The Sun.
London, England, 1848-08-04 00:00:00

BOW-STRE'ET.

COMMITTAL OF Two MOUE C II A RTIST LEADER&
Jarnea M. Bryson, one of the ChartiA leaders at whose
residence a quantity of papers relating to Chartist pro.
ceedings, a sword, and a two•edged dagger made out of
a file, were found, was placed before Mr. Hall on a war-
rant issued against him for sedition.
Mr. Haywood appeared on the part of the Crown.
The defendant was undefended, but took notes of the
proceedings.
The evidence against the defendant was that of Mr.
Bond Hughes and Police-constable Bywater, No. 116 L.

The speech, which was uttered on the 28th of July, was
in the usual style of the Chartist leaders. When the
defendant was taken into custody he made no reply.
After the evidence was completed, and on being told
that he would be committed to Newgate for trial, he said
it would be useless to say anything.
He was then directed to find bail, himself in the sum
of 150/., and two sureties in 751. each, when he was re-
moved from the dock.

George Shell was then placed in the dock. He moved
one of the resolutions at the same meeting, to the effect
that physical assistance should be rendered by the Eng-
li.h Chartists to their Irish brethren. The apprehension
of the defendant was effected at the same time on leaving
the meeting. Ile said nothing when arrested, and also
reserved his defence.

Mr. BALL said that in the present, as in the former
case, he felt bound to commit the prisoner to Newgate;
but would, as in the former case, take bail in the same
amount, each defendant to give 24 hours' notice of bail
to the Treasury.
The two defendants, not being prepared with bail,
were subsequently removed to Newgate.
WORSHIP-STREE7:

Thomas Waterman, only thirteen years of age, the
son of a cowkeeper at Shacklewell, was placed at the bar
before Mr. Arnold, charged with having wantonly beaten
and kicked a little boy named Edward Axe, ten years of
age, and thereby caused his death.
Mrs. Charlotte Axe, the mother of the deceased, who
was painfully affected whilst giving her evidence, stated,
that on Friday evening last her son was brought home to
her in a state of extreme suffering, which he told her
had been occasioned by ill•treatment he had received
from the prisoner, who had struck and kicked him se-
veral times on the lower part of the body. He was soon
after seized with a violent sickness, which continued
with scarcely any intermission until the following Sun-
day evening, when he appeared to have somewhat reco-
vered, and went out to play in the front of the house;
but in a few minutes afterwards he hastened back to the
house and complained that the prisoner had just made a
second attack upon him and beaten him severely about
the head. He remained in great pain throughout that
night, complaining of the injury in the lower part of his
belly, and, the sickness having returned with increased
violence, the assistance of a surgeon was obtained; but
all his efforts to save him were unavailing, and, after
gradually sinking, he finally expired at two o'clock that
morning, and she gave instructions to the police for the
prisoner's apprehension.
Mrs. Anne Wolfe, a married woman, proved that
whilst standing at her window, between seven and eight
o'clock on Sunday evening, she saw the little boy Axe
endeavouring to escape from the prisoner, but the latter
ran after him, and struck him two or three sharp blows
with his open hand upon both sides of the head.
Police-constable Langdon, of the N division, stated
that on calling that morning on Mr. Robins, the surgeon
who attended the deceased during his illness, that gen-
tleman stated that there were narks of violence upon
the lower part of the child's stomach, apparently caused
by a heavy blow or kick, but that until he had an op-
portunity of making a post mortem examination of the
body, he could not say with any degree of positiveness
that those injuries were sufficient to account for the
death. _ _ _

Mr. ARNOLD therefore ordered the prisoner to be re-
manded for a week, but consented to accept substantial
bail for his future appearance.
LAMBETH.

Emma Illounser, a wretched looking woman, but who,
from ber manner, had evidently seen much better days,
was brought up for final examination before Mr.
Norton, on a charge of unlawfully pawning seventeen
shirts, the property of Messrs. Moses and Sons, Aid.
gate.

The prisoner had been given into custody by a person
named Skerritt, who bad been her security for the safe
return of such work as she might receive from Messrs.
Moses and Co.

Charles Wicks, who described himself as a "cutter
out" in the service of Messrs. Moses and Sons, deposed
that the prisoner had had a dozen and a half shirts to
make for his employer, and said that the seventeen shirts
now produced by the pawnbrokers were some of the shirts
so given out. _

the prisoner did not deny pawning the shirts, but
said she bad been driven to the act by sheer necessity.
Her husband, who was a printer, she said, was out of
employment, as well as her son and daughter, and all at
this particular time were dependant on the wretched
pittarce which she made by shirtmaking.
Mr. Nowrox (to the prisoner)—What were you paid
for making these shirts? Prisoner-2s. 6d. a dozen,
your Worship, or 2id a piece.
Mr. NORTON— W hat, lid. a piece! Well, that seems
to be an improvement, for I recollect in a memorable
case which came before me two women were paid only
lid. a shirt for what they made; but, from the exposure
that the❑ took place of this system of starvation and
hard work, I was in hope the practice was much im-
proved, and that poor persons were now enabled to earn
something like a means of existence by this species of
employment. Addressing the prisoner, the Worthy
Magistrate asked how much she had been enabled to earn
a day at such work.
The prisoner replied that the utmost she could do in
the day was to make two shirts, and deducting from this
the price of the thread, cotton, and needles, all of which
she had to find herself, she could not make more than
4d. a-day. _ _

Mr. NORTON remarked that this was really shameful;
upon which
A person who described himself as belonging to the
shirt department of Messrs. Moses and Sons, stood for-
ward and said he was a clerk, in the shirt department of
Messrs. Moses and Sons, and commenced abusing the
pawnbrokers for taking in such property to pledge, as
they must be quite aware the property did not belong to
the parties pledging, but to some wholesale house.
Mr. NORTON remarked that the prices at which the
poor people took in the work were so wretchedly low,
and being without the means of carrying them on to the
completion of the work itself, they were compelled from
sheer necessity, to pledge that portion of the work com-
pleted to enable them to go on with the remainder, and
unless they got such advances they would not be enabled
to get on with the work at all. He ()dr. Norton) should
be glad to know from the clerk of Messrs. Moses and
Sons, as he called himself, what the price of the shirts
produced were?
The person alluded to said, the wholesale price was
12 i, a dozen, or Is. a piece, and that they were princi-
pally for exportation.
Mr. NORTON wished that such a business was exported
altogether, for he felt satisfied that until a living profit
could be give❑ to the poor people for making up such
goods they would be better without them.
The person before alluded to said, that the competition
in such business was so great that his employers (Messrs.
Moses and Sons) could not afford to pay more than the
present rate.
Mr. NORTON thought that they had they had the
means in their ow❑ hands of rising the prices, for if
Messrs. Moses and Sons and other houses chose to rise
the price of shirtmaking to a scale which would provide
those working at the business a means of subsistence,
the houses paying a smaller price would not find any
person to work for them.
The clerk of Messrs. Moses and Sons sc.dd he should
communicate his worship's opinion to his employers;
and

Mr. NORTON believing that the prisoner had pawned
the property under the pressure of extreme distress
discharged her, but cautioned her as to her future con-
duct.

SOUTHWARK.
Mr. James legram, of the British Museum, was sum-
, monel for refusing to contribute to the maintenance of
an illegitimate child.
Mary Burn stated, that she was housemaid in the ser-
vice of a gentleman in Woburn square, and that in May,
1847, the defendant was in the habit of passing the
house to the British Museum, and on these occasions he
used to kiss his hand and beckon to her as he went by;
that soon afterwards she met him as she was going to
see her .brother, and that he prevailed on her to have
some refreshment with him, and that an intimacy com-
menced which led to the birth of a child; that when she
discovered that she was enceinte she mentioned the fact
to the defendant, and he urged her to " Father it on
some young man," which advice she refused to adopt;
and that when the child was born, o❑ being asked to
contribute to its support, he declined doing so, saying
that he should give nothing but what the law compelled
him. She added that she first made application for re-
dress at the Marylebone police office, but that her wit-
nesses being absent from town the summons was refused.
'Two witnesses were then called, one of whom proved
'that she was present when the defendant was applied to
on the subject, and that she heard him use the words at-
tributed to him by the complainant. The witnesses also
stated that they used to see the defendant hovering about
the house where the complainant lived as housemaid,
and that they had seen them together.

Mr. Pelha-m, on the part of the defendant, said, that
the gentleman did not appear in person to answer the
summons in consequence of being afflicted with a ner-
vous disease. He (Mr. Pelham) knew the difficulties
he had to contend against in adducing evidence to con-
tradict the statements of the witnesses; but he could as-
sure the magistrate that Mr. Ingram denied that he ever
bad any improper familiarities with the complainant; that
he was a man of unblemished reputation, and his denial
of the alleged paternity did not arise from any wish on
his part to save himself the trifling expense for the sup.
port of the child, but that it was solely on account of the
attempt to fix upon him a charge which was utterly
groundless, and which was trumped up for the purpose
of extortinr, money from him.
Mr. Roberts submitted that ho bad adduced the ne-
cessary confirmatory evidence to establish the charge
against the defendant.
Mr. SECKER said that the evidence was certainly all
on one side, and as he could see no reason for doubting
the truth of the witnesses' testimony he was bound to
adjudge the defendant the father of the child, and to
make an order on him of two shillings and sixpence per
week for its maintenance.

STATE OF ST. MARY- LE-STRAND BURIAL GROUND
IN RUS3ELL-COURT.—Yesterday an inquiry was held
before Mr. Bedford, coroner, at the Cheshire Cheese,
Cross-street, Drury-lane, on view of the body of Mary
Ann Sazell, whose death was alleged to have been occa-
sioned br the effluvia issuing from the above burial-
ground. The witnesses, surgeon, coroner, and jury, all
concurred in bearing testimony, from their own personal
observation and experience, to the deplorable state of
the ground, and the great danger which it occasions to
the public health. The jury returned a verdict of " Na-
tural Death," and added that they could not separate
without expressing the strongest abhorrence of the con-
dition of the burial ground in Russell-court, which is l
O CHEAT.—Cheat used for funerals for the parish of St. Mary-le-Strand,
which
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practice Is fraught with danger in a densely popu-
lated locality.
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temperate; cheat
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by keeping out of debt; and
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tor any.—Amertcan paper.

ELECTION COMMITTEE.
DUBLIN.

The scrutiny into the validity of Mr. Reynolds' ma-
jority was resumed yesterday. Three votes were attacked
on the ground of inaccuracies and irregularities in the
register, but the petitioners only succeeded in striking one
of them off the pull.