The Sun.
London, England, 1847-12-21 00:00:00

PUBLICOLA.

SALE OF CADETSHIPS.
COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH.

THE QUEEN V. CAPTAIN CHARRITIE, SIR W. YOUNG,
ANNA STEWART, AND - RALLETT.
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This was an indictment against the defendants, in
which they were charged under the Act 49th Geo. 111.,
a. 126, sec. 3, with the offence of having fraudulently
obtained and disposed of a cadetship in the East India
Company's service for a pecuniary reward or considera-
tion, to a person named Wotherspoon, for his son, the
sum paid being upwards of 3,0001. Sir W. Young was
charged with having disposed of the appointment, and
the other defendants with assisting to procure it. There
was another count in the indictment, charging the de-
fendants with a conspiracy to obtain an appointment for
a pecuniary consideration. The defendants who ap-
peared—Sir W. Young and Captain Charritie—had
pleaded " Not guilty." The other defendants were out
of the jurisdiction, and had not pleaded. •
The case was commenced on Saturday, and con
eluded late last night.
During the two days, a vast quantity of evidence was
adduced in support of the charge, after which Lord
Denman summed up, and explained the law to the jury.
He said that the question which the jurors had to de-
termine lras, whether they were satisfied on this evi-
dence that Charritie hail received this money for the
nomination to the cadetship, and whether Sir W. Young
%,ilfully and knowingly assisted him in receiving it.
They had just heard from several most respectable
wittivases a very good character of both these de-
fendants, and their situation in life would have
seemed almost a guarantee against the commission 1
of the offence fir which they were indicted.

Captain Charritie's character was high in the keow:
ledge of various respectable persons. Sir W. Young's
character, in addition to that, seemed vouched fur
by the Company itsel!--the station he occupied
in the Company spoke strongly for its respectability.
The jurors would, therefore, say, whether in their opi-
mon. the existence of the offence was clearly proved ?
It was clear that Wotherspoon was his accomplice, and
his evidence required confirmation according to the or-
dinary rules of law. In the first place, it was clear that
Young gave a nomination to a cadetship to Charritie
that this was afterwards given to young Wother-
spoon, :and that that person was at ;the time an
entire stranger to Young and to Charritie.
The jurors had been told to look on the secret
examinations by the East India House with indignation.
It was certainly dangerous in any party to prosecute
such examinations. lie (Lord Denman) had always
been opposed to those practices which existed in foreign
countries, where the prisoner being compelled to answer
the magistrate set his will to work in a contest against
the prisoner, trying every artifice of knowledge and
skill to obtain from him a confession of guilt. Such
a course was oppressive towards a prisoner, and
might make even fear and ignorance assume
the semblance of guilt. But the examination here
stood upon an entirely different footing. Whether they
might not have been conducted with some degree of
acuteness it was not necessary to say ; that might be
doubtful; but it was most proper, on the part of the
directors, to appoint a committee of inquiry into cor-
rupt practices among the directors of the company,
if any such practices were even supposed to exist.
No man of reason or honour could doubt that. The

existence of bribery and corruption throughout so-
ciety, in Parliamentary elections, in offices, and in
other matters, was something which required to be
vigorously suppressed, and if not suppressed, if allowed
to continue and to spread, would bring us to such a
state that we should not have one man of principle left
in society. Every person would, even in self defence,
join in the general corruption. If appointments were
never to be obtained but by gifts, those means of ob-
taining them would be universally resorted to, for every
one would feel that if he did not resort to them he lost
substantial advantages, and that his character was only
like that of his neighbour, and would not be affected by
such conduct. He knew nothing of such importance,
if they regarded the honour of themselves or their
families, than that this course of corrupt proceeding
should be discouraged by every means and the
interests of the country especially required that
it should be discouraged within the limits of
the East India Company's territories, and among the
servants of that company, wherever they were found.
Sir W. Young was a director. It was his duty, the
moment that a suspicion was 'entertained, to require
that an inquiry should take place, and when himself
called on to submit to that inquiry, it should have been
his most anxious wish to go into
.that inquiry, and to
afford the fullest explanation, and make himself of the
party of the inquirers, and not to be opposed to them ;
instead of consider;ng that they were acting to his pre-
judice, he should have deemed that they were seeking to
confirm and establish his honour, and he should
have given every assistance to the investigation.
It was important to observe that this inquiry, in which
the defendant Young was called on to give information,
took place at a time he was fully aware of the circum-
stances, and of Charritie's application to Wotherspoon,
to get up a case of pretended employment and agency
between himself and that person. It might have been
thought that as between Charritie and Young this would
have been rejected by the latter with the greatest scorn;
that as between a gentleman and gentleman, he would
have treated it as an insult scarcely to be borne. It
might have been thought that he would have said, "If
you have sold yourself, am I therefore to be
bought P Am I to be implicated in your cor-
rupt transanctions?" But he had not 'done
so; he had adopted the account given by Charritie. The
examination was necessary, and it seemed to have been
conducted with gravity, calmness, and deliberation.
Plenty of time was given the defendants to know the
charge, and plenty of time to answer it. Suppose Sir
W. Young to be both aged and infirm, that would not
show that his mind was bewildered by this inquiry. He
was in full possessicn of the charge; he had the option
to answer or not; and if in such circumstances answers
came out that were important to the inquiry, it was the
duty of the Court to use those answers against him. His
Lordship here went through the examinations, and then
)
referring to the distinction between the proof the
fur-
nished against Sir W. Young and the charge otri the
record, said that it was true that these defendants were
not tried for concealing, but for committing a particular
act, namely, the one for putting money into his pocket,
and the other for assisting him in d • cli
say, whether this act so ; but it
was for the jury to
s act of conceal-
ing, which was now admitted, was not extremely
strong evidence of the previous assistance having been
given. Ilis Lordship then went through the evi-
dence, and finally left it to the jury to say, whether
it was or not proved that this place or appointment
was sold? It might be that Charritie got the greatest
profit from it, but had not Young assisted him to get
that profit? These were the two charges contained in
the first count. Were they both, or was either of them,

y, _..eing enee
we conceive it our duty instanaly to make public.
Nay, wrshould confider it a crime against humanity'
and against ourr, state authorities, if we were for
one moment to withhold the admonitory information
which has been imparted to us. This information
is as follows :—' On the Russian territory, two.
leagues from Mina Gora, on the estate of M. Bro-
nislawskowski, a detachment of cossacks, under the
command of Capt. Dambrouski, has been stationed
for some weeks, which has orders to seize upon M.
Dabrouski (who, it is well known, was sentenced by.
the Supreme Court of Berlin to two years' impri-.
sonment in a fortress, but who is permitted to be at`
large upon bail for a certain period) and upon his lady
on the: return to their estate, to carry them boutid over
the frontiers, and thence deliver them up into sure hands.
The reward for the success of this enterprise is 100
silver roubles. On the adjoining estate of Mieroslaw
several cossacks, as well as their leader, have been
seen at various times reconnoitering the greunds.
Letters from Prague say that the Commander-in-
Chief of Bohemia has issued orders that all the troops
in the country shall be placed in complete military
order as soon as possible, that those who are on fur-
lough shall be recalled, and the companies completed.
The Silesian Gazette says, letters from the Italian
frontier have been commanded in high quarters, that
the three battalions of all the Italian .regiments
of infantry shall be extended from four to sir com-
panies, whereby the Italian army corps will be
strengthened by 3,000 additional men and 64 officers.
The Gazette de Milano says there is no truth in the
report that the Austrian Finance Department intends
to make a loan of 100,000,000 guilders, as has been
stated.—Hanzburgh Papers.
PRESBURG, DEC. 17.—The debates on the Address
continue very animated both in the assembly of the
magnates, and in that of the committee ; in the former
the Government has the majority, in the latter the
Opposition has the upper hand, and as the two parties
cannot come to an agreement, it is very probable that
the Address will not be presented.
RUSSIA AND POLAND. . . .
PETERSBURGH' DEC. 2.—lmmense damage has
been occasioned in our roadsteads by the, ice ;
many vessels and quantities of goods have been de-
stroyed. On the night of 25th Nov. no less than
60 vessels loaded with corn were injured, and the fol-
lowing day was yet more destructive. To the 22d
Nov. 2,360 persons had been seized with the
cholera, of whom 1,097 had died. In Kiew, to the
16th, 1,479 were seized with it, of whom 736 died.
In Timbirsk, Pensa, and Tambow, the pestilence has
almost disappeared. In Orel it is on the decline,
while in Tula, Sympheropel, and Ikatherinoslaw, it
again on the increase. In the territory of the Don
Cossacks 29,516 persons have been attacked, and
9,128 have died. In the government of Mohilew it
broke out on the sth Nov.; in Cherson on the sth;
in Volodga on the 10th; and in Iwer on the 19th.
Alniost everywhere it has been carried by travellers.
To Volodga it was brought by a traveller from St.
Petersburgh.
MUNICH, DEC. 14.—Her Majesty the Queen is
expected to return hither this evening from Bam-
berg. Her royal sister, the Princess Paul, expired ia
her arms the night before last. Her Majesty watched
her with the utmost solicitude. Her son, Prince
Frederick of Wurtemberg, was likewise present.
The illustrious deceased had attained the age of 60.
The poor of Munich have lost in her a most benevo-
lent friend and benefactress. Prince Frederick will
attend the royal corpse to Stuttgard.
La Semaine says—" There is some talk that Holland
will cede to France, for an indemnity, that portion of
the little island of St. Martin which belongs to it.
The whole of this island, which is one of the Antilles,
and is situated a little to the south-east of Guade-

[oupe, is now the joint property of France and -1-10-1-

land. The northern part, which comprises about
two-thirds, belongs to France, and the southern, the
chief town of which is Phillipsburg, belongs to Elol-
clgi an Mail, Dec. 19.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
COURT OF EXCHEQUER, Dec.2o,
(Sittings at Nisi Prius, before the LORD CHIEF BARON
and Special Juries.)
ATKINSON v. POCOCK.
This was an action brought to recover hack the
amount of deposits paid by the plaintiff in the Sheffield
and Macclesfield Railway, of the provisional committee
of which the defendant was a member.
The grounds upon which the plaintiff sought to re-
cover back the amount of his deposits were that a portion
only of the line, as originally announced, had been ap •
plied for in Parliament, and that an extravagant expen-
diture had been made of the amount of deposits in the
hands of the company.
It appeared, however, that the deed which the plaintiff
had signed gave power to the defendant to make appli-
cation to Parliament for the line in question, or such
portions thereof as the directors might consider proper.
The verdict was accordingly entered for the defendant
by the direction of the Lord Chief Baron.
Mr. Humfrey appeared for the plaintiff and Mr.
Martin for the defendant.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION-HOUSE.
Caroline Jones and Rachel Levy, who have been
some time known to the police as utterers of base
coin, were charged with having exercised their pro-
fessional skill in two instances.
The shopman of Mr. Pursell, of Cornhill, pastry-
cook, stated that the 'prisoners, one of whom had a
child in her arms, walked into the shop and asked
for half a dozen puffs and change for a 51. note. Wit-
mess served them and gave the change into the hand
of Jones, who had handed him the note. Levy,
upon hearing that the puffs only cost ls. desired wit-
ness to give back the note to the lady, and she would
give him the shilling. Jones then handed back to
him the change, and he immediately perceived that
there had been one bad sovereign substituted for the
genuine money he had supplied. Finding that the
prisoners were engaged in such a trick, the witness
placed them in the care of a policeman.
William Johnson, the son of the landlady of the
George Inn, in Smithfield, stated, that immediately
before the prisoners went into the house of Mr. Pur-
sell, they paid his mother a visit, and called for two
glasses of wine, and change for a Si. note. As the
landlady had not change witness went into the par-
lour and was accommodated by a customer there.
One of the prisoners objected to one of the sovereigns,
and finally the Si. note was returned to them, and
they contrived to substitute, in returning the change,
a counterfeit sovereign for a good one. The decep-
tion was soon found out, and a policeman was sent
after them, and found that they had been just appre-
hended for similar conduct.
The LORI) MAYOR—I shall commit the prisoners
upon the two cases.
Rachel Levy—But you'll take bail, won't you ?
The LORD MAYOR—Certainly not.
Rachel Levy—Oh, that be d—d. I can get some
of the most respectable tradesmen in London to be-
come bail for us.
The LORD MAYOR—I shall not accept bail to any
amount.
Rachel Levy—Why, I thought you were bound to
take bail in every case but murder. lam sure
you ought to be compelled to take bail for this
business.
The LORD MAYOR—You may apply to a judge if
you like.
Rachel Levy—Well, and so we will.
Here several officers stepped forward and said they
had known the prisoners for a length of time as per-
sons who turned a great deal of money every day, the
tradespeople being blinded by the exhibition of
the genuine Bank of England notes.
Committed for trial.
WORSHIP-STREET.
A well-dressed man, who refused his address, gave
the name of Richard Smith, and described himself as

a carpenter, but had not the appearance of one, was
placed at the bar before Mr. Hammill, charged with
stealing a portmanteau and wearing apparel of the
value of 20/., the property of Dr. Adam Sedg wick,
Professor of Geology at Cambridge, from the plat-
form of the Eastern Counties Railway.
James Kennaway, one of the company's porters,
stated that in consequence of repeated robberies
having been committed for some time past during the
confusion attendant upon the arrival of the trains, he
had been directed to keep a vigilant watch for the
perpetrators, and while so doing at half-past four yes-
terday afternoon, he observed the prisoner, who had
been lurking about and attentively regarding the re-
moval of the luggage from the roofs of the carriages
of the Norwich train, which had just come in, sud-
denly transfer himself to another part of the platform
to that he had previously occupied, and after care-
fully looking about him to see if he was watched,
deliberately hoist a heavy portir.anteau upon his
shoulder, and walk away with it in the direction of
the street. He was instantly pursued by the witness,
who asked him what he intended to do with the port-
manteau, to which the prisoner confidently replied
that it was his own, and directed him to order a cab.
"If it's your property," said the witness, adroitly
placing his hand over the direction, "you can tell me
the name upon it;" but the prisoner became confused
and flurried, muttered something in which no name
was mentioned, and, finding it was his determination
to detain him, flung down the portmanteau and at-
tempted to escape. Witness seized him by the collar
and called for assistance, and one of the constables
coming up, they succeeded, after a great deal of
struggling and resistance on his part, in ultimately
securing him.
Professor Sedgwick stated, that upon reaching:the
Shoreditch terminus from Cambridge, he gave direc-
tions for his portmanteau, which he had seen upon
the roof of the carriage he travelled by, to be brought
after him, while he went to deposit his carpet-bag in
a cab, and not finding it brought suspected it might
have been stolen, and upon hastening back found the
prisoner in custody, and the trunk, which he identi-
fied as his, in the care of the porter.
When called upon for his defence the prisoner said
that he also had just come up by the same train from
Norwich, and, if the portmanteau was really the
prosecutor's, it must have been taken by him
entirely in mistake for his own, which he was
satisfied, if searched for, would then be found amongst
the unclaimed luggage at the station.
The porter Kennaway, however, said that he could
positively contradict this assertion, as he knew that
the prisoner did not come to town by that train, and
had seen him loitering about the platform so suspi-
ciously that he watched him for a considerable time
before the train came in.
The prosecutor said that he had urgent butimsss of
great importance to transact in the north of Eng-
land, which would preclude his attendance again until
next week, and the prisoner, who declined saying
any more, was remanded till then for the depositions
to be taken.

COLLISION ON THE MERSET.--STEAMER SUNK.—
Yesterday (Sunday) morning, about eight o'clock, the
Flambeau steamer left her moorings at the Albert Pier,
for the purpose of proceeding to sea; the Wirral, Wood-
side ferry boat, was at the same time coming from
Woodside, and, when little more than half-way across
the river, the two vessels unfortunately came into col-
lision. The Flambeau was struck, or struck herself,
on her larboard bow, and was so much injured that she
rapidly filled, and shortly afterwards sank. The Thomas
Stanley steamer, which was lying near, drew her moor-
ings to avoid being drifted against, and, before the vessel
went clown, took the crew on board. The Wirral, which,
strange to say, had not sustained the slightest injury,
attached a rope and towed the disabled vessel, in hopes
to reach the pier, but did not succeed in conveying her
far before she sunk, and totally disappeared. The crew
of the Wirral affirm that at the time their engine was
stopped, and the helm put hard a-port. As, however, it
is a law of mechanics that, other things equal, the body
which has most velocity is the one most likely to escape
unscathed, it is difficult to reconcile with their statement
the little injury which the Wirral has su.tained.—
Liverpool Albion.
ELOPEMENT.—On Thursday an application was
made to the magistrates at the Guildhall, Exeter, by
Mr. Samuel Howe, coach-builder, of East Sconehouse,
to detain Edwin Rowe, an apprentice, eighteen years of
age, who had eloped with the applicant's daughter, a
very pretty young lady, handsomely attired, and whose
age was "sweet sixteen." From the story of Mr.
Howe, the Bench elicited that the young apprentice
was of respectable exterior) had worked
for air. Martin, a bookbinder, living next door to the
coach-maker. The binding of old books was less con-
genial
to our Romeo's taste than the investigation of
new ones, and of all the works which he preferred the
greatest favourite was the lovely work of Nature
in the next house—his little 16 mo., as he affec-
tionately termed
soon etween whom and himself an ac-
quaintance was
formed, which afterwards matured
into confidential friendship, and then warmed into love
The result was, that he the question," and she.
following the swain's
Callaghan, " didn't
say nay." A second question, however, ever, had to be con-
pumt,arried. This sidered, viz.—how they were to hei
withfound very
in-
terrogation, though simple to be
y,wls, that acute
difficult to be answered, until the lad
lucky stars
the
appreciation of frolic so peculiar to the se
problem by committing herself to her
y'se'fathe
and the arms of her lover. On Sunday teyvstars
dis-
appeared, and on the same day the lad
commenced his search, which lasted until Wednesday
night, when the young fugitives arrived in this city, It
appeared that the lad's master had intimated his wish
also that he might be detained wherever found, as he
intended to claim his services. The magistrates ordered
ended in custody until a corn-
the young man to be rem , .
munication had been made to his master. a n „
e loving
children" declared that they were married, the young
lady in particular seeming much pleased at the idea,
and smiling an agreeable affirmative to the inquiry,
but the boy acknowledged with more demureness
that he was a " married man," though he would neither
say where the knot had been tied or produce a
" voucher." The Bench thought it would be honourable
for all parties, and tend to the future credit and comfort
of the lady, if the parents were to provide a license and
a ring. &c. This the father declared his willingness to
do, and we may suppose that the ceremoney will not
long be delayed, if it has not already taken place.—
Devon Courier,