The Sun.
London, England, 1848-11-07 00:00:00

BAIL COURT.-('PHIS DAY.)

CRIMINAL INFORMATION.-THE QUEEN ON THE PRO-
SECUTION OF THE MAGISTRATES OF CHELTENHAM P.

HADLEY.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL applied to the Court on
behalf of several of the magistrates of the Cheltenham
division of the county of Gloucester for a rule calling
elm John Hadley, the printer and proprietor of a news-
paper called the Cheltenham Journal and Stroud Herald,
ta show cause why a criminal information should not he
tiled against him, for printing and publishing a libel re-
flecting on the public character of the magistrates of
Cheltenham generally. He would read the libel, and it
would at once be seen that it reflected severely upon the
Cheltenham bench of magistrates. The libel was pub-
lished on the 31st of July last, and it prof( sled to be the
report of a speech of a gentleman named Lingwood, an
attorney practising in Cheltenham, and addressed to a
:dose rut eting of the Cheltenham Conservative Assecia-
jon. The Learned Gentleman proceeded to read the
specch in question. It commenced by stating the opinion
t' the speaker that it was not sufficient for the people of
Cheltenham to return a Member to Parliament, but they
lutist have their local offices of trust filled by men of
their own colour. They had had yellow officers long
enough, and it was high time they were got rid of. The
cht,racter of a public officer was public property, and so
Log as a public officer misconducted himself he was liable
to be found fault. with,and from the magistrate on the bench
down to the bum-bailiff who levied a distress, all were re-
-ponsible for what they did and said. (The Attorney
neral remarked in parenthesis that he wished the gen-
t 'man would act upon this principle, and take upon himself
the responsibility of the libel). The speaker then went
on to say that it was his duty to tell the meeting though
he was extremely sorry to do so, that the magistrates of
the town ef Cheltenham prostituted their offices to poli-
deal purposes, and it was his intention to present a me-
morial to the Lord Chancel', tr, "the man who sat upon the
Woolsack," upon the subject of their conduct. Ile would
not, the speaker continued, allow their public offices to
be I rostituted in this manner, for until they got justice
administered impartially, the people of Cheltenham were
not free men, but slaves. The other day a poor man
came to him and said, " What am Ito do under these
circumstances ; here am I summoned by the magistrate
for the rates, although they know I am poor and cannot
pay, hut they know I am a Conservative and this will
enable them to strike my name off the register while
&here is a neighbour of mine who has not paid his rates,
although he has got ph nty of money, but he happens to
be a yellow, and, therefore his rates are excused him, so
that he may get on the register." The speaker concluded
by staking his reputation upon the truth of his state-
ments. The Attorney-General said he thought the Court
would agree with him that this was a most scandalous
imputation upon the Cheltenham magistracy. He had
affidavits of the leading members of that body, declaring
that the statement that they prostituted their offices to
political purposes was totally untrue, as was also the
assertion that they had excused persons from the pay-
ment of rates because they were yellow or upon any pre-
tence whatever. He had also the affidavit of the over-
seers of the parish confirming these declarations, and
here in ordinary cases his application would end, but
there were other circumstances connected with this par-
ticular case to which he thought it right to call the
attention of the court. On the 7th of August there was
another number of this paper published, containing mat-
ter relating to this particular speech. It appeared by
that paper, that Mr. Lingwood addressed a letter to the
editor, complaining that his speech had been inaccurately
reported, and stating that he had sent a letter to the
magistrates disclaiming some of the sentiments expressed
in the speech. The editor of the paper attached a
note to this letter, insisting that the speech had been re-
ported as it was spoken. But that did not matter, as
the letter itself, so far as the magistrates were concerned,
only aggravated the charge which the speech made
against them. It did not state what part of the speech
was inaccurate, whether it was the part relating to the
threat to memorialise the Lord Chancellor, " the mail
who sat upon the Woolsack," or excusing parties for
non-payment of rates in prostituting their offices to
political purposes, and accordingly Mr. Williams, the
clerk of the magistrates, wrote a letter to Mr. Lingwood,
pointing out the vagueness of his communication—
stigmatising the speech as a crime, and announcing the
opinion of the magistracy that the matter was beyond
their limits of an apology, and would have to be de-
cided by a Court of Justice. In conclusion, the
Learned Attorney-General said, it seemed to have been
the result of a settled purpose that Mr. Lingwood should
have made this speech contrary to the usual practice,
all the other newspapers but this particular one were ex-
cluded from the meeting where it was delivered, and it
would be fur the printer and proprietor of the newspaper
to explain whether he had not been indemnified for
printing and publishing this libel in his paper.
Mr. Justice PATTESON granted the application.

COMMON PLEAS.-(THIS DAY.)
(Sittings in Banco.)
DAVIDSON V. BORN.
This was an action for infringement of copyright on
the part of the defendant by publishing in the Musical
Gent the words and music of a song which it was alleged
WAS the property of plaintiff. The action was tried be-
fore Mr. Justice Williams at Guildhall, and the verdict
was substantially for defendant.
Mr. Sergeant CIIANNELL now moved, on various tech-
nical grounds, to set the ♦erdict aside, but
The COURT refused the application.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.
(THIS_ DAY.)

(Before Mr. WITHAM and a Bench of Magistrates.)
The November general sessions were opened this day
before Mr. Witham, at the Sessions House, Clerkenwell-
green. The calender is comparatively light, the number
of prisoners (about 70) being much below the average.
John Lake, aged 30, was indicted for stealing a po-
tato-fork, of the value of six shillings, the property of
William Jones.

The prosecutor lives at Hounslow, and was robbed of
the fork in question, which was afterwards found in the
prisoner's possession.
The prisoner, who is a farm labourer, said in his de.
fence that he purchased the fork for two shillings from a
woman at Hounslow, and that whilst he was making the
bargain with her she managed to pick his pocket of five
shillings and sixpence.
The jury, however, disbelieved the statement, and
found the prisoner Guilty. He was sentenced to three
mouths' imprisoment and hard labour.

BOW-STREET.—(THIS DAY.)
Thomas Moody, the young Irishman who was on
Friday last remanded upon the charge of cutting and
maiming a fellow-countryman named Murphy, was again
placed in the dock, but no one
i appearing for the prose-
cution, he was discharged. It s rumoured that the pro-
s( cu: or and his witnesses were intimidated from ap-
pearing.

WORSHIP-STREET.—(THIS DAY.)
Maria Ann Evans, lately in the service of Mr. Lewis
Pesman, 15, Lamb-street, Spitalfields, printer, was
charged with robbing the latter of a variety of valuable
articles.

Mr. Pesman stated that he had for some time previous
to the 4th inst. reason to suspect the prisoner's honesty.

On that day she waa about leaving his service, but he
would not permit her to take away her box until it was
searched in the presence of a police constable. The box
was accordingly secured by her and left "until called
for." Last night the prisoner came for it, and witness
c!dled ift a policeman, in whose presence the box was
opened, when the articles now produced, and which were
th, property of his wife, were found. The property
tt.den consisted of linen, chintz, furniture, and a variety
of articles of clothing.
The prisoner said the articles had been given to her
by her mistress.

Mrs. Mary Pesrnan identified the articles as her pro-
perty, and positively denied having given the prisoner
either of them.

The prisoner was committed.
A number of young men and boys were charged with
letting off fireworks in the public streets.
Mr. HAMMILL severely admonished and discharged
those whose cases were not of a very flagrant nature,
whilst others were fined in the sums varying from 20s. to
55., or imprisonment.

THE UNION BANK ofNEWCASTLE
TO THE EDIT OR OF THE SUN.

Sta,—The Committee of the Union Bank have
seen with surprise the following paragraph in The Sun
newspaper of Saturday last:-
6' THE UNION BANK OF NEWCASTLE.—A meeting
of the shareholders of the North of England Joint-
Stock Bank was held on Thursday last, at the heal
office in Newcastle-upon Tyne, when it was unani•
mousy resolved to wind up its affairs in Chancery,
under the provisions of the Act of Parliament,
passed during last session, for winding up the affairs
of joint stock companies. The bank suspended pay-
ments in 1846."

I beg to inform you that the Union Bank has no
connexion with the North of England Banking
Company.
The Committee of the Union Bank have no inten-
tion of winding up their affairs under the Act of last
session. Since October, 1847, when the bank sus-
pended payment, they have been, as they still are,
assiduously engaged in discharging their liabilities,
and but a small proportion, as compared with the
original amount, remains unliquidated. The general
business of the bank has been recently resumed at
the branches at North Shields, South Shields, and
Berwick, ample funds for this particular object
having been provided by a number of the share-
holders.

I trust you will correct the mistake in an early
number of your publication.
Tam very reapeutfully,
JOSEPH WATSON.
Newcastle, Nov. 6, 1848.
[The paragraph in question was copied from the
Times.—ED. Sun.]

HAMBURGH MARKETS.
HAMBURGH FUNDS, Nov. 3.
Bills. Money.
Hanoverian New Loan, 5 per Cent. .. • • 101% 101 S
Angio-Russian Loan .• .. •••• .• .• 9630 96
Itu•sslan Metal., 5 per Cent 5..........
Ditto let serieslnscription............
Ditto, 3d and 4th series „ „
Ditto, in Certificate . . .. 923 9134
New 3 per Cent., Hope and Co. 881
Ditto Stieglitz •••••• • • • • • • ••••• • • • • 77%
Spanish New 5 per Cent • • • • • • • • 8
Ditto 3 per Cent ••••• • • • • • ........ 163,4
Anglo-Swedish Loan .. • 9431 94 IA
Ditto, 1846.. ••..• • • •
Anglo-Portuguese Loan, 2X per Cent .•
Dutch Actual Debt, 231 per Cent.
Ditto 3 per Cent. • • •••••• • • • • • •
Norwegian loan, 1848 95 94X
Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent ••• • •• 63
National Bank Shares.. ••••••• • • • • • • •
RAILWAYS.

lamb. Bergd. • . .. •••••• • • • • • • 65
Ditto, Priority Shares .• • • .... 95 95
Berlin and Hamburg •.••••••• • • • • • • • 63%
Ditto, Priority Shares •• •• ••• • •• 89
Cologne and Minden .•.•• •• 73 72%
Ditto, Priority Shares .. •••••• • • • • 89
Mecklenburg •••..• • •• .•
Altona and Kiel ..... ••• • • ......... 86% 86
Gluckstadt .............. •• • 25
Rendsburg •• •• •• 88
Hanseatic Strain Company •• .. •. •• 90

EXCHANGES ON LONDON.
Hamburgh, Nov. 5 • • ..
Ditto, Three months ••••• • • • • • 13 8
Frankfort, Oct. 31. . .
Ditto, two months.. • • .......... 120%
Petersburgh, Oct. 27, Three months 37 4
Christiana, Oct. 23, three months.. 4 G 6
Stockholm, Oct. 27, ninety days.... 12 8
HAMBURGH CORN MARKET, Nov. 2.
WHEAT—Polish 124 140
Ant. Magd., Red
Ditto, White 128 142
Marks and Brunswick .. 128 142
Silesian yellow ................
Mecklenb. Yom.
Holstein ............ ••••• • .. • • 122 138
Eider and Busum. ..............
Lower Elbe ...• •• • ....... •• • 104 135
RYE Schleswig... ..... ....• 60 70
Ant. and Magd 7l
Marks., Meek., and Porn. .... • 62 73
BARLEY Mark. and Oder ...... •• .. 55 64
Anhalt and Magd ...... ••• • .. 68 88
Lower Elbe, winter .......• •• .. 50 55
Ditto, summer ...... • . 46 54
OATS—Upland .........• •• • • .... 34 47
:fleck and Holstein ..... 36 47
Lower Elbe, White .......• .... 30 46
BEANS • .
PEASE
RAPE SEED 136 147

THE FIFTH OF NOVEMBER.—The anniversary of
the redout.table conspiracy contrived by Guido Fawkes
and his associates, for the destruction of James the
First and the British Parliament, fulling this year on a
Sunday, the customary processional and pyrotechnic
observances of the day were postponed until yesterday.
During the day divers effigies of the arch4raitor were
paraded about the several suburbs of the metropolis,
and in the evening a great amount of gunpowder was
expend, d in the shape of fire-works, but fortunately we
have not heard of any serious accident resulting there-
from.

THE LONDON COFFEE AND EATING lIOUSE
KEEPERS' ASSOCIATION.—Yesterday evening a meeting
of the committee of management and others interested
in the welfare of this society, was held at the Freema-
son's Tavern for the transaction of general business,
Mr. Wm. French, president, in the chair, The report
stated the institution was established in 1837, having
for its object the relief of aged and decayed members of
the trade, tbeir widows and orphans. The report for
faunndd ead h
aproperty had
hand be
e en
of
691. lls. 11d. There are now five pensioners on the
augmented ,
the pastsyeatrnslte9tBe9dl.tBhsa.t
who receive 651. per annum, being within 91.25. 4d.
10thde.,
funds
of the yearly interest on the capital invested.
THE CARPET TRADE.-1V e understand that the
extensive carpet manufactory of the late John Howard,
Esq ,at Leeds, is about to be entirely closed. i • willf
necessarily
—Sheffield Times.
hands hitherto fully employed.
fire, which
STATION. A re,
throw out of employment a great number o
FIRE AT A RAILWAY STATI
of
the Derby Railway
broke out on Friday evening,
at
about six o'clock
station in this town. It appears that
had nearly been attended with great loss property,
of the
persons engaged in the adjoining office was arrested by
the clerks left the traffic manager's office for the night,
and in about two hours afterwards the attention
a smell of fire, and presently the room became full of
given, and the
engines from the various
on the
offices were
promptlyf
ater the fire
smoke. They immediately entered the manager's office
and found it in flames. An alarm was g
spot, and by means of a good supply o
age done
-dent is
is comparatively trifling. The cause of the acci
was soon extinguished, having been fortunatelydam' confined
to the room in which it originated. The
not known.—Birmingham Journal.
NEW ROMAN CATHOLIC ESTABLISHMENTS. A cir-
cular, which has been compiled and issued by Dr. Walsh,
the Roman Catholic Bishop of the Metropolitan District,
assisted by his coadjutor, Dr. Wiseman, was read by the.
clergy in the several Roman Catholic churches and
chap, is throughout the metropolis and the environs on
Sunday last. The circular stated that it was the inten-
tion, as far as practicable, of the heads of the Romish
Church in this country, to collect the poor and destitute
children of that faith who had been deprived of their
parents, and were now in the various workhouses of the
district, or roaming the streets of the metropolis, uncared
and unprovided for, with an almost certainty of ulti-
mately becoming, through ill example and bad company,
'the pests of society. The circular further stated, that
there was good reason to know that many hundreds of
Roman Catholic poor children in the metropolis were
in this situation, and that by wresting them from it, a
material benefit would be conferred on society at large, at
the same time that an important and essential religious
duty would be performed. With this intent, it appears
that some premises near the Southall station of the
Great Western Railway have been purchased, and a
number of orphan children already established therein,
who have been furnished with a resident clergyman and
tutors, and are fully provided for in every way; which
premises are to be increased without delay, and to assist
which by their contributions the faithful are earnestly
enjoined for the benefit of society as well as the indivi-
duals themselves. It appears further, from this episco-
pal circular, that a number of ladies have lately arrived
from the continent, and have settled at Norwood, where
an establishment has been formed for the reception of
female orphans, and to the assistance of which the Bishop
enjoins the Roman Catholic ladies of the metropolis to
give their best endeavours, at the same time that ihey
are entreated to visit the place.
FOUR FIRES IN ONE NIGHT.—The following fires
occurred last night, in the district of the A Brigade:—
The first occurred about half-past five at night, on the
premises of Mr. Morrell, brass dealer, Chapman-street,
Cannon-street, where a shed was burned down. The
second fire took place at the house of Mr. Miller, Bri-
tannia-place, Lower-road, Islington ; great damage to
furniture, &c., on the first floor—not insured. The third
fire and explosion of fireworks took place about half-fast
eight, on the premises of Mr. North, Pleasant-row, Step-
ney-green; the entire shop front blown out, but no per-
son injured; fire arrested through the quick attendance
of the A Brigade engines and firemen—not insured. The
fourth fire happened at eight o'clock, at the house of Mr.
Whale, Devonshire-street, Mile-end-road, tea dealer and
grocer; the contents of first floor consumed, half of roof
destroyed, and lower rooms damaged by fire and water—
insured in the Licensed Victualler? office.
Yesterday, Mr. Bedford held two inquests at the
Millbank Eprison, as to the respective deaths of John
Stokes, aged 62, and Charles Shepherd, aged 28, con-
victs in that place. In the case of Shepherd, it appeared
he had been once or twice punished for irregular con-
duct, and had been some time in the infirmary; and at
the end of last month he became much alarmed at hear-
ing the cholera was in the prison, and it had a great
effect on his mind, as he repeatedly asked if he was
likely to recover. Dr. Baly bad no doubt this accele-
rated the fever of which he died on Sunday. The jury
returned a verdict of " Died from continued fever." The