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London, England, 1848-10-12 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 12, 18-48.

a warrant that was against him, and said that the boys
of Kilkenny and Wexford desired him not to surrender
himself, but he had not heard as yet the opinion of the
Tipperary boys. He said that they should not insult
the-police, for there was many an honest heart inside a
green jacket. The witness saw Mr. O'Brien in the town
on the following day also, and four gentleman] in com-
pany with him, whose' names he heard were Dillon,
M‘Manus, O'Donohoe, and Stevens.- H. was not, how-
ever, able to identify the prisoner. Tile man who was
called M‘Manus had a belt round his waist, and a pistol
in it, a green waistcoat, and a hat. He was riding
M'Carthy s horse. The troops had passed at the time,
and the town was filled with a great number of persons
armed with all kinds of weapons, pitchforks, guns, and
pikes.
Cross-examined—He did not say anything on the
former trial about the transactions he now referred to.
He knew M`Carthy's horse. Was positive the prisoner
at the bar was the person who rode it.
Lawrence Middleton examined—He lived near Kit-
lenaule, and saw the prisoner there on the day in ques-
tion, standing at Walsh's hotel. Two men were walking
up and down by the door, and one gentleman, who ad-
dressed the crowd, told the people to arm themselves;
and to take arms from those who had arms and would
not give them.
Chief Justice DOHERTY—W hat was the reason al
leged for taking arms?—They said they wanted to free
their country, and that that freedom was just at hand.
Cross-examined by Mr. BUTT —The barricades were
made of trees, turf, and carts. He was dismissed from
the police for being out of barracks without leave on
four different occasions, and was once a collector of
taxes, which he gave up in spite of himself.—(A laugh.)
He niade away with some ,of the money, was tried for
the offence, but acquitted.
William Parsons, a private of the Bth Hussars,
proved that he wos one of the advanced guard of a troop
on the day when the barricades were erected at Tillie-
naule. He proved the same facts deposed to on Mr.
O'Brien's trial.
Sergeant Hampden, of the same regiment, corrobo-
rated the testimony of the last witness, and identified
the prisoner at the bar as one of those who stood at the
barricades.
Captain Longmore was next examined, and repeated
his former evidence, but he could not identify the pri-
soner.

John Tobin examined—lie lived in Killenaule with
Mr. Ryan. On the day of the fight at the commons,
James Orchard hired a car for some gentlemen. The
witness drove them to Earl's-hill, where about 200 or
300 persons were present. They drove from that to-
wards the common, when Mr. O'Brien told the people
to go and bring in arms from the country, and to take
them from those who would not give them up. The wit-
news heard Mr. Meagher say that they would gain Ire-
land in six months. He saw a gun with one of the gen.
tlemen but no pistol.
John Pemberty, an engineer to the Mining Company
et Ballingarry, identified Mr. M'Manus as one of the
persons he saw on the common, armed with a pistol. Mr
O'Brien called the witness aside and told him, if the com-
pany stood neutral he should support them, but that
if they suspended the men for following him, he would
take possession of the collieries, for he expected, he said,
to have Ireland rescued from the British Government in
a week. The people, he continued, were all ready in
the towns, and as far as it had gone they were of the
same mind in the country.
Owen Cullen, the manager of the collieries, proved
the conversation he had with Mr. O'Brien about the let-
ter which that gentleman addressed to the Mining Com-
pany. He could not identify Mr. M'Manus as being
present at the time.
John Lanphier examined—He was a pay clerk at the
collieries, and remembered seeing Mr. O'Brien, Mr. Dil-
lon, and Mr. Meagher, coming into Ballingarry on cars.
Mr. O'Brien told the people that he had defeated a party
of dragoons, or at least prevented them from arresting
him on that day. The witness saw Messrs. O'Brien and
M'Manus speaking to the armed men who were upon
the roads. The witness then detailed the conversation
he had with Mr. O'Brien respecting the key of the po-
lice-barrack,and a loan of the company's coal carts in order
to erect a barricade. While Mr. O'Brien was in the
yard, M'Manus, the prisoner, was standing with the
people on the road, armed with a gun, and they remained
there until Mr. Trant's party appeared in sight, and
then they ran across the fields, in the direction of the
widow M'Cormack's house, towards which the police
were going.
Sub-Inspector Trent was next examined, and deposed
to the transactions already published, in which he was
engaged both before and after the attack on the widow
Cormack s house.
Cross-examined—He was in the upper room, at the
left, when word was brought him that Mr. O'Brien was
below; but he did not see him. When he got to the
house, he turned his horse into the stable, and left the
pistols in the holsters.
CnIE? JUSTICE—What became of your pistols?—l
never saw them since, my Lord. They were taken away
by the people.
By Mr. O'CALLAGHAN—Was it you who struck up
the " British Grenadiers?"—lt was; I saw one of my
men, who was after firing, and knowing that he sang the
"British Grenadiers," I desired him to strike it up, and
he did so.—(A. laugh.) Indeed, I never heard him sing
it better, and it was chorused from all parts of the house.
—(A laugh.) I thought that as it was a good song for
marching, it would be as good in an attack. The wit-
ness was positive the people fired in the first instance.
They were fired from the front where he was standing,
and he could not be mistaken about it.
How soon did you miss your pistols? —The evening
after. I got my horse back, without the bridle and the
pistols.
Is it true you began your dispatch with a quotation?-
Perfectly true, and I an not ashamed cf it.—(Laughter.
What was it?—lt was—
" Who takes the foremost foernan's life,
His party conquers in the strife."—(Laughter,
A perfectly appropriate quotation under the circum
stances.

How often did you go down stairs?—Three times, in
the greatest peril.
CHIEF JUSTICE DOHERTY—We are not trying Mr.
Trent's valour here.—(A laugh.)
Patrick Ford, a police-constable, next deposed to the
fact of the person coming to the window while they were
in the house, and demanding their arms. He did not
know the man's name who first came, but ➢ir. O'Brien
came the second time, saying, " he was a gentleman and
only wanted their arms." The witness then repeated
what he swore on the former trial, respecting the con-
versation with Mr. O'Brien, and how some one cried
out, " Slash away, boys, and we'll soon have them all."
Cross-examined —He thought they arrived et the
Widow Cormack's about one o'clock; five or six people
came up to the window with Mr: O'Brien and presented
their arms at them, one of whom crying out, "I know
you, you're Pat Ford, from Callan."
Sub-constable John Carroll examined—ln addition to
the evidence given by him on Mr. O'Brien's trial, he do
posed that he was made a prisoner by Mr. M‘Manus,
who was at the time surrounded by about 500 mm. Mr.
O'Brien and Father Fitzgerald went on the road towards
Ballingarry, and a rush was made after them by the
people, upon which the witness cried out to them to
come back. Another rush was then made at himself,
and he thought he was going to be shot. He then came
down from his horse, on which Mr. M‘Maeus took him
by the arm and led him into a field, saying. he was
going to the village, and that I should go along with him.
He asked him what troops there were in Kilkenny—or
what was their strength; and on his (the witness) de-
clining to go with him he went away, and he saw no
more of him. lie was in custody about tee) or three
hours, and while a prisoner he heard the people say
they'd burn the house over the heads of the police,
or surround it by throning up barricades. tie heard
Mr. O'Brien say he could take it in an
hour; and after that Father Fitzgerald and him-
self were sent to Mr. Trent to know if they'd
give up their arms, or a second attack would corn•
mence. The witness saw Father Fitzgerald in eommu•
nication with Mr. Trant, and afterwards used all his
endeavours to induce the people to go away, but he did
not hear the reply then male. Before Father Fitz-
gerald went up, he said, " He'd do it to please the
people, but that he knew very well it would be useless,
as the police would not give up their arms." The wit-
ness, when released, met Mr. O'Brien, who gave him his
horse, and made him a present of a stick.
Cross-examined—He came to the widow Cormack's
house, and delivered his dispatch before the firing
ceased, and remained outside waiting for an answer for
about ten minutes.
Sub-inspector :Trant was then re-called.—He re-
membered Father Fitzgerald coming to the window of
the house, and saying he wanted to make his peace
with all parties ; the firing had ceased. His expres-
sions were that the other party would be satisfied on
the police surrendering their arms to let them depart in
safety, and that he would accompany them himself, and
guarantee their safety. The witness replied, that they
would never surrender their arms but with their lives.
Father Fitzgerald then observed, that the people would
burn the house over them, when the witness answered
that ho had five childr'en as hostages. After this be
added, that they had no provisions; and he replied that
they could fight and fast for forty-eight hours more,
and that a force would be soon on the ground to avenge
them if they- fell, and not leave a house standing in the
country. That they were doing no harm where they
were, and that if he could protect them outside, he
could do so in the house also. Carroll (the witness
added) had his horse taken from him, and he'd feel
obliged if he'd protect him. Father Fitzgerald then
went away, but returned very soon after, and asked if
he'd give him a pallet for a dying man, which he gave
and had it, thrown out of a window. He also asked
permission to take the dead and dying away, and the
witness gave it, but he said he could not take them
away himself, and that the people were afraid to assist
him lets the police might shoot them. To this the wit-
ness replied, that he would not fire on any man who
came with him, and unarmed. He then went away, and
he saw no more of him.

John Doyd examined—He resided at Fethard Glebe.
He remembered going on horseback towards the corn•
mons of Ballingarry, on the 29th of July, about two,
and arrived there about four o'clock. His attention
was first attracted by seeing persons along the road, in
groups of twos and threes, amounting in all to about
1,500. He saw the prisoner at the bar among them.
He was about a mile from the widow Corrnack's house
at the time. When he came up to him, the prisoner
presented a gun at him, and asked if there were sol-
diers on the road, to which he replied no. The prisoner
again asked if there were any in Urlingford, or if the
witness were a courier, and he agai❑ replied no. The
witness, fearing he was about to be detained, asked for
Mr. O'Brien, whom he knew would protect him, when
the prisoner told him to go where he liked. While he
was speaking to him the witness saw a man with a
gun, standing in the road, as if looking out for some one.
Cross-examined—The prisoner shook hands with
him, and advised him to keep out of danger.
Sub-Inspector Cox was next examined, but his ovi. I

dence, in most respects, was precisely similar to that
given on Mr. O'Brien's trial. When his party came
4w-view of the commons of Ballingarry, they were at-
tacked by a great number of men, on whom they fired,
and on one 'man falling they all dispersed. He then
proceeded to the widow Cormack's, to relieve Mr.
Trant's party.
Head-constable Crawley deposed that he was sta-
tioned in the city of Cork, and arrested the prisoner on
the 30th of August last, on board of an American vessel,
about two miles from the harbour. The circumstances
were these:—He had warrants for the arrest of other
persons, and when he went on board the first person he
saw was the prisoner, whom he had seen in Liverpool
two or three years before. His hair was cut close, and
his whiskers shaved off. He was much altered in per-
sonal appearance since the witness last saw him. The
prisoner then said that he had been born in Ireland, and
was many years in America; that he was then in Ire-
land about ten weeks, and gave his name as Corcoran.
The witness next asked where he was staying while in
Ireland, and he said a portion of his time in Cork,
Mallow, Buttevant, and Cove. He then asked him what
brought him here, and he said he came for his friends,
and that his brother was with him, going to America.
Having declined to state where he then resided, the wit-
ness took him into custody. His meeting with him was
perfectly accidental, and not from any information what-
ever. lie believed at the time his name was M'Manus,
and ho admitted it in Cove. The way he knew his per-
sonal appearance in Cork was that some few years ago
an extensive robbery took place in Cork, and as Mr.
M'Manus was a shipping agent, he applied to him for
information.

Cross-examined—The people on board offered no re-
sistance whatever, but, on the contrary, they assisted
him in bringing his luggage over. The protection of
tl,e American flag was not claimed nor offered. The
prisoner's name and description were in the Hue cad
Cry, on the 26th of July. The vessel was to have
sailed, and did actually sail, on the next day.
The letter to the Mining Company and other docu•
ments were then read and put in; after which the Court
adjourned.
The Crown closed their case, and Mr. Butt will ad-
dress the jury for the prisoner in the morning.
MR. O'BRIEN.

Mr. O'Brien still remains perfectly unmoved and in-
different as to what his fate may be. He is not, how-
ever, careless of other matters, for haring heard that
attacks might be apprehended on the persons or pro-
perty of the jurors who convicted him, he wrote the
following letter:—
"My dear Potter,—l entertain the most sincere and
anxious desire that no insult or injury should be offered
either to the jury or. to the witnesses through whose
instrumentality I have been convicted, and I shall feel
very much obliged if you will use your utmost efforts
to make, known my sentiments upon this subject.
" Believe me yours sincerely.
" W. S, O'BRIEN.

" Clonmel Gaol, Oct. 9, 1848."

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.

(Before Mr. Sergeant ADAMS, Assistant-Judge, and a
bench of Magistrats.)
Yesterday, Thomas Barker, a very respectably-dressed
young man, was indicted for having stolen a carpet-bag,
containing ♦arious articles wearing apparel, of the
value of 31., the property of Thomas Waters.
Mr. Horry defended the prisoner.
It appeared that the prosecutor arrived in London on
the 28th ult. by the North-Western Railway, and took
up his quarters at the Drummond Coffee-house, near
Euston-square. In the course of the same day the pri-
soner paid a visit to the same establishment, and having
written, he took up the carpet-bag in question and
walked off with it. He was pursued, and ultimately
taken into custody.
Hr. HOARY, in an address on behalf of the prisoner,
said that this was a most painful case. The prisoner
was extremely well connected, and had held situations
in several of the first houses in London, and amongst
others at the banking establishment of Messrs.
Twinings, in the Strand. During the last twelve months
hewever, the members of his family had entertained a
fear that he had become the subject of mental de-
rangement. In last July the prisoner was attacked by
small-pox; and, from that period until the present mo-
ment, he had exhibited demonstrations of insanity, to
such an extent as to induce his medical attendant to re-
commend that be should be placed in an asylum. Some
short time subsequently to this advice having been
given, it was suggested to his friends that he should be
sent upon a long sea-voyage; whereupon it was deter-
mined, as he had a brother who was settled at Sydney,
that he should be sent out to him. A passage-berth
was accordingly taken for him on board a vessel which
was announced to sail on the 30th ult., so that, had it
not been that this transaction had come to pass, the un-
fortunate man at the bar would have been on his out-
ward voyage at the present moment. On the morning
when this offence was said to have been committed, the
prisoner left his brother's house very lightly clad.
He was, moreover, labouring under the delusion that
he was about to be married to a young lady with
whom he was acquainted, and to whom he bad
written many letters upon the subject, some of which
he should feel it to be his duty to place before
the jury. As they bad already heard, on the morn-
ing in question the prisoner - had written another
letter at the coffee-house, which letter he should pre-
sently produce. It was, as the jury would at once sup-
pose, extremely painful for him to plead insanity as an
excuse for the offence which the prisoner had committed,
but under the circumstances he was compelled to adopt
that course. The question then became this, whether,
in the state of mind which he was in, the prisoner might
not when he took the bag have been under the delusion
that he was setting out on his journey, and had thus
carried off the bag with the impression that it was this
own ?
Alfred Barker, the brother of the prisoner, said that a
more affectionate or a better conducted young man there
could not be, but during the last twelve months he had
greatly changed i❑ his manners, and had manifested un-
usual irritability of disposition.
Mr. Pottle, the medical gentleman who bad attended
the prisoner in his illness when attacked by the small-
pox, stated that since that period he had manifested
every symptom of mania.
The jury Acquitted the prisoner on the ground of in-
sanity.
It having been ascertained by the Court that the bro-
ther of the prisoner was unable to defray the expense
which would be consequent upon the latter being ;placed
in an asylum,
The Learned JUDOE said that this was one of those
cases which showed the dreadful want which existed of
an asylum for the reception of 'lunatics who were one
or two degrees removed from pauperism. The know-
ledge he had himself personally acquired of the want of
such an establishment had been the source of more pain
to his feelings than could be imagined. In his judicial
character many very pressing cases had occurred where
such an asylum would have conferred the greatest be-
nefit. Take the present case. Here was a young man
of respectable connexions, but who did not possess the
means of maintaining him in one of the existing asy-
lums; for his brother was probably in the receipt of a
salary not exceeding 1501. or 2001. a year, with a family
of four or five children to support. It was therefore im-
possible that such a mon could place the unfortunate
prisoner in an asylum, of which the cost would
at least be 501. a year or more. If, therefore, some
institution, supported partly out of public funds, were in
existence, wherein persons of the station of life in which
the unhappy prisoner stood could be received, it would
be one of the greatest blessings that could be obtained.
He was aware of cases where the fathers of families were
often put in the most painful situation. In one instance
there was a man who was earning 255. or 80s. a week,
and had five children, of whom one was an idiot. Well,
such a man was not able to pay 15s. or 20s. a week for
the maintenance of that idiot in an asylum. That was
quite manifest. In numerous other cases he had re-
ceived letters, pie ssing upon his notice the necessity of
such an asylum, from respectable tradespeople whose
wives were labouring under this .awful visitation. To
such persons it would be absolute ruin to send their
wives or children to one of the present asylums. It was
a lamentable fact that, notwithstanding this country
abounded with institutions of almost every descrip-
tion, yet there was not one which was applied to
these unhappy cases. There was, it was true, Bethlehem
Hospital, where there was a fund for incurable cases;
but at that establishment the patients were discharged
every year, for if that were not the rule, the place
would soo❑ become an asylum. If all the cases which
had come under his judicial notice were to be put into a
calendar, they would constitute such a list as would at
once prove how necessary it was that an institution of
this description should be founded. With respect to this
prisoner, he would give an order for his reception into
}Unwell, inasmuch as it was very probable that he would
be restored to health in two or three months, when he
could be handed over to his brother for the purpose o
his being sent to Sydney. - -

ABSENCE OF COUNSiL.
Mr. O'BRIEN applied to the Court to allow the case of
a man of the name of Worrell to stand over- until Fri-
day, when his Learned Friend Mr. Ballantine, who was
engaged in it, would be able-to attend; -
The Learned JUDGE said he most' certainly should not
accede to this application to meet, the convenience of
an absent gentleman. Persons should not retain counsel
who came to that, court ,only when it• suited• their nivn
personal convenience, and stayed away and handed their
briefs over to another member of the bar when it better
suited their convenience to do so ; it was a course of
proceeding which was unfair to, the suitors in that court,
to the counsel who regularly attended the court, and a
total want of respect towards the Codit itself. He should

not entertain the application.
Eventually, the defendant was allowed to plead, which
he did by-admitting his guilt,. tind With the consent of
741 r. Prendergast, who appeared for the prosecution,
judgment was postponed till Friday.. . •
James Tilley Was acquitted on an indictment charging
him with having committed an indecent assault upon a
little girl of eight years of age, the daughter of the Rev.
Mr.Chesnutt.

The details of this case appeared in our columns on
Tuesday, under the head of the; Southwark Police-
court.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION-HOUSE.
ROBBERY ON THE EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY.—
A young man, named William Trowbridge, was brought
before the Lord Mayor, charged upon suspicion of hav-
ing stolen a portmanteau, containing paletots and other
articles of dress, the property of Messrs. H. J. and D.
Nicoll, of Corn hill, tailors, on the Eastern Counties
Railroad.

Mr. George Cross, traveller for the firm of Nicoll and
Co., said—On Saturday week I came to London from
Ipswich in the last train. At Ipswich I saw deposited
in the luggago van my brown portmanteau, containing a
quantity of wearing apparel, consisting of paletots,
waistcoating, &c., a new edition of Walker's Pronounc-

ing Dictionary, and other things. I came in the same
train to London, and a gentleman of the name of
WPherson travelled with me. He agreed to assist me
in getting my luggage when we should arrive alt the
terminus. The moment we reached the terminus at
Shoreditch he and I hastened to the luggage van as fast
as we could, but before we could reach the van the
portmanteau with its contents was gone. There had
been tied to it a soft leather label, with the words
" George Cross, passenger, London," written on it.
(Here pieces of waistcoating were produced,
which the witness said he -should think belonged
to the contents of the portmanteau). Upon asce: taining
the loss I was much grieved, and I dare say I betrayed
a good deal of anger to the servants of the company,
who, however, promised to make every exertion for the
recovery of the goods. I advertised on Monday morn-
ing, and received a letter from Mr. M'Pherson since,
informing me that he had made many inquiries along
the railroad, and that he had found no trouble at all had
been taken by the establishment, notwithstanding the
assurances I had received. I have some persons here to
whom some of the goods which I believe to be part of the
property I had in my portmanteau were taken by the
prisoner for sale at a comparatively low price.
John Cox, alehouse-keeper in Cannon-street, said—
Monday week the prisoner, whom I knew for some time
as a customer, was at my house, and he said he had just
come from Boulogne, and had things to sell cheap,
which had been seised at the Custom-house. He showed
me three coats, and offered to sell either or all of them
to me. I told him I did not want anything of the sort,
and he left this piece of waistcoating with me, saying
that he would sell it to me for six shillings. I went out
of the house for a while, and upon my return he was
gone, having left behind him the piece. The price he
had asked for the coats was 11. ss. each.
Mr. Cross—The price of each of the coats was four
guineas. (Here coats, the property of Messrs. Nicoll,
were produced. They were made in a peculiar style, and
William Cross said they exactly resembled the coats
which had been stolen.)
Witness—The coats offered to me precisely resembled
them.

The LORD MAYOR—Did the prisoner say whence be
had the coats he offered you? Witness—He said they
were brought over in the same boat in which he came,
and that they were seized and bought at a Custom-
house sale. I did not think any more of the matter until
I saw the ad►ertisement about the railway robbery, and
I then sent the piece of waistcoating to Messrs. Nicoll,
who said that it was part of what they had lost.
The LORD Ili/Avon-111w long have you known the
prisoner? Witness--About six months. I have known
him as a dealer in woollen goods for sale.
The LORD MAYOR—Have you seen him offer such
goods as these for sale upon many occasions ? Witness
—Never before.

The Prisoner—l wish, my Lord, the proceedings in
this case to be stopped until I procure a solicitor.
The LORD MAYOR—We cannot stop the evidence.
You can employ a solicitor, if you please; but we cannot
stop the evidence.
G. W. White, a licensed victualler, in Vine•court,
Lant-street, Borough—The prisOner came to me last
week and offt,red me two or three waistcoat pieces; he
wanted 7s. 6d. each for, them, and I gave him 7s. for one
of them, and had it, made up. I delivered it up to
Haydon, the officer who came and asked me if I had
anything of the kind. I had known the prisoner, who
was in the habit of getting me cloth at the trade price.
W. Burlington, a waiter, stated that he was present at
Cox's house when the prisoner walked in and offered
three coats for sale. Two of the coats had pocket de-
tectors, and exactly resembled those produced from
Messrs. Nicoll's stock. The prisoner said either that the
coats were Nicoll's patent, or after Nicoll's patent, he did
not know which. The prisoner said he was going to
Walbrook, and upon his return in about 20 minutes be
said he had sold the two loose coats for SL, after which
he left the house with his parcel.:
The Lois MAYOR—Do you wish, prisoner, to ask any
of the witnesses any questions? The prisoner—No, my
Lord, I would rather decline it.

Michael Haydon (City officer) stated that he and
Webb and Story, his brother officers, were engaged
upon the investigation of the robbery. He found that
prisoner had at a very short notice quitted his lodging
in the Waterloo-road, and gone to Bethnal•green, and
believed that further evidence could in a few days be
producediagaitist him.
A constable in the employment of the Eastern Coun-
ties Railroad establishment said he had frequently seen
the prisoner on the platform at the terminus.
The prisoner said he did not wish to make any obser-
vation at present, but he was desirous to have the aid of
a solicitor, and that the postponement of his next exa-
mination should not be long.
The LORD MAYOR said there was quite enough of evi-
dence to authorise the prisoner's immediate committal
for trial, and that his final examination should take place
in a week.

The charge of two poor boys from Leeds against a
person who is called agent to a man in that town for
procuring apprentices to captains of ships, was post-
poned to Friday. The complainant has caused a great
deal of excitement amongst seafaring men, and the Lord
Mayor gave notice that he would most strictly investi-
gate it.

I Mr. Clarkson attended to support 4144 information,
.and after reciting the provisions of the 'various Acts of
.Parliament in force relatiag to turnpike trusts, and the
Act under which the particular trust was created, stated
the facts of the case, which went to show that Mr.
Thorne had passed down the South Lambeth-road in a
four-wheeled chaise, drawn by one horse, a distance, as
measured, of .211 yards, then along Mill-street, which
was not included in the the trust, across the Wandsworth-
road, which was in the trust, and thence out of the trust
into the Nine Elms-road, to his brewery. He would
then return by the same route, and pass through the
Vauxhall-gate without paying the toll, though the
demand had been made by the collector holding out his
heed for it. By this evasion he had rendered himself
liable to a penalty of 101., for the full amount of which
he (Mr. Clarkson), on behalf of the Commissioners,
prayed for a conviction, in order to deter others from
following Mr. Thorne's example. The course taken by
Mr. Thorne had been pursued by him every day since
the Ist of September last.
The facts, though admitted by Mr. Thorne, were for-
mally proved in evidence.
Mr. Thorne said he had no intention of evading the
toll, and had no notion that he had been guilty of com-
mitting any wrong. At one time he had thought of
waiting upon the Court to ascertain if he was acting in
error, but had abandoned that intention, leaving it to the
Commissioners to move themselves in the matter.
After a long and uninteresting discussion, in which
the law was fully explained to Mr. Thorne both by the
Magistrate and Mr. Clarkson.
Mr. NORTON convict©d the defendant in the full pe-
nalty of 101.
Mr. Clarkson said that one half of the penalty went by
law to the informer, and that they would give to the
poor-box. The second information against the defen-
dant's coachman, for adopting the same course as his
master, and under his master's directions (as that gen-
tleman admitted), they would abandon, and they would
not ask for costs.
Mr. Thorne complained loudly of the great hardship
of the case upon him, but
Mr. NORTON remarked that he had shown, by his ad-
mitting that he had contemplated socking information
as to the legality of his proceedings, that he had enter-
tained doubts, and those doubts he had felt to be re-
moved by these proceedings by the Commissioners, who
had thereby incurred a greater amount of costs than the
sum in which he had been convicted.
Mary Waghorn, a well-dressed and ladylike young
married woman, was placed at the bar, charged with
being drunk, and incapable of taking care of herself.
From the statement of Constable P 134, it appeared
that on the preceding night, about five o'clock, a gentle-
man called his attention to the defendant, who was very
drunk at the Rockingham Arms. He found her sitting
on a barrel in front of the bar, quite incapable of taking
care of herself, and she was accordingly removed to the
station-house. The constable added, that on recover-
ing her senses the lady discovered that she had been
robbed of 71. in gold, of some paper securities, only
valuable to herself, and two new cambric pocket-hand-
kerchiefs, for which two old ones had been substituted in
her pocket.
In answer to Mr. NORTON, the defendant stated that
she received the money lost the same afternoon, about
three o'clock. She got into an omnibus in the City,
thinking its direction was Somers Town, where she re-
sided, but which brought her to the Elephant and
Castle, Newington, with five or six other passengers, one
of whom was a female who sat beside her. She and the
woman both got out, when the latter asked her to treat
her, and they went to the Rockingham Arms together
and had something to drink. Here she lost her senses,
and had no remembrance of what had followed. The
money and papers were safe in her pocket when she
paid the conductor of the omnibus with half-a-crown
which she had carried ia her glove.
Mr. NORTON discharged the defendant, who, it was
clear, had been robbed, and ordered immediate steps to
be taken to secure the perpetrators.
WORSHIP-STREET.
HOCUSSING AND ROBBERY.—Thomas Smith, a young
man of notorious character, was charged before Mr.
Hammill with having been concerned, with two women
not in custody, in hocassing and stealing nearly the
whole of her clothing from the person of Jane Madden,
a young dressmaker, residing with her mother in Paul-
street, Finsbury.
The complainant stated that while proceeding towards
home, on Sunday evening, from the house of a friend, in
the Mile-end-road, where she had spent the evening, she
was suddenly stopped at the corner of Keat-street,
Spitalfields, by the prisoner and a young woman in his
company, who invited her to accompany thee to their
residence in the neighbourhood to partake of some
coffee. Before she had time to reply the pri-
soner and his oompanion seised hold of her, dragging
her down the street, forced her into one of the houses,
the door of which was instantly closed and bolted.
The prisoner then entered a room on the ground
floor, but returned almost immediately with a second
woman, who held to her lips a glass containing some
liquid, of which she compelled her to drink a small por-
tion, which completely stupefied her. They then com-
menced stripping off her clothes, and after divesting her
of her bonnet, boots, muslin dress, and almost every
other part of her apparel, they all retreated up stairs
and left her in the passage; in a state of partial insensi-
bility. As soon as she recovered her consciousness she
used her best efforts to effect her escape, but was unable
to draw back the bolts, and remained there till the fol-
lowing morning, when the door was at length opened by
a third woman, who came from another part of the house
and thrust her into the street. She soon afterwards met
a policeman, to whom she communicated the particulars
of the outrage, and he took her back to the house; but
she continued in such a state of lethargy and agitation
that she was unable at the time to identify any of the in-
mates, and having hastily dressed herself in some clothes
which were borrowed by the constable from one of the
women, she was taken home to her friends.
Police constable Donoway, H 129, stated that shortly
after five o'clock on the morning in question his atten-
tion was attracted to the last witness, who was hasten-
down the street in a state of almost entire nudity, and
crying bitterly. Having described to him the cruel
manner in which she had been treated, he returned with
her to the house, which was a notorious haunt of the
most abandoned characters cf both sexes; but she ex-
pressed her inability to recognise either of the inmates
as her assailants, and the place was closely searched,
without any part of her clothing being discovered. On
the following evening the complainant again accom-
panied him to the street, where she pointed out the pri-
soner, who was standing there with several other well-
known characters, as the man who had robbed her, and
witness at once took him into custody.
In answer to a question from the MAGISTRATE, as to
the previous character and pursuits of the prisoner,
The officers stated that he had been several times in
custody, and was connected with one of the most des
perate gangs that infested the neighbourhood of White
chapel.
The prisoner, who denied all knowledge of the trans
action, was ordered to be remanded for a week.

standingqt tradeeuras hero on
the augmented
THE CORN TRADE.
From Canada 4;489 barrels
and from foreign ports con-
siderable quantities of wheat,
of flour have come to hand;
barley, Indian corn, corn
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meal, and flour. The exports in the same time are 3,186
increased,O c 10 .
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aggregate from
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fair supply of all articles.
2,887 barrels of flour. The reports from the agricultural
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markets being firm, the depression which pervaded
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regards wheat and Indian corn, a fair demand has been
experienced daily at very full prices. On Friday oats
egnanveedw, a3ys.3odidp. etru 43591.b.id,
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and 2s. 10d. for raw. Oatmeal declined ls. and attracted
little notice. Barley was more inquired for, and, with
beans and peas, about supported previous rates. Flour
was extremely dull, and 6d. per barrel lower for Ame-
rican, and rather more for Irish. At this day's market
there was a good attendance of dealers, and a large show
of all descriptions of grain and flour. The demand for
wheat was very limited, at a decline of 2d. per 701 b. on
all kinds of old, and fully 3d. on prices of this day week
for the better qualities of Irish new, and damp inferior
samples were nearly unsaleable. There was a cessation
to decline in oats, and fine mealing could not be pur-
chased at the low rates current on Friday; sales, how-
ever, progressed' very slowly. Barley, beans, and peas
were neglected, and, in the absence of demand; prices
were nominally as last quoted. American flour was ls.
per barrel; Irish old ls., and new 25., per sack lower,
and few buyers at the reduction.
HULL, TUESDAY, OCT. 10.—The weather has been of
a varied character during the past week, but not on the
whole favourable for the latter harvest, and this appears
to have been the general case in other districts. The
condition of new wheat will in consequence bo more or
less affected, and hence we may look for as increased
drain upon old stocks, now fast vanishing. There has
been a daily and healthy consumptive business in all ar-
ticles of the trade since our last, taking off our continued
weekly imports, and where holders are firm there is no
necessity to give.way in price.., For to-day's market we
had a liberal supply of home-grown wheats, with less of
foreign than usual; the latter was more inquired for than
of late, but the business done only limited, other markets
being for the Moment below our currency. The new
wheat was generally affected by the late damp weather,
and for such there is scarcely any sale, while anything
dry meets a good demand at full last week's rates.—
Barley in small supply, particularly fine quality, which
sells well to distant maltsters; a fair sale for grinding
barley at our quotations.—Nothing done in oats.—Beans,
and also peas, are offering on, lower terms than of late;
of the latter (white) there are some very fine new on the
market at moderate rates.—English tares (winter) ex-
ceeding scarce; indeed, hardly to be met with, Some
very fine new foreign are offering in the l'ne.—We have
again a large arrival of linseed, but much going to ware-
house, and the market quite up to last week; indeed, in
some instances, rather more money is obtainable, and a
few parcels have been taken by speculators.—The bulk
of the rapeseed now arriving being for crushers' account,
the transactions in the market are only trifling, old seed
is saleable, but now a good deal neglected.—Linseed
cake easier to buy, owing to a slacker demand, from the
present mild weather; we do nor; however, alter our
quotations. Some fine foreign still on sale.—Rape cakes
continue much neglected.—The better descriptions of
guano in good dernand.—Not much doing in bones.

HUDSON'S BAY PRODUCE.—The first arrival for
; the season of the annual importation of skins and furs,
from the possessions of the Hudson's Bay Company in
the northern regions of America, has taken place. The
vessel, Prince Albert, hasi,arrived in the docks from
Hudson's Bay, having on board 47 bales, 13 casks, 14
hogshead, 28 cases, and 17 punc:leons of skins, furs, ac.,
besides six packages of castor-oil, 6T bags of feathers,
and 23 barrels of whale oil, tlyuroducts of the northern
districts mentioned. , , ,

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DINNER TO SIR C. NAPIER AT
CHELTENIIAM. -
(From the Gloucestershire Chronicle.)
On Thursday evening a banquet in honour of Sir
Charles Napier, the conqueror of Sinde, was given at
the Queen's Hotel, Cheltenham. The Rid of Ellen-
borough presided on the occasion, and the company con-
sisted of about 120 gentlemen, principally meiebers of
the military and naval professions, many of whom had
seen service, some in those extraordinary achievements
in India which have rendered British prowess more re-
nowned than ever throughout the world.
The Earl of ELLENBOROUGH, in proposing the toast
of the evening, said—Gentlemen, I have now to pro-
pose to you that we drink " The health of our illus-
trious guest, Sir Charles Napier."—( Loud cheers.) If
Sir Charles had come amongst us with no other recom-
mendations than those which have been furnished to us
by the knowledge which we possess of his great ser-
vices at the head of his regiment in the Peninsula—of
his long and most enlightened government in the
lonian Islands —of his most judicious administra-
tion of the very difficult duties entrusted, in a time
of much public commotion, to the General of the most
disturbed district of the country— we should have been
proud to have received him amongst us ; we should
have rejoiced to see him here. But, gentlemen, I pass
by those matters, however justificatory they may be of
our approbation and acknowledgment. We receive our
illustrious guest here to-day as the conqueror and ad-
ministrator of Sinde.—(Loud cheers.) We receive our
illustrious guest as a man who has carried the arms and
the empire of his country into the valley of the Indus,
and secured the establishment of its rule there by the
hold he gave it on the affections of the inhabitants of
the country.—(Cheers.) We shall ill appreciate the
services my Gallant Friend has performed if we do not
look back to the circumstances under which he entered
on that command in which he has made his name illus-
trious. He did not go, as other generals have gone to
India, to receive the command of a well appointed, self-
confidant army, in a friendly country, accustomed 'to
victory, where everything was easy to a man of the most
ordinary ability. Gentlemen, my Gallant Friend went
to Sinde almost immediately after the occurrence of a
great calamity—of a disaster, to which in its completeness
history affords no parallel since the destruction of the
legions of Varus. That disaster had shaken all India;
our allies were no longer to be trusted as heretofore; the
confidence of the troops in themselves and their officdrs
was impaired. In the midst of these difficulties, at the
moment when a combined movement perilous in charac-
ter, in the estimation of all men who understand the art
of war, was in operation for the re-occupation of Caubtil,
at that moment my Gallant Friend was placed in the
command of the army in Sinde. It has been imputed
to our gallant friend by those who have been desirous bf
undervaluing his services, that he is responsible for the
expulsion of the Ameers and the occupation of Sinde.
It is not so.—(Cheers.) My Gallant Friend is not re-
sponsible for that measure.—(Cheers.) If it were an
error, after an example of successful treachery at Caubul
which resulted in the destruction of a division of the
army and in danger to the British empire; if with such
an event it were an error summarily to punish those whb
attempted similar treason, who on the very- day that
they signed the treaty were devising the means of de-
stroying the British General by whom it was signed, If
it were an error to reward the long hereditary fidelity of the
Nawaub of Bhawulpoor, to which fidelity, on which
reward has been so well bestowed, we are indebted for
everything done at Bhawulpoor—if it were an error to
abolish slavery whenever it could be abolished—if
it were an error to bring the armies of Bombay and
Bengal into communication, to carry up the army to
protect the flank of another army, and to conduct
15,000 men to Bhawulpoor—if it were an error to bring
down yet another force to Kurrachee, with a view to
operations in the Red Sea and in Egypt, rendered
essential for our communications with India—if it were
an error to get complete control of the trade in opium to
improve the public revenue;—if, gentlemen, these are
errors, my Gallant Friend is not responsible for them
they are altogether errors to be accounted for by the!
Government which he served.—(Cheers.) My Gallant
Friend had the clear, simple, the unclouded and un-
blighted honour of having maintained and carried into
execution the instructions he received.—(Cheers.)
Without my Gallant Friend's prudence— -, ithout his
ability, it may be doubtful whether those instruc-
tions could have been properly earried out. It is
to him due that with a most careful provision
against every possible occurrence of danger he should
have had his army equipped—that he should be
able to make that almost romantic march into
the desert, which more than any other achieve.
merit of modern times has excited the enthu-
siasm of the Duke of Wellington.—(Loud cheers.)
It is due to my Gallant Friend that Hyderabad had
been taken—to him by his careful precautions the vic-
tory is to be ascribed. It is to him due that in a sub-
sequent campaign in the hills, by a most scientific
choice of position, by most extraordinarily wise and well
considered combinations in the movements in the army,
in operations conducted 70. miles from his base and com-
munications beyond the desert, that he had attacked,
totally subdued, and totally extinguished the enemy.—
(Cheers.) Gentlemen, it is to Sir Charles Napier that
the glory is to be ascribed—that, having made all the
provision possible to be made by a General for securing
the victory in battle, he himself thought of every man
else, but least of himself.—(Cheers.) He was the man
of all others who exposed himself to danger ; and he
was a brilliant example to the whole army.—(Cheers.)
It is due also to him that he always improved a victory
—(Cheers)—he never allowed a victory to be gained and
the advantages of that victory to be lost, by at once ad-
vancing on the retreating foe, and securing all those ad-
vantages. You will understand much better than I do,
as military men, the qualifications of my Gal-
lant Friend. But I venture to speak of his
services, not in a military character, but in
subjunction to his country's interests. There never has
been, is, or ever will be, any name so great as his
in Sinde, because no name but his is associated with jus-
tice—justice—justice---(Loud cheers)—to all men, in
the execution of the most unlimited power and authority.
In the state no quality excites so much admiration as
justice, because it is, of all qualities, the most rare to be
found in association with absolute power.—(Cheers.)
My Gallant Friend had absolute power in Sinde; and no
man has imputed to him one act of injustice in the exer-
cise of it.—(Cheers.) My Gallant Friend had every op-
portunity of obliging friends, of doing that most condu-
cive, I regret to say it, to the obtaining of a great name
in this country—he disdained them all; h 6 left Sinde
without having perpetrated a single job—having on all
occasions selected, to the best of his judgment, the men
best fitted to perform the duty required by the public
service. Gentlemen, I can tell you more; I can tell you
that the very men my Gallant Friend subdued joyfully
became his subjects and cultivators under him, and that
there are no men now in Sinde more contented under the
Government of this country than the very men who im-
migrated into Sinde after having been subdued by him
on the hills. I have told you facts within my own know-
ledge; Ido net believe I have stated one single cir-
cumstance.that is not perfectly correct; I do not think
that I have in any degree overrated the services my Gal-
lant Friend has performed. And now, gentlemen, I pro-
pose that we drink my Gallant Friend's health, that we
wish that for many years he may live, and that, as we
may, as men of peace, wish, he may not have another
in Europe those splendid mili-
tary of showing
tary talents for war which, above all men in existence,
he possesses, for the purpose of maintaining the honour'
and extending the empire of his country.—(Cheers.)
Sir CHARLES NAPIER in reply said, that eulogium
coming from a man like Lord Ellenborough—tt man who
is worshipped in India—a man who, throughout the
whole erspire is admired and worshipped—in an ad-
miring army honoured beyond everything, and glorying
in having his approbation—gentlemen, to be praised
by such a man is very trying to the feelings of a
zealous soldier who is unfortunate enough to be the
subject of it.--(Cheers and laughter.) But, gentlemen,
conscience obliges me to say that I was a simple
agent in the affairs that Lord Eilenborough has re-
ferred to; all orders emanated from the Governor-
General, and they were executed by the army, and in
the execution of those orders it was that I learned the
great courage and ardour of the Sepoys, when led into
battle by my brother officers.—(Cheers.) Gentlemen, I
perceive many of those officers whose intrepidity gained
me so much honour, and I shall never forget their ser-
vices; I perceive around me several of those brave men.
I am sorry to say Pool is not here, who led my own
glorious 2.2(1 Regiment, and broke the enemy with dread•
ful slaughter.—(Cheers.) But I see my gallant Welsh
artilleryman Lloyd, whose iron artillery vomited forth
death on the enemy.—(Cheers.) I see also Wiley, who
fell wounded while cheering on my friends to battle;
and I see young M'Murdo, who gallantly threw himself
sword in hand into the very midst of the enemy.—
(Cheers.) Gentlemen, I cannot look around me without
feeling all I owe to these brave men, times past come back

to my memory; I think of those far away—those who
fell fighting sword in hand, grasping their arms blood-
stained and dying.--(Cheers.) Gentlemen, when I think
of these things, the battles we have fought in.Sinde come
fresh before me vividly and glowing, like pictures new
varnished by the painter, and then I feel utterly unable
to express my feelings of obligation to those troops to
whom under Lord Ellenborough, and after his departure
under Lord Ilardinge, I owe whatever ;merit attaches to
the zealous soldier who has tried to execute that portion

of the duty which is assigned to military men, leaving
the disposal of events to that great Power who, in the
words of the poet, '6 binds Nature fast by faith, leaves
free the human will."—(Cheers.) Gentlemen, I will not
detain you any longer by my nonsensical gabble.—
(Cheers.)' But the high encomiums of Lord Ellenbo-
rough, lam free to say that amongst so many of my
countrymen, have prfectly overset me. I therefore
drink all your good healths; and I thank Lord Eilenbo-
rough for all his support of me, I may say, in the coarse
language of military men, against a set of damned
scoundrels—(Laughter)—and without whose support I
should have been crushed by a rascally press and a ras-
cally Government.—(Loud cheers.) But I will say no
more•—(Renewed cheers.)
Sir CHARLES NAPIER again rose and said—Gentle-
men, I do not like to trespass on your attention again,
but Lord Ellenborough has confided to me a toast
which I shall drink with all my heart and soul. He
has desired me, and it is with great cheerfulness that I
propose " The health of the Army in India."—(Cheers.)
An apprenticeship of seven years with the army and
soldiers of the three presidencies has made me master in
the art. I have served an apprenticeship, and am eter-
nally attached during the rest of my life to the Indian
army.—(Cheers.) I can speak of my services—l have
served now fifty-four years in the Queen's service, and
I love the Queen's service ; but I love alio the Indian
army, and I feel to all intents and purposes a &Toy of
the Indian army.—(Loud cheers.) A great many were
not aware of the position of the Indian army. I my-
self went out to India, having rtad, as most foolish
people do, some few things—tbr none of us study our
profession as we ought to do. I went out to India an
ignoramus is 1841, thinking that
.India might be bi-