The Sun.
London, England, 1862-09-23 00:00:00

POLICE IN7ELLIGENCE.—Sept. 21.

MANSION-HOUSE.—After the conclusion of
the ordinary business of the Court, Major Snell,
secretary to Messrs. Rothschild, waited upon Mr.
Alderman Dakin, who was sitting for the Lord
Mayor, and said he attended on behalf of Messrs.
Rothschild, and other bankers and merchants, to
call the attention of the police, through the Court,
to the difficulty which they and the public in gene-
ral Experienced in crossing the road from the Bank
to the Royal Exchange. The number of omnibuses,
carts, and other vehicles was, so great and so close
together that the danger in crossing was very great.
He said he was requested by Messrs. Rothschild to
draw attention to an arrangement which was made
by the police at the most crowded thoroughfares at
the West-end, where policemen were placed for the
purpose of giving facility to foot passengers in
crossing the roads, and Messrs. Rothschild begged
to suggest that some similar arrangement should be
made in the City.
Mr. Alderman Dakin said that any representation
coming from Messrs. Rothschild would receive every-
attention. He believed the police were already in-
structed to give every assistance to pedestrians, and
that they did so to some extent, otherwise the
ob-
struction would be much more serious than it is at
present ; but the increasing commerce of the City
made, as might be supposed, an increase in the
traffic through the streets.
Inspector Shelford, who was present, said there
were already four and sometimes six officers placed
upon the spot mentioned for the special purpose of
regulating the traffic.
Mr. Alderman Dakin asked if they were instructed
to assist pedestrians across the road.
Inspector Shelford said there were certain cross-
ings on which the drivers ought not to stop their
vehicles, and the police took care to keep those
crossings clear, but the traffic was so great that if
double the number of men were placed there it could
not be kept different.
Mr. Alderman Dakin said there was great hopes
that when the Thames Embankment was finished
the new street would lessen the traffic in the streets
which were at present so overcrowded. At the
same time he told Major Snell, that he could assure
Messrs. Rothschild that all that could be done to
lessen the evil should be done, and that their sug-
gestion, which it appeared had already been partly
anticipated by the police authorities, should he
acted upon as far acs possi hle-

GUILDHALL .—THE BRITISH COLUMBIA OVER-
LAND TRANSIT COMPANY.—Mr. James Henson, the
secretary to the British Columbia Overland Transit
Company, appeared this day before Alderman Hale,
aecording to previous arrangements, to receive the
decision of the Court upon the charge of conspiring
with Col. Sleigh to cheat and defraud Mr. Henry
Isaac Collingwood of a sum of £4O by means of
false pretences.
In this case it will be recollected that a company
was projected early in the present year by Col.
Sleigh, the objects of which were to carry passen-
gers from this country acrossthe Rocky Mountains
to British Columbia at the rate of £42 per head.
The advertisements of the company held out the
most flattering prospects of success, and the direc-
tory having a number of names of undoubted re•
spectability among them, as many as 33 gentlemen
emigrants were induced to part with their money
on the faith that the company was a bona fide un-
dertaking, and that the contract would be honestly
carried out. They started about the latter end of
May, and upon their arrival at St. Paul's, in Min-
nesota, on their way to the Red River Settlement,
they were abandoned by the company in a most
heartless manner, no provision being made either to
forward them on their route, for their maintenance
there, or to bring them back to their own country.
Some found their way back at their own expense,
while others exhausted their own private means in
assisting their fellow-victims • but such were the
hardships they had to endure that after camping out
in the wilderness for a time they were at length
dispersed, and gentlemen unused to labour were com-
pelled to accept employments in the lead mines at
2s. a day to enable them to procure the common
necessaries of life. Those who returned immediately
applied at the offices of the company, but found
them closed, and, on making further inquiries, they
ascertained that the whole of the funds had been
absorbed by Col. Sleigh, who had decamped as soon
as the expedition was fairly off his hands. Circum-
stances which came to the knowledge of the emi-
grants induced one of their number to proceed
against the secretary of the company, through
whom the whole of the alleged fraudulent misre-
presentations had been made, and after several ex-
aminations before Alderman Finnis, during which
the most extraordinary disclosures were made with
regard to Col. Sleigh, and a warrant issued for his
apprehension, the matter was adjourned until now
for the alderman's decision.
Mr. Harris said in the absence of Alderman Fin-
nis it would be desirable to adjourn the case, parti-
cularly as the defendant had volunteered to give
every assistance, and tell all he knew to fix the
guilt upon the real delinquents.
Mr. Pearce said Mr. Colletti was anxious to be
examined, with the same end in view, as it was
pretty well acknowledged by all parties that Col.
Sleigh was the only party who ought to be here to
answer this charge. Indeed, 10 did not know why
Col. Sleigh was not in custody, as there was a war-
rant out against him, and he was to be seen almost
daily walking the Strand.
Alderman Hale said it would be better that
Alderman Finnis, who had Leard the case from the
first, should also hear the conclusion. He therefore
adjourned the case for a week, and then if Alder-
man Finnis could not attend he would go into it
himself.

This arrangement was acceded to by all parties,
and the defendant having entered into the same
recognisances as before, the proceedings were ac-
cordingly adjourned.

Kaufmann Kaufmann, a slipper manufacturer,
of No. 90, Cannon-street-road, St. George-in-the-
East, and Jacob Goodman, a lodging-house-
keeper, of 111, in the same street, were charged be-
fore Alderman Lawrence with having unlawfully
in their possession upwards of 500 riding whips and
sticks, value about £l5O, which had been stolen
from the premises of Mr. Smith, of Beech-street,
Barbican.
Mx. Lewis, jun., appeared for Goodman, and Mr.
Wontner, jun., for Kaufmann.
- Mr. Robert Smith, a whip and walking-stick
manufacturer, said he carried on business at No. 1,
Beech-street, Barbican. On the 3d of September
he saw his premises secured for the night, and on
the following day they had been entered during the
night and property to the value of about £l5O car-
ried off. He did not fasten any of the intermediate
doors in the warehouse, because he was in the habit
of leaving a ferocious dog loose when he locked up
the premises.
Sergeant Ruggett, Sergeant Green, and detee-

tive officer named Smart, deposed that frcnvt infor-
mation they received, and by direction of Mr. Ha-
milton, the chief of the City detective departinent,
they went to Cannon-street road, in St. George-in-
the-East, where they saw the prisoners in conver-
sation, and eventually watched them into Good-
man's house. The servant came out soon after-
wards, and, leaving the door open, witnesses en-
tered. They first saw Goodman, who came up-
stairs, followed by his wife, and on telling him they
were in search of stolen goods, the with implored
Goodman to tell all he knew, and asked him what
the man upstairs had brought in. They went up
to the back room on the first floor, the door of
which Goodman unlocked, and on entering
.the
room witnesses discovered Kaufmann ; and beneath
a bed in the same room they found a box containing
517 riding whips, which they brought away with
them. Kaufmann said he knew nothing of them ;
and Goodman said Kaufmann brought them into
the house about half an hour previously, having
before asked him if he could sell them for him.
Mr. Smith identified the 517 silver mounted riding
whips produced as his property.
Mr. Wontner, juu., urged in the prisoner Kauf-
mann's defence that the prisoner Goodman locked
him in the room for some purpose of his own until
the officers arrived, and that he (Kaufmann) knew-
nothing of the goods being there, and mentioned
as a fact in corroboration that none of the stolen pro-
perty was found at his house.
Mr. Lewis, for Goodman, submitted that his client
was innocent, and called his servant to prove that
Kaufmann brought the stolen property to his house
shortly before the arrival of the officers, and put
forward a respectable tradesman, who deposed that
about a fortnight previous Kaufmann offered to sell
him the property produced, and upon his declining
to purchase, Goodman offered to find Kaufmann a
customer ; that witness also said he had known the
prisoners for many years, during which period they
had always borne the best of characters.

Alderman Lawrence said Mr. Wontner wanted
him to believe his client and dismiss Kaufmann ;
and Mr. Lewis asked him to credit his client and
dismiss Goodman ; but he Was not inclined to do
either, inasmuch as the witnesses for Goodman had
strengthened the case against both prisoners, and he
therefore committed them for trial, when they
would have the opportunity of endeavouring to con-
vince a jury of the truth of their respective stories.
Committed for• trial accordingly.

CLERKENWELL.—MURDEROUS ATTACK UPON
Two CONSTABLES.—WiIIiam Nagel, a low-looking
fellow, was charged with committing a murderous
assault upon two police-constables and causing the
rescue of a prisoner.
Police-constable John Briggs, 195 G, deposed that
on Saturday evening he was on duty in Gray's-inn-
lane, when he found a man making a great distur-
bance, and in consequence he attempted to remove
him to the station. He became very violent, and a
crowd soon collected,w hen Nagel came np,attempted
to get prisoner from his grasp, and said (addressing
the mob), " Don't let him go; give it the police;''
and used other language calculated to incite the
mob to commit violence. In a few moments he (the
constable) was set upon by Nagel, thrown down,
kicked and stamped upon, receiving very severe in-
juries to his face and chest, from which he was still
suffering. He got up, drew his staff, and endea-
voured to defend himself, but was t• gain knocked
down and most roughly treated. Police-constable
5 G at that time came up to his assistance, but was
also set upon by several in the mob, which by that
time had increased to upwards of 400 persons, con-
sisting chiefly of the low Irish living in Baldwin's-
gardens and that locality. The prisoner Nagel,with
the aid of two others, and after a most determined
attack, succeeded in rescuing the man he (the con-
stable) had in custody. The mob, incited by Nagel
and the two others, would have proceeded to further
acts of violence, but he and his brother officer made
their escape and sought refuge in a house, where
they were, however, followed. Information of the
riot was sent off to the station, and in a short time
25 constables arrived and succeeded in making all
quiet. The prisoner was ultimately apprehended,
but his two companions eluded the constables, and
had not since been seen.
The evidence was fully corroborated.

The prisoner, on being asked, denied having com-
mitted the assaults, or having anything to do with
the row that took place.
Mr. D'Eyncourt said the charge against the pri-
soner was most serious, and one which he would not
look over lightly; in fact, he would not deal with
the case, but send the prisoner for trial, not only on
account of the serious nature of the assault, but for
the prominent part I he prisoner took in inciting the
mob to such ants of violence as proved.
The prisoner,who appeared completely astounded,
was then removed to await his trial; and warrants
will be issued for the apprehension of others impli-
cated.

COUNTRY 111 A RAL2)S.

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COLCHESTER—SEPT. 20.
The supply of wheat to-day at market was good,
and prices were about the same as last week.
Wheat, white 56s 66s Beans, Mazagan . . 38s 409
red 50s 608 middle & 5ma11.38.8 44s
Barley
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GLOUCESTER—SEPT. 20.
To-day there was a better supply of English wheat at
market, and to make sales prices had to give way is per qr.
Foreign in retail demand, at a decline of is per qr. Beans
unaltered. Barley firm. Oats dull.