The Sun.
London, England, 1854-10-17 00:00:00

POLICE INTEL LI GEN CE.

MANSION-HOUSE.—After the routine business
wa9 transacted by the Lord Mayor,
Sir R. W. Carden entered the justice-room, and, ad-
dressing his lordship, said :—lt is fresh in the recollec-
tion of the that several weeks ago an appeal was
public _

made in the absence of your lordship by an ;Migrant,

upon the part of several persons who intended to accom-
pany him, in the vessel called the Jane Greene, for Aus-
tralia ; that the appeal was grounded upon the fact that
parties who had received their money had.misappro-
priated the whole of it, and that the bankruptcy of the
latter had suddenly thrown into extreme indigence and
misery those who had relied upon the integrity of the
men in whose hands they had deposited their proper'y.
Alderman Carter and I entered upon the investi-
gation which we at once saw it was most neces-
sary to institute, and we found that 198 of
our fellow-creatures were undeservedly reduced to
a most deplorable condition. After having made the
greatest efforts to get together the means of enabling
them to try their fortune in a remote part of the world,*
we appealed to the public on their behalf, and we have
now the satisfaction to state that with the assistance
of the merchants and shipowners, and by the ex-

traerdinary liberality of a lady whose hand is always
" open as day to melting charity," all those emigrants,
whose necessities were undeniable, have been provided
for in eifferent vessels. The last thirty of the poor ap-
plicants, all of whom expressed their gratitude in a man-
ner not to be misunderstood, sailed a few days ago.
Each of the whole number of emigrants has been pro-
♦ided with a fund to enable him to meet those difficulties
which are sure to present themselves in a land for the
first time visited ; and as arrangement has been made by
which each will be enabled to receive whatever dividend
may arise from the estate of the bankrupts through
authorised persons. I think it necessary to state that
to Meisrs. Phillips, Shaw, and Lowther, the shipowners,
we are greatly indebted for their active participation int
the efforts to render the important service which hasi,
been accomplished, and that Captain Lean, the Govern.:
meat emigration officer, can never be forgotten by any
of the unfortunate people who have required his invalu,
able assistance.

Captain Lean—After the statement made by Sir Ri
W. Carden relative to the contributions of the merchants!
shipowners, and brokers of the City for the relief of tht
distressed passengers of- the-Jane Greene, and the g
neral distribution of the fund, it would seem almo,--t u
necessary for me to occupy the attention of the Coup
by auy further remarks, but as it may be gratifying to
the subscribers to form an opinion as to how worthily
chair bounty has been bestowed, I cannot do so more
effectually than by the mention of two or three• cases
of destitution which are a fair sample of the condi-
tion of the whole et the passengeis. There was
nraolgst the emigrants a very poor but very re-
spectable woman, with four children, who had been
waiting many weeks for the ship's arrival at Plymouth
in order to embark, and who had paid 64/. pn.ssage
money. That woman had been reduced by' the failure-
to such penury as to be obliged to apply to the magli-
trates in that town for raid, not being entitled to assist-
ance from the parochial authorities, as her residence had
otom in Somersetshire. Of the funds raised by the exer-
tions of Aldermen Sir R. W. Carden and Carter, tile
,unt of 541. was paid to provide a passage for th.it in-
. jored fandiy in the Fortitude, which was to sai! from Piy-
' mouth. The .turn of 101., besides a small local sub.4crip-
Liao, had been paid for the passage of a family with fiirc
oath trim at Torquay, by the same ship. There was another

case which at this gnome: t occurs to me. It is teat of
a mari wit., white the prosecution of the bankrupts wits
proeeedieg at the Mansion-home, was attacke I by
rhelera and died, leaving a widow and four children at
Worcester. In that instance the whole of the psosage
money.was returned to the unfortunate widow. I trust
I may be permitted to express before Ire Court- how
deeply sensible I am of the encouragement I have in-
variably received from the magistrates and authorities
of the City in prosecuting cases of injustice dubs
to emigrants, and the substantial justice which has
invariably resulted. When, in the present instance, the
jurisdiotion was taken out of the hands of the Court by
the bankruptcy of the parties implicated, a subscription
was promptly headed by two of them (Aldermen Sir R.
W. Carden and Carter), who have given such efficient
aid in advocating the cause of the charity, and who, by
visiting the ship and personally investigating ,the condi-
tion of the people, were enabled to form a sound judg-
ment as to the distribution. With reference to the
former of those gentlemen more particularly, I cannot
even in his presence, expressing my grateful sense
of the devotion of his time to the object of the subscrip-
tion, by taking charge of the donations frura time to time,
and administering the funds so liberally, yet so economi-
cally, as to carry out the work of benevolence by the
despatch of all the passengers to their original destina-
tion. I need scarcely add that the gratitude of the
people before their departure was unbounded. Captain
Lean concluded by alluding in a very warm manner to
the liberal and prompt assistance rendered by the Emi-
gration Commissioners, from whom he had received leis
iestructions.
The Lord Mayor said the public were deeply indebted
to Sir R. W. Carden and Alderman Carter for their very
laborious efforts in behalf of the poor emigrants, and
congratulated them upon the complete success which bad
followed their exertions. His lordship requested that
the press would announce the following note and sub-
scription, which he had received :
" tlackwall-yard, Oct. 17, 1854.
"The workmen of Messrs. M. Wygram and Sun,
ship-builders of Blackwall, beg to forward their first
hrtnightly subscription to the fund for the relief of the
families of the soldiers, sailors, and marines who may
fall during the present war, to be continued for three
months, which they request: may be acknowledged as
follows :--
"'The first fortnight's subscription of the shipwrights,
caulkers, mastuiakers, blaCksmiths, joiners, and sawyers
in the employ of Messrs. Money Wygram and Suns,
Blackwall-yard, 121. 9s. Bd.'
"THOS. NORTH, Secretary t© the Fund.
"To the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor."

WORSHIP-STREET.—A respectably-dressed person
who gave the name of Richard Henley, and described
himself as a surgeon, at present residing at Morley's
Hotel, was charged before Mr. Hamrnill with having
created a disturbance and conducted himself with gross
impropriety at the house of the Rev. Timothy Gibson,
one of the curates of St. Matthew, Bethnal-green.
The complainant stated that shortly after one o'clock
on the previous morning he was roused from sleep by a
violent knocking at the street door, which was kept up
without intermission for a period of ten minutes. Wit-
ness at length proceeded to the window, and on looking
out to ascertain the cause of the disturbance he observed
the defendant, who requested that he would accompany
him immediately to the house of Mr. Gould, a whole-
sale grocer in Bishopegate-street, who was in urgent
want of spiritual consolation, as he had been attacked
with cholera, and was so dangerously ill that he was not
expected to survive the night. Believing his statement
to be a fabrication, as the elder Mr. Gould resided at
Poplar, witness requested a policeman, who came up at
the moment, to detain the defendant, to accompany him
to the house of Mr. Gould. He said he. had merely
knocked him up " for a bit of a lark," and at the same
time made an offensive proposition that he should accept
a 51. note as a compensation for the annoyance. The
defendant also expressed his willingness to offer him a
public apology in the parish church, and strongly urged
him not to press the cuarge, which must necessarily be
attended with ruinous consequences to him, as he was a
gentleman and a member of the Royal College of
surgeons.

The defendant earnestly discfaimed having been
actuated by the slightest ill-feeling Vowards the com-
plainant, and assured the magistrate that he was
1i artily ashamed of his conduct, in which he had in-
dulged for a mere practical joke in a moment of indis-
cretion, and he trusted that the reverend gentleman
would accept his apology as a sufficient atonement for
the trouble and annoyance to which he had been
subjected,

Sir. Hammill said that the prisoner had been guilty of
a most scandalous outrage, and he should order him to
pay a penalty of 405., or to be committed, in default, for
one month to the House of Correction.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET. Charles Jolley, a
greengrocer in Rose-street, was brought before Mr.
Hardwick, charged with having cruelly beaten Ann
Perring, his mother-in-law.
The complainant, whose face was hideously disfigured
by blows, said the defendant's wife, her daughter, had
been obliged to go into the country in consequence of
the dreadful ill-usage she had received from her husband.
While the defendant's wife was away she had consented
to mind the children, and look after the shop, when the
defendant was absent at the public-house, On Saturday
night the• defendant remained at the public-house be-
yond shutting-up time, and just as she had stepped over
to a neighbour the defendant came to her and ordered
her to go home, declaring that he would have the child
from her custody that night,
r' The defendant wanted to make out that the complain-
ant was not sober, and therefore was unfit to have
chr.rge of the child, He had himself been drinking a
glees or two of beer.
Mr. Hardwick said the brutality of the defendant's
conduct was aggravated by the fact of the complainant
doing him a kindness at the time, by taking care of his
child. He should send him for three months to the
House of Correction.

SOUTHWARK--Robert Randall, described as a
journeyman painter, was placed before Mr. A'Beckett,
cliArged with committing an assault on a young female.
Eliza Webb, a respectable young female, about 18
years of age, who exhibited marks of violence on her
face and neck, on being sworn said—l am a boot and
shoe binder, and live with my relatives at Rotherhithe.
On Saturday night, at a late hour, I had occasion to go
into the Park-road, Old Kent-road, and when I got
into the Groucester-road I met the prisoner, who carne
towards me and made use of disgusting language to me.
I avoided him and crossed over the road, when he fol-
lowed me and said he would give me half-a-crown if I
would accompany him on the other side of the fence. I
tben became frightened at him, and endeavoured to get
tawaythroat,
.; wheni3
shall ackttheep_ushed me down, seized me by the
t
and attempted to throttle me. Ho then ill-
used ine.
opportunity rthis a inmsd akahseriouso cmgheiavregneet
hcaeegsasciaonrnsy!
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the prisoner, and I sha
stable the opp
inquiries.

WESTMINSTER.-11r. E. J. Fitzroy, of Hans-
place, Sloane-street, accompanied by two young friends,
anplied to Mr. Arnold tor an assault !.. against
.)"fr. Charle.; Westerton, chnrchwardcn ofummon St.s Paul's,
KnigatisLridge.
Complainant observed that the raagiatrate was pro-
bably aware that a material differenz.e of opinion had

existed for a length of time past amongst the congrega-
tion of St. Paul's, Knightsbridge, out of which the pre-
, sent complaint arose. About sixteen or seventeen
weeks ago, in conformity with the advice and direction
of the Bishop of London, • certain alterations were made
in the service—the Litany being monotoned instead of
intoned. Many of the congregation were much averse to
this change, and, despite the proceeding of the choir,
had, according to long custom, chanted the rubrics,
and without any molestation, until Sunday morning
last, when, upon persevering in their usual mode of
performing the service, applicant and several others
were assaulted. Applicant was seized suddenly by Mr.
Westerton, who laying hold of him by the arm, declared
he should leave the church, and that he would pet him
out ; upon which applicant replied that if he did so, it
would be at the peril of ulterior proceedings. Mr.
Westerton then seized applicant by the collar, and at-
tempted to carry his threat into execution, but appli-
cant resisted, and several of the congregation having
told Mr. Westerton that be was transgressing, he re•
linquished his hold of applicant, but not until one of his
friends had been dragged out of his sitting.
Mr. Arnold thought the matter rather one for an
ecclesiastical than a police court.
Mr. Fitzroy remarked that the ecclesiastical court
was difficult to move, and he had been informed that
he had a remedy in the ordinary way at a police court.
Mr. Arnold said as applicant pressed for an assault
summons, he (the worthy magistrate) would not refuse
the application, and accordingly granted the summons.

THAMES.—Mr. John Pierce, of No. 11, Caroline-
place, Marlborough-road, Chelsea, was summoned before
Mr. Yardley, by William Lovell, a eab driver, for the
sure of Bs.

The complainant raid he drove the defendalt and sir.
others, from Marlborough-road, Chelsea, to Union-
street, Whitechapel, on Wednesday evening last. The
distance was six miles, and he was entitled to 3s. 6d. for,
seven miles, 6d. each for three extra paesengers and 48.
for waiting, which was 98. in all, but he only asked
for Bs.

The defendant, in reply to the charge, said he did not
hire the cab, but had offered to pay ss.
Mr. Yardley—Who did hire it?
The Cabman.—One of the party hired it, but the de-
fendant, when he got on the box, said, "I shall, pay
you, cabby--it's all right."
The defendant—Yes, I did say so ; but I did not hire
the'cab, 'and am not liable.
Mr. Yardley said the defendant's liability was clear,
from his own admission, and made an order for the
amount claimed, and costs.

TEACHING YOUNG LADIES TO SWIM.

At the'Ramsgate Petty Sessions, on TueSday, Paulin
Huggett Pearce, a bather, attended in answer to a sum-
inoes, charging him with having, on the Ist inst., bathed
in rear of, and within the distance of 50 yards from a
certain bathing•machine, from which certain females
were then bathing, contrary to the bye laws iu respect
to bathing. James BlOornfield deposed--J am a pol►ce-
constable of the iloyal Harbour of Ramsgate. On Sun-
day last, at a quarter before nine, I was o❑ duty on the
sands. I saw defendant bathing at the rear of two Ma-
chines, then used by females ; he was about 10. or 12 '
yards in the rear of the machines with two females: 'I
.saw him throw himself on his back. I then saw him
turn one of the young ladies on her back, and in doing
so the ripple of the sea turned up her bathing gowe,
which he then put over hrr feet. Shortly after he
walked out of the water, and entered an empty bath-
leg machine standing on the dry laud ; ho had an
old waistcoat and pair of trousers on. When he came
out of the water, I said to him, "You are carrying on
a pretty game—you'll have a summons from me." He
then said, " What for—teaching swimming l" I said,
No, for bathinge-wittriti'-the—distance appointed fir
ladies." His arms and neck were quite bare when he
came out of the water. John Edwards deposed—l am
a solicitor, practising at 39, Lothbury, London, at the
present living at the h.oyal Oak Hotel. On Sunday
morning last, between 8 and 9, I had been taking a
bath, arid was returning from the sands when my atten
tiou was called to what I considered a very extraordinary
scene near the place where the ladies were. I saw a per-
son in the water. At that time I did not know whether
it was a man or a woman, but I subsequently saw from
the moustache that he was a man. He was bathing
with two or three women. The women had bathing
dresses on. The man appeared to have nothing
on but hie lower garments, his arms and breast being
quite naked. It appeared to me that defendant was
teaching them how to swim. I saw one lady on her
back, and the man was apparently teaching her how to
float, for as she came towards him he pushed her by the
fact from him. I felt, as the father of a family, great
disgust. Thomas Ratcliff deposed—On Friday last I saw
defendant in the centre of a group of five ladies, bathing
with them. I saw him separate one from the others,
and teach her to swim. Twice before, during last week
I saw him with two ladies. I have had ladies make
complaints to me about such exhibitions. Pearce, in his
defence, said that he had been a teacher of the art of
swimming for 24-years, and had never had a charge of
this kind brought against him, and, infact, was ignorant
of the law. lie had never beeh cautioned. He had
al.ved the lives of many persons from drowning, and had
in this instance been requested to teach these young

ladies to prevent such an occurrence to them. lie
had conducted himself with propriety, and was clothed
then ai he was now. He produced the gowns the ladies
wore to prove that they could not wash up. The con-
tinual shooting of rubbish on to the Sands near to the
. .

place allotted to him obliged him very often at high
water to wade in and fetch ladies out. A gentleman
stepped forward and said that, as the father of one, and
the grandfather of another, of the young ladies, he was
convinced of the propriety of Pearce ;s conduct, and
would, did it not tend to infringe the laws, allow his
children to go in again. The bench, after a short con-
sultation, said that they were of opinion that this case
did not come under the bye laws, which were framed to
prevent indecencies, which had not in this instance
been proved. They were not called upon, neither did
they express any opinion as to the propriety of what had
been described. The case was dismissed.

WRECK OF THE STEAM-SHIP
PRILADELPHIA.

Mr. Gailsby, of Brooklyn, one of the passengers by
this vessel, has published, in the New York Tribune, the
following narrative of the wreck :
" The City of Philadelphia sailed from Liverpool on
her first trip for Philadelphia, favoured by wind and
tide, at noon, on Wednesday, the 29th of August. The
day was fine, and scarcely a single individual of 600
passengers but appeared as happy as though bound upon
some pleasure excursion, rather than, as in most cases,
leaving home and country to seek shelter and subsis-
tence in another land. The day following our embar-
kation we took a last look at the dim cliffs of Old Eng-
land, and turned our faces toward our western haven.
For six days we were favoured with fine weather, clear
skies, and smooth seas, and everything bid fair for a
prosperous voyage. Our ship sailed and steamed right
gallantly along, and we enjoyed all the pleasure with
none of the usual dicamforts of an Atlantic voyage.
"But I could not help observing that, amid the gene-
ral I.i'arity, onr commander, though prompt and un-
ceasing in his attentian to his onerous duties, was evi-
dently troubled about some matter of grave moment.
He rarely retired to his stateroom even for an hour's
repose, but paced the deck night and day, ever and anon
peering iuto the compass boxes, and then consulting with
his officer!, At length, I closely examined those objects
of his particular solicitude—the compasses. We had
six of them on board, all of which it is said were duly
adjusted in. Glasgow and Liverpool, but I discovered
that no two of them agreed, some of them varied be-
tween five and six points, and the two steering com-
passes in the wheel house differed from a point to a point
and a half.

"This sad state of things was undoubtedly to be attri-
buted to the person pretending to regulate the com-
passes, for in my opinion, with properly-isolated coin-
parses, an blots vessel is as easily worked as would be one
of wood. On the morning of the 24th of Septeusber
heavy rain began to fall, and the atmosphere became so
densely clouded that no observation could be taken that
day. The same kind of weather prevailed throughout
the next day, and again no observation was practicable.
About four o'clock in the afternoon, if I recollect aright,
en casting the log, the steamer was said to be making
twelve knots an hour.

"About- 114 ra,..'ea., `visesstwa.fly all the passengers
were in their berths, attt the ship was going at the rate
of'over ten knots an hour, she rail against d ethiten rock,
with a frightful eorronssion. ttaantly the ship was
alive ; from every hat*hsray the passengers—men, wo-
men and childeth—poured over tit° deck in the wildest
confusion mid distress, and many of them in an almost
is primitive ite of nudity, rending the air with their
shrieks and manifesting every symptom of mortal terror.
" New the seamanship of our captain and the disci=
pline of the crew came into requisitiora Tke engines
were reversed, and on taking tionadings it *ski fettnd
that the ship was in 4100 Satter on both sides, and that
she had struck ikack on her port side, near the cut-
water. A MAn was stationed at the well, to see how
fast tilt water gained, while the carpenter and his crew,
/sle'a oakum and blankets, sought to step Vim Wei.
But the latter was found to be- initidseibie, as the orifice
was some six feet low* by tour broad, through which
the water poured in like a cataract, soon filling the fOt-
ward compartment of the hold to the water link
" it was ascertained that the reint upon which the
vessel had struck was off Gape Rae; so having taken
in all sail the steamier was backed o# arid hetd ,td for
Chance Cove, about seven and a halt miles to the north-
ward. This cove she reached. However, she had
hardly got into shallow water ere the setend kie_'_‘.tait-
rnent was flooded and the fires extitiviiilisat. During all
of this time the sea was as Oahu as a mirror, but the fog
was so dense that objects could not be distinguished a
ship's length dintant. Boats were launched and a party
sent to survey the beach ; they reported it good) With a
fine sandy bottom, whereupon the vessel was run
aground as far up as possible, and hut about three-
quarters of a mile from the shore, and the anchors l'at go.
"The boats were then hoisted out, and the passen-
gers having by this time mostly come to something like
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and after them the male
iormance of this arduous duty the utmost care was taken
to prevent accident, by keeping in check the excited
crowd, who would otherwise have rushed into the boats
and swamped them. Fortunately but little surf was on
at the time, so that the whole -of- the passengers were
got on shbre by half-paet four a.m. without the sliehtest
accident.

The sheite2 'and for so large. a number of
people thus thrown upon a desolate shore, some sixty
rail's from the nearest *Wage or town, was the neat Con.