The Sun.
London, England, 1848-03-13 00:00:00

TREATY WITH PRUSSIA.

Mr. HINDLEY said that, as he did not see the
Noble Lord the Secretary for Foreign Affairs in his
place, he would give notice of his intention to ask
whether there was any truth in the report that the
Government of this country had just concluded a
treaty offensive and defensive with Prussia
WAYS AND MEANS.
_

On the order of the day for resuming the adjourned
debate of going into a Committee of 'Ways and
Means,
Mr. HUME suggested that the debate on the in-
come-tax ought to be brought to a close as soon as
possible.

Mr. BANKS said the honourable member
should specially direct his remarks to the Right
Honourable Baronet the member fur Tamworth.
Sir R. PEEL said the Hon. Member ought rather
to blame the Hon. Member for the city of ‘Varwick
and the Hon. Member for Stamford, for they it was
who really commenced the debate.—(Laughter.)
The House then went into Committee.
On the question being put,
Mr. MACGREGOR said it might be presumptive
and rash in him in presenting himself to the Com-
mittee at that early period of the evening, but as he
had had many opportunities of collecting information
on the subject, which, if he were not very stupid, ought
to enable him to give the House an opinion upon it,
hetrusted the Committee would allow him to say a
word or two before the debate proceeded further,
Why, no subject could be of more importanca or
could be more entitled to the calm attention and
scrutiny of the House, than the one now under dis-
cussion ; and however painful it might be to him to
oppose the administration of his Noble Friend the
First Lord of the Treasury, he could not conscien-
siously support the continuance of a tax for three
years, which he considered to be not only
unequal but unconstitutional.—(Hear, hear.) But
before he went into the question of the tax itself,
perhaps the House would indulge him for a few mo-
ments, whilst he attempted to clear up some
misrepresentations which the House had been put in
possession of with reference to himself. He felt it
to be his duty to declare that he fully concurred in
' the wisdom of the policy which the Right Hon.
Baronet the Member for Tamworth pursued
from the day he entered office in 1841 till
the time left it, whatever might be stated to
the contrary, he must be allowed to expess
his belief that the measures be introiuced
were his own, and the public were indebted to him
alone for the benefit which they had confecred upon
the country.—(Hear, hear.) With regard to the
extract read from the Glasgow paper the other
night, it was, he supposed, in the report of a meeting
at which upwards of 6,000 were present, and
where five or six Chartists came forward, one of
whom he believed began the riots the other day at
Glasgow to get up a disturbance.—(Hear, hear, and
laughter.) One of them asked him if he did not pre-
pare Sir Robert Peel's tariff, but he declined to an •
swer him, and thereupon a monsterous uproar took
place.—(Hear, hear, and laughther.) In order to
quell the noise he stated that he would endeavour
to give him as answer, and he distinctly stated that
had the Right lion. Baronet or himself been in office,
he would not have given an answer to it, because he
considered it an impertinent question.— (Hear,
and laughter.) He, however, stated to the fellow
who asked the question, that at the time to
which reference had been made he was Secretary to
the Board of Trade, and that the Right lion. Baro-
net, who was then Vice-President, directed him to
prepare skeleton schedules for the new tariff ;
and that the Right Honourable Gentleman
himself; and a young gentleman who was
at the time his own private secretary,
were all who had access to these schedules.—(Hear,
hear.) That was what he did say at the meeting,
and he regretted to state, that the only two Glasgow
papers that told the truth in reference to the meeting
were the two opposed io hife.—(Hear and laughter.)
He objected to the tax because it was unequal,
unpopular, and oppressive in its operation.
He thought this country and Scotland

had great right to complain unless the tax
was extended to Ireland.—(Hcar.) He considered
that the expenditure of the country was excessive,
and required alteration and reduction. He thought
it would be one of the greatest calamities that the
country country could endure if the Chancellor of the
Exchequer was unable to pay the dividends on the
public debt; but he had no doubt such a calamity
might be avoided by a proper economy in the ex
penditure, and upon that ground it was his intention
to vote against the renewal of a 3 per cent. income-
tax for three years.
Mr. Alderman SIDN EY rose and was
(LEFT SPEAKING.)

TATTERSALL'S—THIS EVENING.
six ovLocx.

LEAMINGTON STEEPLECHASE.
8 to 1 agst The Chandler
8 to 1 ligst The Curate
8 to 1 agst St. Leger
10 to 1 agst Alexander
1p to 1 agst British Yeoman

2,000 GUINEAS STAKES.
7 to 1 agst Blaze
5 to 1 agst Flatcateher
NORTHAMPTONSHIRE STAKES.
9 to 1 agst Walingate Bar IVithout
10 to 1 agst Thistledown
16 to 1 agst M-untain 1)1,w

POI.ITAN HANDICAP.
8 to 1 on the field
16 to 1 agst Marquis of Conynearn
20 to 1 agst "Vampyre

CHE,TER CUP.
22 to.l agst Cracow
40 to 1 agst Glen Saddel
40 to 1 agst Lightning
40 to 1 agst Bantam—taken
40 to 1 agst Hetman Platoff
50 to 1 agst C,nyngham

DERBY.
14 to 1 agst Glendower
14 to 1 agst Springy Jack
25 to I agst Fern
40:to 1 agst Beshorough
40ito 1 agst Flatcather
50 to 1 agst Keraun
50 to 1 agst Deerstalker:

WARWICK TRIAL.
7 to 4 on the field
WARWICK HANDICAP.
3 to 1 on the field
8 to 1 agst Sunninsido

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.
OXFORD ClRCUlT.—Worcester, March 10.

•
CROWN COURT.—(Before Mr. Justice YATTESON.)
G'torge Miliward, 3], was indicted for burglariously
breaking open the dwelling-house of William Lane, at
Ombersley, on the night of the 20th of. January, and
stealing therefrom twenty yards of printed cotton, ten
shawls, and various other articles, the property of the
said William Lane.

Mr. Whitmore appeared for the prosecution, and Mr.
Huddleston for the defence.

The prisoner has for many years carried on a highly
respectable and profitable business as a hairdresser, in
Angel-street, Worcester, and he is also a man of consi-
derable substance.

Evidence having been given, it was also proved that
the prisoner, and another man, about eleven o'clock .in
the morning of the 21st of January, pawned some of the
stolen articles at the shop of Mr. Carter, in the Bull-
ring, Birmingham, fur 21. 25., giving the name and ad-
dress of " Wl!Hata Tomlinson, Digbell," and that they
also pledged other portions of the goods at another
pawnbroker's named Dugard. in the name of" William
Johnson, 21, Coleshill-street." Scv,ral of these articles
were produced in court, and identified by Mr. Lane as
his property. In a tailet over a stable at the George
and Dragon Inn, City-police Sergeant Chipp found
anothvr large quantity of drapery goods, which it was
supposed were placed there by young Whittaker. Sus-
picion was of course attached to the prisoner, and
the authorities gave instructions for his apprehension,
and he was taken into custody by Sergeant Chipp, at his
house in Angel- street, on the 6th of February.
On the close of the case for the prosecution, Mr.
Huddleston addressed the jury for the prisoner.
Mr. John Humphreys, of the Shakspere Inn, Wor.
tester, and several other respectable witnesses, who had
known the prisoner for a period of from ten to sixteen
years, were called, and gave the prisoner a very good
character.

Mr. Justice PATTESON having carefully summed up,
the jury consulted for a few minutes, and returned a
verdict of Guilty.
Mr. HUDDLESTON said he was not in a position before
to mention a fact which had been communicated to him,
viz., that Mr. Lane, the prosecutor, had, through Mr.
Tarley, a draper, of Worcester, made a promise to the
prisoner, that, let the matter end how it might, if he
would afford information where the property might be
found, he should be forgiven. In consequence of the
promise, the prisoner made a statement which led to the
recovery of some of the property.
In consequence of this, the prisoner was only sentenced
to twelve months' imprisonment.
Charles Box and George Tolley, who were on Friday
convicted of burglary, and whose case appeared in
Saturday's Sun, were now sentenced to 15 years' trans-
portation._ . _ . T T

James Cartwright, 24, Thomas Tuberville, 22, lienry
Sweatman, 22, and William Paine, were indicted for a
burglary in the houso of Joh❑ Mound, at Knight-
upon-Tame, on the night of the 22d of January, and
stealing therefrom 1151. in notes, gold, and silver, and
also a gun.
They were convicted, and sentenced to be each
transported for 15 years.
Mr. Justice Patteson was again aided by the valuable
assistance of Mr. Sergeant Talfourd, who has ably
supplied the place of Mr. Justice Cresswell.
These Assizes concluded about half-past nine o'clock.

NORTHERN CIRCUIT.—York, March 10.
(Before Mr. Baron ALDERSON.)
This morning his Lordship attended to try the only
prisoner in the city for trial, at the very early hour of
half-past eight o'clock. Having congratulated the grand
jury on the lightness of their duty, and remarked that
the offence charged often carried it own punishment
along with it, they retired, and in a short time returned
a true bill against John Malthouse, for bigamy.
On being called on to plead, though Mr. llears/ey was
instructed to defend him, be pleaded Guilty.
His LORDSHIP then called the second wife and in-
quired whether or not he had deceived her, by pretend.
ing that he was a single man Y
She said he had told her that he was a widower, and
had buried his former wife at Darlington. Both were
young.
His Lordship sentenced the prisoner to 18 months'
imprisonment, with hard labour.
At 12 o'clock the Courts were opened at the Castle,
Mr. Baron Alderson presiding on the Civil, and Mr.
Baron Rolfe in the Crown Court.
Mr. Baron ROLFE charged the Grand Jury. He said
the calendar contained several cases of great enormity.
Among others, two cases, where the charge was murder,
as to one of which there could be no doubt, if the wit-
nesses were believed. In the other ,case the ques-
tioa would he, whether or not the parties could he
satisfactorily identified. The evidence o.i that point
was not the most sa.isfactory kind of evident.,
but it was in law receivable. That evidence was the
statement made by the deceased, who could nut, of
course, when he made it be cross-examined so as to test
its accuracy. In another case, also, the evidence would
be tendered given on a former occasion by a party since
deceased; but the objection was not so strong, as it was
given in the presence of the party charged. There was
another case which, though not a case of murder, was
very nearly akin to it; it was that of maliciously shoot-
ing at a gamekeeper, and it was a melancholy instance
of the evil consequences of night poaching. One of the
poachers lost his life on the occasion. In that case the
statement made by that person would be tendered in
evidence. There were also cases of wounding, with
intent to do grievous bodily harm. Some of them arose
out of quarrels, and in such cases it was incumbent on
them to look carefully into the alleged intention, as they
could not find such a bill unless the intention do
grievous bodily harm was proved. For his own part, he
thought there was too much disposition to commit—
the practice was too prevalent—on such charges, when
there was no evidence of such an intention, but
on the contrary, the suddenness of the affray rather
led to the conclusion that the party had no intention
at all. Now, the statuteable offence consisted in
the intention, and not in the injury actually done, how-
ever grievous the wound or bodily harm might be. If
they asked him to define what was to be the grievous
bodily harm which the party should be proved to have
intended to do, he confessed he could not do so —neither
the statute, nor the decisions upon it, enabled him to do
so; but he thought he should, if in their situation, 'ex-
pect the wound intended to be inflicted to be in some
way dangerous to life, or something of that kind. Again
if several were charged, though all might be legally
guilty of the injury actually cone, it behoved thew to
consider how far this evidence proved the intention
alleged as it regarded each of them, for it by no means
followed that all had the same intention. Finally, though
perhaps it was a subject rather for remarks in the Le-
gislature than in a court of justice, he could not help
remarking on the very small portion of the persons
charged who had not the smallest portion of education.
He almost always found that the persons charged with
crimes of violence were wholly destitute of education.
Persons might be too sanguine as to the effects of edu-
cation, and though it was by no means a corollory that
if persons were all educated, there would be no crimes
of violence, he thought it fair to assume that a more
extended education of the people would materially
diminish their number.

::The Grand Jury (Mr. Bothell foreman) then refired
to their room.

The cases tried were unimportant.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
BO W-STREET.

James Hastings, and Rebecca Hastings, his mother,
were charged, the former with stealing, and the latter
with feloniously receiving, a large quantity of drapery
goods, &c., the property of Mr. Rees, 18, Great Russell-
street, Covern-garden.
The male prisoner had been in the prosecutor's ser-
vice, as shopman, at a salary of 17s. 6(1. per week, he.
sides board and lodging, for upwards of five years. On
Friday afternoon, the housekeeper of Mr. Rees, while in
the prisoner's bed-room, saw a piece of satin and a scarf
in a carpet bag, and, mentioning her suspicions to her
master, the prisoner was charged with stealing them,
and given into custody. lie then stated that he hal no
intention to steal the articles, but had meant to pay for
them afterwards.

B: cock, of the F division, on going to the house of
the mother (the other prisoner), at 1, Albany.road,

Camberwell, and searching • the room said to have bees
occupied by the son, found in the drawers 12 pieces of
cloth, 26 satin scarls, 12 siLk handkerchiefs, 6 new costs'
6 new pairs of tri,users, 9 waistcoats, a piece of carpet-
ing, and a table cover. In so me boxes on the landing
he also found broad cloths, pieces of satin, velvet, a neir
hat, and 40 remnants of cotton. In the mother's bed:
room he found, in the drawers, 4 pieces of cloth, 41
j:,rds of gambroon, 2 yards of plaid, 12 yards of black
and mitt r good., whole and uncut. He detected
r in 'ven ting new gloves, when he took her PO

cost. dy.
The prisoner contented himself with the declaratiOU
that i.is mother was innocent of the felony.
They were both remanded for further examination.
THAMES.
Four Irish tailors, named Thomas Grady, Willi°
Arnold, Thomas .A 1 nold, and William Coghlan, of 14s•
19, Fulwood's-rents, Holborn, were charged with se
stalking several policemen in the execution of their &IT,
and beating a vomau, named Ellen Mahoney. There
was also a charge against them of creating a disturbance
in the Horns And Horseshoe public-house, in Cable
street, Whitechapel, and turtling on the liquor-Wl'
thereby causing a great waste of rum and brandy. ,„
It appeared that the tailors found their way
Johnson's-change, Rosemary•lane, on Thursday Digb"
and after acting in a most riotous and disorderly manlier'
endeavoured to force their way into a house kept byl
woman named Mahoney, and a severe fight occurred
between her people and the prisoners, who broke Mr
windows and fumed in a door. Thomas Arnold attacked
the woman, and pummelled her in. ,a most unmerelf
manner as she lay upon the groun.i. The police 8O
made their appearance, and endeav oured to capture the
tailors, who beat them off, and proceeded to the Home
and Horse-shoe, where they turned on the beer, set the
liquor-taps running, and capsized the landlord's servants,'
They also began devouring a tray of biscuits, os_il
created terrible confusion. The police were oar:
in to eject the prisoners, who made a furious stuck
on the officers, and knocked down several of thembsfs"
they were secured. Sullivan and Taylor, of the H diw
sion, 172 and 91, were very severely punished, and Cr
hibited marks of violence.
Several witnesses deposed to the outrageous conduct . -of
the prisoners.
Mr. BALLANTINE—YOU are four tailors from the.
other side of Holborn. We don't want you here kis'
now. Yuu may as well keep your demonstrations to
your own neighbourhood. I shall commit you all °
the House of Correction for one month for beating the
policemen. I won't have them knocked about by tailors
or anybody else when they are in the fair and temperate
discharge of their duty. The man who assaulted the
old woman will undergo a further imprisonment of too
months, unless he can pay a fine of a
The landlord .of the Horns and Horse-shoe said the
prisoners had wasted four quarts of rum and other
liquors, and ho wished to proceed against them.
Mr. BALLANTINE—I can do no more with them 14
present, they are all committed to prison.

RAILWAY RETURNS
RAILWAY THAFFIC.—The following are the Total Iteeelpts of lilt
ways for the past week—that is to say, up to the date to which w;
respective returns are made, together with the receipts of the AO'
week in the previous year:

i 5
XV
iC 1r e.
C
I
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