The Sun.
London, England, 1848-09-28 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, Sept. 27.
(Before Mr. Commissioner IloLaoYD.)
IN RE W. WEST.

This was a second dividend meeting. The bankrupt
was a linendraper, and was supported by Mr. Duncan in
his claim of per tentage out of the estate.
Mr. Cooke attended on behalf of Messr;. Roberts,
Davies, and Co., bankers, of Shoreditch, to prove for up-
wards of 4001.

It appeared that in February, 1848, there was a divi-
dend meeting called, and Messrs. Davies were in attend-
ance to prove. They held a lease as security for a sum
of 300/., which they gave up, but as they held further
security, it was requested that they should sell the pro-
perty so held, and prove for the balance, and that they
would not be at all damnified, as there was a bill of
1,1001. coming due, out of which Messrs. Davies would
receive a dividend.

Mr. Coot said that a very extraordinary course had
been pursued in this case ' • the bill had been discounted
by the acceptor, and as there were now no funds in
court, the question was as to whether the official as•
signee or the solicitor to the fiat should make good the
money ? _

Several witnesses having been called, and subjected to
a brief examination, which, however, possessed no fea-
ture of public interest, and
Mr. Cooke and Mr. Archibald heard pro and con.,
His HONOUR deferred giving judgment for s short
period.
The other cases set down for hearing were not worth
mentioning.

INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, Sept. 27.
(Beforo the CHIEF COMMISSIONER
IN RE RADISDEN THE YOUNGER.

This insolvent, who had been in partnership with a
person named Dennett, as colour-makers, was opposed
by a creditor named Meredith, and supported by Mr.
Nichols.

Mr. Meredith, who was a creditor for 51., hoped the
Court would not allow its proceedings to nullify the
Whitechapel County Court. He showed that he had
obtained a conimitment summons, and the insolvent then
applied to this Court to be discharged.
Mr. NicaoLs remarked that the insolvent was a
prisoner, having been arrested by a hostile creditor.
There was a material difference in cases under the old
jurisdiction, and when they were presented under the
Protection Acts.

His Howoua said he had great objections to thwart
the proceedings of a County Court, but as no instalment
was actually due when the petition was filed, the insol-
vent might be discharged.
Discharged accordingly.

lice until that time. He was taken into custody with
the others, and had a loaded pistol in his pocket at the
time. He had a pike-head a short time before, but he
gave it to Conway to take care of, and it was found upon
him when ho was taken. He bought the pike-head and
carried it about with him, in order that ho might not he
suspected by his companions. Witness was not exa-
mined before a magistrate or before the grand jury, and
the prisoners had no means of knowing what evidence
he was to give. _ _

Henry Jones, a police-constable, deposed that about
holf-past four o'clock in the morning of the 17th August
he made a search in Clerkenwell Churchyard, and found
a . basket containing 280 perfect ball cartridges, and
about fifty in an unfinished state.
Cross-examined—He did not expect to find this basket
when he commenced the search. It was quite by acci-
dent.

Evidence was then adduced to show, that about eight
o'clock in the evening of the 16th of August, a number
of persons were seen to leave the beer-shop in Should-
ham-street, some of them being armed, and some were
heard to tell others to " come themselves and to bring
as many of their friends with them as they could."
Thomas Hoyle, a police-constable, deposed that on the
night of the 16th of August, a great number of persons
having the appearance of Irish labourers and engineers,
who were strangers in the neighbourhood, assembled in
the Seven-dials, and in consequence of their proceedings,
he gave information at the police-station.
Inspector Black deposed that about ten o'clock he went
with a body of police to the Seven-dials, and found
about a hundred and fifty persons assembled. They were
mostly strangers to the neighbourhood. Witness dispersed
them, and remained upon the spot with his men until
one o'elock the next morning.
Mr. Warrington, an operative chemist, explained the
nature of the recipes found at Rose's lodgings, and he
described one of them as being calculated to ignite spon-
taneously after a short time, and according to the quan-
tity of water used in its composition, and another was a
very powerful combustible, but which would require to
be ignited before it would act.
Mr. Randell then cave evidence as to the composition
of the fire-balls; and this closed the case for the prose-
cution.

Mr. BALLANTINE addressed the Court, and said he
should have been prepared to go on with the defence
upon the original facts, but after the additional evidence
that had been adduced, he felt that he must ask the in •
dulgence of the Court to allow time to consider the effect
of that additional testimony.
Mr. Baron PLATT acceded to the application, and at a
quarter to six o'clock the trial was again adjourned.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION-HOUSE.
James Jennings Smith, first engineer, and Alexan-
der Reid, second engineer of the Lion steam-vessel,
trading between London and Friesland, John James,
David Gillies, James Payne, John Kelly, Robt. Bar-
clay, Edward Sorrill, and John M'Donald, firemen
and trimmers in the same vessel, were brought before
the Lord Mayor, upon the charge of having pirati-
cally endeavoured, on the 16th of September, to make
a revolt on board, upon the high seas, within the
jurisdiction of the Admiralty, they being of tho crew
of the vessel.
Mr. Pelham appeared for the prosecutors ; Messrs.
Robinson, the owners; and Mr. Smith appeared for
all the prisoners.
Mr. Smith, at the commencement of the proceed-
ings, stated that the first engineer had applied to
institute proceedings against the captain of the vessel,
but not having his evidence at hand, a delay had
necessarily taken place, and in the interim he had
been taken into custody upon the extraordinary charge
upon which so many of the persons employed were
brought forward.
Mr. Pelham said the motive of the first engineer
was evident enough, as he well knew the nature of
the accusation which he must himself answer upon
the representation of the captain.
Mr. Smith then objected to the jurisdiction of the
Lord Mayor in a case in which an offence alleged to
have been committed on the high seas was to be
adjudicated upon.
The LORD MAYOR overruled the objection, upon
the ground that the Central Criminal Court Bill
established his jurisdiction in matters of criminal
investigation.
Mr. Pelham stated that he appeared upon the part
of Messrs. Robinson, under the 9th section of the
11th and 12th of Wm. 111., to prosecute the prisoners
for the commission of an offence of a most serious
nature, especially in the consequences it was calcu-
Pitted to inflict upon merchants and traders. He then
gave an outline of the case, which the following
evidence fully discloses :
Captain H. W. Neville said—l am the master of
the Lion steam-ship, trading between London and
Friesland, in Holland. I quitted London for a voyage
Ito Friesland on the 13th of September, taking with
me, as part of the crew, the whole of the prisoners at
the bar. They each of them possessed a registered
ticket, and I received them in due course, and placed
their names on the muster-roll. We arrived at Har-
lingen on Thursday morning, the day after we left
the Port, and took on board a general cargo of
butter, cheese, flax, corn, and oil, and also live stock,
consisting of 700 or 800 oxen, calves, and sheep, and
we were to be ready on the 16th, at half-past nine
o'clock, to return. The fires were lit some time
previous. About eight o'clock I observed a quantity
of poultry brought on board, in baskets, by the
firemen, and upon inquiring whose they were,
was answered that they belonged to Smith,
the first engineer. I after wards saw more
brought on board, and was told they belonged
to the same person, and told them to keep them
on shore, as I could not allow them to be on
board. A few minutes afterwards I observed Smith
come from the shore over the paddle-box. He held
up his fist to me, and said, " You won't let my fowls
come on board, won't you ?"- I told him I would not
allow it, there were too many. He then said, "You
---- thing, I'll pay the freight for them." I then
said, they shall not come on board at all. He said,
clapping his hands, " Now I've got you, yon
I'll learn you a trick. I'll learn you, and you, Mr.
Robinson, a trick. I'll stop the ship. This is what
I intended. I've been scheming this for you." He
then called to the firemen below, " Rake the fires out,
you —, rake the fires out." I then said to him,
" Come here, don't make a fool of yourself, and do
that which you'll be sorry for hereafter." He refused
to hear me, and he ran off the paddle bridge,
ordering the firemen again to rake the fires
out, and to bring the poultry ashore along with
them. After giving directions to the chief mate I
went ashore, and sent for the agent of the ship, that
he might expostulate with Smith and the firemen.
When I told him what took place, he sent for Mr.
Harmer, a merchant in the place, who took Smith
along the pier to talk with him, and came on board,
after having walked nearly an hour with him. I then
sent for the Consul, the prisoners having all gone
ashore except M'Donald ; and I sent the mate to tell
them all, in the presence of the Consul, to come aft
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Rayner to go; but he said he would do his duty. After
some time the Consul and Mr. Harmer came on
board, and said that Smith and the rest would return
Ito the vessel. (Llere the witness detailed the parti-
culars of another interview, at which, upon being
again urged to return, Smith said, " No, take the
ship to Louden yourselves ; revenge I mean to have.")
Witness continued—They then came down close to
the ship, and as I appeared on deck Smith called out,
" You Captain Neville, where is your Mr.
Robinson now ? Why not take the ship away ?"
And that sort of abuse was continued during the
whole of the afternoon as I passed from the ship to
the shore. I omitted to state at the commencement
that Smith said, shaking his fist at me, "Now write
to Robinson what a rogue of a captain and an
agent they have got, and that he would learn Mr.
Robinson whether he (Robinson) was to treat him
like a dog." On the Saturday following, while
1. was standing alongside of the ship, he came up
shaking his fist in my face, and said, "You —,
I'll fight you." I said, " No, that you won't,
I know," upon which he called me a
cur. After detailing the particulars of another
ineffectual effort to induce Smith to return to his
duty, the witness stated, that instead of leaving Har-
lingen on Saturday, the 16th, in the morning, he was
detained until Tuesday, the 19th, at noon, in conse-
quence of the desertion, and was obliged to tranship
the live stock at a great expense to the owners. In
the ordinary course the ship would have arrived on
Sunday afternoon in London, so as to have the live
stock ready for Monday morning's market.
Mr. Pelham here produced the Consul's certificate,
stating the positive refusal of all the prisoners to re-
turn to their duty, notwithstanding the most energetic
exertions to prevail upon them.
Captain Neville—lt was necessary to have recourse
to the soldiers and the police to protect the crew and
the ship and the fireman who remained on board. The
agent wrote to Mr. Robinson an account of the trans-
actions, and on my arrival the necessary proceedings
were adopted.
Mr. Smith, the solicitor to the prisoners, cross-
examined the witness at considerable length. He
repeated some of the most prominent parts of his
evidence in chief with increased emphasis. He had,
he said, applied for the soldiers himself, as he consi-
dered such a precaution necessary for the protection
of the ship and the crew, and he believed upon his
oath that the ship and himself were in danger. There
was no one on board competent to act as principal
engineer except Smith, and all the rest of the pri-
soners had refused to return to their duty unless,
Smith -returned. They could have resumed their