The Sun.
London, England, 1848-10-16 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 16, 1848.

Michael Tobin examined—Knew Thomas Kicken of
Mullinahone. I heard of the " row" at Farrinrory. The
prisoner, to the best of his belief, was one of the two men
he drove to Mullirtahone. Ho was much like the man.
On returning back he overtook a great number of armed
men going into Balling,arr3, but he could not see who
headed them, as he was in the rear. When the witness
got to the cross of Ballingarry
_the two gentlemen came
off the car.
To a juror—Saw the two gentlemen whom he drove
in Ballingarry, but could not say that the prisoner was
one of them.
After some unimportant testimony had been elicited,
Dutton Mathew was examined—Lived in Killenaule.
Identified the prisoner as one of the gentlemen he saw
about Walsh's Hotel on the Friday. Saw Mr. O'Dono-
hoe go to the barricades along with Stephens, Dillon,
and M'Manus. O'Donehoe was not armed. Witness
detailed the facts connected with the removal of the
barricades, the cheering of the hussars, and stated that
an offensive word was not said to a single man. Did not
see the car stir from the hotel door. Got a whisper to
go home, and took the hint.
Capt. Longmore and a private of the Bth Hussars
were then examined, but their evidence was precisely
the same as on the other trials.
Sub-Inspector Trent was then examined in reference
to the attack upon the Widow Cormack's house, the
particulars of which have been repeatedly published.
On cross-examination, the witness stated that Father
Fitzgerald came to him to make peace between both
parties. He replied that he would los• his life before he
would surrender his gun. Did not know where Father
Fitzgerald then was. Did not hear that he had died
since the occurrence.
Police-constable Moran identified the prisoner as one
of the persons whom he saw outside the Widow Cor-
mick's house. He had a gun. The firing was not going
on at the time. Observed him before the firing began,
about five minutes after they got into the house. He
was outside the wall to the right of the wicket.
Cross-examined by Mr. MEAGHER—Did not see any
person in the enclosure when they commenced firing.
Witness fired the first shot from the gable window.
Witness could not be mistaken that Mr. O'Brien used
the words, " Slash away, boys, and slaughter them all I"
Before he used the words he shook hands with Mahony
and Rafferty, police-constables. He saw the prisoner
behind a wall pointing his gun towards the enemy where
he and his comrades were. He (witness) desired them
to take care or they would be shot. He, however, did
not fire. I fired at a man that was certainly very near
some women. There might be some one besides myself
whoi could say that the prisoner: was at Farrinrory.
I did not ask any question upon the subject. I do not
recollect that the prisoner complained of the manner in
which he was identified by me in Kilmainham gaol.
Nor do I remember he remonstrated with Mr. Fitz-
maurice on the unfair manner in which he was dealt
with. The witness was not told that the prisoner had
taken off his whiskers when he was going to identify
him in Kilmainham, but he made the remark himself
after he saw him.
Police-constable Ford was next examined relative to
the same facts. The former witness told him that a
man was presenting a gun at him and to mind himself.
Witness told Moran that if he minded him he would
mind him (Moran). Drew back his head, and shortly
afterwards a shot was fired.
Chief Justice DOHERTIC—You thought it prudent to
keep you head out of the way? Witness—Yes, my Lord.
Mr. SSOTT—Had the firing commenced at this time ?
Witness—lt was nearly over.—Did you hear Mr.
O'Brien use the words " Slash away?" I did not.—Are
you not a little hard of hearing? lam not, sir.
Police-constable Robinson was produced for cross-
examination—He saw a man present a gun outside the
wall when bis attention was called to the fact by Moran.
Police-constable Cornelius Mahony examined—Was
at the Widow Cormack's house the day of the tight.
Cross-examined—Heard Moran tell him and the rest
to keep back, as a man was presenting a gun at them.
Did not see the man, nor did he hear the expression,
" Slash away, boys."
Mr. Kemmis proved the Order of Council to try the
prisoner for high treason.
Police-constable John Carroll was next examined.—
He was the person from whom Mr. O'Brien took the
horse, and who had come from Kilkenny with dispatches
for Mr. Trent. He detailed the facts of his detention
as a prisoner, the rencontre with Mr. O'Brien, the meet-
ing with M`Manus, and his preserving him from vio-
lence by taking him into a field, and the interference of
Father Fitzgerald with Mr. Trent to surrender his
arms. Witness heard Father Fitzgerald say to Mr.
Trent, " What if I take yourself and your arms, and
protect you out of that?" Mr. Trent replied that he had
seen clerical influence fail before, and he would rely upon
his own resources; but he asked him to protect him
(witness). He also stated that when Father Fitzgerald
came back from the house after the interview with Mr.
Trant he desired the people to go home, saying, "As
many of you as are here to-day, there will be twice as
many of her Majesty's troops to-morrow, and if you
injure the police the country will be left waste."
Mr. Burr—Am I to understand you that Father Fitz-
gerald dispersed the people? Yes.—After his exhor-
tation the crowd was thinned? Yes.
Sub-Inspector Cox was next examined, His evidence
was the same same as that given by him upon the two
previous trials.
Police-sergeant Madden examined—On the night of
the 12th of August arrested the prisoner about eleven
o'clock at night near to Holycross and Rathkennan.
Mr. Meagher and Mr. Leyne were with him. Sent
three men after them, who called them back. Witness
stepped forward, and spoke to one of them, who turned
out to be Mr. Thomas Francis Meagher. Asked him
his name. After some hesitation he replied. "My name
is Meagher." Then he asked the prisoner his name, and
he replied that it was O'Donohoe. Told the persons
whom he thus met that they should come with him to
Rathkennan. They asked him what steps he would
take. He replied that he would bring them before a
magistrate. Upon arriving at the barrack there was a
short delay while the orderly was opening the
door. Witness complained that Mr. Leyne would not
tell his name. The others asked if they had not told
their name. He replied that they had done so.
O'Donohoe had a prayer-book and a small bottle in his
breast. He (O'Donohoe) said he had no objection to
go before Mr. Jones, but upon arriving at Holycross he
complained of being fatigued. Got a car for the party,
and marched them into Thurles.
At six o'clock, Mr. Burr, (IC., informed the Court
that as he had been retained late in the case, and his
Learned Friend, Mr. Meagher, was more familiar with
the evidence than he was, they had arranged between
Clem that he would speak first, and after the evidence
had been given he would address them.
Mr. FRANCIS MEAGHER then asked the Court to ad-
journ to the following morning, and he promised them
that he would be able to save the public time by con-
densing his observations.
The CHIEF JUSTICE said that he and his Learned
Brothers very much regretted that they were obliged to
call upon Mr. Meagher to proceed with his address that
evening.

Mr. MEAGHER then proceeded with his address.
He dwelt upon the pubdcity that had been given to
the previous proceedings, and the risk which
his client ran that his case would be preju-
diced by the jury. As to the constitution of the jury,
he said it was only reasonable for his client to have de-
sired that some persons who entertained his political opi•
nions would have been on it. He then undertook to prove
that his client had not levied war against the Queen.
Having referred to the circumstance connected with the
enactment of the 25 Edward 111., and stated and com-
mented upon the law of high treason as it now exists,
the Learned Counsel stated that the defence which he
intended to submit to the jury on his client's behalf was
that which had been put forward in both the trials
which had been conducted, viz., that although the ge-
neral designs of an insurrection had existed in the
minds of Mr. O'Brien and his friends, yet during the
whole of the transaction alleged by the Crown to con.-
stitute the overt acts of an actual revolution, no single
step had been taken by any of the parties accused with
a view to carry out the general object imputed to them.
With respect to the allegation of the Attorney-General,
that Mr. O'Brien and his friends could not, unless they
intended a rebellion, have gone into such a wild part
of the country, and called on the people to arm, under
the circumstances set out in the evidence for the pro-
secution, he contended that the fact of their pre-
sence in such a situation was perfeetly consistent with
the real object they had in view—namely, to protect
Mr. O'Brien and themselves from arrest. What, let
him ask, could have been more natural than that a num-
ber of gentlemen situated as these persons had been, ap-
prehensive of arrest, yet unwilling to be apprehended,
should withdraw into some place, which from its inac-
cessible character, or some other reason, was calculated
to afford them a chance of temporary concealment ? It
was natural to suppose that if the object were the levy-
ing of war, an open avowal of the intention would be
at once made; bat the declaration was merely that the
object was to escape from arrest. This was the avowal
made by Mr. O'Brien, before a single act was done. He
asked them would they think of acting on the evidence
of the witness Sullivan, if it involved merely one week's
imprisonment of his client, and pointed out discrepancies
between his informations and his evidence, and the ab-
surdity of supposing that Mr. O'Brien, who was re-
presented as engaged in a revolutionary movement,
sang a song about " Sweet 'Tipperary " in the open
street, before a multitude of people. The Learned
Counsel continued to argue with much ability on behalf
of his client.

The Court, at a late hour was adjourned till next
morning, when evidence for the defence will be pro-
duced, and it is very probable that the case will close in
the evening.
CLONMEL, SATURDAT.-.-The proceedings in Court
opened to-day with evidence adduced by the counsel for
the prisoner to show that O'Donohoe was not at the fight
on the Commons of Boulagh, but that he, Meagher, and
Leyce had left Smith O'Brien on the Friday night. To
prove this a respectable farmer was called, who proved
that these three gentlemen came to his house between
three and four o'clock on Saturday morning, and stayed
with him till eleven o'clock that night. A girl, who had
been in the house at the time, was called in corrobora-
tion. Though the Crown used every exertion to in-
vc; ve these respective statements in contradiction, they
met with no success.

Mr. BUTT was then heard for the prisoner, and the
Solicitor-General replied for the Crown in a speech
disfigured with severe! undignified squabbles between
hirn and Mr. Butt. Admitting that the prisoner might
have left Mr. O'Bri..n on the Friday night, and gene to
Nine-Jnile House, as the witnesses for the defence had

stated, the Solicitor• General contended it was still for

the jury to consider whether they had gone with a view
to separate themselves from Mr. O'Brien's treasonable

intentions, or whether they had gone to form another

position for the rebel camp.
Mr. Justioc MOORE thin charged the jury, confining
himself scrupulously to the laying down the law of the
case, and to a summary of the facts given in evidence.
The jury retired about seven o'clock.

[No verdict had been returned when this dispatch
left.]

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE

OPENING OF THE NEW RAILWAY BRIDGE

ACROSS THE TWEED.
The opening of this stupendous structure for the
convenience of public traffic cannot but be regarded
as an event of the highest importance in the railway
world. Whether it is considered in a merely com-
mercial point of view, or regarded as a proof of the
advancing skill and science of the age, it is equally
calculated to excite our wonder and admiration.
Temporary though it is, does it not excite unwonted
ideas when we see the work of a few months produce
what the continued labour of twenty years, two or
three centuries ago, hardly sufficed to realise ?
Another point which lends an additional interest to
the opening of this great bridge, is the fact that it is
the last connecting link in that mighty chain of com-
munication extending from the metropolis of the
south to that of the north. London and Edinburgh,
the capitals of two nations for centuries at enmity,
now shake hands with each other. They are no longer
separated—no longer divided. They are now united
by a bond of iron which, the longer they flourish,
shall render their connexion more indissoluble. Not
less interesting are the historical associations connect-
ing with the situation of the bridge, but upon these
we shall not at present enter.
The bridge and viaduct were formally inspected on
Tuesday by Captain Symonds, Government Inspector
of Railways. He arrived at the Tweedmouth station
by special train from Newcastle, about half-past two
o'clock, accompanied by Mr. Harrison, the engineer
of the line. Shortly afterwards an engine, with a
first and second-class carriage attached, containing
these gentlemen, Mr. Bruce, resident engineer, seve-
ral of the railway officials, and some ladies, proceeded
at a slow pace from the station along the immense
viaduct and the temporary wooden bridge to the
North British Railway station, where a large assem-
blage had been some time waiting in anticipation of
Captain Symonds's arrival. On the approach of the
train three hearty cheers were sent forth, accompanied
by the booming of three pieces of artillery, planted
about the centre of the bridge, and which were fre-
quently fired in the course of the day. Numberless
flags were also hoisted at various parts along the line
and the bridge.
The wooden structure, as we stated a few weeks
ago, was then completed, only a portion of the adja-
cent earthen embankment being unfinished. The
utmost exertions have since been made, day and night,
to complete this part of the line, in order that the
bridge might be opened by the time specified in the
contract, and it was so far finished on Monday morn-
ing that trains could have passed, a portion of the
ballast only being required to be filled in. On Tues-
day forenoon, about twelve o'clock, a train of 14
trucks laden with coke, drawn by two engines, pro-
ceeded from the Tweedmouth station to that of the
North British. It is estimated that the total weight
of this train could not have been less than 180 tons.
Beyond a very slight vibration, the train went as
smoothly as upon the firmest rock. Several trains of
the same kind, and one or two goods trains, subse-
quently passed over during the day, and the regular
passenger trains commenced running along the bridge
on Wednesday morning.
The opinion of competent and uninterested persons
skilled in engineering represents the wooden bridge
to be perfectly substantial, and in fact as trustworthy,
and perhaps more so, than any stone structure. The
names of the scientific men under whose direction it
has been raised are a sufficient guarantee for its secu-
rity, and will put at rest any fears that might be en-
tertained. The bridge was commenced in the early
part of this year, and the quantity of timber employed
in its eonstractioa amounts to nearly 800,000 cubic
feet. It is 39 feet wide at the base, contracting gra-
dually as it ascends to 13 feet in breadth. The bridge
itself is 1,200 feet long, and the height from the bed
of the river 120 feet. Along the bridge is laid a double
line of rails, the second line being within those on
which the carriages run, and is raised two inches
above them, which plan is adopted to pre-
vent oscillation, and render their passage safe
and smooth. The embankment, extending from the
bridge to the station at Tweedmouth, nearly half a
mile long, is estimated to contain 1,100,000 tons of
earth. But while every exertion has been made to
complete the temporary structure within the specified
time, the permanent stone bridge, which is being
erected on one side of the other, has already made
considerable progress. This bridge, which it is ex-
pected will be finished in July next year, will contaih
twenty-eight semicircular arches, eleven of which,
we believe, will be required to span the river—the
others, on the Tweedmouth side of the river, are al-
ready nearly finished, and form a continuation of
the present wooden erection. The whole length of
the stone bridge will be 2,000 feet, and its extreme
height from the foundation to the Broadway 134 fee
—Berwick Warder.

Captain Binstead, R.N., general manager of the
Lancashire and Yorkshire system of railways, has
resigned. Mr. Saunders, the secretary to the Wa-
terford and Limerick Railway, also resigns, and is
expected to be succeeded by Mr. Charles de Lacy
Nash, known for his exertions in connexion with the
late "railway robberies."
GREAT NORTHERN -- OPENING ON THE
This company will open, on the 17th instant, the
principal portion of the loop line, extending from
Peterborough to Lincoln. This, in conjunction with
the East Lincolnshire line, lately (as noticed in our
last) entirely opened, and the Eastern Counties line,
or the London and North-Western line to Peter.
borough, as well as by that part of the Manchester,
Sheffield, and Lincolnshire from Great Grimsby to
New Holland, opposite Hull, furnish a new route
from London to Hull, no less than forty miles
shorter than the present route, and effecting a saving
in the fare of about 13 per cent. It will be, doubt-
less, very satisfactory to the shareholders of the Great
Northern to find that their directors have so far ful-
filled their promises nearly to a day, not withstandiog
the pressure upon them of adverse circumstances.--
Herapath's Railway Journal.
SOUTH DETON.—The key-stone of the eastereiend
of the arch in the tunnel at Mutley-plain was fitted
in on Saturday last, and the timbers will probably be
removed in the course of the present week. The
directors on Thursday passed a resolution reducing
the salaries of all the men employed on the line. The
policemen and porters are to have 14s. a week, in-
stead of 155., and those of a higher grade will be re-
duced about twenty per cent. A great number of
hands have recently been discharged all along the
line, and a further reduction in the number of porters,
policemen, and clerks is contemplated. The reduction
that has been made in the salaries of the officials is in
accordance with a suggestion that was made at the
last half-yearly meeting. The secretary has issued
notices for the sale of 680 tons of atmospheric railway
iron pipes, averaging about cwt. each, now lying at
Bristol ; also for the sale of about 1,600 tons Scotch
pig iron and about 1,000 tons of Welsh cold blast
iron, deliverable at Bristol and Bridgewater.
CORNWALL.--Mr. W. H. Bond, the secretary of
the Cornwall Railway, has issued a letter to the share-
holders, in which he says :—" The board of directors
having had under consideration the propriety, in the
present circumstances of the company, of paying the
interest in respect of the calls
.paid up, have, for the
present, resolved to suspend the payment thereof."
The works on this line in the neighbourhood of Ply-
mouth have been entirely suspended for some time
past.

EZTENSION OP THE IRISH GREAT WESTERN INTO
GALWAY.—A meeting of the nobility and gentry has
just been held at Ballinasloe, to take measures for the
extension of a great arterial line into Galway, so as
to provide the people with reproductive employment
during the winter. The Earl of Clancarty expressed
his conviction that great advantage would result, not
only to Connaught, but the entire kingdom, from this
extension; and the Marquis of Sligo was of opinion
that every man should exert himself to promote it as
a means of providing reproductive employment for
the people. Mr. Reynolds thought that Government,
if properly applied to, could not refuse a loan of
500,0001. for the purpose, and the majority of the
landowners would give their land free of charge.
IRISH SOUTH. EASTERN.—The works on the above
line, from Bagnallstown to Kilkenny, were discon-
tinued on Saturday last, by order of Mr. Dugan, the
contractor, and it is not probable they will be resumed
before next year.—Carlow Sentinel.
SCOTTISH CINTRAL.—After a good deal of nego-
tiator, we understand that the details of the arrange.
ments for leasing this undertaking to the Southern
Companies are now finally concluded, and that the
agreement has been signed by the chairmen and other
officials of the companies interested therein. The
Scottish Central is now guaranteed in perpetuity
seven per cent., and half surplus profits by the Edin-
burgh and Glasgow, Caledonian, Lancaster, and
Carlisle, and London and North-Western. The
agreement between the same parties and the Scot-
tish Midland, with six per cent. guarantee and half
profits, has also been ratified.—Perth Courier of
Thursday.

LIB CITY Sewsa CommissioN. --During the
whole of Saturday the Seleet Committee belonging to
this Commission were engaged in the reception and con-
sideration of propesals for the ♦entilation of the sewers.
Some of the plans were of an elaborate character, most
of them contained propositions of considerable merit,
the majority being much admired by the Committee. At
the close of the proceeding Mr. Deputy Peacrek, the
chairman, announced to the several parties that a writ-
ten answer would be sent to each of them in the course
of a few days.

At a recent meeting of the Edinburgh Chamber of
Commerce a resolution was agreed to, on the motion of
Mr. Cowan, M.P., to attempt to get Government to
allow a higher rate of interest to depositors in the Na-
tional Security Savings' Banks. In all quarters these
institutions are suffering from the minimum ra'e of in-
terest presently allowed.

Vbirb 92bition

FRANCE.

" Certain journals," says the Moniteur, " assert
that the raising of the state of siege, and the pre-
sentation of a decree ordering the removal to Algeria
of the insurgents of June, condemned to transporta-
tion, were conditions required by the new Minis-
ters previous to their entrance into the Cabinet.
Those measures were already agreed upon since
the vote on the proposition of M. Durrien. They
obtained, moreover, the assent of the whole of the
new Ministry."
Before the meeting of the National Assembly on
Saturday last, a number of representatives belonging
to different opinions assembled in a room attached
to the hall of the National Assembly, to deliberate
on the raising of the siege of Paris. Three Ministers
—General Lamoriciere, Marie, and Freslon, were
present. The two first entered on an explanation of
the present situation of affairs. They declared that
the Executive Government was of opinion that the
state of siege might at this moment be raised without
danger, but that the existing laws on the press and
on the clubs did not sufficiently arm the Government,
and that it might be necessary to modify them.
Those explanations which were mentioned in
the standing committees were favourably re-
ceived. The Commissioners elected to commu:.i.
cats with the Government appeared to coincide with
them. The club of the Rue de Poitiers, after a
long discussion, resolved to leave the Members free
to act as they pleased. The revelations made by
several representatives as to public opinion, and on
the proceedings of the clubs, produced a consider-
able effect in the committee-rooms. M. L:rger,
the Mayor of the second arrondissement, and other
members of the same Committee, mentioned several
serious facts of threats uttered against General
Cavaignac and the Members of the National Assem-
bly. Nevertheless the general feeling of the Re-
presentatives appeared to be in favour of raising
the state of siege, giving the Government at the
same time additional powers to restrain the
press and the clubs, and to renew the state
of siege should circumstances require it. It was
further proposed, that in cage the Assembly should
be prorogued, the Government should be empowered
to re• establish the state of siege provisionally on their
own responsibility. MM. de Tracy, Combarel, De
Leyval, Poujoulat, De Tillancourt, Gerdy, and Porion,
spoke in favour of maintaining the state of siege.
MM. Dupin the elder, Coquerel, Duclerc, General
Changarnier, Degoussee, Moreau, Pascal Duprat,
Turck, General Lebreton, Charles Dupin, Glais-
Bizoin, Dapont (de Bussac), Berenger, Detours,
Chauffour, Flacon, and Menaud spoke In favour of
raising the state of siege, with certain restrictions.

FRANKFORT.
GERMAN PARLIAMENT.

In the sitting of the German Parliament of the 12th,
Eiienmann asked the Ministry whether it intended
:o bring the Imperial forces to bear in Hungary ?
Berger, after an animated and enthusiastic allusion

to the— news which the two last posts had brought
from Vienna, moved that the National Assembly
declare the Imperial Diet in Vienna, and the heroic
democratic population of Vienna, to have deserved
highly of the German Fatherland. As the National
Assembly would not grant him a hearing, Berger
proceeded to declaim with some vehemence against
the refusal.—(Clamour on the Right and Centre.)
lie would not allow himself to be interrupted ; at
any rate he would say every word that he had to say.
Rather than see his motion referred to a Committee,
and thus submitted to the usual drawling routine,
with every chance of its purport being grievously
frustrated, he withdrew it at once.
The House was upon the point of proceeding with
the order of the day, when
Schtnerling, the Minister, said there were two in-
terpellstions for him to answer in relation to Austria.
Before replying to them he begged to be allowed to
make a communication. The Assembly might
imagine that the moment news had arrived in Frank-
fort of the important events that had just occurred in
Vienna, this intelligence had seriously engrossed the
attention of the Ministry. With regard to the
employment of Imperial troops in Hungary, the
Ministry had already come to a determination. This
determination had been submitted to the Adminis-
trator, had been approved by him, and was already
being carried into execution. Ile could not at present
enter into further details, but would shortly lay an
ample, and, he trusted, very satisfactory statement
before the Assembly.—(Faint murmurs on the Left.)
In regard to the quartering of the Imperial troops, he
would distinctly state that the Central Power intended
to accord a proper indemnification for the maintenance
of all troops that were employed on extraordinary
occasions.

Wesendonck said that in consequence of the late
news from Vienna, and in consideration that the
Provisional Central Power can legally execute no-
thing that has not previously been resolved upon by
the Nationally Assembly, he moved that the Ministry
be called upon to give an immediate account of the
measures which it had adopted with regard to Hun-
gary and Austria.—(Wesendonck was not allowed to
establish his motion any further.)
AnOther Member of the Left mored—" In consi-
deration that the Imperial Diet in Vienna has de-
clared
itself permanent, the National Assembly re-
solves that all interference on the part of the Pro-
visional Central Power shall be condemned as illegal,
and as a violation of the rights of the individual '
states."..e (The urgency of the motion was dis-
allowed.)
Wesendonck said that as he had been refused per-
mission to establish his motion, and although he I
could in no wise approve of Imperial troops being
sent (supposing this to be the case) against the demo-
crats of Vienna, he found himself obliged to withdraw
his motion.

The following sections of the fundamental rights
were carried to-day without discussion :
" All judicature emanates from the state. No pa-
trimonial courts shall exist. The judicial power is
exercised independently by the judicial court.
" Cabinet or ministerial judicature is inadmissible.
" No privileged courts shall exist either for persons
or landed interest.

" Military judicature is confined to the, passing
judgment on military crimes or offences, as also on
offences committed against military discipline, with
the reservation of such provisions as are made for the
declaration of martial law.

" No judge may be degraded or suspended from his
office, or disparaged either in rank or salary, except
by formal judgment and application of the law.
" No judge may either be translated or pensioned
off against his will, except on the ground of a judicial
verdict returned agreeably to the cases and forms
prescribed by the law.
" The proceedings of the court shall be conducted
publicly and vim' tire. In criminal matters an in-
dictment must be laid. A jury must return the
verdict in the case of heinous crime or political of-
fences.
"ln matters where particular knowledge of a cal-
ling is necessary the civil law must be administered
or co-administered by judges both versed in the sub-
ject, and freely chosen by followers of that calling.
"Justice and administration shall be separate. _
" Nowhere has the police the power of criminal
punishment.
"In the army only one and the same code of mar-
tial law is valid; this is founded on public process
before a jury.
" Adrninistratio jttdicialis is at an end.
"The courts of law decide in respect of all viola-
tionsof the law. _ _

" Judgments entered in German courts of law, as
also public and authentic documents (instrumenta
originalia •el authentica), are of equal effect Wand
validity in all German lands."

he called the National Guard under arms. After
several communications they were obliged to fire
upon the rioters, who took refuge upon a mountain,
whence they dislodged stones, and hurled them upon
the whites. Orders were then given to take the
mountain by assault, which was effected by thirty-
five Communal Guards. Several blacks were killed,
and a European female was struck by a ball, which
was, however, extracted, and her life declared out of
danger.

In the Danish colonies there has been a general
rising of the blacks in the islands of St. Thomas and
Santa Cruz. In both these placed the Governments
were obliged immediately to publish an ordinal.ce by
which the blacks we re declared free.
The New Rotterdam Courant gives an account of
the discovery of very rich iron mines in the kingdom
of Borneo.—Dutch Papers, Oct. 14.

John Dolby, a practical chemist at 298, Strand,
was indicted for a misdemeanour, "by placing certain
noxious matter near the door of a certain room occu-
pied by Sarah Wild and her children, whereby they
were rendered ill," &c.
Mr. Prendergast conducted the prosecution, and
Mr. O'Brien appeared for the defendant.
It appeared that the defendant had succeeded to the
business, as a practical chemist, of a Mr Maclachlan,
at the house in question, in which the prosecutor, a
wood engraver, and his wife, with their family, took
apartments in the month of June last. In the early
part of the past month some differences arose between
the wives of the respective parties, in the course of
which it was stated Mrs. Wild had applied the epithet
" scum" to Mrs. Dolby, which, coupled with causes
of a pecuniary character, determined Mr. Dolby to
endeavour to get rid of these lodgers. Finding that
no other means succeeded, the defendant caused his
apprentice to put some chemical matters into a pot,
and having set it on tire, then to place it close to the
door of the room which was in the occupation of the
prosecutor's family. The result was that a gas of the
most obnoxious character was evolved, so that in a
very few minutes, not only Mrs. Wild, but all the
children were nearly suffocated. They remained
very ill for some days, and Mrs. Wild became ex-
tremely so, as she had not long been out of her con-
finement.

Dr. Ryan and Mr. Miller, professors of chemistry,
had examined the matter which had been used by the
defendant, and stated that it was the phosphuret of
calcium mixed with muriatic acid. The effect of the
latter was to decompose the former, and thereby to
evolve a gaseous substance termed phosphuretted hy-
drogen. This last-named gas was one of the most
obnoxious and offensive of all the gases, and if used in
any quantity was decidedly injurious to health. There
could be no doubt but that the symptoms which the
family of the prosecutor had exhibited had been
caused by the step the defendant had taken. It was
not chloride of calcium, but phasphuret of calcium ;
for if it had been the former it would not have acted
as a decomposing agent, as it was in truth an " inert
salt."

Mr. O'BRIEN made a powerful speech to: the jury
on behalf of the defendant.

The Learned JUDGE, in leaving the case to the
jury, said he must ask them to say whether, in
their opinion, the defendant had by himself, or
another, by his order, placed this mixture at the
door of the prosecutor's room with the inten-
tion of doing an injury to their health, or whether it
had been placed there simply as an annoyance, with
the view of getting rid of the family from the house.
The jury having consulted for a few minutes, said
that the defendant was guilty of having placed the
mixture at the door, but that he had not, in their
opinion, done so with any intention of doing the
parties harm.

Mr. PRENDERGAST said, that :virtually this was a
verdict :of not guilty, for he could not, upon such a
finding, move for judgment.
A verdict of not guilty was therefore entered.
Madame Mindy de Souza, alias Elizabeth Taylor,
was indicted for keeping a house of ill fame, 10,
Bury-street, St. James's.
She was convicted on the evidence of the under
butler of Viscount Alford and one of her Majesty's
" gentlemen porters."
The Learned JUDGE sentenced her to six months'
imprisonment and hard labour, and at the expiration
of that period to enter into her own recognizances in
the stain of 2001. and to find two sureties of 201. each
for her good behaviour for five years."

POLICE, INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION-HOUSE.

On Saturday, William George Flynn, a man who
has been in the habit of putting advertisements in the
newspapers headed " The Sea, the Sea," " To Pa-
rents and Guardians," &c., " Midshipmen Wanted,"
intimatine. that " vessels of the larger class, corn.
manded by captains who would attend to the moral
and nautical education of the parties entrusted to
their care, were in want of apprentices," appeared
before the Lord Mayor to answer the charge of two
brothers, named George and James Cargyll.
Mr. Pelham, who appeared gratuitously for the pro-
tection of the boys, stated, that for some time the
newspapers contained advertisements under the above
heads, and that numerous impositions had been prac-
tised by persons who pretended to be authorised to
engage apprentices to be bound under the Merchant
Seamen's Act. Inquiries were to be made of certain
parties, who, it was found, employed a number of
crimps on board vessels in the docks and river, and ascer-
tain whether any and what ships required apprentices,
in accordance with the number required by the 37th
clause of the S'th and Bth Victoria, chap. 112, which
regulated the number according to the tonnage. The
next thing to be ascertained was the amount of pre-
mium. That appeared to be from 21. to 201., and
when the premium was obtained from the friends of
the poor lads who applied the outfit was demanded,
and after that demand was answered the business was
so manoeuvred that the applicants were left without
ship and without redress of any kind. The present
complainants were the children of a poor widow at
Leeds, who had seen an advertisement in the Leeds
paper, promising everything for apprentices, and re-
ferring to Mr. Flynn, and the two lads were supplied
with all the necessaries, and Mr. Flynn was paid the
sum of 61. 6s. to provide them with the situations.
After having waited in town, however, for a length
of time, the poor boys were regularly thrown upon
the town, and subjected to all the casualties of the
lowest parts of the metropolis.
The LORD MAYOR desired that the evidence in so
atrocious a case should be produced before him as
soon as possible.
Flynn declared that he had been applied to by a
man of the name of Smith at Leeds, who advertised
in the way described, and that he ;undertook to get
employment for boys in ships upon commission for
that person. lie declared that he had no dishonest
intention, and that he had situations for the two lads,
but that they were unable to take them on account of
the want of outfits. He hoped the Lord Mayor
would take his ignorance of the law into considera-
tion, and not proceed to extremities.
Mr. Pelham (the case having been postponed for
evidence as to the conspiracy) stated to the Lord
Mayor that, under all the circumstances, and con-
sidering the great expense a prosecution would occa-
sion, he thought the offer of the defendant to make
complete restitution might be accepted, especially as
there was a probability that they would soon be pro-
vided for.
The LORD MAYOR said, that if evidence of so ne-
farious a case were brought forward he would un-
questionably have committed the defendant for trial,
and he believed there could be little doubt as to the
result. Ile considered Mr. Pelham was entitled to
great commendation for having thus volunteered to
serve the poor boys who had been subjected to such
treatment as might have made them vagabonds for
life, and he advised Flynn to look to himself, for the
eye of the police would most certainly be upon him.
Flynn thanked the Lord Mayor for his lenity, and
said that his Leeds correspondent was alone to blame
for " The sea! the sea! "