The Sun.
London, England, 1865-04-25 00:00:00

THAMES.

STREET PREACHVG.—COrneIiRS M. O'Leary, an Irish-
man, with long beard and moustache and a very dirty face,
appearing to have had no connection with soap and water
for some time, was charged with being very drunk and dis-
orderly.

Pople, 288 K, stated that yesterday evening about 500
persons were assembled at the end of Philpot-street, Com-
mercial-road, listening to an itinerant preacher, who was
holding forth to the people. The prisoner came up and
shouted and abused the preacher, and a regular disturb-
ance ensued. The prisoner was very drunk and disorderly,
and his shouts were terrific, his language foul, and his de-
nunciations of Garibaldi and all heretics appalling. He
took him into custody, and, after much trouble, locked him
up. There were 700 persons around him.
Mr. Paget—Yes ;he brought his own congregation with
him. Was this last night or Sunday night ?
Pople—Last night ; Monday, sir
Mr. Paget—What became of the other preacher ?
Pople—He went away, sir, with his friends, but the pri-
soner would not go.

Mr. Paget—No, he wanted to make converts. (A laugh.)
Inspector Griffin, of the K division, said that, since the
fine weather had set in, the street preachers assembled
every night at the end of Phi'pot:street, close to the Com-
mercial-road, which was a great public thoroughfare, and
discussions, pocket-picking, and brawls had taken place.
The inhabitants of the locality were getting up a memo-
rial to the Commissioners of Police to suppress the
nuisance, but he intended to save them all further trouble,
by going there himself with as many police-constables as
might be required and preventing street preaching and the
assemblage of people there.

Mr. Paget—That is the proper course—stop it alto-
gether.

Inspector Griffin—l will show no favour. I will serve
them all alike.

The prisoner said he was hard at work all day on a
wharf, and was drinking hard in the evening. As he was
passing the end of Philpot-street he heard a man preach-
ing, and commented upon it. His comments were not
liked, and he was taken into custody.
Mr. Paget said the prisoner had much better leave his
commentaries for another place and not waste them in the
streets. He was very glad the police were about to sup-
press a very great evil in the district. The system of
preaching and collecting large and disorderly assemblies of
persons ought to be stopped. There were plenty of places
for any one to promulgate their opinions and tenets with-
out interruption. It was not to be endured that the pub
lic streets,- which were made for traffic and the passage of
persons on horse and on foot, should be impeded by
preachers or disputants of any description. The prisoner
was a very foolish fellow, and ought to know better.
The prisoner—His observations applied to me, and I
made my comments and refutations. (Laughter.)
Mr. Paget—No observations were applied to you. If
you are brought here again for a similar, offence I will
punish you severely. You are discharged.

REMARKABLE DREA3I.—The legal proceedings
which lately took place in the Sheriff Court of
Clackmannanshire with regard to the violation of a grave
and was buried in a
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in the churchyard of Alloa, and the unwarrantable exhu-
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of the body of James Quin, had their origin, it is
stated, in a remarkable dream of the mother of the deceased.
Is afterwards Robert Blair, the sexton
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gravedigger, took upon himself (without
or the d
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autho-
rity, it would appear, of Donaldson) to sell the same
lair to another person, and to inter therein a relative
of the new purchaser, without however at that time ex-
huming the body of Quin, the former tenant. Some con-
siderable time after this the mother of Quin, being desirous
of erecting a headstone on the grave of her son, made some
inquiries with that view, in the course of which she heard
something of another person having been in h* buried •is grave,
this having, as she stated, been "cast up" by B 1 •air ' ne
phew
to nep ew
to a younger son her' o f son their way from the Sunday
school. But the gravedigger denied the truth of this story,
and managed to pacify her. Feeling, however, that he had
got into a scrape by the lair having been resold, he, some
weeks after Mrs. Quin had interrogated him on the subject,
dug up the body of her son during the night of Thursday,
the 23d of March last, and re-interred it in other ground.
Now, on that very Thursday night, as sworn to by Mrs
Quin at the trial, she had this remarkable dream :—She
dreamt that her boy stood in his night-gown at her bed-
side, and said to her, " Oh, mother, put me back to my own
bed." She then awoke her husband, and, forgetting in her
half-dreaming state that her son was dead, said to him,
Jimmie is out of his bed; put him back into it," after
which she fell asleep, and again had the same dream. A
third time during the same night she dreamt that her son
was standing beside her bed ; but on this occasion, re-
membering that he was dead, the figure of the gravedigger
was mixed up with that of the boy, and he appeared to be
shoving his spade into the body. Awakening in great
trepidation, and feeling certain that her boy had been taken
out of his grave, she went to the gravedigger and vehemently
accused him of having dug up the body, which, after some
prevarication, he at last admitted. Hence arose the action
of damages against Donaldson, the kirk treasurer, and
Blair, the gravedigger, which, being restricted to £l2, was
brought in the Small Debt Court, The sheriff, after a long
proof, assoilizied Donaldson, and found Blair liable in
damages, which, the parties not having settled the same
extrajudicially, have been since assessed at .£3.—Scotagra