The Sun.
London, England, 1853-11-30 00:00:00

DNESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 30, 1853.

at least as much could be obtained to compensate
those who are compelled to keep their establish-
ments closed in defence of the rights of property,
and in opposition to the arrogant and unwarrant-
able assumptions that have been put forward by
mischievous and heartless agitators.

COURT CIRCULAR.

OSBORNE, Nov. 29.

The Duke of Brabant arrived at Osborne at half-past
- twelve o'clock from Dover. The royal yacht Fairy, com-
manded by Captain Crispin, was in waiting at Gosport,
. and conveyed the Duke to Osborne Pier.

A deputation of licensed victuallers had an interview
with Viscount Palmerston on Monday, to induce his
lordship not to abolish the lotteries held at public-houses
until after Christmas. The deputation consisted of
Messrs. Ripton, Stroud, Madden, Everett, Bryant, and
Fowler.

The commissioners for inquiring into the state of the
corporation of th© city of London held a meeting yester-
day, at the office of the First Lord of the Treasury, in
Downing-street. The commissioners present were the
Right Hon. H. Labouchere and G. Cornewall Lewis,
Esq. _ .

Despatches were received at the Colonial-office yester-
day from the Governor of Malta.

The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat yes-
terday, and resumed the hearing of the petition of Schlum-
berger to rescind the order in Gibson's patent. The
Lords present were the Lords Justices Turner and
Knight Bruce, the Judge of the High Court of Admi-
ralty, Sir J. Patteson, and Sir E. Ryan.

The Duke and Duchess of Wellington have left Paris
on a tour in Italy during the winter.

The Duke and Duchess of Richmond and Lady Cecilia
Gordon Lennox have arrived in Portland-place, from
Gordon Castle, Banffshire, N. 8., en route to Goodwood
Park, Sussex.

The Marquis of Tichfield, who has been suffering
from rather severe indisposition at Welbeck, is much
better.

The Earl and Countess Cowper, who have been stay-
ing in comparative retirement at his lordship's marine
villa near Ramsgate, are expected to pass through town
early, en route to Panshanger, Herts, for the winter.
Lord and Lady Barrington are entertaining a small
party at Beckett House, Berks. Lord and Lady Strath-
more are staying on a visit to their noble relatives.
The Lady Frederick Bentinek has arrived in Charles-
street, Berkeley-square, from visiting the venerable
Duke of Portland at Welbeck Abbey, Notts.
A matrimonial alliance, we hear, is on the tapis be-
tween Mr. William Lowther, nephew to the Earl of
Lonsdale, and Miss Parke, daughter of the Right Hon.
Baron Parke.

The Marquis of Lansdowne has returned to Bowood,
from visiting Lord and Lady Ashburton, at The Grange.
A select circle are about to assemble at Bowood.
We regret to learn that the Earl of Kinnoull is still
suffering from indisposition, at Brighton. His lordship
is better than he has been, but he is still unable to leave
his room. The Countess of Kinnoull has also been in-
disposed for some weeks past. Her ladyship is happily
recovering.

Viscount Bolingbroke has arrived at Lydiard Park,
his lordship's seat near Swindon, Wilts, from visiting
the Earl of Radnor, at Coleshill.
Lord and Lady Cosmo Russell have arrived in Ches-
ter-square, from Ireland.
PREACHERS AT THE CHAPEL ROYAL, ST. JAMES'S.—
The following are the preachers for December :—Rev.
Dr. Cartinell, Rev. John Vane, Rev. H. M. Birch, Rev.
Thomas Protheroe.

Sir James Duke has just purchased the property of the
late Sir T. Downman at Laughton. It is rumoured that
it is the intention of the hon. baronet to make extensive
alterations in, if not entirely to rebuild, the mansion.
The purchase of the Downman property by Sir James
Duke has been hailed with unequivocal satisfaction by
the neighbourhood.
We understand the new Polka that was so much ad-
mired at the Argyle Rooms, on Saturday night, is the
composition of Mrs. H. St. Leger. The orchestral
arrangements by Mr. Henri Laurent, is a masterpiece
of instrumentation.

ILCHESTER.—ELOPEMENT.--Some surprise was caused
yesterday by the sudden disappearance of a young lady,
the daughter of a clergyman lately deceased, who had
been on a visit for a short time in this neighbourhood.
It appears that in consequence of the young lady's friends
having discovered that an► intimacy existed between her
and a young gentleman who was curate to the deceased
gentleman, she was removed here, being at some little
distance from the residence of her friends. Her retreat
was discovered by the young gentleman, and on Sunday
afternoon both parties were observed to walk off towards
Martock, in which direction persons were immediately
sent in pursuit, but with what success is not known at
present.— Western Flying Post.
DEATH OF GENERAL SIR AUGUSTUS DE BUTTS,
K.O.H.—Sir A. de Butts, one of the colonels command-
ant of the Royal Engineers, and a general in the service,
died on the 28th inst., aged 83 years. Only a short
time ago Sir Augustus lost a son, who had also served in
the army.

DEATH OF GENERAL SIR THOMAS BRADFORD, K.C.8.,
G.C.H.—We have to record the death of the above
general officer, who expired yesterday at his residence in
Eaton-square, at the advanced age of 76. The deceased
entered the army as ensign on the 29th October,
1793, and served in Ireland during the Rebellion in
1798. He was employed as an assistant adjutant-
general with the army in Hanover, under Lord Cath-
chart, in 1805, and during the campaign in South
America was present at the attack and siege of Monte Vi-
deo, and at the attack on Buenos Ayres. In June, 1808, he
was appointed to the adjutant-general's department of the
army in Portugal, and was present at the battles of
Vimiera and Corunna. He commanded a brigade of
the Portuguese army from the end of 1811 to the gene-
ral
peace in 1814, and was engaged at the battle of Sala-
manca, the siege of Burgos, the battle of Vittoria, the
assault of Tolosa, the attack of the outworks of San
Sebastian and the siege of that fortress, the actions of
the Nive on the 9th to the 12th December, 1813, near
Biaritz ; the passage of the Adour, and the investment
of Bayonne and repulse of the sortie, at which he was
severely wounded. Sir Thomas had received a cross
and one clasp for Corunna, Salamanca, Vittoria, San
Sebastian, and Nive. The deceased was made a general
on the 23d of November, 1841, and colonel of the 4th
(the King's Own) Regiment of Foot on the 7th Feb.,
1846, which post he held at his death.

COLONELOY OF THE 20TH FOOT.—Although this
colonelcy still remains vacant, it is generally stated that
Major-General Godwin, C.B. (who, it is said, will be
nominated a K.C.8.), is to succeed to the appointment.
BOTANICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON.—The seventeenth
anniversary meeting was held on Monday evening, at
the society's rooms, 20, Bedford-street. Strand ; J. Rey-
nolds, Esq., treasurer, in the chair. From the report
of the council it appeared that the society consisted of
312 members. Many thousands of British and foreign
specimens had been distributed to the members and
numerous continental botanists ; and increased exertions
had been made this year to render this important depart-
ment of the society's operations more efficient, and
already numerous valuable specimens bad been received
for distribution to the members. A ballot took place
for the council for the ensuing year, when Dr. J. E.
Gray, F.R.S., was re-elected president ; and J. Miers,
Esq., F.R.S., and A. Henfrey, Esq., F.R.S., were
nominated vice-presidents. The chairman was re-elected
treasurer, and Mr. G. Edgar Dennes, secretary.
Two MEXICAN EX-MINISTERS SHOT.—Luis de la
Rosa, formerly Mexican Minister to the United States,
and Senor Tornel, one of President Arista's Ministers
of War, were both shot recently, somewhere near the
northern boundary of Mexico, by order of Santa Anna.
De la Rosa was Minister of Foreign Affairs immediately
after the capitulation of the city of Mexico, and was the
immediate instigator of Santa Anna's expulsion from the
country, and wrote a letter informing him of his disgrace.
The other victim was also implicated in the same trans-
action. Both were shot summarilylwithout pretence of
trial.

DEVONPORT DOCKYARD.--A vacancy for a third-class
clerk in this establishment is occasioned by the death of
Mr. Gard. The deceased had been 51 years in her
Majesty's service, during which period he had been
granted four days' leave only, and this at the time of the
Great Exhibition. He died of fever, if not produced,
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DARING AND EXTRAORDINARY ATTEMPTED BURGLARY
AT MR. ALDERMAN CARTER'S.—lnformation has been
transmitted to the police of a most daring and extraor-
dinary attempt to commit a burglary having been made
at the premises of Mr. Alderman Carter, of Cornhill,
from whence it will be recollected that about twelve
months since upwards of 5001. worth of watches, chains,
&c., were stolen by burglars. The time selected upon
this occasion was the morning of the day upon which
Mobbs was executed, when upwards of 100 of the
City police force were required to attend at the place
of execution. The burglars commenced by picking
the lock of the shop door at Mr. Ready's fish
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passage approached by the private door of Mr. Carter's
premises, which is in Bishopsgate-street, and now used
by the Scottish Equitable Assurance Company. The
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WALTHAINI RACES.

(THIS DAY.)

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)

HURDLE RACE.

Theodine
Merry Monk
Three ran.
HANDICAP STEEPLECHASE.
Needwood
General

Five ran.

CRIMINAL COURT.-(THIS DAY.)

OLD COURT.

(Before Mr. Baron Alderson and Mr. Justice Talfourd.)
CONSPIRACY ON THE PART OF COPPERPLATE-PRINTERS.

Eight copperplate-printers, named Francis Friend,
James Friend, Robert Brind, Joseph Harper, John
Robinson, Martin O'Connor, Thomas Clark, and John
Cockrell, were indicted for misdemeanour in having con-
spired together to prevent a person named Frederick
Spence from working with Mr. Jackson, a copper-plate
printer. All the defendants pleaded not juilty.
Mr. Bodkin appeared for the prosecution ; Mr. Clark-
son for Brind, Francis Friend, and Thomas Clark ; Mr.
Parry for James Friend, O'Connor, and Cockr;tll ; and
Mr. Ballantine for Harper and Robinson.
Mr. Bodkin opened the case to the jury, and reminied
them that formerly all combinations amongst workmen
were illegal ; but the Legislature thought proper to alter
that state of the law, and allow workmen to combine to-
gether for their own protection, either as regarded
their work or wages. The act of the Legisla-
ture did not make any change in the common law,
so far as it related to conspiracy, and it was still
illegal for workmen to combine together for the in-
jury of another, be he master or man. Now, this indict-
ment, which was for misdemeanour, was preferred under
that common law, and the case came out of the follow-
ing circumstances :—Some time ago there was a "strike"
amongst the workmen employed in the establishment of
Messrs. Tallis and Co., the copperplate printers, and
shortly afterwards a man named Spence, who had no
connection with the movement, obtained some work at
Messrs. Tallis's, but this work did not last any length
of time. He accordingly left Tallis's on the 10th of
September, and on the 13th he was " taken on" at Mr.
Jackson's, another copperplate printer, where he worked
until the 16th, when he was told by Mr. Jones, the
foreman, that his services would be required no longer,
as the other men in the establishment objected to asso-
ciate with him. Of course he was not satisfied with
this summary mode of proceeding, and as a chapel had
been held amongst the other men with reference to him-
self, he applied to Francis Friend, the father of the
chapel, to know how it was that the men entertained
such an antipathy towards him. Friend replied that
they objected to him because he had been working at
Tallis's, which was " a closed house," while he was besides
attached to a society which they did not recognise. This
was the conspiracy complained of, and it was for the
jury to decide whether the evidence made it out.
Francis Spence, the prosecutor, was called to esta-
blish the facts as disclosed in the statement of his coun-
sel. He said the chapel was held in his presence, but
he was excluded from its deliberations, and the resolu-
tion the men came to was communicated to him by
Francis Friend. He protested against the whole pro-
ceeding, as two other men who had worked at Tallis's
like himself had been taken into other open houses, and
it was too bad to make him the victim of the former
strike.
Cross-examined—He had been in work ever since at
a Mr. Thomas's. The expense of this prosecution would
fall upon himself, but he was receiving assistance from
various friends. Messrs. Tallis had nothing to do with
it either directly or indirectly.
Mr. Jones, the foreman, stated that Harper and
Francis Friend waited upon him as a deputation from
the men, and stated that they would not associate with
the prosecutor. He, however, discharged Spence for
two reasons ; first because he knew that he could get
work elsewhere, and, secondly, because he did not think
he would be comfortable in the shop if he retained him.
Mr. Baron Alderson remarked, that, after this evi-
dence, the case was at an end. There could be no doubt
that if the men had agreed that no man should work
with them who had worked with Tallis, they had been
guilty of a criminal act ; but there was nothing to show
what took place at the chapel. He did not say this by
way of censure upon the men, but for their guidance in
future, and he hoped they would bear this observation
in mind when again they contemplated the uncharitable
and unchristian act of preventing a fellow-workman
from obtaining employment.
Mr. Parry said they had no desire to do anything of
the sort, and never had. They had only agreed not to
associate with Spence, and surely there was no law to
prevent them doing that.
Mr. Ballantine—My lord, if such an agreement as that
is a conspiracy, I am afraid our profession has a good
deal to answer for. (A laugh.)
Mr. Baron Alderson—But to conspire together in the
manner I have stated is a grave criminal offence, and I
hope the men will avoid breaking the law in that respect.
Mr. Clarkson said all the defendants were respectable
men in their trade, and had no wish to conspire together
to prevent any man from obtaining work, but they
claimed their right to associate or not with whom they
thought proper.

M. Baron Alderson—Yes ; but they should exercise
that right individually, and not collectively.
A verdict of acquittal was then taken.

NEW COURT.

Charles Davis, 18, French polisher, was indicted for
having broken into the dwelling-house of William Allat-
son, and stealing therefrom a gold watch valued at 161.
Mr. Payne prosecuted, and Mr. W. Cooper defended.
The prosecutor, who is a watchmaker in the Old
Bailey, stated that about half-past 6in the evening on
the 23d of this month he was sitting at work in his shop,
when his window was broken by a large stone which was
thrown through the window and passed just over his
head, and at the same moment a hand came through the
broken window, and the watch was snatched from off a
rail with great violence. Witness immediately ran to
the door, which he found quite fast, and upon getting
out he found that the door had been tied with a rope to
the scraper.
A little girl, who was sitting upon the steps of Wil-
liams's boiled beef house, facing, stated that she saw two
men come from a court adjoining the prosecutor's, and
peeped about for some time, and one of them tied the
door, whilst the other broke the window and took out
a watch. She crossed over whilst they were doing so,
and saw the face of the prisoner, he had a red handker-
chief round his neck. They walked a short distance,
and then ran away. She gave information to the police,
and a description of the prisoner. About three-quarters
of an hour afterwards prisoner was given in charge in
Fleet-street for some other offence, and he then had a
red handkerchief tied round his mouth. When at the
Guildhall Police-court the girl saw him with two other
men, but did not recognise him until the police made
the prisoner put on the red handkerchief which he had
on when he was given in custody.
The jury acquitted bim.
He was again indicted for stealing a gold watch from
the person of a gentleman named Henry Maddison upon
the same night. It appeared that he with violence
snatched the watch from the person of the prosecutor as
he was crossing Blackfriars-bridge, and handed it to a
woman who was with him.

He was convicted, and sentenced to four years' penal
servitude.

SHERIFFS COURT-(THIS DAY.)

(Before R. Gurney, Esq., Q.C.)
DALTON V. JOHNSON.-SINGULAR RESULT.

The plaintiff described as a sempstress, and defendant
is a respectable tradesman in the City. Mr. J. B.
Davies appeared for the defendant, and contended that
a contract had been broken, inasmuch as the plaintiff
had pawned the property, and Mr. Johnson only reco-
vered a portion under the order of the magistrate, who
directed the pawnbrokers to deliver it up forthwith.
Defendant had been at great trouble and expense to
bring the plaintiff to justice, and she had been convicted
and sentenced to three months' imprisonment.
The plaintiff said that she had suffered the penalty of
the law, and there was an end.
Mr. Davies submitted that the contract had been
broken, and therefore the plaintiff could not recover.—
The return by the pawnbrokers under the direction of
the magistrates could not avoid the contract.

Mr. Johnson was examined, and proved the delivery
of a large quantity of goods to make up, and that a por-
tion had been abstracted.

Mr. Davies submitted that this amounted to an act of
felony.

His Honour said that the plaintiff had undergone the
penalty of the law, as she called it.

Mr. Davies—Then, your Honour, the case ends. You
have no power to adjudicate.
His Honour—That does not deprive her from her
claim for work done.

Mr. Davies—l again submit most respectfully that a
felony had been committed. It was not a mere case of
illegally pawning, for the plaintiff had been entrusted
with full sets of silver plated buttons with the crest and
initials of the Eastern Counties Railway, and she bad
substituted others in their place.
His Honour said that there was no doubt that plain-
tiff could recover for the work done.

Mr. Johnson said that he resisted the claim solely on
principle.
His Honour said that it appeared to him so, but the
law was against him (defendant). The plaintiff came
before the Court under any but favourable circumstances,
and, making deductions, a judgment might be taken for
Hs., allowing for deduction, and immediate judgment
would not issue, so that the plaintiff might have the
opportunity of considering whether he would bring an
action as a set off, which ought to have been pleaded at
first.