The Sun.
London, England, 1849-01-26 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 26, 1849.

Average .A.moant.
Pease 3 Old Bank, Hull, the Hull Old Bank and
Beverley Bank, Hull—Pease and Co 43,084
Penzance Bank, Penzance—Batten and C 0... 10,715
Peterborough Bank and Oundle Bank. Peter-
borough—X/029.5. Yorke ..
Peterborough Bank, Peterborough—Simpson,
White, and Simpson 10,863
Peznorokeshire Bank, Haverfordwest—J. and
W. Walters
Penzance Union Bank, Falmouth Bank, and
Truro Bank, Penzance—Rickets, Enthoven
and Co
Reading Bank, Reading—Stmonas and Co 25,528
Reading Bank, Reading—Stephens,Blandy, and
Co 27,136
Richmond Bank, Richmond—Stapleton and Co 5,865
Ringwood and Poole Bank, and Town and
County of Poole Bank, Ringwood-, Ledgard
and Sons
Rochdale Bank, Rochdale—Clement, Royds,
and Co 5,163
Rochester, Chatham, and Strood Bank .Roches-
ter—Day and Nicholson 9,796
Royston Bank, Royston—Fordham and Sons... 12,949
Rugby Bank, Rugby—Butlin and Son 11,360
Rye Bank, Rye—Curteis, Pomfret, and Co 15,634
Reigate and Darking Bank, and Reigate, Croy-
don, and Darking Bank, Reigate—Nash and
Co
Ross Old Bank, Herefordshire, Ross—Pritchard
and Allaway
Saffron Walden and North Essex Bank, Saffron
Walden—Messrs. Gibson
Salop Bank, Shrewsbury—Burton, Lloyd, and
Co 13,188
Scarborough Old Bank, Scarborough—Woodall
and Co 22,474
Shrewsbury Old Bank, and Shrewsbury and
Ludlow Bank, Shrewsbury--Rocke, Eytons.
and Co .. . 32,614
Sittingbourne and Milton Bank, Sittingbourne
—Valiance and Son 3,162
Southampton Town and County Bank, South-
ampton—Maddison and Son
Southwell Bank, Suuthwell—Wylde and Co.
St. Alban's Bank, St. Alban's—J. S. Story
Salisbury Bank, Salisbury—Messrs. Brodie
Shaftesbury Bank, Shaftesbury— Brodie and
King
Southampton and Hampshire Bank, Southamp-
ton—Atherly and Fall
Stone Bank, Stone—W. Moore 3,189
Stourbridge Bank, Stourbridge —Rufford,
Wragg, and Co 10,478
Stafford Old Bank, Stafford—Stevenson and Cc 14,597
Stamford and Rutland Bank, Stamford—Eaton,
Cayley, and Co. .„ 25,932
Stourbridge Old Bank, Stourbridge—Bate and
Robins
Shrewsbury and Welshpool Bank, Shrewsbury
—Beck, Downward, and Co.
St. Alban's and Hefts Bank, St. Alban's—Gib-

son and Stuart
Taunton Bank, Taunton-Messrs. Badcock 19,503
Tavistock Bank, Tavistock-Gill, Rundle, and
Co 7,383
Thornbury Bank, Thornbury-Rolph, Yates, and
Parslow
Tiverton and Devonshire Bank, Tiverton-Duns-
ford and Barne 7,829
Thrapston and Kettering Bank, Northampton-
shire, Thrapston-Yorke and Eland 10,761
Tring Bank and Chesham Bank, Tring-But-
cher and Son
Towcester Old Bank, Towcester-J. and S.
Percival
Union Bank, Cornwall, Helston-Vivian and
Co. 8,274
Uxbridge Old Bank, Uxbridge-Hull, Smith,
and Co.
Wallingford Bank, Wallingford-Wells and Co. 6,342
Warwick and Warwickshire Bank, Warwick-
Kelynge, Greenway, and Co. 24,092
Wellington Somerset Bank, Wellington-Fox.
Brothers
West Riding Bank, Wakefield, and Pontefract
Bank, Wakefield-Leatham, Tew, and Co.
Whitby Old Bank, Whitby-Simpson, Chap-
man, and CO 14,392
Winchester, Alresford, and Alton Bank, Win-
chester-Bulpett and Co.
Winchester and Hampshire Bank, Winchester
-Wickham and Co 4,576
Weymouth Old Bank and Dorchester Bank,
Weymouth-Elliott and Pearse
Wirkesworth and Ashbourne Derbyshire Bank,
Wirkesworth-Arkwright and Co.
Wisbech and Lincolnshire Bank, Wisbech-
Gurney and Co.
Wiveliscombe Bank, Wiveliscombe-P. and W
Hancock ...
Wolverhampton Bank, Wolverhampton-Good-
ricke and Holyoake.. 13,664
Worcester Bank, Worcester-Farley,Lavender,
and Co. 10,079
Worcester Old Bank and Tewkesbury Old Bank,
Worcester-Berwick, Lechmere, and Co 70,332
Worcestershire Bank, Kidderminster-Farley
and Turner
Walsall Old Bank, Walsall-CharlesFoster and
Sons
Warminster and Wiltshire Bank, Warminster-
Everett and Co.
Wolverhampton Bank, Wolverhampton-
Messrs. Fryer
Yarmouth and Suffolk Bank, and Halesworth
and Suffolk Bank, Yarmouth-Gurney,
Birkbeck, and Co.
Yarmouth, Norfolk, and Suffolk Bank, Great
Yarmouth-Sir E. K. Lacon, Bart., and Co 12,513
Yeovil Old Bank, Yeovil-E. and J. Batten
York Bank, York-Swann. Clough, and Co 41,075

IRELAND.
DESTITUTION IN MAYO.

At a meeting of the Roman Catholic clergy of the
Deanery of Westport, held on the 18th of January, '
Rev. Peter Ward, P.P. Aughagour, in the chair, the
Rev. Thomas ilardiman acting as secretary, the fol-
lowing resolutions were unanimously adopted:—
" Resolved—That we feel ourselves reluctantly
obliged to come forward to tell the Government and
the Imperial Parliament, and to proclaim in the face
of Europe, that the poor of our respective parishes
are reduced at present to the most shocking extre-
mity of destitution, and are, nevertheless, for the
most part left to die of hunger, or prolong a wretched
existence by eating the half rotten garbage which
they can pick up in the fields and highways.
"Resolved—That we saw with pain and bitter
disappointment that the Irish ' Executive' when lately
appealed to by a very influential meeting of the
district, at which the Marquis of Sligo presided, leave
held out no hopes of relief to the starving population
of this union, but that truly forlorn hope, ' the Poor-
law,' the Lords Justices declaring, through their
secretary, that ' no peneti need die of hunger, as the
Poor-law made ample provision for such emergencies ;'
while, on the other hand, the vice-guardians protest
to the thousands who shiver, and cry, and gasp with
hunger at the workhouse door, that ' they have no
means whatever of releiving them ;' that, therefore, we
consider this unheard-of anomaly as a virtual decla-
ration that there is no law to protect the lives of her
Majesty's subjects in this union, who are thus sacri-
ficed between both parties.
"Resolved—That we cannot conceive the utility of
boards holding their stated sittings, and so-called reliev-
ing officers, dragging thousands of half-starved crea-
tures week after week, from a great distance, for the
ostensible object of relieving them; since, according to
themselves, they have it not in their power to give relief
—that at all events the fact is patent, that the people
are dying of hunger, and in many instances have ac-
tually died after applying repeatedly in vain for relief!
" Resolved—That the system pursued in this union
at present (we suppcse by the order of the ' Poor-
law Commissioners'), of refusing relief to every able-
bodied pauper and anaily, though otherwise legally
entitled to it, simply because he is an able-bodied
man, is most unnatural and cruel, and exposes this
unfortunate class to inevitable death, since they can
get no employment, though willing to work for any
wages.
" Resolved—That even those creatures who are
said to be receiving out-door relief in this union are,
generally speaking, in reality being starved to death
by degrees, for there are instances wherein a family
of five get but 141h3. of bad Indian meal per week,
and even where ten in family are allowed but 211bs.
per week; this, of course, without lodging or cloth-
ing of any sort! That we do not know whom to
blame for this treatment, but cire state facts.
" Resolved—That from our intimate acquaintance
with the condition of the Westport Union we are
fully convinced it is in vain to expect that the local
rates will be sufficient to support the poor, considering
the total prostration of all classes, including the land-
lords themselves; and, on the other hand, the awful
and wide-spread misery which covers the length and
breadth of this populous mountain district. The
three-fourths of the cess-payers (save the mark !) are
absolutely worse off than the beggars—almost with-
out a morsel of human food, and with scarcely a rag
to cover them by night or by day.
"Resolved—That, consequently, under the present
circumstances, the Government is bound to contri-
bute to the support of the starving poor of this union
from the Imperial resources, since th9y form part and
parcel of the United Kingdom ; and we have it even
on the authority of
.his Excellency the Earl of Cla-
rendon himself, that it is ' the paramount duty of
every Government to save the lives of the people.'
" Resolved—That we, therefore, in the name of the
poor of our respective parishes, humbly implore of
her Majesty's Ministers to come forward at once, as
they are bound to do, and rescue those helpless crea-
tures from starvation, and save the nation from dis-
grace. That it can be no extenuation of the conduct
of her Majesty's Government to put forward, as has
been recently done by the Irish Executive, an exag-
gerated report of their munificence to this union du-
ring the last awful year of famine, if, after all, they
suffer the people to die of hunger this year, and
abandon them to their fate as they have hitherto done.
" Resolved—That we loudly protest against that
most insidious change in the present Poor-law con-
templated by the landlord class, and disguised by
them under the specious phrase of ' amendment'—
namely, the substitution of townland taxation instead
of the present system. That this ' amendment,' if
carried, would finish the destruction of the popula-
tion, by holding out a premium to every heartless
exterminator, and encouraging him to clear off even
the miserable remnant of tenantry which still escaped
the vile machinations of their persecutors, and the
cruel operation of the ' Gregory clause,' in order that
he might thus, in due time, reap the fruits of his
benevolence by being totally exempted from the
necessity of contributing to the support of the paupers
himself had made.

" Resolved—That we petition Parliament, praying
them not only to reject this amendment, but moreover
to impose a double tax on grass lands, and a three-
fold tax on those from which tenants have been ejected
during the last three years.
Resolved—That the foregoing resolutions be pub-
lished both in Ireland and England, and that a copy
be forwaded immediately to Lord John Russell.
" PETER WARD, P.P., Chairman.
" THOMAS HARDIMAN, C.C., Secretary."

THE COGGESHALL GANG.

We have the pleasure of informing our readers that
John Brand, the only member of the Coggc shall
gang who has hitherto eluded appraliension, and who
it was long since said had gone to America, was cap-
tured en Saturday night last, and is now in safe
custody.
Brand was, it may be remembered, in the service
of Mr. Joseph Skingley, as bailiff or looker at Monk-
downs, near Coggeshall, and about the time of the
spirited inquiry which took place into the Coggeshall
robberies, suddenly left his home one Saturday, taking
with him the proceeds of a cheque which his master
had giving him for the purpose of paying the men ;
whereupon a warrant was issued for his apprehen-
sion, but it was supposed by many that he had, as
we have stated above, long since reached the shores
of the Atlantic. We believe the following may be
relied on as an accurate statement of the particulars
of his apprehension :—On Saturday night, about
nine o'clock, Mr. Corder, of Witham, received a
telegraphic communication from London, request-
ing to know whether John Brand, of the Cogges-
hall gang, was really wanted, and whether there
would be any and what reward for his appre-
hension. To this Mr. Corder promptly re- .
plied as follows :—" The police hold a warrant
for the apprehension of John Brand for felony—keep
in custody." At this very time Brand was being de-
tained in the borough police station, whither he had
been taken under the following circumstances :
eLr. Frederick Haslitt now residing in Tooley-street,
but who for several years lived at Coggeshall, and
to whom Brand and all the facts of the Coggeshall
robberies were well known, was passing on Sa-
turday evening along the High-street, Borough,
when to his surprise he met Brand. From
what Haslitt had heard, he was induced to
turn back and follow Brand, when he perceived
that he had changed his walk into a run. Haslitt
continued.the pursuit, and calling a police-constable
he passed on his way, briefly told him the circum-
stance, and asked him to take Brand into custody.
The policeman, on coming up with him, tapped him
on the shoulder, and asked Brand if he was from
Coggeshall ? He replied, no. Haslitt then went up
to him, and challenged him as being the John Brand,
of Coggeshall, who stood charged with arson and
robbery. Brand, finding he was thus recognised,
said, "I should not have thought this of you, Has-
litt," and offered him his hand, which Haslitt re-
fused to take. Brand was then conveyed to the
borough police-station, where he objected to his
proposed detention on the ground that there was
no evidence against him. The inspector on duty,
however, decided to keep him in custody until a
telegraphic message should be sent to Witham, and
hereupon the message to Mr. Corder before adverted
to was dispatched, and on the answer being received
the inspector determined to keep Brand in custody.
On Sunday morning Mr. Haslitt repaired to Witham,
and communicated to Mr. Corder that Brand was
safely lodged as above stated. But inspector Ward,
acting under the direction of his superintendent, Mr.
Cooke, to whom Mr. Corder had communicated all
that had occurred, was then on his way to London,
for the purpose of bringing Brand down to Witham,
in the event of his finding him, as he expected to do,
in custody. Great credit is due to Mr. Haslitt for his
conduct in the matter, and the public are entirely in-
debted to nim for Brand's apprehension. Essex
Herald.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
PREROGATIVE COURT. Jan. 25.
(Liaor,, Sir JoraN DonsoN.)
Lvilcs v. DUTTON.
Dr. R. PHILLIMaRE applied to the Ccrtrt to grant ad-
minisq'ation to Susan Evans, niece of Mrs. Dutton, who
made a will, dated the 19 July, 1840, bequeathing
various sums to different parties, the whole of which did
not exceed 2001., and desired all her debts, funeral ex-
penses, &e., to be paid by her executors hereinafter
named. These were not named in the body of the will ;
but under her signature and the attesting clause, she
nominated her brother, James Dutfoo, and Mrs. Evans,
her executors. The Learned Civilian contended that
this was not good in law, and quifted the case of Thomas
Owen, in vol. 2, Curtris's Reports, page 242. Therefore
the parties could not prove the will.
Dr. lIARDING, for the exii eututs, opposed the appli-
cation, and held the case above quoted not to be the
point, but referred to that of Esther Powell, vol. 1,
Robertson's Reports, page 421 ; also Grant v. Les-
ter, vol. 3, Phillimore ; and Ferans v. the Marquis
of Hertford. If, said the Learned Advocate, a
will is mado, and therein the testator desires
that its provisions shall be carrier out by his or her exe-
cutors, who shall not be named in the body of the will,
but " whose names," it shall be stated th-rein, " will ho
found on a slip of paper in my bureau," this would be in-
corporated as part of the will, and probate could not be
be refused to such executors.
The COURT Would not consent to grant probate, but
would allow the paper to be propounded.
The COUNSEL, on the part of the executors, declined
doing this, and in consequence the application of the
niece of the testatrix was acceded to, the costs to be paid
to the executors out of the estate.
WRIGHT V. WRIGHT.
The testatrix, Rebecca Walker Wright, .aied in Au-
gust, 1841, leaving a will, appointing her three sons
executors, but neither of these had proved the will, but
one of them being now dead, his widow applied to the
Court to grant her administration, or compel the sur-
viving executors to prove the will.
The Learned JUDGE said he had no proof of a will
being in existence, and the applicant's husband, having
been one of the executors, he should not have suffered
so long a period to elapse before coming to this court.
Under all the circumstances it must stand over for the
present.

CATHARINE LOUISA IRVINE, DECEASED.
Dr. HAGGARD applied for probate to be granted to the
will of the testatrix, who died in July, 1846, with its
alterations, some in pencil, and others in ink. It ap•
pared her property amounted to 1,6001., which was due
on a bond from her brother, and, among other legacies,
she gave 3001. to her elder brother, which was after-
wards altered to 2001., and which made the begat sts
amount to the exact sum of the testatrix's property, but
the witnesses could not say whether this alteration took
place before they attested the will, or after.
The Learned JUDGE could only grant probate as it
originally stood.
SIMON SILVESTER ANSELL, DECEASED.
Dr. ROBINSON said this was a will drawn up on one
side of a sheet of paper, and in consequence of there
tic t being room enough for the signature, it was attested
n the opposite side, and asked for probate.
The Learned JUDGE thought there was sufficient space,
and after so many decisions of the Court on this point,
he would not consent to grant probate, but would let it
stand over.

Mr. BALLANTINE contended that the drill was an
alien, and it wa elcan rkough thr stwir ,11;,h
the order iiia lot expt,,,s •
" that it could only t.ppiy to ctriltlren born in _England
and Wales," for even Scotland was excluded from its
operation.

•• Mr. MAYNARD followed on the same side, and con-
tended that the Act only applied to children born in
England and Wales; besides, where was the evidence to
show that the child produced was that of which the re-
spondent was delivered? Tn.• point was one of so much
importance that he trusted, should the decision of the
Court be adverse to Colonel Blane, an opportunity would
be afforded of having that decision reviewed.
The Learned ASSISTANT-JUDGE said that at first he
was under the impression that the Court had no juris •
diction, but now he was of the same opinion as his triend
Mr. Witham, who sat oa the bench beside him, that
the Court had jurisdiction. It was not birth that gave
the jurisdiction. There was nothing in the statute upon
which it could be held that if the birth took place in a
foreign country an English Court had no jurisdiction;
but it was indispensable that when application was made
to the Court below, the child should be within the juris-
diction. The objection was utterly beside the merits of
the case.

Mr. BALLANTINE then addressed the Court upon the
merits. He said that Colonel Blane knew best whether
he was the father of the child, and it could not be sup-
posed that if he was, that he would have incurred the
enormous cost he had done in resisting the demand and
bringing it before that Court. Colonel Blane believed
that he was the victim of an artfully concocted scheme,
and denied that there was the sli,;htest pretence for the
claim made upon him by the young Frenchwoman.
The Learned ASSISTANT-JUDGE, in delivering judge
ment, said here was a colonel iu the army, living in
Grosvenor-street; he saw a pretty little black-eyed
French girl going in and out of an opposite house; for
six months he followed her about in all directions, and
at length he induces her to visit him at his chamber. For
what purpose did the colonel follow that poor girl about?
Did he try to persuade her? Was there any man in that
court so much of a monk or an anchorite as not to know
for what purpose he adopted such a course? No one
could doubt his object. In 1847 he got the girl into his
rooms, where she continued to go on every Sunday even-
ing when he was in town, and he had written a number
of letters to her of the most endearing nature, clearly
proving the character of the intimacy which existed be-
tween them. Taking all things into consideration, there
could be very little doubt of the intimacy. The girl's
own story had been fully corroborated, and that proof
was anything but creditable to Colonel Blane. He had
clearly seduced the girl, and subsequently, when the
fruits of the intimacy were indicated, ho heartlessly de •
serted her; and in reference to the cousin, at the
colonel's instigation, his victim had taken him to the
theatre—he, the seducer, turns round upon her, end ac-
cuses that cousin as being the father of her child, and
in the end deserts her. Under these circumstances he
would affirm the order, and direct the costs to be paid
by the colonel forthwith.—Order confirmed.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSIOA-HOUSE.

Joseph Cushway, the diminutive person who shot Emma
Tyler with a pistol on Wednesday week, was brought, or
rather carried, before the Lord Mayor for final examin-
ation, for be was in a most exhausted condition, from
mental suffering as well as from bodily debility. Emma
Tyler arrived from St. Bartholomew Hospital, attended
by one of the nurses, and was placed in a chair close to
the table of the chief clerk. Her head was bandaged.
The following is a condensed acccount of the investiga-
tion, which lasted a considerable time.

Emma Tyler, of No. 5, Angel-alley, Bishopsgate-
street, said, I remember Wednesday week. At a quarter
to seven o'clock on that evening I saw the prisoner,
whom I have known about eight months in Angel alley,
going to the shop where he worked. He said he would
be back in about an hour, and upon his return he
seemed rather angry. I asked him what was the
matter; to which he replied, that he had had some
angry words at the shop. I said, it you have had
angry words at the shop, you have no occasion to be
cross with me. He said that he was not cross with
me. Eliza Graves, who lives in Angel-alley as well as
he sad myself., was standing with me at the time, and
at the same time a young man, named John Somers,
came by. I called to John Somers, and we talked to-
gether for ten minutes, but the prisoner was not near
enough to hear the conversation. When Somers lett
me I went over to the place in which Eliza Graves was
standing, and found that the prisoner was gone. I soon
afterward went into Skinner street, and saw the prisoner
sitting on a stone at the corner of the alley, and Eliza
Graves standing by him.
The witness here mentioned several similar indiffe-
rent matters of conversation which, with some intervals,
occurred between them, and then proceeded :—He had
his hand in his pocket, and his looks frightened me.
Eliza Graves asked him why he looked so wild, and he
replied it was enough to make him. I laughed, and
asked him, " Why is it ?" Ho said, " Never mind." I
then heard the report of a pistol, or something of the
sort, and I felt that I was wounded. I fell to the ground,
and I found that I was wounded on the left side of the
head. I tried to rise, but I fell again. The prisoner
was then gone. I did not know what happened till I
got to the hospital, where I have been ever since.

The LORD MAYOR—Has the prisoner been courting
you? Witness—He has, my Lord, these six months. I.
am nineteen years of age, and he is a little older.
The LORD MAYOR—Do you consider that he was
jealous of John Somers? Witne>s—l do, my Lord. I
apprehend it was jealousy that made him do it.
The LORD Melton—Have 3 ou anything to add to your
statement? Witness—Nothing, my Lord, but that Ido
not believe he was in his senses when he did it, and I
should not wish at all to hurt him.

The witness, who appeared to be deeply affected
during the examination, then retired.
John Somers, a lad about 18 years old, was then called.
lie stated that he had been talking to Emma Tyler on
the evening she was sh,,t. He saw the prisoner in Angel•
alley, but had no conversation with him, atiltdid not ob-
serve anything particular in anything that had occurred.
He knew nothing of any courtship between the prisoner
and Emma Tyler, and had had no quarrel with the pri-
soner at all.

-The prisoner, who, during the whole of the investiga-
tion lay across a chair, and appeared to be in the mo-t
bitter agony, said " No" upon being asked whether he
wished to say anything.
The prisoner was then committed for trial.
The superintendent of the Wesleyan school in the
neighbourhood in which the prisoner resided begged to
be allowed to say a few words. It was, he said, with
great surprise that he had heard of the occurrence, as
Cushway had been always known in the school as a mild
lad, of very kind disposition; and there was good rea-
son for believing that he had been excited by the ro-
mantic trash which filled the penny publications about
town.

The LORD MAYOR advised the gentleman to be so
good as to attend the trial, and describe the unfortunate
prisoner there.

GUILDHALL.

A tall powerful young man, named William Barrett,
who said that he was a regular cab driver, but who, in
reality, is what is generally termed a " buck," that is a
person attending the cab ranks to take care of the
vehicles, and occasionally to execute a job if the right
cabman was taking his dinner, or play ing a game at
drafts, &c., was placed at the bar on a warrant for com-
mitting a violent assault, in conjunction with another not
yet in custody, on a police-officer.
John Butler, City police constable 115, said—About
half-past six o'clock, on Tuesday last, I was on duty in
Finsbury-pavement, and found Alfred Coe (the man not
in custody) standing on the footway smoking a pipe. I
required him to leave the pavement, and go to his rank
and smoke, and he replied, with an oath, that ho would
not. The prisoner, William Barrett, then came up, also
smoking a pipe, and said they would stand there, and no
one should move them. I said to them that they knew
the regulations, that in consequence of the numerous
complaints my instructions were not to allow them to
be there, and that if on my return from the end of the
beat they still remained, I should convey them to the
station house, upon which Barrett flung his pipe into the
road, and said " You —, you shan't have a chance
of that ; I have been waiting for an opportunity to serve
you out, and now I mean to do it." He then struck me
in the left eye, knocked my hat off, and seizing my hair
with one hand, struck me in the face several times with
the other, until I fell with the prisoner on the top of
me. He then jumped up and commenced kicking me
about the head. Coe laid hold of me and prevented
me getting up, while Barrett struck me twice more in
the face with his clenched fist. I then managed to get
up and drew my staff, and made several blows at the
prisoner; but did not strike him, as Coe caught hold of
my arm, and Barrett, after giving me several blows,
wrenched the staff from my hand and felled me to the
ground with a blow at the back of the head, and while
down, I was still ill-treated by the prisoner, Coe crying
out, " Give it him, Bill, don't spare the —." I called
out murder, when both Coe and Barrett ran away, leav-
ing my staff and hat. I am now under the surgeon's
care, and unable to do duty.
Alderman SALOMONS asked the prisoner if he wished
tosay anything? The prisoner replied that he was struck
first, and certainly returned the compliment; but deni. d
using the truncheon, which, he said, was used by a la-
bouring man who was passing by.
Alderman SALomoxs—Why did you not prevent that
assault? Prisoner—Because he (the officer) is a com-
plete vagabond and scoundrel. If he had been a man,
I would have assisted him; but he will not let us get
a living.

Alderman SALOMONS—He has a duty to perform, and
when he tells you what his orders are, you have a right
to obey them. I shall send you to prison for dne month.
Prisoner (laughing)-_j shall go for one month with
great pleasure, and then (turning to the officer) said,
with strong emphasis and a malicious grin, " Mr.
Syntax."