The Sun.
London, England, 1848-09-09 00:00:00

O'Brien then. left the collieries, with his insurgent
followers.

AFFRAY BETWEEN TilE MILI-
TARY AND THE POLICE.
The High-street and Lawumarket presented, about 7
o'clock on Saturday evening, a scene of great confusion
and excitement, from the occurrence of an affray between
some soldiers of the 21st Scotch Fusiliers, at present
stationed in the Castle, and the police, which soon at-
tracted a large crowd. The origin of the affair seems to
have been the determined opposition offered by a small
party of soldiers at the foot of the Castlehill to the
efforts of two policemen, who endeavoured to induce
theni to move away from the door of a shop around
which they had assembled, to the obstruction of the
thoroughfare. The policeman having insisted on their
removal, a soldier struck one of the constables a severe
blow, when they seized him, and endeavoured to convey
him to the police-office. The rest of the party inter-
fered, and a struggle took place, in which the police
were severely beaten, but a small reinforcement of
constables, under Sergeant-Major Kelly, having reached
the spot, three of the principal ringleaders among the
soldiers were apprehended, along with two workmen
who bad joined them in resisting the police. The
crowd, which had assembled in large numbers, hooted
and jostled the police, who had literally to fight their
way to the police-office with the prisoners; and as many
soldiers were on their way to the Castie at the time,
efforts were made to induce them to attempt a rescue,
which, we are glad to say, they declined. The whole of
the prisoners were ultimately lodged in the police-office;
but the excitement on the street being still very great,
and as a number of soldiers seemed determined upon a
rescue, the police patrolled the Lawnmarket and the
Castlehill to prevent further disturbance. Mr. Moxey,
the superintendent of police, immediately proceeded to
the Castle, and, after an interview with the commanding
officer of the regiment, a strong picket was drawn up on
the Esplanade, and several of the officers displayed great
activity in collecting the stragglers on the street, and
sending them to the Castle. The bugles were also
sounded on the Castlehill to call in the soldiers, and in a
short time all apprehension of further disturbance was
removed. On Sunday the Sergeant-Major, accompanied
by Urquhart and Chisholm, the two police-officers who
were assaulted, proceeded to the Castle, where, on the
troops being called forth, they were enabled to identify
four of the principal rioters. In the afternoon Colonel
Deer caused the regiment to be drawn up in the Barrack-
square, where he addressed them in appropriate terms on
the unseemly outrage which had been occasioned
the evening previous by those whose duty it was to pre-
serve the peace of the community, and threatened that
on any soldier being found guilty of a like offence, he
would be dealt with according to martiallaw. On Mon-
day seven privates of the Fusiliers were brought before
Bailie Tait, charged with being participators in the dis-
turbance. Two of them were sentenced to 60, and one
to 40 days' imprisonment, and the other four were fined
in two guineas, or 30 days in prison. The two work-
men alluded to, named Menelaus and Campbell, were
convicted of assisting the soldiers and attempting to de-
force the police, and were each sentenced to 60 days' im-
prisonment. Two other soldiers of the above regiment
were sent to prison for 40 days, for committing a disturb-
ance in one of the closes in the High-street on Saturday,
and striking the police.—Edinburgh Witness.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, Sept. 8.
(Before Mr. Commissioner FANE.)
IN RE STEPHEN KEEN.
The certificate of the bankrupt, a brick-maker, of
Hillingdon, was opposed by Mr. COOKE, on behalf of
the assignees, on the ground that he had traded in ac-
commodation bills, and shown an undue preference. The
bankrupt's debts and liabilities were about 7,0001., and
his assets are small. The capital with which he com-
menced was 2,3741.

One or two of the peasants engaged in ;the insur-
rection have become approvers, and their depositions
are in tb.a hands of the Crown solicitor.
The Sub-Sheriff, Mr. Going, is now preparing the
summonses for the grand jury, which will be served
to-morrow. The Sheriff is to summon the members
of the,grand pannel, to serve on the petit juries at this
commission.

The Freeman of this morning contains the following
letter from Mr. John O'Connell:—
" TO THE REPEALERS OF IRELAND.

His HONOUR suspended the certificate twelve months,
without protection, chiefly on the ground that the bank-
rupt had shown an undue preference to Messrs. Poyn-
der and Co. lime merchants, in assisting them in obtain-
ing nearly the whole of his property.
IN RE CHARLES HUMFREY, JUN.
The bankrupt, who carried on business at Cambridge
as a banker, and also at Camberwell, as a merchant,
came up for his last examination. Subjoined is an ab-
stract of his balance-sheet, from the 9th of November,
1844, to the 31st of July, 1848:

" London, Sept., 1848.
" Fellow-countrymen,—What other hope is there for
Ireland but in the Repeal? What other chance is there
for staying, and at length turningback, the rushing cur-
rent of our ruin?
" What else can save the empire? For Ireland's ruin
must drag down with it the mighty fabric which in
times of peril has so often found in her its stoutest
bulwark.
" Poor laws cannot save us! They are eating into
the vitality of our last resources, and yet are not saving
the people. For one family which they have rescued
from death to a state, as it were, of life in death, five,
six, aye more, have sunk under the tortures of starva-
tion and utterly perished.
" And meantime the owner of land, the holder of land,
and the rate-payer in towns, are all alike being crushed
down by the burden of these poor- laws and the ever-
increasing misery of the country to the same common
level of impoverishment and distress.
" We are told, indeed, that 'industry' and 'energy,' and
the total and final 'relinquishment of all political agita-
tion' will prove our great and savine. remedies. Energy'
on the part of' the employers of labour,' industry' on
that of the employed, and the abandonment of ' agita-
tion' on the part of all.
" But we are not told by what magic the landowners,
crippled in their means by the reaction of their tenantry's
repeated losses upon them, can so enlarge their expendi-
ture as to furnish employment even to one-half of the
multitudes in need of it.
" Neither are we told how the farmers are to be in-
duced to spend what little store they may yet have by
theni in essaying 'improvements' in order to give in-
creased employment, when the value and fruit of those
improvements must be even' more precarious than ever,
inasmuch as the necessity of the times is sharpening
that grasping avidity of the landlord class, so rife and so
desolating in Ireland, and so little checked or heeded by
Parliament. -
" Nor yet are we told how the problem of sustaining
and employing the entire peopleof a populous country
merely by and in agriculture alone (a problem found, of
course, impossible of solution, even before the' late
calamities betel us) can be solved now, when so large a
portion of our agricultural prodtice is endangered, and
not a little already gone and utterly lost.
" The abandonment of agitation' will scarce make up
for the deficiency of the other means' of becoming
prosperous, to which we are advised by our English
counsellors and their miserable copyists in Ireland. In
truth it would be fruitful but in evils of its own.
" The loss of the poor- privilege of- complaint—the
closing up of the long accustomed vent for our accumu-
lated and accumulating griefs—would make our suffer-
ings tenfold harder to be borne, and entail-upon the state
the inevitable-peril that embittered feelings and passions
too closely pant up and repressed Might explode in wild
convulsion and social ruin.
-"The horrible system of eitermination would receive
a new impulse when its atrocities were no longer dragged
to light by the agency of a popular association. A
similar impunity would encourage the petty tyrannies
: and stinging vexations of the people by the little local
despots of the police and magistracy; and the base devices
now at work to enslave our church—to corrupt the edu-
cation of our youth--,and to detach—(Blessed Heaven!
how hopeless the attempt!)—to-detach from the people
the priesthood, whom they revere and love, will also be
newly stimulated to a more nefarious activity than ever.
" There is but one thing that could ever make as even
for a time accept this otherwise most base, most ruinous
council of political silence and submissiveness,—if we
thought---if we_ could think—if a hope, or the shadow. of
a hope, were held out that our quiescence would insure a
merciful dealing to the men (victims of their own mad-
ness certainly, but far more the victims of the long and
cruel misgovernment of their country by England) who
now lie nominally at the mercy of the Government, but
really subject to whatever the ferociotis promptings of
the felon' Times may make that Government consider
advisable to propitiate the alarmed cowardice of inter-
national prejudice and conscious oppression.
" Yes, we could thus be won to silence for a time—
thus be bribed to choke down into the throat the cry of
oar distress, and the loud demand for our rights.
" We could be content to suffer for a time in silence,
if that silence won for those now in prison that calm,
and full, and rightly-merciful consideration which ought
to be given to the case of men whose country's cruel
wrongs so fatally stung them into madness I
" It is for the people of Ireland to determine whether
thiroTiportunity for most politic, most blessed mercy,
shall be given to our English masters. If the decision
be for agitation, immediate or more remote, I claim,
whenever the renewed attempt is to be made, that I may
be permitted to brave among the first what are supposed
to be its perils.
" The imbecile malice of my Lord Glengall, and the
threatenings of the absentee Lord Lansdowne, are to us,
Repealers, but as the idle wind! The great body of the
Irish Repealers—the great body of the Irish people,
have been steady in using no other means to obtain their
rights than those which, if the constitution did not recog-
nise and protect, it would itself be a mockery and a
nullity.
"And we will not lightly surrender what yet remains
to us of the constitution in Ireland.
" Let me now, brother Repealers, pray your attention
to the pressing consideration connected with our move
men t.

Dr.
To creditors unsecured
Ditto holding security
Liabilities on bills .•• •••
To sundry creditors of the late firm of
Charles Humfrey and Son, bankers, of
Cambridge
.. 12,865 1 8
To Messrs. Grote, Prescott, and Co., who
hold mortgages on the real estate of
the late C. Humfrey, sen.
To capital ...
To profits of trade

s. d.
7,840 17 0
6,360 13 6
840 4 6

6,583 6 4
693 1 11

8,623 0 10

£43,770 5 9

Cr.
By debtors, estimated to produce
By bad debts
By property in patents
By property in estates mortgaged
By losses ...
Trade expenses ...
Domestic expenses
By liabilities

£l2O 0 0
1,494 9 11
5 0 0
4,500 0 0
6,430 16 8

... 8,050 11 0
... 1,916 15 8
... 20,252 12 6

...

243,770 5 9
Among the unsecured creditorsi to the amount of
18,2651 Is. Bd., are J. and B. Barsham, Cainbridge,
150/.; executors of Mr.-Cambridge, 5201; Sarah Cliff,
3HE53e81
.nters;; William ap;mjoCollin,hn Hudson, A
.75
011
,8514e:r
Henry Collin, 1831.; Chas.
Wm. Hall, 5591.; Lambert Hotokin, Kensington, 690/.;
2154 ; Carner, 4531.;
Surnton, 3854 ; Wm. Talbot, 1,206/. ; F. Thackeray,
Robert Peters, 2031. ; Arch.
2041. • Charles Thurnall, 394/ ; Robert Wiles, 8451. ;
John 'Whitehead, 2001; Thos. Worsley, 534/.
No opposition was offered, and the bankrupt passed
his last examination, with an intimation from the Com-
missioner that he should review the circumstances at-
tendant upon the banktuptcy, when the bankrupt came
up for his certificate.,

IN RE TREVERS AND TREVERS.
The bankrupts, who'had carried on business at Wal-
worth, as builders', applied for their certificates.
His HONOUR postponed .the certificates, and said he
would not allow the bankrupts to apply again until cer-
tain property was given up, whieh they had assigned to
their relatives by bills of sale:

CE IN THE HOT ASHES or MOUNT ETNA.—The
main crater is about 500 feet deep at this time (so say the
guides); but I think this must be measured down the
slope of the funnel. I could not, however, see to the
bottom, owing to volleys of sulphureous smoke, whirling
up ever and anon, accompanied by a rumbling noise, and
occasionally by a slight vibration of the ground under
foot. Here I found, amid warm ashes, on the slope of
the crater within, heavy crystals of ice set all at one
angle, and curved like sharks' teeth. I picked up one
bit as big as a walnut, and asked the guide if he could
account for its Presence. Far be it from him to give a
rationale of anything of the sort; it would derogate from
the dignity of Etna. It reminded me of a chemical ex-
-periment played off by a French savant at one of the late
" Scienziati" meetings. He.made water freeze in a red-
hot cup. The silver platina being brought to a red heat,
a few drops of water are thrown in, which do not evapo-
rate, but jump about. Sulphuric acid is now _poured in,
which in the act of boiling produces so intense a cold by
the disengagement of its latent heat, that the_ drop of
water- at once turns to ice. I opine the chemical process
here to be the same, only on nature's grand scale. The
morning mists supply the moisture, and within the crater
there is no lack of sulphureous mixture boiling as if in a
retort; hence as hot fumes ascend, the crystals of ice are
precipitated. If any one rejects this solution of mine,
let them find a better, remembering that they are to ac-
count for pieces of ice forming on a bed of warm ashes.
This principle of " disengagement of latent heat" may
also help to account for the severity of the cold felt on
Etna, which is far greater than is due to its elevation.--
Francis's Notes on Italy and Sicily.
THE REWARD OF MERIT.—"A Lochaber-man in
London" sends us the following:—" Some years ago
Duncan Macnaughten left Fort William, his native
Highland home," in the humble but honourable
capacity of a private soldier of the Ist or_ Grenadier
regiment of Foot Guards, in which aristocratic
corps, with no patronage or other aid save his
own good conduct and other soldierly qualities,
with a sufficient quantum of Highland pride to spur
him on, he gradually attained to the highest grade
under a commission. A short time since, in presence
of the whole regiment, drawn out on parade for the
purpose, his colonel, after a flattering eulogy
upon his uniformly good behaviour, decorated his
breast with a handsome silver medal, bearing on one
side the likeness of his Sovereign, and on the
other the inscription " for long and meritorious
services." To crown these marks of Royal favour, this
day (15th August) his name appears in the Gazette as
' Quartermaster of the 13th;' that regiment which bore
so conspicuous and distinguished a part in the recent
operations on the banks of the Sutlej. This proves that,
even in these piping times of peace,' merit will ensure
promotion in the British army."—lnverness Courier.
THE LATE SUSPICIOUS FIRE IN FETTER-LA.NR.—
Last night, Mr. Payne held a third and last inquiry at
the White Hart, Fetter-lane, into the circumstances at-
tending a fire which occurred on the morning of Wed-
nesday week last, on the premises of Mr. Thompson,
machine ruler, of No. 17, King's Head-court. It will be
remembered that, at the last meeting, Mr. Thompson
stated that he entertained strong suspicions against a
certain person, and that the inquiry was then adjourned
at his request. Mr. Thompson was again in attendance,
and so also was Mr. Elliott, to whom Mr. Thompson had
alluded. The first witness of importance called was
Robert Gloag, of No. 15, Blackmoor-street, Drury-lane,
stationer. He said—l met Mr. Elliott about a week
before the fire. Mr. Elliott was Mr. Thompson's
landlord. I knew there was some animosity be-
tween them. I said to Mr. Elliott, " I understand
Mr. Thompson is going to leave your premises;"
and he replied, that he would follow him wherever
he went, and make him pay fur it. Understood that
the disappointment arose in consequence of Mr.
Thompson having made some irregularity in his notice
to quit. Mr. Elliott, of George-yard, Drury-lane, ex-
plained that the disagreement between Mr. Thompson
and himself was such as constantly occurred between
landlords and tenants. He had merely expressed his
determination of following Mr. Thompson if he left
without proper notice. Several of the jurors said they
were perfectly satisfied with the explanation, and they
were sorry that Mr. Thompson should have brought so
frivolous a charge. After some further evidence the
Coroner summed up, informing the jury that they were
not called upon to inveatighte any charges. It was
merely a court of inquiry to ascertain how the fire ori-
ginated. The jury, after a lengthened deliberation, re-
turned the following special verdict----" That the house,
No. 17, King's Head-court, was burnt on the morning of
August 30, by fire; but there is not sufficient evidence
before the jury to enable them to say how that fire oc-
curred; and the jury cannot separate without expressing
their censure that Mr. Thompson should have brought
so many shavings from his last place of residence, and
have lett them in a loose state in the room in which the
fire occurred."
ROYAL CALEDONIAN ASYLUM.---A quarterly ge-
neral Court of the Governors of this institution, Saok
place on Thursday at the rooms in Crane-court, Fleet-
street, when the chair was occupied by Mr. Simpson, the
treasurer. The minutes of the recent meetings of the
committee were read by Mr. Burney, secretary, the chief
feature in which was the appointment of himself as se-
cretary arid superintendent. Mr. W. Hamilton moved
the confirmation of the minutes, with the exception of
that portion relative to Mr. Burney, with whose appoint-
menthe_telt much dissatisfied. He considered it impolitic
on the part of the directors to have appointed an in-
dividual, who had encouraged and fostered all kinds of
unpleasantness amongst the officers. The speaker then
proceeded to make a series of charges against Mr. Bur

"The hall in which of late we met—the adjoining pre-
mises which are hallowed by the recollections of the
Catholic Association—these must speedily be disposed
of, if you are unable to supply funds for their longer
maintenance.

"It is true that our agitation is not of necessity bound
down to one special locality. It is true that we can easily
move elsewhere if Conciliation-hall and the Corn•Ex-

change-rooms must be abandoned. The agitation that
defeated Peel and Wellington, and_wrung emancipation
from a hostile monarch and Parliament, had its begin-
nings in a petty back room, hired but for each meeting;
and there is far too much of our old organization re-
maining to think that we shall fall back again so low.
" But, although repeal shall not be found hopelessly
bound up with the fate of Conciliation-hall and the

-
Corn-Exchange-rooms, yet it were well, if possible, to
preserve them to the people. It is for you, Repealers of
Ireland, to say if this shall be done; we of the com-
mittee have done our part. Of private efforts Ido not
wish to speak; but this much it is well that you should
know, that in what regards the maintenance of the hall
and the adjoining house we, whether in public or in pri-
vate, can, without you, henceforward do no more!
" If within the course of the present month you can-
not come to the rescue, it will become inevitably neces-
sary to advertise and to dispose of, as best can be done,
the scenes of our former labours. Whatever be the pro-
duce of the sale, the yet remaining liabilities of the asso-
ciation shall be first discharged; and then, if any
plus shall remain, it shall be vested in such members of

committee ai may choose .to undertake the trust,
for the use and benefit of the association when the latter
resumes its sittings.
".I make this announcement with deep grief; but it is
a duty to let you, the Repealers of Iceland, know the
condition to which matters have come by reason of the
political paralysis with which the results of the madness
of a very small portion of the community has afflicted
the whole body politic. _ _

" You can prevent the necessity I announce if you be
so minded. A small, if regular and constant, effort would
be sufficient. But, if division, depression, and distress

indispose your minds to any exertion at this time, the
course of things must be as I say; and when again we
meet in the Repeal Association it must be in a new home.
" Two subjects yet press on me, brother Repealer;
ere I conclude. A worthy descendant of the Duke of
Leinster of '79 and 'B2—a true Geraldine—is in the
field for Ireland ! He does not, indeed, as yet declare

for that full measure of Ireland's rights which his illus-
trious ancestor so,nobly asserted ; but his heart is for
Ireland, his high feelings, his generous s) mpathies, his

sound reason, all engaged in her cause; and we can as-
suredly wish well to him and his,high-spirited associates,
although we cannot forego—can never compromise nor
surrender, the great object of our hopes and labours—
the total repeal of the accursed union!

". The other matter I can dispatch in still fewer words.
It is the speech which Ministers have this day put into
the mouth of her Most Gracious Majesty. How con-
sistent is it not with the whole sad history of English
mismanagement of Ireland! Distraction, severity, and
distress—distress, severity, and distraction; these are
its Irish topics, as these have been of royal speeches
about Ireland for many a melancholy year!
" And thus it will be to the'end of the chapter, if the
terrible winter before us do not complete our ruin, and
blot out the Irish people from among the nations!
" I am, brother Repealers, with great respect, your
faithful, and to the death devoted tellow-labourer,
" JOHN O'CONNELL."

ney, such as irregularity, and grosi extravagance in the
payment of accounts. Dr. Stuart seconded the motion,
expressing his deep regret at the want of harmony in
the institution. The Rev. Dr. Cumming defended Mr.

Burney, whilst he admitted that there had been a want
of prudence arid discretion on his part. Mr. Burney
endeavoured to explain, but was advised not to perse-
vere. 4t length the motion was carried by a majority
of seven to three. The next business was the selling
out of stock. There was at present only 100/. in hand,
and it was likely that the quarter bills would amount
to nearly 1,000/. The chairman. moved that the direc-
tors be empowered to sell out 7501. stock. The motion

was carried. Mr. Lindsey said the female children
should b& retained in the school until they were 15
years,old, instead of 14. The matter was referred to a
COrn mittee.

A RAILWAY UNDER WATER.— On- the express
train, which left Carlisle at twenty-seven minutes past
one, o'clock on Thursday afternoon,arriving at Garstang
about four o'clock, the passengers were greatly surprised
and alarmed at finding the red signals up, and all the
passengers of the penny a mile train, which had pre-
ceded them, out of their carriages, and standing on the
line. On cautiously coming up they found that the rails
in the Barnacro cutting were nearly two feet' deep in the
water fir the space of about a mile, by which no less
than five trains were prevented from pursuing their re-
spective journeys; and it was several hours before this
extraordinary flood subsided sufficiently to let them
pass, in doing which the greatest caution had to be used.
The water is supposed to have comp from the Bleasdale
Fell, over which a violent thunder-storm, accompanied
by torrents of rain, had burst but a short time previous
to the line being immersed in the water.
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BURNING A HORSE.— SOHAM, CAMBRIDGESHIRE.
—On Wednesday last Mr. Thonaas, the secretary of the
Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals,
visited this town to obtain evidence against, and prose-
cute a person residing here for perpetrating the follow-
ing act of cruelty. It appears that the person in question
was carting wheat, and employed a horse to assist in
drawing a waggon heavily laden, when the animal being
what is termed a " jib.' refused' to pull. The driver
coaxed, flogged, and kicked the horse but all to no pur-
pose. Determined, however, not to be foiled, ho
at
length caused a fire to be lighted underneath the animal, ,
which made desperate efforts to escape from the flames;
but, being unable to do so, was shockingly burned.
These circumstances, it is stated, could have been proved,
but the time within which proceedings could be taken
under the Act for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
had elapsed a few days, and a prosecution could not be

sustained.
WHOLESALE ESCAPE OF CONVICTS.—On Thursday
night, after or during prayers, six convicts in the York
hulk, moored off Gosport, effected'their escape in a boat
belonging to that ship, and got away, steering up the
harbour, where the boat was found yesterday morning
near Portchester Castle, about three miles from the
dockyard. Four of them are said to have belonged to
the ship's gig, used in conveying to and from-she shore
the convict keepers, chaplain, and other officers con-
nected with the establishment, and one of them a eon!
vict who has" been twice before sentenced to•tran;porta-
tion. Up to last night none of the convicts had been re-
captured.

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H.E. SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EV.ESTING, S PTEMBRR

green silk purse, containing a half-Forereign and Ss. 6d.
in silver.

Complainant stated that on the previous evening she
and three other ladies went out for a walk as far as
Hampstead, and on the Heath they hired four donkeys
of the prisoners. After riding about for some time
they alighted, and sent into the garden of a tavern in
order to obtain some refreshment; she almost imme-
diately afterwards missed her purse and money, she
therefore gave the prisoners into custody.
In answer to the magistrate, complainant said—While
riding upon my donkey I pulled up to give sixpence to
a poor woman, but she did not come close enough to me
to rob me. I know that after I had relieved her I re-
turned my purse to my pocket. The donkeys remained
outside the gate at the tavern, and so did the prisoners,
who were waiting for us to come out.

Police-constable 75 S said that the prisoners were
searched at the station, but that neither the purse nor
cash was found.

Mr. BROUGHTON (to Brown)—What is your answer to
this charge ? Mr. Brown—l'll tell you all about it,
your worship. The ladies got on the donkeys, and I
and my mate drove them as nicely as possible for a long
while ; they were all smoking cigars while they were
mounted, and we had cigars too ; they also paid for four
or five pots of strong ale, which we drank among the lot
of us, and besides that they were kind enough to pay for
a lot of biscuits for the animals. On the way one or two
of the ladies tumbled right-off into the road, and he had
the trouble of picking 'em up and clapping 'em on the
saddle again. I know nothing about the "pus " nor the
money.
Mr. BROUGHTON—This seems to be a very curious
story altogether. (To the officer)—Did the ladies appear
to have been drinking ? Offictr—Yes, sir ; they were
certainly rather elevated.
Madame, on being questioned by the magistrate, said
she was not in the habit of smoking cigars when in Lon-
don, but she thought there was no harm in indulging in
that way when out for a little recreation in the country.
She further said, that, in regard to what had been said
respecting the ale, that the donkey-drivers drank the
greater portion of it.
Brown said it was no such thing, and that the ladies
took quite as much as their share of the " lot."
Jones, the usher of the Court, said that Madame's face
was grazed, and it was evident that she had had a fall,
as had been described.

Mr. BROUGHTON waS of opinion that the ease was not
strong enough against the prisoners, and ordered their
discharge.

THAMES.

Two notorious smashers; named William Grciinger and
George Fuller, who have Jately•transferred their busi-
ness to the vicinity of Stratford, were brought up by
Police-constable Benton, 381 K, charged with having
passed a counterfeit half-crown on a publican at Bow.
The constable, who was in plain clothes, observed them
going into several houses, and, being aware of their cha-
racter, watched their proceedings. When 'they left the
house of the complainant, Benton went in and asked
whether they had tendered him any money, and he re-
plied that he had changed a half-crovin for them. He
then found that it was bad one, and the prisoners were
taken into custody.
Mr. BALLANTINE—Where is the half-crown? Ben-
ton—l beg your Worship's pardon, but it is not to be
had. I marked it on one side and gave, it to the ser-
geant, but somehbw or it cannot be-found.
POLICE INTELLIGENCE. Sergeant-Waters, who took the charge, said the coun-
terfeit half-crown had been placed on-the table in the
BOW-STREET. charge-room. He had occasion to leave the room for a
John. Dols he practical cmist, carrying on business short time, another constable being in charge of the pri-
at 289, Strand, appeared before Mr. Jardine to answer loners, and on his return the half-crown was gone in a
a cmPlabst!preferred against him by Mr. Ebenezer Wild, most mysterious manner. One of the prisoners had been
a wood engraver, residing in, the same house, for having observed to approach the table, when he no doubt con-
exposed a chemical preparation close to his room, at the trived to swallow the half-crown, for fie immediately
top of the honse, by which the health of his wife and afterwards asked for a draught of water.
children were 'dangerously affected. Paa,l7 H, said the prisoners were well known, having
The further, hearing of the case was adjourned on been before in custody for similar offences, and Grainger's
Thursday evening, for the purpose of having this corn- capacity of swallowing half-crowns bad been frequently
pound (which 'emitted a most offensive effluvia) analysed tested. On one occasion he snatched one out of the
by some competent persori, and 'the defendant was or- hands of an officer and bolted it.
dered to enter into his recognisance in the sum- of 1001. The prisoners, who made no defence, were remanded
to attend again. •: for the attendance of the solicitor to the Mint.
The complainant stated. that on Wednesday morning WORSHIP-STREET.
he left home on business, at Which time the family were Richard Bailey and Thomas Sawl were finally ex-
in the enjoyment of excellent health, and in the course amined before Mr. Arnold, charged with having stolen
of the afternoon he was met by his son in .the Strand, thirteen dozen of prepared skins, the property of Mr. J.
who informed him that the. infant, only nine weeks H. Heckman, an extensive furrier in John-street, and
old, and its mother, were suddenly taken seriously Chicksand-street, Spitalfields.
ill, in consequence of the shocking ealuvia caused by It appeared that the skins in question had been depo-
the. defendant s upon which he hurried home, and sited by some of the posecutor's workmen in a large
discovered a white saucer on the landing-place near store-room in Thrawl-street, near his warehouse, on
to his bed-room, the contents of which appeared to be Saturday, the 2d inst., and fa the course of the same
ignited, and the smoke and smell were most intolerable, evening it was discovered that the place had been forci-
His wife was at the street door, to which she had gone bly entered, and the property in question, together with
to recover her breath, having the infant in her arms in a a large quantity of other peltry, carried off. Suspecting
dying state from exhaustion. The other children were that the plunder would be promptly conveyed to Petti-
not able to stand, and each of them was gasping for coat-lane, to be disposed of, the prosecutor • dispatched
breath. He took possession of the saucer, and having his foreman on the following-morning to make inquiries
wrapped it in paper, took it to Dr. Walker, 101, Drury- there, when he was informed by the wife of a small
lane, but not being at home, his assistant examined the furrier, named Isaacs, that a sample of such skins had
contents, and said that the greater part was assafetida, been offered to her husband that morning by two men,
at the same time directing him to keep the children in who promised to call with the bulk in the course of an
the open air to prevent them from being suffocated. The hour. While the foreman was in conversation with Mrs.
defendant's servant informed him that his master di- Isaacs, the prisoners made their appearance, carrying a
rected him to place the saucer close to the bed-room large package, which was dropped as soon as they caught
door, for the purpose of sufl'ocatiug the family, or cons- sight of them, and darted away in different directions.
pelting them to give up the apartments. Witness im- Upon opening the package, it was found to contain thir-
mediately demanded of the defendant why he had teen dozen of the 'skins, which he conveyed back to his
acted in such a manner, and he admitted that he master's premises, and gave information to the police,
had conducted himself in a very proper manner which ended in the apprehension of the prisoner Sawl
since he became his lodger, and, making a laugh on the same afternoon. The capture of the other pri-
of the matter, said that his wife had called Mrs. sonar was effected under rather curious circumstances
Dolby one of the "seum of the earth," for which by. Police-constable Gifford, who had taken him into
he was determined to get them out of the house. custody with another notorious thief about three weeks
The defendant said he had no such article as assafos- previously, for attempting to pick pockets at White-
tide on his premises, and the reason why he used the chapel. On that occasion the prisoner contrived to
chloride of lime, which was in a concentrated form, was effect his escape from the officers, but the handcuffs
to purify the foul air coming from the rooms occupied with which his wrists were secured were returned to
by the complainant ; besides he wanted to get rid of the the station-house by a little boy, who told the inspec-
family ; and as the fumes of
:his laboratory were not tor, with great apparent artlessness, that he had
offensive to him or his wife, he could see no reason why picked them up in the street, and as he was wholly
the lodgers, to whom he had given notice to quit, ob- unacquainted with the nature of such implements, he
jetted to them. thought it best to hand them over to 'the police; but
Mr. JARDINE said he could see no justification for the supposed innocent had only been a short time dis-
placing noxious ingredients on the landing-place for the missed, with a compliment upon his honesty, when he
sole purpose of annoying the family of a hardworking was brought back upon a charge of picking pockets, and
and industrious man. having been identified as, an accomplished young thief,
Mr. Hooper, chemist and druggist, of Great Russell- he was subsequently committed for three months to the
street, Covent-garden, who had been sent for by the ma- House of Correction. The officer Gifford had been since
gistrate, said that the matter produced gave out a gas, engaged in constant efforts to effect Bailey's apprehen-
but not of such a character as to prove fatal, unless per- sion, but without success until Sunday evening, when he
sons were confined for a considerable time in the same was accidentally met and secured after a long chase;
apartment. He considered that it was not chloride of and on being conveyed to the station he was recognized
lime, as it had ignited. by the prosecutor's foreman as the man who had endeas
r. William • Miller, professor of chemistry, in the voured to dispose of the skins in conjunction with the
King's College Hospital, said that, at the request of the other prisoner. , •
court, he had examined the article sent to him, and it con- In defence, the prisoner Bailey denied all cognizance
tamed phosphorate of lime and phosphate of cusium, and of the robbery, in which he was confirmed by the other
he considered that if it was placed on a staircase next to prisoner, who declared that he had employed him to
an inhabited room, it would be not only extremely dis- carry skins, without telling him how they came into his
agreeable, but also injurious to health, although there possession.
were other gases more destruCtive. It was not used for They were both fully committed for trial.
the purposes of health or cleanliness, but was rather a Mr. ARNOLD announced his receipt of a donation of
chemical curiosity than anything else. In the course of 15s. for Sarah Ladd; from " F.W.L.'
againstCwLa
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thieves
whoide r a
wb leer e time
app r ien.
half an hour such stuff might make a child very sick. lf •
The defendant said that in the manner he had used it
oT
chargesyrwhit t
he would not mind taking two gallons of it. heaMrirn.
Mr. Henry Davies, 14S Clarendon-square, Somers- hended at New Bartholomew Fair, New North-road, Is-
town, surgeon, proved that he attended Mrs. Wild in her lington, for attempting to pick pockets.
last confinement, and left her and her family in perfect Mr. TYRWIIITT inquired of the officers who it was
health about a week back. Yesterday morning 'he was that got up the fair?--s-An inspector of police replied
again sent for, and 'he found her in a weak state, from that two men, named Crawford and Lowe, engaged the
excessive flurrying, and it would be some time before she land upon which it was held, and paid 401. for the use
would be restored to health. The eldest boy was also of it. They afterwards let it out in allotments to persons
very ill, complaining of his head, and appearing very who paid so much per foot -for the parts they occupied,
heavy. The entire of the Children, who were kept in a and were allowed to erect theatrical and other booths.
very clean and neat condition, were more or less indis- The land belonged to a respectable builder in Islington,
posed, with the exception' of the infant, which appeared and ever since Monday last, on which day the fair corn-
not to suffer much. All the children were evidently tnenced, it was the greatest nuisance to the neighbour-
affected by a tainted atmosphere, which might have been hood.
caused by noxious vapours such as might be caused by Mr. TYRWEITT said he was surprised that something
chloride of lime disengaged. was not done to prevent the nuisance. The fair was
Mr. JARDINE, having ascertained that the complainant perfectly illegal, and must be a great annoyance to the
wished the case-to be sent to the sessions, said he would public, if he might judge from the numerous thieves and
at a future day commit the 'defendant for the misde- ruffians that had been brought before him, charged with
meanour; and, as it would be only just for him to procure offences there since Monday last.
the opinion of some practical person to explain what the Mr. Mould, the clerk, . said that these fairs were held
stuff was composed of, he should allow him to enter into all over the country. The persons who got them up
his own recognizance in the sum of 100/. to appear again were clearly liable to indictment for the nuisance.
in a week. Mr. TYRWMITT concurred, and said that the authori-
MARLBOROUGH-STREET. ties of Islington ought, fdr- the peace and respecta-
Louis -Preeos, who described himself as an interpreter, bility of their parish, to use efforts to put down such a
preferred the folloWingeharge ' against M. Aimable De- nuisance. • -•
'atoll°, the proprietor of the Boulogne Hotel in Leicester- No less than twenty young thieves were committed to
place. the House of Correction; with hard labour, for various
The complainant said be was standing near the Hotel terms; and numerous vagabonds and roulette tables, and
de l'Europe, in Leicester-square, when a cabman, with a other -gambling implements, were brought up by the
fare inside, asked him where abe Prince of Wales Hotel police, and committed, some for six weeks, and others
was situated. Being in the position of commissionare for two months each,_ to the House of Correction, with
to that hotel, he volunteered to show tile way. While hard labour.
thus piloting the cab, he had occasion to pass the de- LAMBETH.
fendant's hotel, which was next door' to the Prince of Adolphus Von Zwahl, alias the Rev.-William Liebrech,
Wales. The defendant was at the door, and seeing the a German, who has been in. custody for some days on a
business he'was upon, he rushed out and pitched into charge of obtaining goods from Mr. Simpson, a chemist,
him in Old English fashion. in the Kennington-road, atiel' Mr. Macken, a tailor, in
From the defence of Aimable Delafolie, it ap- Ryder-street, St. James's, was-brought up for further
peared that the two hotels, were patronized by foreign examination.
visitors, and, in order to prevent mistakes which occur- Attley, an active plain-clothes constable, belonging to
red from a too great similarity of names, the one being the L division, had in the meantime searched his lodg-
the. Prince of Wales Hotel, . and the, other the Prince ings, and found duplicates .and other documents which
Albert Hotel, the latter hotel changed its title to that of are likely to lead to the disclosure of other frauds.
the Hotel de Boulogne. To prevent the consequences of Mr. Philip Chafer, a saddler,, of 44, Brewer-street,
rivalry, an arrangement had been entered into between Golden-square, deposed that en' the Ist of July last the
the respective proprietors, by which neither was to in- prisoner came to his shop• and purchased a portmanteau,
terfere with the other's -business. The complainant,
which he directed to be sent to London-street, Feuchurch-
however, in defiance of tbe entente cordiale that had street,' and said it would be paid for on delivery. The
-
thus been established, was in the habit of touting about prisoner ly
said at the time that he was married to a la
Leicester-square for fresh arrivals, and had succeeded by of large fortune, residing at- Shooter's-hill, and asked
this means in diverting visitors from the Hotel de him to go there to shoot.—(Laughter.)
Boulogne to the. Prince of. Wales. It was because the In his cross-examination, the witness said that he had
known the prisoner from his being secretes
exercise thought that the complainant was in the previously
cretary
a German society, and ad "
y, gutted that he had trusted
exercise of this unfair vocation that he went out to re- 13?
with
monstrate. • Hnadmitted he did strike the complainant, Iwl the portmanteau upon his own responsibility.
but then he had been, as he said, "vary terrible provoki."
.Worthington Strange Lodge, foreman to Mr. Macken,
The cabman proved, that , he, bad applied to the come tailor,
sone in Rider-street, St. James's, deposed that the pri-
Wales. r gave an order for trousers
plainant to direct bins to the Prince of and waistcoat, and on
Mr. BARDwICx said, even if the complainant had subsequent visits gave further orders for trousers and
been guilty of the conduct attributed tong t him, the de- waistcoats, and also one for a court dress, stating that at he
fendant would not have been justified in making an was going
to Osborne-house to be presented to the
attack on him. But the evidence showed that this was
.?ueen and Prince Albert.--(Laughter.) The court
not the case, and therefore the offence was aggravated. ress:was supplied, and from the time of its being so
He should fine the defendant 40s.—The money was supplied he (witness) had neither seen nor heard of him h
paid. until e saw him in florsemonger-lane Gaol on the pre-
Thomas Cotterill was charged with having a quart- sent charge.
city of dressed and undressed meat in his possession, Solicitor—On what terms was the court dress sup-
the property of Mr. Mivart, the proprietor of Mivart's plied, . Witness—On hire ; and three guineas was to
Hotel, Brook street. be the charge for its use. ,
The prisoner, it appeared, was husband to one of Solicitor—The usual round-breasted coat and bag
Mr. Mivart's servants, whO had been in his establish- wig, I suppose ? Witness--Yes. .
went many years, and on this account Mr. Mivart was Solicitor—Pray, did you supply the dress sword?
reluctant-to press the charge with severity. Witness—Allow me, sir, to tell you that it is not eti-
The defendant was convicted of the unlawful pos- quette for clergymen to wear swords.—(Loud laughter.)
session, and was sent 'son for ten days.
to lon- Solicitor—Well, I suppose you supplied the silk
MARy,LItiBONE.
stockings ? Witness—Well, I offered to supply them,
. James Brown and Edward Lamb, both of them don- but the prisoner told me he had half a dozen, pair him-
key-drivers, were placed before Mr. Broughton, charged. himself, and this threw me off my guard._ The shoes,
with having robbed Madame Casenova, a dashingly. the said, he should get froM Burlington Arcade.
attired French lady, residing iii.Leiceater-square, of llv Mr. Gunn, the clerk—You_ luw_t_paid the court-dress

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