The Sun.
London, England, 1853-01-26 00:00:00

THE FRENCH AND ENGLISH PRESS

' the tables may not be reversed on any
caprice, on any pretended provocation, or any
necessity provided for the purpose. The doings
at Cherbourg may be wonderfully expedited by a
little change of application. Look at the article in
the &natus Consultum, gentlemen of the Peace
Society. And I would also bring to your notice,
as an incident of some significance, that the Minis-
ter of War of the Sardinian kingdom took occasion
twice, in his last reported speech upon his estimates
to recal to the minds of his hearers in the Parlia-
ment that " war is not improbable." Perhaps
being nearer to the volcano, he has greater dread
of the eruption. •
In all this there is much to think of, much to
treat of wisely, little to dread. The task of the
press cannot be mistaken—it is to handle a 'serious
subject seriously. This is no time for the exhibi-
tion of juvenile vigour or of craftily studied rhetoric
in stinging sentences. If the press takes upon it-
self the dignity of statesmanship it must prove itself
capable of the office. It must not court the frivolous
—aye, and the few—among its readers by a mere
flourish of its weapons. The business of life is
not a tournament, not a constant exhibition of
mere dexterity. The main quality in a journalist
is judgment. The higher he places his preten-
sions, the more certain is this truth. He
is a warrior, not a gladiator. He is to look to the
purpose and end of his efforts. What can be the
aim of such a paper as the Daily News, at the very
moment that a grave and eventful dispute exists
between the French Government and the press of
this country, in comparing Louis Napoleon with
Captain Macheath, and telling his English guests
at the Tuileries that their host will not become
their plundererif his necessities do not compel him ?
Is their no more worthy and equally effectual way
of keeping the English people on their guard
against possible aggression, now that the Daily
News has left off opposing the levy of the militia,
and believes that the treason which would keep
recruits from its ranks may prove a public danger ?
Does the Daily News imagine, when it abuses the
French Imperial Court, acknowledged now by all
the European powers, and makes our own
Ambassador at Paris a partner in the dis-
grace—does it believe that it does this as
the representative of any part of the Eng-
lish public ? Does it think that one voice
will join its hue and cry of insane and vulgar pro-
vocation ? And if it acts without hope of so com-
promising its fellow-countrymen, to what does it
pretend beyond the character of a contemptible
brawler offering offence for pure ruffianism Does
it hold itself to be pernicious or impotent ? To
provoke war or to be despised ? What Englishman
is willing to risk the least evil of contest to please
the Daily News? What Englishman does not now
expect from his newspaper the solid advice and in-
formation of a friend, not amusement from the
grimaces of a hired jester ? The people will not
countenance such incitements to great evil. We
are, or rather our Government is, the unwor-
thiest on record, ready for defence. The good of
the world is strong enough to hold down the evil, if
the well-intentioned possess prudence. We have
only to refrain "from all that may disgrace our dis-
cretion or weaken our means of maintaining peace.
CAUSTIC.

of a half per cent. upon the amount, was that for the
loan of the money for one week ?

The Witness---Sometimes for a week, sometimes for a
longer period. Sometimes I lent the prisoner money
without bills of lading.

Mr. Wontner—Did you charge him one-third per
cent. for the loan of the money for a single day ?
The Witness—Yes, we did.

Mr. Wontner—What would that be per annum ?
The Witness—l could not reckon it per annum, but
for a week it would be the same as for a month. I have
been to the lodging of the prisoner's wife since the last
examination. I went yesterday of my own accord, for
the purpose of expressing my sympathy for the situation
of the prisoner's wife. The mother was out when I
called. I did not shut the mother up in a *room, and
search her boxes or her basket. I did not search any
of her goods. I was accompanied by a messenger from
the Court of Bankruptcy.
Mr. Wontner—Then you did not make any search of
her goods at all ?

Witness—l did search, but only from erroneous in-
formation received by me, and I did not find what I
looked for.

Re-examined by Mr. Ballantine—l went to the,
lodgings of the prisoner's wife with a messenger of the
Court of Bankruptcy, who was present during the whole
time. No search was made by anybody except the
messenger.

Mr. Millis Coventry, one of the Society of Friends, said
'—l am a partner in the firm of Coventry and Shepherd,
who carry on business as corn-factors in White Hart-
court, Lombard-street. I produce eight bills of lading
which I received from the prisoner. I received them at
different dates. Ido not recollect that I received them
from him personally, but I had communication with him
respecting them both before and after I received them.
I cannot recollect any particular conversation with
him, but they were received in the way of business at
my office, either by myself, my partner, or my clerk.
One of the bills of lading is by the Auguste Adolph,
from Dantzic-28 lasts 32 scheffels of wheat ; this is
dated the sth of December last. I have three of the 3d
of January of the present year, one of the 20th of De-
cember last, one of the 22d of October, another of the
3d of January, and another of the 28th of December.
To one of them I have no date. I have looked over the
bills of lading produced by Mr. Schuloff, and find that
numbers 1,3, 4,
5,6, 7,8, and 9, represent the same
cargoes. I cannot say that lam very familiar with the
signatures of the persons purporting to be the shippers
of these cargoes, although I have frequently seen them.
I have previously had bills of lading from each of the
shippers. I believe the signature to the bill of lading
produced not to be genuine. I might have taken them
in the course of trade, as one frequently takes them,
without examination: After these bills of lading were
deposited with me the whole property in the cargoes was
vested in me.
Mr. Edward White said—l am partner in the firm of
Farren, Young, and White, corn-factors in Mark-lane.
I produce a bill of lading which was deposited with me
by the prisoner. I cannot say with me personally. I
may have bad conversation with the prisoner on the sub-
ject of it, both before and after I received it, and it went
to the prisoner's account. I find a duplicate of that bill
of lading amongst those now shown to me ; it is No. 2.
We received it on the 22d November, 1852.
Mr. Schuloff further examined—l cannot mention the
precise amount I have advanced on the bills of lading of
which duplicates are in the hands of other parties, but it
is somewhere about 9,0001.
Mr. R. Sutherland : I reside at 13, Gloucester-place,
New-road. I was clerk to the prisoner for 14 months.
I recollect the Bth inst. I saw my master last at half-
past three on that day. As he was leaving I asked him
if he knew about some bills of which notice had been left
by the bankers. He replied that he had taken them
up. He did not then, or at any time previously, tell me
that he was going to leave for Newcastle, or for any
other place. I did not know he was going away, and I
did not see him again until he was in custody.
Mr. Eallantine : I dare say, sir, after what has been
now proved, you will agree with me that it is not neces-
sary to go to the expense of bringing the shippers of
these goods from foreign countries in order to prove that
these documents are forgeries, and to show that they
were written without any authority, inasmuch as it is
quite clear that the depositing these bills of lading with
one person is a virtual parting with the property ; that
the depositing of duplicate bills with other parties is a
representation that the property has not been parted
with ; and as that is in itself a very grave fraud, and in-
volving a very serious punishment, I think it sufficient
to ask you to commit upon that charge.
Sir R. W. Carden : It is clear from the evidence that
money has been obtained from two parties upon dupli-
cate bills of lading, and therefore the prisoner will be
committed for trial for obtaining, by false pretences,
9,0001. of Messrs. Schuloff, with intent to defraud them.
On being asked, rafter the usual caution, whether he
had anything to say, the prisoner again said he should
leave his defence to Mr. Wontner.
He was fully committed on both charges.

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 26, 1853

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

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BOW-STREET.—George Coates and Mary, his wife,
were brought before Mr. Jardine for further examina-
tion, on suspicion of having caused the death of an in-
fant ohdd.

The prisoners lodged at 4, Little White Lion-street,
and had the care of the deceased child, whose mother
paid them a weekly allowance for nursing it. One after-
noon last week both the prisoners returned home to
their lodgings in a state of drunkenness, and went to
bed. About seven o'clock in the evening a woman
named Hollis, living in the same house, was called into
the room by Coates to help him to look for a handker-
chief, and she then saw the child in bed, almost black
from suffocation, and quite dead. A policeman was sent
for, and when he arrived he found the male prisoner ac-
cusing his wife with the murder of the child, which she
then had in her arms ; but afterwards they both declared
that it was accidentally suffocated.
The inquiry was remanded till after the coroner's in-
quest, and Mr. R. Stephenson, a surgeon, of Little St.
Andrew-street, now attended to state that he had made
a post mortem examination, and found that death was
caused by suffocation. He had discovered a quantity of
vomited food in the child's windpipe, and he was of
opinion that death resulted from it without external
violence.

This being also the opinion of the coroner's jury, the
prisoners were discharged.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.—Randolph, I?outh,, de-
scribed as a gentleman, and formerly in the army, was
brought before Mr. Hardwick, charged with having vio-
lently assaulted Lieut. Alfred Cooper, of the Indian
army, at the East India United Service Club in St.
James's-square.
Lieut. Cooper said he was at the East India Club,
No. 15, St. James's-square that day, when the defendant
sent to request an interview in the reception-room for
visitors, on a subject which formed a matter of dispute
between them. The defendant demanded the restora-
tion of a letter which was in his possession, and on re-
ceiving a positive refusal he, without warning, commenced
a violent assault on him. The defendant seized him by
the throat and struck him several severe blows on the
side of the head. So violent was the assault that he was
quite powerless to defend himself, and was nearly stran-
gled, and had he not succeeded in attracting the atten-
tion of the servants of the establishment, his life would
have been placed in great danger. Complainant added
that, had he been disposed to defend himself, he could
not have done so from having recently fractured his arm.
He neither did strike nor could have struck the de-
fendant.

The defendant, in reply to the charge, said he was
quite ignorant that the defendant had sustained any in-
jury to his arm. The assault was of the nature of a
scuffle between them, and to prove that it could not have
been so violent as described, Lieut. Cooper himself went
for the assistance of the servants. With regard to the
origin of the affray, that involved circumstances of a
painful nature and included persons of the highest7re-
spectability. It was to avoid exposure that he begged
the complainant, as a father, as a man, and as a
friend, to give up a particular letter. It was the
refusal to comply with this request which led to the sub-
sequent struggle.
• Lieut. Cooper said, if the magistrate required it, he
had a witness in court to rebut the defendant's state-
ment.

Mr. Hardwick considered the assault sufficiently
proved, and, as he should send the case to the sessions,
any further evidence could be brought forward at the
trial.

The defendant was ordered to find bail, two in 501.,
and himself in 1001., to answer the charge at the ses-
sions.

WESTMINSTER.—A foreign gentleman, who gave
his name Steph,anos Xenos, was summoned by a cab-
driver for eightpence under the following peculiar cir-
cumstances.

John Blake stated that, on the night of the 17th in-
stant, he was called by a servant from the rank at the
top of the Vauxhall Bridge-road, to take up at 2, Bel-
grave-street, South, where defendant got into his cab
and desired to be driven through St. James's-park to
Palace-chambers, St. James's-street. Complainant told
the gentleman that no hackney cab was allowed to go
through the park, but that he would take him the other
way, which would not occupy him above three or four
minutes more. The gentleman said he was often driven
through the park at night, and upon complainant's re-
peating that he could not drive him through that way,
defendant desired him to open the door, and got out.
Complainant followed him and demanded eightpence,
which the gentleman refused to pay, and ultimately gave
the driver his card.

Mr. Arnold—What distance was it from the stand to
where you had to take the gentleman up ?
Complainant--About 150 or 200 yards.
The defendant said that about a fortnight ago he was
driven by the complainant across the park to Palace.
chambers, when, although he paid the driver more than
his" fare, he demanded something in addition, and con-
ducted himself in so insulting and offensive a manner
that he (defendant) looked for a policeman to give him
in charge. When the cab was fetched upon the present
occasion he discovered, to his surprise, that the driver
was the same man who had so misconducted himself,
and when he desired him to drive through the park, he
refused. Ho (defendant) had repeatedly been driven
through St. James's-park after ten o'clock at night, and
after he had got out of complainant's cab and was going
to hire another, complainant said something to the man
to prevent his taking him, as he believed, uless he paid
extra fare for the park.
Mr. Arnold said that that might have been ; drivers
might have eluded the vigilance of the person at the
gate at a late hour at night, but that did not constitute
a right, nor was it material whether the driver crossed
with defendant a fortnight ago ; because if he had done
wrong then, it was no reason he should repeat it. He
considered the driver was perfectly justified in refusing
to take the gentleman across the park, and there was
nothing in the case to relieve the defendant from his
liability to pay the driver for his being called off the
stand.

Defendant was ordered to pay the Bd., and ss. costs,

THAMES.--Captain Ridley Wilson, master of the
brig Fifteen, was finally examined, charged with scut-
tling and sinking the Essex Lass, of which he had been
master two years since last Christmas.
Mr. Child, of the firm of Wire and Child, appeared
for certain underwriters on the part of the prosecu-
tion, and Mr. Ballantine, instructed by Mr. Smith for
the defence.

The principal witness was a lad named Cadmore, who
stated that whilst at the helm he saw the prisoner bore
three holes with an augur through the bottom- of the
Essex Lass, whereupon she began to fill, and, though
all hands were called to the pump, she filled so rapidly
that they were compelled to take to the boats and row
ashore, the captain having previciusly cut away the lar-
board and starboard pOrts with an axe.
This evidence was to a certain extent confirmed by two
witnesses named Cook and Masson.

After
whearing
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urged that there was no motive for the alleged
offence ; that according to the captain's statement
the whole was a gross and wicked fabrication ; and
that, as the evidence stood, the magistrate should dismiss
the charge.
Mr. Yardley said the case was one which prohibited
a magistrate from taking upon himself the functions of a
jury. No motive for the destruction of the vessel had
been as yet adduced, but two facts as regarded the port
holes had been sworn to by three witnesses, and it was
not attempted to be shown that such a course would
lighten or alleviate her. Much depended on the credi-
bility of the witnesses, referring, as their testimony did,
to a fact said to have occurred more than two years ago.
The charge was a se-ious one, and he (Mr. Yardley)
had, in the first instance, refused to take bail ; but, from
the different aspect which the case had since taken, he
would now accept bail—the prisoner himself in 4001.,
and two sureties of 2001. each.
The owner of the Fifteen and the owner of the lost
brig Essex Lass, immediately presented themselves, and
were accepted.
In holding the prisoner to bail, Mr. Yardley said that,
as far as regarded the underwriters and their legal ad-
visers, he certainly must say they had pursued•a, proper
course on the occasion. The subject was one demand-
ing inquiry, and he would not prejudice the case by any
observations.
The depositions were then taken at length, and the
requisite bail having been accepted, the prisoner was
committed for trial.

FROM THE LONDON QAZETTE of YESTERDAY.

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FOREIGN-OFFICE, JAN. 17

The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint
Stephen Henry Sulivan, Esq., now her Majesty's Charge
d'Affaires and Consul-General in the Republic of Chili,
to be her Majesty's Charge d'Affaires and Consul-
General in the Republic of Peru.
The Queen has also been graciously pleased to appoint
Captain the Honourable Edward Alfred John Harris,
R.N., now her Majesty's Charge d'Affaires and Consul-
General in the Republic of Peru, to be her Majesty's
Charge d'Affaires and Consul-General in the Republic of
Chili.