The Sun.
London, England, 1849-10-22 00:00:00

CITY POLICE COMMITTEE, Oct. 20.

LANDING FOREIGN CATTLE IN THE CITY.-IMPORTANT
QUESTION. _ _

A case of great importance to the public occupied
the attention of Aldermen Kelly and T. Hunter, the
presiding magistrates, for some time.

Cornelius Cullum, a cattle-drover, was summoned
under the old Act of Charles 11., for exercising his
worldly calling on Sunday, the 7th.
The question involved the case which of late has
excited considerable attention, as to whether foreign
cattle could be landed and driven through the streets
of the City on Sunday. The 21st of George
enacts that cattle must not be driven within one mile
of Smithfield-market before eleven o'clock on Sunday
night; but Brewer's. quay, where the offence imputed
to the defendant is said to have been committed, be-
ing upwards of a mile and a quarter, the law which
regulates the market could not be put in force against
the defendant, so the police proceeded against him
under the old law for the better observance of the
Sabbath.

Mr. Young, a solicitor, attended with Mr. Barber,
of Brewer's quay, to watch the case.
City officer No. 533, said that at twenty minutes
past eight in the evening of the Sunday afternoon he
saw the defendant drive a number of cattle from
Brewer's quay to Tower-hill.
Mr. Alderman Firms (the Alderman of the ward
in which the quay is situated, and who seemed to take
a deep interest in the proceedings), asked the officer
what distance Brewer's quay was from Tower-hill ?
—The officer replied, six or seven rods.
Mr. Alderman FINNIS—In fact he was driving them
out of the boundaries of the City into the county,
where you would not have taken any notice of them ?
Officer—l would not; Tower-hill is in the county.
The officer, on being cross-examined .by Mr.
Young, stated that he summoned the defendant in
accordance with regulations read over to him at the
station-house.

Mr. Alderman FINNIS—Is the quay within a mile
of Smithfield ? Officer—l believe it is about a mile
and a quarter.
Mr. Young said it had been measured, and it was
found a mile and three-quarters and 63 yards.
Mr. Alderman FINNIS—Then the defendant is not
proceeded against for driving the beasts within a mile
of Smithfield, but for doing so on a Sunday ? Pray
where was he driving them to ? Officer—The de-
fendant said he was taking them to Well street, to
get some food for them and rest before they were
driven to the market.

Mr. Young, in answering the complaint, said that,
by the alteration of the tariff in 1845, a number of
persons had embarked their capital in bringing foreign
cattle to the English market. A market was held at
Ilarlingen on Friday, at which English dealers
bought cattle. They were shipped in the evening on
board steamers, and as weather varied, so did the
time of their arrival on Sunday in the Thames. By
the vessel pitching, and the cattle having to stand
during the whole voyage, they► were rather in a dis-
tressed state when landed ; and in order that they
might go to market in proper condition and not suffer
from cruelty, it had been arranged to drive them to a
temporary place of shelter out of the City, and give
them food and rest. Such was really the case with
the cattle driven in this instance; and what injury
was done to society by this course of proceeding ?
In this case the defendant's labour was a work of
necessity, and, therefore, that answered the infor-
mation.

Alderman KELLY was of opinion that driving cat-
tle in order that they might obtain food and rest
after a lengthened sea ♦oyage, was a work of necessity,
and therefore he dismissed the complaint.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION-HOUSE.
Benjamin Hopkins, a clerk in the employment of
of Messrs. Currie and Co., bankers, of Cornhill, was
brought before Alderman Carden, in the custody of
Daniel Forrester, the officer, upon a charge of em-
bezzlement.
Mr. Bush, of the firm of Bush and Mullens,
solicitors to the Committee of Bankers for the Pro-
tection against Felonies and Frauds, attended for the
prosecution.
Mr. W. Goddard, clerk to Mr. Elley, of the Stock
Exchange, stated that on Wednesday, the 17th inst.,
he paid into Currie's house the sum of 2,0601. ss. 7d.,
namely, 1,9151.55. 7d. in cheques, and 1451. in bank.
notes. He paid the amount to one of the cashiers.
He produced one of the books, called the receipt
cash-book, for Wednesday, the 17th inst. He found
there the sum of 2,0601.55. 7d. placed to the credit of
Mr. Elley: The entry was as follows :-
2 s. d.
Clearing draught 1,341 18 4
Maidhew, cheque on Currie's ... 110 4 0
Bank-notes 75 0 0

Brown, G. L. ... 70 0 0
The whole of the writing of which the above formed
the items was in the hadwriting of the prisoner. The
letters "G. L." meant " general list." Witness pro-
duced a book called the " General List." Under the
date of Thursday, October 18, he found an entry
made according to the usual practice. On Wednes-
day, the 17th, he found an entry, " 70/., Brown," in
the handwriting of the prisoner. Witness produced
a memorandum with the words and figures," Brown,
Leeds, 70/.," upon it. With the exception of the
date affixed to it, the memorandum was in the hand-
writing of the prisoner. The note was carried for-
ward, and formed part of the assets of the last night's
balance, and was identified in an item of 1,5321.
4s. 9d., unpaid. The item of 701. was altogether
fictitious.
The prisoner, who had been in the banking-house
between nine and ten years, was then remanded.
Mr. Brotherton, oil-merchant, of llungerford-
wharf, in the Strand, appeared before Alderman
Gibbs. He was accompanied by a young man of
colour, an Abyssinian by birth, who had been stolen
when a child, by some Arabs, from his native village,
" Mombru," and sold into slavery at Massua, on the
Red Sea.
Alderman Ginns wished to know the object of Mr.
Brotherton in introducing the young Abyssinian at
the Mansion-house.
From Mr. Brotherton's statement it appeared that,
after various travels, vicissitudes, and hardships, the
young man, whose name was William Hyliss, Sr-
rived at Java, where he was purchased by a gentle-
man who bad been Dutch Consul at China. That
gentleman arrived in England with him in 1832, and
having one day taken sudden and unprovoked offence
at something which occurred between them, struck
him to the ground in Bishopsgate-street, in the
presence of persons who resented the indignity by
applying to the Anti-Slavery Society, through whose
interposition the master was prevented from removing
him to a country where more rigour could be