The Sun.
London, England, 1848-09-23 00:00:00

CENTRAL CRIMINAiL COURT.
OLD COURT.
TRIAL OF WILLIAM DOWLING.

Re-examination of Thomas Powell (esnatinued from our
Third Edition yesterday)—Was notito receive anything if
these persons were convicted. Did not exi.Nect anything
except protection. Might have told the men that he was
sick of their talking, and that they did nothing. Never
told the men that they were going too slow, and that
the best thing they could do was to set fire to London.
I do not believe I ever made use of such an expression.
The only way I stimulated them on was to give Gurney
half a pound of gunpowder. I swear I never gave gun-
powder or bullets to any one besides. Gurney told me
to get some paper and powder in order to make cart-
ridges. I expected they were to be made by the Queen's
troops and the police, but yet I assisted him to obtain
them. Ido not know whether this was patriotic or not.
I believe they suspected that I was a spy on account of
a certain person with whom I was in communication
being seen to come to my house. The charge was made
against me, but I successfully refuted it, and the person
who made the charge was turned out of the room. I
was elected a delegate by the council. I was proposed
by a stranger, and was at once elected. I do not know
that I ever saw the stranger before, and I have not seen
him since. I did not press myself forward. I was de-
sirous to get into their confidence gradually in order that
I might betray them the more securely. Every delegate
was made acquainted with the pass-word used. Knew
the object for which it was given. I swear I had no
portion of the money that was collected. Mr. Dowling
did not say on one occasion that some of the plans had
been arranged in his absence, and that so far as he
understood them he disapproved of them. He did re-
sign at one of the meetings, but he was re-elected. Mul-
lins and Rose were accused of being spies as well as
myself. I always indignantly repudiated the charge of
being a spy. I spoke to two men about " firing " the
houses and premises, and one of them agreed to do as I
desired, but the other did not appear willing. II thought
I was bound to carry out the resolution of the committee,
that each delegate should engage some men for the pur-
pose of firing houses, or else I should have been ,sus-
pected. I did not consider I was entrapping these two men
into the commission of an offence. I communicated with
a certain party immediately after the first secret commit-
tee meeting was held, and my information was no doubt
communicated to the Government. I only once heard
any mention made of a republic, and then the prisoner
was present. Rose spoke about murdering the police.
I had no right to be present at that meeting. I swear
the words "fighting men" were used. A man named
Donovan proposed to send a messenger to Limerick, in
order to ohtain a true version of what was going on in
Ireland. When Mullins said, " May the bitterest curse
of Ged rest upon any man who would betray any of us,"
it ►%as not addressed to me, but I thought a good deal of
it. I have not made so much by being a spy as by car-
pentering.
Sergeant Thompson deposed that he searched the
lodgings of Rose, and found the papers which he pro-
duced. They appeared to be plans of London, ap-
parently marked out in different districts, and a :list of
men whose names were in cypher, supposed to be the
intended leaders of the insurrection, and this number of
men each leader had apportioned to him.
It being now a quarter to seven o'clock, the
ATTORNEY-GENERAL said he had a great many more
witnesses to examine, and although ho was not desirous
to fatigue the jury, yet if they did not proceed further
with it, he would not say that it might not be necessary
to have the jury locked up all Sunday.
Mr. Justice EaLE asked the jury whether they would
adjourn at once till the morning, or whether they would
adjourn for a short time, and take some refreshment, and
go on further with the case?—The jury agreed to sit
later, as suggested, and the Court adjourned for twenty
minutes, when the trial proceeded.
Charles Tildren deposed that he was a member of the
Chartist body, and attached to the St. James's Club.
Cuffey was their class leader, and he heard him give
orders about cartridges to fire upon the people! and in
June he heard Cuffey say that the time would soon
come. Witness told him he had no gun, and he replied
that he would break into the gunsmiths and get arms.
The witness spoke to other conversations with Coffey
on the same subject, and he also saw 4 pike at
Cuffey's lodging, which he wished him to sharpen,
but he refused to do so. On another occasion he saw
him in the act of casting bullets from old type. Witness
told him he knew a person who had prepared some ginger-
beer bottles filled with rough pieces of broken iron and
powder, and Cuffey said they were very good, and would
do for the Chartist's wives to cast from the windows on
the police, whilst their husbands were fighting with
them in the streets.

This witness was cross-examined at some length, but
nothing material was elicited.
Thomas Barry gate evidence of a similar character.
A number of police superintendents and constables
were then examined, and their evidence went to show
the circumstances attending the apprehension of the dif-
ferent parties. At the Orange Tree eleven were taken,
many of them armed with pistols and pikes, and
formidable bludgeons loaded with lead. Daggers and
tow balls were also found in the rooms where they were
apprehended, and at their lodgings upon a subsequent
search a vast quantity of gunpowder, ball-cartridges for
pistols and guns, pikes, pike•heads, and combustible ma-
terials were also discovered, comprising enough to fill
several large boxes, which were produced by the police.
Some of the tow balls had since been examined, and
were found to contain gunpowder and broken iron and
glass.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL intimated that this was the
case for the prosecution.
The Court adjourned at ten minutes after ten o'clock,
the jury retiring to the L'indon Coffee-house, in charge
of an officer.

THE COAST OF IRELAND —Luckily the squadron
under the orders of Rear-Admiral Sir C. Napier did not
leave Cork on the 11th for want of a breeze; on the
news reaching the Admiral of the new outbreak at
Waterford, he determined to remain until he com-
municated with the Lord-Lieutenant. Subsequently,
Sir Charles received dispatches from Charing-cross,
cancelling former orders, and instructing him to
hold himself in readiness to co-operate with, and to carry out,
the views of the Lord-Lieutenant. During the past week
the Madagascar, store frigate, has been sent to Devonport to
be paid off; and the squadron on the coast has been rein-
forced by the Cyclops, steam-frigate, Captain the Hon. G.
F. Hastings; Driver, 6, steam-sloop, Commander C. J. R.
Johnson ; Dwarf, screw-steamer, Lieutenant-Commander
Osborn ; and Sprightly, steam-vessel, Lieutenant-Com-
mender Barnard. These were all ordered to Water-
ford, the Cyclops and Driver, took 300 of the Marine Artil-
lery, and was directed, on disembarking them, to wait fur-
ther orders. They are permanently fitted and manned for
three years' service. The Dwarf and Sprightly are officered
and manned from the Excellent. The Dragon, 6, steam-
frigate, Captain Hall, has been running down the Dungarvon
coast, and is now at Waterford. Capt. Hall is senior officer.
Commander De Courcy has joined the Helena, 18, at Corfu.—
United Service Gazette.

SURVEY OF THE ORKNEYS.—Commander Beecher
has some time since left the command of the Mastiff, and the
superintendence of the surveying operations at the Orkney
islands. Lieutenant J. W. L. Thomas, of the Woodlark,

tender, remained to carry on the work, and the Admiralty
have now ordered him to send home the Mastiff, in charge
of Mr. Wells, the master, to be paid off by the first week in
October, retaining the Woodlark, and continuing the survey
in her during the winter and succeeding spring.—/
THE FRENCH TROOPS AT THE Towne OF LON-
Dow.—A party of the French National Guards, now in Lon-
don, visited tlie Tower this week, and amongst other curiosi-
ties shown to them were some French cannon captured by
our troops from the French, at the battle of Vittoria. "
ati !" remarked the Frenchman, "if you come to Paris we
can show you, at the Invalides, some cannon which we cap-
tured from the English." " 'Tis very possible you did take
one or two, sir, which we spiked beforehand," replied the
warden, " but you know, sir, that we took thousands from
you."— United Serrice Gazette.
ROYAL DOCKYARD BRIGADE.—We cannot trace
the report of the disbanding of the Do
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the winter months.—Mid.
ACCELERATION OF THE MAIL TO PERTH.—The
arrangements for commencing the conveyance of the Eng-
lish mails by the Caledonian and Central Railways direct to
and from Perth, we understand are completed, and will take
effect from:the Ist of October. On and after that day the
evening London mail will arrive here about four o'clock
next afternoon, and the morning about three A.M., and thence
forwarded to undee, Aberdeen, and Inverness; the two for-
mer by railway. The mail for Inverness will be dispatched
about five o'clock afternoon, in place of morning as at pre-
sent. The subsidiary arrangements connected with the local
and bye posts, are not quite arranged, but will be published
in a day or two.—Perthshire Courier..
THE SALE AT STOIVE.--BUCxoGmookt, SEPT.
e. 22,
The sale of the furniture of the upper rooms has on.
tinned at Stowe since Tuesday last, but nothing of the
slightest importance calling for a report has occurred. The
sale roam has been well attended each day, and the prices
realised by some of the articles sold.havte beenaridiacnudlonsly
high, parties appearing perfectly.willing o pay hfu handsome
fine for the privilege of possessing any piece of furniture
coaling from Stowe. An instance of this kind occurred yes-
terday with " Lot 2,173, a four-post bedstead,
wonhiFchre wnc ash
castors, with mahogany cornice and brass poles
knocked down to a commission agent at a most extravagant
price, so much so that the parities in the
.tiradbe pdretsendt re-
marked they would gladly supply two similar e sea s for
the same amount. the sale will be resumed on Tuesday
with the contents of the Japan rooms, where there are many
articles of exceeding interest.
A TRAVELLED MAN.—There is at-present resid-
ing in Perth, a man named Thomas Maxton, who has been
employed As a wright upon the Moncrieffe estate for the last
maildi e
35 years, and who has during that period, with, We believe,
only two exceptions, travelled 3it miles out and 3i miles -
laeomdilaeisi,y
which
avocation,
to and from his work every lawtul day. Seven
thin
is 42 miles a week, and 2,184 miles a year ;
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year, forled 3i
n 5 t years,
opursuit
is 76,4f4Ohis
journeyings to and fro which he has been obliged to take
from one place to another of the grounds, and
which, at a
moderate calculation, will amount to a fifth
in all a total of 91,728 miles which more—making
Perthshire Courier.
he has gone over.—
GREAT NORTHERN R AMWAY. —Now that the
line is open to Doncaster, the progress of the works
on the unfinished portions do not, probably, excite
so much interest
as they did previously. Nevertheless,
we feel satisfied that all the inhabitants
of the town
will be glad to see the whole of the projected railway
communications to Doncaster completed, and will
learn with satisf fiction that the works aro proceeding
as vigorously as before. The pile driving for the per-
manent bridge is not yet completed, but we understand
that the works on the south side of the riser will be suffi-
ciently advanoed for the laying of the first stone of the
foundation on Monday next. The span of the bridge
will be 70 feet, and the bridge itself will, we are in-
formed, consist of a wrought iron tube, constructed on
the plan of the Menai Straits bridge, in Wales. It is,
at present, being manufactured at Manchester, from
which place it will arrive here in a week or two. The
bridge over the road to the marsh is all but completed,
and beyond it, in the direction of the river, a platform
is being made, to facilitate the erection of the bridge
tICIOE3 the river, ,Do Chronicle.