The Sun.
London, England, 1848-08-31 00:00:00

THE CHARTISTS.

EXAMINATION AND COMMITTAL

OF THE PRISONERS.

BOW-STREET.-(THIS DAY.)
The following Chartist prisoners were brought before
Mr. Hall and Mr. Henry, shortly after eleven o'clock,
charged with felony:—
Joseph Ritchie, Alfred Abel, William Gurney, John
Sheppard, James Snowball, James Richardson, George
Greensledge, Henry Small, Edward Scudding, William
Byrne, and Philip Martin, of the Orange-street party ;
Charles Taylor, George Cox, William Poole, Charles
Wicks, Thomas Herbert, Thomas Irons, James Rowson,
Ifugh Conway, Alexander Hardy, Samuel Hardy,
James John Moreon, William Winspere, and Samuel
Morgan, of the Webber• street party; Thomas Jones,
Frederick Stone, William Swinbourne, William Argue,
William Lacey, William Coffey-, and William Dowling.
Mr. Clarkson appeared on the part of the Crown, and
Mr. Parry and Mr. Keneally appeared for some of the
prisoners.
The first case called on was that of Frederick Stone.
Mr. Clarkson stated that as be had not been able to
obtain any additional evidenee•ugainst Stone, it was his
wish that he should be discharged.
The prisoner was accordingly discharged.
The prisoner Ritchie was next placed at the bar.
Mrs. Gotner, examined by Mr. Clarkson, said she let
out a room at No. 2, Crosscourt. It was a kitchen, and
she let it to a woman, who said her name was Ritchie,
about four or five weeks ago. Was not acquainted with
the prisoner at the bar. The woman left about a fort-
night back, when she said she was going out to nurse.
Ann Hayden said she had lived with the prisoner as
his wife for 15 or 16 years, and he had always been a
good husband to her. They occupied the kitchen at No.
2, Cross-court, which they rented from the last witness.
The prisoner did not sleep in the kitchen. She left the
lodging three weeks last Tuesday, with the view of go-
ing out to nurse, but being disappointed she was obliged
to go to the workhouse.
The prisoner Morgan was here called.
Inspector Rogers said he wished to correct a state-
ment which he made with respect to this prisoner. He
had stated he resided at 17, Bond street, Borough, but
on inquiry he found the house to be No. 1, York-street,
Southwark. That was the house which in his former
evidence he said he had searched.
Cross-examined by Mr. Macnamara—Knew it was
the residence of the prisoner from finding a pike in the
house with his name upon it. He also found a card
which stated that the prisoner had been admitted a
member of the Confederate Club.
Poole was next called and placed at the bar.
Mary Field, a widow, examined by Mr. Clarkson,
said she lived at 8, Northampton-place, Northatnpton-
street, Walworth. The prisoner occupied the front
room on the first floor, and continued to do so until the
16th of the present month.
Poole and Morgan were then removed from the bar,
and it was suggested by Mr. Clarkson that the Orange-
street prisoners should be brought forward.
They were accordingly placed in the bar, together
with Abel, who has since been apprehended, making
altogether fifteen in number.
Mr. Clarkson said he had to apply that those fifteen
prisoners should be committed to take their trial, and
he made the application under the 3d section of the 11
Vic., c. 12, called the Crown and Government Security
Act. The charge was that they had been guilty of
feloniously compassing and intending war against the
Queen.
Mr. Parry said he appeared for the prisoners Bird
and Greenslade, and as no further evidencb had been
brought against them by Mr. Clarkson, he:had to apply
that they should be discharged, or that, in the event of
their not being discharged, that they should be allowed
to give bail for their appearance to take their trial.
ll the evidence against them was thut they were
found at the Orange Tree, in Orange-street. No
arms or weapons of any kind were found upon them;
they were journeymen shoemakers, earning about a
pound a week. They entertained what they called
Chartist opinion!, but wished him distinctly to state
that they did not entertain such opinions as those
alleged—viz., that an alteration of the law was
to be obtained by means of violence and force.
They desired him also to state, that having
heard that certain parties calling themselves
Chartists intended to commit acts of violence, they went
to the Orange Tree, at three o'clock in the afternoon on
the day in question, to make some inquiry, when they
were informed that a meeting would be held at six
o'clock in the evening. They accordingly returned at
that time fur the purpose of stating to the parties their
decided opposition to anything like violence or force,
and they were then taken into custody. If, therefore,
they were not discharged, he trusted that bail would be
taken for their appearance.
Mr. Clarkson expressed his decided objection to the
application of the Learned Counsel.
Mr. Keneally then applied, on the part of Richard-
son and three other prisoners, that they should be dis-
charged; but the application was not acceded to.
The Chief Clerk read over the evidence which was
taken on the former examination against the prisoners,
in the presence of the different witnesses, who severally
signed the depositions.
Mr. Parry said he would admit, after hearing the de-
positions, that the case against the two prisoners he de-
fended was one which ought to be sent to a jury, but he
trusted that they would be released open bail,
Mr. Keneally applied that the prisoners for whom he
appeared might be discharged, as the charge of felo•
piously compassing and intending to levy war against
the Queen had not been clearly and indisputably
made out, and he apprehended that it was as
necessary that the charge should be so made
out under the new law as it was under the
old. There was no evidence against them except that
of Powell, and it was open to very great suspicion. It
appeared that he had been a month among the prisoners
for the express purpose of betraying them, that he sti-
mulated them in their proceedings, and unblushingly
avowed that he had supplied them with powder arid
other articles which they would require on the night
of the proposed outrage. He submitted that no one
could believe the evidence of such a man.
Mr. HALL said he had paid every attention to the
cases which had been brought before him, with a dispo-
sition to act fairly to all the prisoners, and it was his
strong conviction that he ought to send every one of
them to a jury. His mind was impressed with the con-
viction, taking into account all the circumstances as dis-
closed in evidence, that he ought to deal with all the
cases alike, and ought not to permit bail to be taken.
The witnesses were then sworn over, and the pri-
soners were committed to take their trial at the Old
Bailey,

Charles Taylor, George Cox, William Poole, Charles
Gibbs, Thomas Herbert, •William Winspere, Thomas
Irons, James Rowston, Hugh 'Conway, Alexander
Hardy, James J. Morson, Samuel Hardy, andiS. Morgan,
were then placed at the bar.
Mr. Clarkson said he had no additional evidence to
offer against them, but he had to apply that they should
be committed to take their t►ial.
These prisoners were also fully committed.
Joseph Jones, Charles Young, and Henry Argue were
also brought up and committed.

HTDROPROBIA.—SUPERSTITION. —A circumstance
which, it is feared, may be attended with fearful results.
occurred a few days since, near the village of Marloes.
A dog, supposed to be in a rabid state, it was ascer-
tained had a short time since bitten several animals, and
among others an ass, the property of a peasant in the
neighbourhood, who thought nothing further of the
matter, until the occurrence in question, and the ass was
as usual allowed the free liberty of a roadside pasture.
Unfortunately a poor woman arid her son, a youth of
some nine or ten years old, had to pass through this road,
when the ass rushed at the boy, and the mother interfer-
ing, the infuriated animal turned all his rage on her, la-
cerated her in a most fearful manner, and ultimately
fastened on her arm with the tenacity of a bull-dog.
Her cries soon brought a neighbouring farmer and his
servants to the spot, when the utmost exertions were
obliged to be put in requisition to loosen the animal's
hold, and a walking stick with a large iron patten at-
tached to the end of it, had to be forced into his mouth,
and his jaws wrenched open, before the unfortunate
sufferer could be released from her dangerous position.
She was found to have been seriously injured, but was
able to walk to her residence; and so strong a hold has
the genius of superstition among the peasantry of the
neighbourhood, that on the following morning she was
helped on her way to the churchyard of St. Edrin's, to
e4t the grass, which, it is believed, has the peculiar
property of being an antidote to hydrophobia.—Car-
brim-then Journal.
MONEY MARKET, The premium on gold at Paris
isio per mills, whia, at the English Mint price of
31. 17s. 100. per ounce for standard gold, gives an ex.
change of 25.40; and the exchange at Paris on London
at short being 25 35, it follows that gold is 0.20 per
"cent. dearer in Paris than in London. By advices from
Hamburgh the price of gold i 433 per mark, which, at
the English Mint price of 31.."175. 10frd. per ounce for
standard gold, gives an exchange of 13.9; and the
exchange at Hamburgh On• London at short being 13.88,
it follows
London. that gold is 0.35 per cent. dearer in Hurnburga
than in
On Wednesday last a singular effect of lightning
occurred at 51oulton, about three o'clock in the afternoon.
A flash struck a shock of oats in a field belonging to Mr.
Woods, consumed one sheaf, completely thrashed another
and moved a third to a great distance. On examining the
place afterwards it was found that the electric fluidl d
entered the earth in three distinct la
places.—Bury and
!Norwich Post.
PARISIAN STATISTICS.—There are at present 25000
apartments to be let in Paris, chiefly those of which the
rent varies from 1,500 to 2,00 W. (60! to 801.) There
are thirt) -five new houses firushed on the Boulevard
Beaumarchais, and they contain but thirty-five lodgers
—that is, one on an average per house. As a proof of
the de preciution of the value of house property in Paris,
it is sufficient to mention that a house in the Rue de
Baune producing 3,000 f. (1201. a year) was lately offered
for sale at the upset price of 35,000 f. (1,4000, but could
find no purchaser.
BENEFIT or A BREEZE.—The other day a cau-
tious old farmer was about to select a day ter adver-
tising the roup of his grain. " I wish," said he to the
auctioneer, " that we may have a good breeze at the
roup." " A good breeze !" said the auctioneer, " what
connexion has the breeze wi' the roup ?" " Mair than
ye imagine," replied the other. "When grain's wavin'
wi' a good breeze, it looks a heap thicker—they see the
same heads twa-three times!"—Ayr Advertiser.
Mr. Tidd Pratt and Mr. Higham had an interview yes-
terday, with the Chancellor of the Exchequer.