, into which the
gamekeepers at once got. The driver started to go up Pres-
ton New-road, but a crowd of persons going before it and
stoning it, the driver turned and drove quietly to the Town-
hall, where the keepers got out and ran for safety into the
building. Ashton threw a stone at him, and one of his
fellow-officers proceeded to run after him, but was told to
never mind, as he was known. Witness and the other po-
lice followed the cab to the Town-hall, the crowd following,
and remaining opposite the hall until dusk, when they be-
gan to throw stones at and break the windows of the Town-
hall. He saw John Livesey square his fists at him, and
afterwards strike him on the breast. He also hooted and
incited the crowd to violence.
William Sleigh, sergeant of county constabulary, said he
was at the Town -hall on Thursday last, when the men
were tried for poaching, and assisted to escort the game-
keepers from the Town-hall. This was a little after 3
o'clock in the afternoon. After corroborating the evidence
of the previous witness as to the conduct of the crowd, he
said he received a serious blow with a stone on the back of
the head, the wound bleeding profusely. They were com-
pelled to take refuge in Messrs.Dugdale's, keepers also went
upstairs, in consequence of their lives being endangered.
They remained there until the cab and some borough con-
stables came up, when the gamekeepers got into the cab,
and were conveyed away, amid the yelling and shouting of
the crowd, to the town-hall. Witness wont to get his wounds
dressed, and on returning to the Town-hall ho found that
many windows had been broken.
Police-officer R. Eastwood saw Waddington among the
crowd in Preston New-road. Heard him shout and say
"Go into 'em ; don't let 'cm go away quietly." Saw John
Hindle throw a stone at the cab and then run away. Stones
fell like hailstones thick and fast. The stone that hit the
cab was about the size of a man's fist.

Nicholas Taylor, aged 13, said he knew Mr. Dugdale's
shop, Preston New-road, and was near it last Thursday
afternoon, and saw Nicholas Hindle throw a stone at a po-
liceman. The gamekeepers were with the policemen, going
up Preston New-road. He was in the crowd, and followed
it, but did not throw a stone. After being charged as one
of the rioters on Saturday, and taken to the police-court,
they asked him if he knew any of the rioters, and took him
into the office. He was shown a boy, but could not identify
him. On Monday he was shown five of the persons in cus-
tody, and identified Nicholas Hindle, Howarth, and Stones.
He had not been in custody.
Sergeant Eastbourne, of the Blackburn police force, said
he partly heard the poachers examined. He accompanied
the chief constable to Mr. Dugdale'e in the afternoons bout
a quarter•past three. There was a large arowd of
hpersons
near to Mr. Dugdale's, hooting and shouting. W
cab came up to Mr. Dugdale's house the gamekeepers got
into it, and were driven off amid a shower of stones. It
was obliged to return and drive to the Town-hall. The
cab windows were broken,
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but witness never saw them do anything. The crowd next
assembled round the Town-hall. He remained about the
hall till dusk, and the mob increased in number, and hooted
and shouted much. About dusk a volley of stones was
thrown at the police-office door, and the lamps over the door
were broken. Soon afterwards tho windows around the
Town-hall were broken. About half-past six the police
turned out, and ho was present when the Riot Act was
read. The police consisted of 21 men,
chief constable.
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Livesey, who struck Robin
Robinson
leaders ; Richmond was there
Ashton. nor Roger L*the inspector, and
orroborated the evidence
of constables Sleigh and Robinson.l He identified John
and was one of the ring-
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