The Sun.
London, England, 1846-12-24 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 24, 1845.

STATE of the WEST HIGHLANDS

(From the Inverness Courier of the 16th inst.)
The snow storm has interrupted our communication
with the Hebrides, but the latest accounts are more sa-
tisfactory with respect to the supply of provisions. The
Stromboli steamer had arrived in Skye from Glasgow
with a cargo of meal, a private speculation, intended for
the use of Lord Macdonald's tenants. Meal was landed
from this vessel at Armadale, Uig, &c., and such was the
demand, that it was supposed the cargo would be ex-
hausted in a week. The two Government store-ships
were, however, daily expected. The Eolus is to be
stationed at Portree, and the Belvidera at Tobermorv,
both containing ample stores of provisions, to be sold
in whatever quantities the poor people demand, and
at the lo Nest market price. No charge is to be
made for freight or other incidental expenses. Sir Ed-
ward Coffin, the Commissary Officer, (who is now at To-
bermory), calculates that they can sell barleymeal at
about 295. per sack of 2801bs. or 14s. per boll of half
that weight. The country people are more partial to
barleymeal, in the absence of potatoes, than to any other
kind of grain, as they think it the most wholesome. The
Government stores can only be sold for ready money,
and the great object on the part of the proprietors must
now be to furnish employment to the poor people, that
they may be enabled to purchase provisions. Most of
the crofters had some little crop past them, for seed is
spring, but, of course, this, in many instances, has been
partly used, to avert actual famine. A correspondent
writes—

The ship that went ashore lately in Harris was laden
with flour, and part of the cargo being saved, the flour
was advertised over the country for sale. People floeked
to the spot from all quarters, and it was calculatEd that
nearly three thousand persons were
.present. The
owners, however, asked extravagant prices. The first
lot, I hear, was put up at 345., and no one making an
advance, the sale was given up. It is a great pity, both
for the Long Island and Skye, that sales were not
effected, as the supply of meal has been far too limited,
and the flour would have been a great help to us.

The subsequent arrival of the Stromboli and the Go-
vernment ships will, we hope, have obviated this loss.
The Firefly steamer has arrived to assist in conveying
stores, and keeping up ccmmunication between the
different localities.

With respect to employment, there is a general dis-
position among the proprietors to avail themselves of the
Drainage Act, and even to anticipate the grants by set-
ting the people to work. Mr. Macleod, we are happy
to see, has applied for a sum of 5,000/ Sir James M.
Riddell, of Ardnamurchan, intends soliciting a sum of
4,5001, as there is a large mass of unemployed at Ard-
namurchan. At Coll, the factor, Captain Campbell, em-
ploys a considerable number of hands on his own farms.
Barra is perhaps the most wretched of the islands, and
there only do the poor people appear in rags. like the
Irish peasantry. Generally throughout the Hebrides: the
people wear strong homely clothing, which has an air of
comfort, but those of Barra are an exception. The inhabi-
tants of Uig have also been in a very miserable state.
The people of the Lewis, notwithstanding some insinua-
tions that have been made to the contrary, are undoubt-
edly better off than any of their neighbour islanders.
There are fully 1,600 employed in out-door work, ac-
cording to the system laid down by Mr. Smith of Dean •
ston.

A gentleman who has recently been at Mull, Coll, and
some of the other Western Islands, remarks:—
" There is much suCering everywhere, but it will be
worse in the spring. The people are consuming their
oats and barley, and they will have no supply for seed.
This should be provided for. The change of fool and
destitution have increased the mortality among the
people. I was snrprised, however, to find that the men
(most of whom have boats for communication) do not
fish for cod, haddocks, &c., which would vary their
diets of meal, and be nourishing food. Boys fish for
small euddies from the rocks, but during the three weeks
I was there I could g t no good fish, though abundance
might be had in the sea, and the weather was remarkably
fine and calm."

The Highland population have generally little inclina-
tion for the sea, and in this respect are very different
from the east-coast fishermen, who go out in all
weathers, and are hardy and industrious. We hope to
have our fisheries prosecuted with more activity and
diligence when this orisis of destitution is pa*sed, or at
least mitigated. The subject is one of national import-
ance.

We extract the following from a private letter as ho-
neurab!e to Lord Macdonald
The minister of Kilmuir told me that he has leave
from Lord Macaonalcl to give a certain quantity of
meal to every person applying for it, and really needing
it—say one pound per day to every grown-up person,
and to young persons three quarter; of a pound. He
was, however, unable to act upon this at the time, there
being no meal in the parish, nor, indeed, in almost any
parish in Skye ; but since the Stromboli has come there
will be a supply."
The Government store-ships will also furnish excellent
depots, and all that is wanted is money, or its equiva-
lent, labour, on the part of the people.

A SKETCH OF IRISH LOCO-

MOTION.

The Irish public have not, as yet, had an advanta-
geous opportunity of appreciating the superiority of
railway travelling over the old-established means of
locomotion. The Kingstown, to be sure, pays its share-
holdeel, notwithstanding the spirit of jobbing which
taints it, as well as almost every other Irish under-
taking ; hut then it should be remembered tliat it is a
pet line, and only made use of to transmit the luxurious
Dublin tits from their shops and counting-houses to
suburban mansions, where they repose until another
day recals them to light and labour. But, look at the
Drogheda affair, which neither gratifies the shareheld-:ri
by " putting money in their purses," nor the public, by
carrying them quickly over the ground. The rate of
travelling is very low, presenting a marked contrast to
the charge for it, which is very high, when com-
pared with the accommodation on English lines.
The pace, however, accomplished by the engineer on
the Drogheda line is the ne plus ultra of speed, when
viewed in competition with the jog-trot system of going-
a-head on the Dublin and Carlow Railway. Really,
any one who has plenty of leisure and humour may en-
joy ample amusement by graduating to Carlow through
the agency of the Great Southern and Western Railway.
The swift. footed pedestrian, who delights in the name of
" The American Deer," and who has astonished so many
admirers of human agility in England, I would back
against the railway for as large a sum as a penny-a-liner
might be expected to exhibit, and, ten to one, before
half-a-down miles of the road had been covered, the puff
would be out of the engine, and, in sporting phrase, it
would be " nowhere." If the directors wish to make
the undertaking prosperous, they must display some
spirit in keeping with the advanced state of science.
As far as yet appears, if they had been prompted by a
wish to disgust the community with travelling by steam
carriages on iron roads they could not have done so
more effectual than by their management of the line.
As a medium of speedy transit it is the greatest farce that
ever was imagined, and as the merry pantomime days
are approaching, I would not be surprised if the fertile
genius of Calcraft founded upon it a happy scene, in
which would be represented a " monster" snail " drag-
ging its slow length along," and with it a train of car-
riages, the subject being further illustraled by the face-
tious lown exclaiming, " Tremendous travelling in the
nineteenth century—Dublin to Carlow, at the rate of the
sixteenth part of a knot in one hour." There are three
or four stations along the line which may be serviceable
to the inhabitants of neighbouring towns or villages, but
there are about a dozen which have been constructed for
no public purpose whatever, that I could ascertain,
unless it be anticipated that from the womb of time
marts of commerce and manufactures may hereafter
spring up among them. Whether those whom it most
concerns—the shareholders—will regard the prospect
of the country's prosperity a century hence as a fall
remuneration of their investments—whether they will
be content with a draft upon :posterity, it is not for
me to say. At each of these stations the train tarries
about a quarter of an hour, and as they are neither
few nor far between, a vast deal of time is con-
sumed, most provokingly to energetic spirits, on the
road. The utility of the system I could not fathom, as
scarcely any persons emerged from or entered the car-
riages at the different stages excepting poor devils who
were passing on to their labour, under the Board of
Works, and who could not be expected to patronise any
other vehicles than the Parliamentary or the penny-a•
mile ones. For my own part, as my mission was one of
observation and reflection, I had no particular wish to fly
over the ground at the rate of a flash of lightning ; but
there were two gentlemen in the box with me, who did
not think there was any "luck in leisure." I should
mention that the carriage was a second-class one ; the
seats in which were not cushioned like those of the same
rank on the Kingstown and Drogheda lines. To sit upon
them for five or six consecutive hours, is assuredly
" mortifying the flesh," and doing penance for one's
sins. One of my fellow-travellers was a solicitor,
who was hastening to Clonmel to oppose the
discharge of an insolvent, and he was afraid
that, owing to the slow motion of the train, he would
not be in time for the coach to the capital of Tip-
perary, and Commissioner Ferrell would have liberated
his victim before he could arrive to prevent him. The
other was an emissary from an entensive grocery esta-
blishment in Dublin, that has a large business in the
south of Ireland, but rarely allows its customers to amass
fortunes. His object in travelling was the benevolent
one of issuing an execution against the goods and chat-
tels of a molasses vendor in Waterford, and he was in
anguish lest he might have taken wing to America, be-
fore he could reach the urbs intacta. The griefs depicted
on the visages of this pair at the delay at each stage was
irresistibly comic to an indifferent spectator like myself.
If malisons, showered ad libitum by my temporary com-
panions upon the heads of railway directors and engi-
neers, can do them any mischief, I would be very sorry
to stand in the shoes of any of these officials. As
an illustration of the tedious system of locomotion on
the Carlow line, I may state that its operation has failed
to drive the Wexford day coach, and the night mail, off
the road. Although a coach leaves Wexford every
morning for Carlow, people still prefer going the whole
distance to Dublin by the old-fashioned four-in-hand
vehicle. Would this be the case if anything like cele-
rity or comfort were studied by the directors of the
railway? Who would, at such a season as this, be con-
tent to be perched the livelong day upon the top of a
coach, exposed to all the winds of heaven, if the rival
conveyance by steam were not a magnificent humbug?
Verily, it is well that the Queen's highway, running
parallel with the Carlow Railway, is being kept in repair
by the Board of Wm ks. We need it yet. There will
be no chance of grass growing upon it, at all events, for
lack of use, until the railway directors turn a new leaf,
and, instead of making their undertaking a huge laugh-
ing-stock, render it worthy of a country that has long
been sunk in degradation, but which is now bent upon
its elevation.—Dublin World.

IRELAND.

REPEAL ASSOCIATION.

DUBLIN, DEC. 21.—The usual weekly meeting of the
members of this body was held to-day at one o'clock, in
the Conciliation Hall. There was but a very thin
attendance of members and associates present. Amongst
those of the Committee upon the platform were—Mr.
O'Connell, M.P., Mr. J. O'Connell, M.P., Mr. N.
Maher, M.P., Mr. .T. A. O'Neill, Mr. Steele, Mr. C.
M'Loughlin, Mr. James O'Hea, Mr. E. Clements,
Captain Broderick, &c.
Upon the motion of Mr. O'CONNELL, the chair was
taken by Mr. W. Thomas Kelly, solicitor.
Mr. RAY (the Secretary) having read the minutes of
the previous meeting, Mr. O'Connell, Mr. Steele, and
others, handed in various renewed subscriptions, includ-
ing 16!. 10s. from Thurles ; 71. 16s. from Edinburgh ;
41. 13s. from Antrim ; and 3/. 7s. from Liverpool.
A letter having been read, enclosing some subscrip-
tions, in which allusion was made to the Clare election
of '2B, and the Catholic emancipation—
Mr. O'CONNELL said that they had succeeded on that
occasion, because they were unanimous, or nearly so,
for, although they were joined by a few, those few
were afterwards ready to reap all the fruits they could
from the movement.—(Hear, hear.)
Mr. STEELE observed that Mr. William Smith O'Brien
was at that time a member of the Catholic Association—
and, notwithstanding. did all in his power to put out
Mr. O'Connell, but his attempts were fruitless and faith-
less.—(Cheers.)
Mr. J. O'CONNELL then brought up a report " upon
the money question between England and Ireland,"
with reference to the threats that, he said, were held
out, that the last penny advanced by the Govern-
ment that year to relieve the distress amongst the
poor, would be most rigorously exacted from the
landlords, even to the sale of their estates.—(hear,
hear.) The Learned Gentleman here referred to
several London newspapers as his authority for this
statement—(Hear, hear)—and the fact, he (Mr. O'Con
nell) believed, was, that the intention of the English
people was to confiscate the lands of the Irish landlords
under the Labour Act, and to purchase them up and
keep them themselves.—(Hear, hear.) And under such
circumstances, he would ask Irishmen of all creeds and
politics, to lose not a moment in coming forward to join
the Repeal Association, which would oppose the repay-
ment of one penny of the moneys then advanced, which
were only a part of what was actually due to the country.
—(Hear.) In conclusion, he moved the adoption of the
report, which was seconded by
Mr. MAHER, M.P., and passed. _ _

Mr. O'CONNELL here said he wished to make an ob-
servation which referred to himself. There was a little
Orange rag in Kerry, called the Kerry Evening Post,
which had lately stated that some of his tenants from
Ranard were engaged in an attack lately made in that
county.—(Hear, hear.) Now he (Mr. O'Connell) had a
letter from his son Maurice that morning, stating that
this allegation was false; his tenants had made no
attack, and had no need to make one, for he had sent
them ten tons of Indian meal a few days before.
Mr. CLEMENTS read a letter from Thurles, addressed
to Mr. Maher, M.P., which, he said, proved that the
Young Irelanders were not the only Repealers in that
town, as had been stated.—(Hear.)
Some subscriptions having been handed in,

Mr. (YGONNELL then came forward to address the
meeting. He said that the first thing he would refer to
was the horrible state of the country.—(Loud cries of
":fear, hear.") They must have all read the awful
letter in that day's paper from Mr. Comyn, of Skibbereen,
who detailed a series of the most disgusting cases
of wretchedness—cases of such a nature, that they
were never eqralled before in a Christian country,
Now, a remedy they should have for this state of
things—and he would at once tell the Government
what the remedy was he required. He wanted
30.000,0001. of money to be lent to Ireland—to be re-
paid out of the revenues of the country, and not out of
the pockets of the landlords. He (Mr. O'Connell) had
joined the Agricultural Society to call on the Govern-
ment to relieve the poor and to relieve the landlords of
Ireland from burdens they were unable to bear ; but
that body was not one calculated to carry out his views.
He hoped to have an aggregate meeting of land-
lords iu Dublin in a few days, which would not be
afraid of their own shadows. They would print and
make propositions to relieve thecountry permanently, and
prepare petitions to the Government to take up exten-
sive measures of relief ; and in such a work he would
not grudge to give up his Christmas holidays. , They
had leisure to consider these things—they had time
to think of something besides the Young Irelanders.
This question of reconciliatien was all over—
there was an end to it: and as the association was
able and willing to work by itself for repeal, in total dis-
regard to the machinations of the little Ireland party, he
would tell that party that he gave them his defiance.—
(Loud cheers.) Now, he was assailed for stooping to
the Young Irelanders, and he was told that they would
claim a triumph.—(Hear, hear.) Of course, he knew
that such would be the case before he made an offer of
reconciliation, he knew he would be so taunted ; yet it
did not hinder him from making the offer—and why?—
(Hear, hear.) Because the result he knew must turn
out in his favour.—(Cheers) What had ho dune? He
sacrificed his feelings and his pride—and, after a strug-
gle for Ireland for fifty years, he was ready to place the
palms of his hands under the feet of the seceders to
bring them back and obtain unanimity ; in fact, he did
all but sacrifice principle, and they, nevertheless, refused
his offers—ungraciously refused them.—(Hear, hear.)
He (Mr. O'Connell) was glad at having made this effort,
and at what had occurred, although he could not but
regret that there was not a reunion. He was glad at
what had occurred, became important facts had cJrne
out—for instance, Dr. Miley stated in his letter
a matter which he had altogether forgotten—
(Hear, hear)—it was an inciden t that occurred
a few weeks before the secession, in his
own house.—(Cheers.) Mr. Meagher was in his (Mr.
O'Connell's) study, and Doctor Miley came in ; and, in
the course of conversation, he spoke to Mr. Meagher as
to the language he used in Conciliation Hall, telling him
he ought to abstain from such language, as it might
place their necks in jeopardy ; in reply to which Mr.
Meagher said he would offer himself to be hanged, in
case his language should lead to such a result ; but he
(Mr. O'Connell) stated that perhaps he would not be
taken. The Hon. Gentleman proceeded at considerable
length to discuss the difference between the Old and
Young Irelanders. Several other gentlemen addressed
the meeting, and after the announcement of the rent, 884,
the meeting adjourned.

ANOTHER DISASTER ON THE
EDINBURGH AND GLASGOW RAILWAY.

On Saturday night the passenger train which left
Edinburgh for Glasgow at five o'clock was suddenly
stopped a few hundred yards before arrival at the
Castlecary station, in consequence, as it appeared, of
the complete blocking-up of the rails by the ruins of a
previous train of luggage-waggons and cattle-trucks. A.
gentleman wbo was a passenger by the train has com-
municated a few of the particulars to us. He states that
he never beheld such a scene of devastation and horror.
Numbers of oxen—some alive or half alive, and some
quite dead—were seen lying amongst the wreck of
several of the trucks, and crowds of people were busily
employed in endeavouring to extricate them. The
ruins of the engine, or, at all events, a fire of
some kind was on the bank, smoking and burn-
ing, and several of the trucks lay directly across
the rails, perceptible only in the glare of the
fire, or by the faint light of the lanterns that were car-
ried hither and thither amid the crowd. It was not at
first known to the passengers whether any human lives
were lost in this calamity, and while this uncertainty
existed, nothing could exceed the horror and confusion
of the scene—people running about here and there giv-
ing contradictory orders, and masters and servants seem-
ingly quite ignorant of what ought to be done. It after-
wards turned out that no passengers by the train had
been injured, and no lives lost, except those of the cattle.
How the accident occurred is not known. Railway ser-
vants are never very fond of giving information in such
cases as these, and no intelligence whatever could be
procured from them as to the cause of this calamity.
The greatest mystery was made of it ; but amid the
many rumours that were afloat, the one that obtained
the most credence was, that it had been caused by an
improper signal at the Castlecary station, by which
means an engine had been driven into the
cattle trucks. It legislative interference be not neces-
sary in railways generally for the preservation of the
lives of the public—a point on which we shall say no-
thing just now—it seems to us that some special enact-
ment should be made with regard to this line, which has
of late become quite notorious through the whole coun-
try for mismanagement of every description. In conse-
quence of the discontinuance of the Sunday trains, we
believe that this train was more than usually heavy ;
and we need scarcely point out the awful results that
would have ensued had this accident occurred to the pas-
sengers' tra;n instead of to the cattle trucks. Our inform-
ant, who luckily succeeded in procuring a carriage for
himself and some ladies, where the only passengers that
had arrived in Glasgow up to 10 o'clock on Saturday
night ; and the mass of broken trucks and engines, and
mangled bullocks that were left on the rails at his de
parture was so great, as evidently to require the labour of
all the available hands to be procured for six or seven
hours, before the line could be cleared. Under thcEe
circumstances, we suppose that even the four directors
have admitted the propriety of setting men to work on
the Sabbath. The necessity and mercy were too obvious
even for them to cavil at; though to expect that they
will learn a lesson of charity from it, and suppose it
possible that other people may have works of necessity
and mercy to perform between Glasgow and Edinburgh
on the Sabbath, is, perhaps, expecting too much from
people who presume to be bath law-givers and theolo-
gians.

As we go to press eazq this morning, we have been
unable to obtain further particulars. We understand
that a large deputation of the citizens of Glasgow, ac-
companied by the Lord Provost, went into Edinburgh
on Saturday to wait upon the Lord Advocate, intend-
ing to retur❑ by the List train in the evening. Whether
they have yet arrived we cannot tell; but it is very
doubtful whether they could arrive in time for church
yesterday morning without hiring post• chaises for the
purpose.—Glasgow Argus.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
GUILDHALL.

Mr. Paterson, a tailor, was summoned before Mr. Al-
derman Wilson for assaulting Mark Anthony Markham,
his apprentice.
Mr. Scott, a solicitor, on behalf of the defendant, ob-
jected that he was not an apprentice, for the indenture
had not been stamped, and was not worth a farthing.
The lad's father said this was very odd, as this gentle-
man drew up the indenture, and charged 14s. 6d. for his
trouble. He also told him that all was complete.
Mr. Scott replied, he told him it would require a
stamp for 11. If the father had not paid it, that was
his fault.

The father denied that he received any such intima-
tion. The defendant told his boy about three weeks
after the binding that he could have an apprentice with a
501. premium, and he had ill-used him ever since.

Mr. Alderman WresoN said it was an ungracious act
on the part of the solicitor to seek to take advantage of
the want of a stamp. He ought not to have prepared
such indentures, or should have given the parties full
notice that they were of no use whatever if they were
not stamped.
Mr. Scott said his client had no desire to take any ad-
vantage, and he was ready to carry out the indenture as
if it were stamped. He told the father they ought to be
stamped.
Mr. Alderman WILSON said he could take cognizance
of a charge of assault without regard to the apprentice-
ship. He asked what premium was paid? The master
said none. It was a binding for only two 3 ears. The
boy was a thorough bad temper.
Mr. Alderman Johnson joined Mr. Alderman Wilson
in hearing the case.
It appeared that the boy came forty minutes beyond
his time, during which the master was working without
a fire on a frosty day. When the lad began to light the
fire he threw the fender aside so as to break a piece of
it off, and chip a piece off the oil cloth. The master
ordered him to leave. The boy would not go, and in
resisting his master's efforts to force him out gave him
a black eye. The boy had previously received two blows
in the face, and had been beaten over the arms to make
him give up his hold of a looking glass, which he meant
to pull down if his master persisted in forcing him away.
The MAGISTRATES wereof opinion that the master had
given way to unnecessary violence in the outset, instead
of appealing to the magistrate. At the same time, con-
sidering that the apprentice had struck the master, they
reduced the fine to ss, and costs. As the servant was
paid weekly wages, he might set up his claim for wages
at the Court of Requests, if the master refused to pay
what was due to him.

A donation of 101. was received from the Goldsmiths'
Company.

THAMES.

GENERAL FLORES' EXPEDITION.—Towards the close
of the proceedings at this Court Mr. Adderley IV itleochs
Sleigh, K.T.S., who, it was understood, was to have
commanded the squadron intended to aid General Flores'
expedition was brought before Mr. Yardley, charged by
Inspector Evans of the river police, under the 59th Gee.
111., cap. 69, sec. 2, with unlawfully enlisting British
subjects to serve under a foreign power, without the
sanction or consent of her Majesty.
Mr. Cottering, solicitor to the Board of Customs, who
attended for the prosecution, said that as the defendant
had only been just arrested, the case was not in a state
for thorough investigation then, but he would pro-
duce evidence sufficient to warrant a remand. lie then
called John Wyming, resident at No. 9, Crown street,
Westminster, who deposed that he was an Englishman,
and had served in the Portuguese Legion. About seven
weeks ago he was engaged to act as sergeant in a corps
going to the Equadur, and was told at the time that he
would be certain of promotion. On the 15th ult. he was
sent to the Angel, at Rotherhithe, where he saw Cap-
tain Sleigh, with whom he had served on the continent,
who was passing two or three hundred men, as they were
examined by the doctor. The captain told the men
they were going to the Equador, were the privates
were to have six dollars per month, the corporals
eight, and the sergeants twelve, with clothes, rations,
a house, two bullocks, and a cow each, lie told the
men that they must not object to fight if they found it
necessary to protect their property, but he said privately
to witness, "You are the sort of man I want, though the
others need not know anything about the matter." Wit-
ness heard something mentioned in the presence of the
prisoner about the men thus engaged being called emi-
grants, but he did not hear the term soldier used, unless
the word sergeant could be so construed. A promise
was held out to the men that they would find most com-
fortable accommodation on board the vessels engaged for
the expedition, namely, the Monarch, the Neptune, and
the Glenelg. Witness had instructions to engage all the
old hands he could fall in with, by which he understood
those who had served with himself and the defendant,
in Spain and Portugal. Witness acted in accordance
with his instructions, and his mode of doing so was
after the usual way of military enlistment. Ile had no
doubt that he himself was enlisted for some foreign mili-
tary service.

Thomas Rinings was then called, and stated that he
was a lapidary, residing at 6, Wood's-buildings, George-
street, Chelsea. He had served under Captain Sleigh
in Spain, and seeieg a placard headed "Emigration to
the Equador," with a reference to Captain Sleigh, ap-
plied to that gentleman, who said he was the sort of
man he wanted, and desired him to procure as many of
the " old hands" as possible to join General Flores in
South America. Witness did not understand more than
that they were to drive away some Don Roquo, who had
been set up as President, and that General Flores did
not wish to undertake the expedition without the assis-
tance of an Eriglish force. Captain Sleigh on that occa-
sion stated that there would not be much military ser-
vice to be performed, as the breast work and batteries
were such as any man of spirit might kick down with
his foot. Witness had engaged 50 or 60 men, and dis
tinctly understood that he had engaged them for a mi-
litary service. Tho defendant, however, told some of
the men that they were going out as emigrants, whilst
he told others that they were going out as soldiers.
Mr. YARDLEY said there was sufficient evidence to
call upon the defendant to find bail to answer the
charge.

The defendant, a fine agile-looking young fellow,
about -30 years of age, whose features were deeply
bronzed by exposure to various climes, and who looked
more like a Spaniard than a native of the sister isle,
asked with a tone of minglstd surprise and composure,
" What is the charge?"
Mr. YARDLEY—That of unlawfully enlisting British
subjects to serve under a foreign power, without the
sanction of their sovereign.

Captain Sleigh—Why- these men have already served
under a foreign power, and I am not aware that they
had such sanction.

Mr. YARDLEY—That does not form the question now
before me.

The defendant (glancing contemptuously at the wit-
nesses)—l do not pretend to understand the question,
for my solicitor is not here. All I know is, that these
faithful followers, who tell you that they fought with and
served under me in Spain, have been brought here for
some paltry purpose, that I cannot approve ; and I am
glad to find that General Flores' expedition is not likely
to be disgraced by the service of such despicable
wretches. They solicited the service from me, for they
sought me, and I not them. It was unnecessary for you,
sir, to issue a warrant for my apprehension ; the slightest
intimation that my presence here would be necessary
would have instantly brought me. Ido not feel myself
at all disgraced by my pcsition ; for being bred to arms-,
I would, in the pursuit of my profession, engage in any
foreign service not opposed to my own legitimate
sovereign.

Mr. YARDLEY held the prisoner to bail to answer the
charge at the Central Criminal Court, himself in 2001.,
and two sureties of 100/. each ; but he will be brought
up again to complete the evidence.
CRUELTY TO A HORSE. A brutal-looking fellow,
named Charles Frankling, was charged with horribly
maltreating a horse, the property of Mr. David Stevens,
corn merchant, of North-street, Poplar.
It appeared that the horse was a young and playful
animal, and would bite, through mere playfulness, at
those wbo were employed in dressing it up for the night.
The prisoner, though cautioned as to the animal's pro-
pensities, neglected the usual precaution of binding him
up by a head-stall, and the consequence was, that it gave
him a nip in the side, which broke the flesh. The fellow
immediately seized the stable fork, and after belabouring,
the poor animal desperately about the sides, plunged
one of the prongs deeply into the fleshy part of one of its
hind-quarters. The veterinary surgeon could not say
whether the animal would or would not survive the
injury, and the complainant stated that he was at a loss
per day amounting to almost 1/.
The prisoner was fined 405., and in default committed
for fourteen days.

LAMBE,TH.

ALLEGED CRUELTY---T"01-i-iN-F-A-NT BY ITS MOTHER,

—Emma Allen, a rather good-looking young woman, at
present an inmate of Lambeth workhouse, was brought
before Mr. Elliott, by order of Mr. Bushell, one of the
guardians of Lambeth parish, on a charge of ill-using an
infant, her illegitimate offspring.
Several witnesses were examined, who deposed to the
prisoner having been in the habit of it with
infant
With great inhumanity, snch as feeding with food so
hot as to scald its mouth, and so beating, pinching, and
bruising it as to reduce it to a wretched state.
ha
Mr. Johnson, assistaut to Mr. Duke, the parish sur-
geon, deposed that he bad attended the prisoner's child
for some time, and did not at any time perceive any
marks of violence upon it. The complaint under which
the child was labouring was diarrhoea, and it was much
worsenow than
Mr. ELLIOTT—Had you ever examined the child to
ascertainif the
while
Witness—No, sir, I did not ; I had not the slightest
suspicion that it had been ill-used, and therefore did not
re were
marksa
o attending
violenceen d ing it.
upon it?
think it necessary to examine it.

Mr. ELLIOTT-How long has it been ill? Witness—
About five weeks.

Mr. ELLIOTT—DO you think the diarrhoea might
have been produced by the infant being bruised and
pinched, or giving to it food too hot, as has been de-
scribed, or has it been the result of natural causes?
Witness— From natural causes, I should think.
Mr. ELLIOTT—What was your opinion as to the pri-
soner's treatment of her infant? Witness—Sha did not
appear to me to be over kind or attentive to her infant.
Mr. Bushell here said that the matron of the ward
had frequently spoken to the prisoner about her negli-
gence and treatment of her infant, and he wished to ask
the prisoner what her replies used to be? Prisoner—
I always told her "I had a right to do what I liked
with my own."
Mr. ELLIOTT—This expression, together with the
evidence that has been given, satisfies me that you are
not a person who should be entrusted with the care of
an infant. It is quite clear that you are a person of
very violent temper, and that you have not treated your
child as you should have done and my order therefore
is, that the child be taken from you, and sent to the
nursery, and that you yourself be taken back to the

workhouse until you can provide yourself with a
situation.

The prisoner was then discharged.
ROBBERY AT ASTLEY'S THEATRE.—George Morris,
property man, and Thomas Wray, one of the carpenters
at As!ley's Theatre, were finally examined on a charge
of stealing eight wands, the property of Mr. William
Batty, their employer.
From the testimony of Mr. Batty, the proprietor of
Astley's Theatre, and Mr. Broadfoot, his stage manager,
it appeared that on Sunday evening last the former gen.
tleman was sitting near the outer gate when the men
were going away from work, and observing the prisoner
Wray'suddenly tura back on perceiving him, he fol-
lowed him, and found in his possession six four-feet and
two six-feet wands, handsomely painted and decorated
with rich tinsel paper. He gave varied accounts about
the property, but at'length admitted that he had made
them from the timber belonging to Mr. Batty, for Mor-
ris, the property man, and was taking them .out for
his use.

Morris did not deny that the wands, which wero for
a private order, had been made from the wood belong.
ing to Mr. Batty, and by Wray, one of the carpenters,
but said that the tinsel ,paper, colouring, and decoration
were his own, He was unable, however, to prove the
latter ; aed

Mr. ELLIOTT ordered both prisoners for trial.
On the kind intercession of Mr. Batty, who said that
Morris had been for a I,ngth of time in his service, at a
salary of two guineas a week, and the other prisoner had
also been in'his employment for some time, and, with
overtime, earned nearly as much, the case was taken
summarily, and the prisoners were committed for 21
days each to the Honse of Correction.