The Sun.
London, England, 1846-09-26 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 26, 1846.

Mr. Justice ManLE—Then if the red ball had been
attached the man at the Forest-hill station would have
been able to stop the train that followed.
Cross-examination continued—The windlass that
worked the fans was distant faom the latter about 150
yards. He did not know what the signal of one yellow
, fan meant.—(Laughter.)
Mr. M. CHAMBERS—And yet you act as station-
master at Ilford. What do the other colours mean?
Witness—The green meant caution ; one red below
the green meant that there was something in advance ;
two reds meant to stop altogether. In foggy weather a
lamp was placed under the fans, but it did not always
show them.
' Thomas Scott considered the prisoner a competent
person to drive a train.
Cross-examined by Mr. CLARKSON—The prisoner ap-
plied to him to be allowed to drive a passenger train,
which application was/refused. He was allowed to drive
a goods train, because the driver on the latter did not
require to look out so sharply as on the first.
John Thorpe, engine-driver—Knew Quennel, who was
removed from the London and Birmingham Railway for
incapacity.
Mr. Samuels, resident engineer on the line, proved the
distances of the signals from the different stations, and,
in cross-examination, admitted that if the red board had
been affixed to the preceeding train the collision might
have been avoided.
Captain Coddington, R.E., attached to the railway
department of the Board of Trade, went down to Strat-
ford, and examined the station and windlass. The signal
could be seen from the platform, and on the other side
for 200 yards. With the view of testing whether this
was sufficient to enable a person of ordinary
prudence to stop before entering the station,
he got the Fire-fly and the same trucks, and
going to Ilford, he came back •to Sratford
at the rate of 25 miles an hour. Without any previous
concert with the driver, he ordered him to stop at a point
445 yards from the platform, and the engine was stepped
in time by the simple application of the breaks. He then
want on, and when he came opposite a place where a man
was placed with a red flag, he ordered the breaks to be
applied again, and the engine, though going before at
the rate of 30 m les an hour, stopped at the distance of
468 yards. He went to Ilford again, and although he
performed the half. mile before coming to Stratford in
.58 seconds, he was enabled, by the application of the
breaks, and reversing the engine, to stop short some 10
or 12 yards of the station. A shower of rain came on at
the time, which rendered the action of the breaks less
perfect. When he applied the break, he observed that
four wheels out of the six were locked, and the remain-
ing too revolved very slowly. When the engine was re-
versed, he found it to aet very well. In his opinion, the
means at the disposal of an engine-driver of skill and
csre would be sufficient to prevent any collision with a
train at the Stratford station, if he adopted the proper
precautions when he came in sight of the signal.
Cross examined by Mr.CßAmnEns—He did not drive
the engine himself, but he did not require to stoop in
order to see the signal. If the driver of an engine were
not well acquainted with a line he should have the as-
sistance of a competent fireman. He should not be
afraid to drive over a length of 25 miles if he had gene
over the line thrice before, but he could not be expected
to remember the points on a line of 100 miles. It there
were no permanent signal it would be the
duty of the company to have persons between the
intermediate stations to show a signal to prevent
a succeeding train from following that which had passed
immediately before. If the person at Forest-hill had
shown a signal of danger it might have prevented the

The case was here adjourned for a short time.
[THE CAMDEN-TOWN RIOT.—The prisoners (seventeen,
in number) who yesterday pleaded guilty of riotous con-
duct and assault, were respectively sentenced to periods
of three, four, six, and nine mouths' imprisonment with
hard labour.]
Mr. MONTAGUE Cnastngns, in his address to the jury
on behalf of the prisoner, complained of the extreme un-
fairness with which the case had been opened by the
Learned Attorney-General. His Learned Friend acted
.under khe instructions' of the- diFectork of -the Eastern
Counties Railway, who endeavoured 'to screen the mis-
management which was notoriously known to exist on
their line by crushing one of the very meanest of their
servants. This trial he (Mr. Chambers) contended was
not instituted for the purpose of eliciting facts, but for
the nominal purpose of exhibiting to the world
the desire the ostentatious desire of the
Eastern Counties Company to attend to the
public safety, while really it was intended
for the sole purpose of fixing upon a humble, a prudent,
a sober, but poor man, the onus of errors which were
attributable solely to themselves. This man, incompe-
tent to the task of conducting an engine—this man, im-
paired in his vision—this man, who was paid 255. a
week by the company—this man, assisted by another
man to act as fireman, a person who had been already
discharged from another situation of a similar kind tor
unfitness—was sent with an imperfect engine, which had
been before that time declared unfit for passenger
traffic to Romford. He left that place to return to
Stratford—and here, if the company really sought to
fix the guilt on the proper parties, they should have
shown that the signals on the line were properly managed,
and that their instructions had been fully attenaed to.
They had, however, signally failed in establishing these
points. They did more than fail, for they proved the
astounding fact that the acting station masters and
signal-men did not even know what the purport of these
very signals were. The Learned Counsel then entered
at great length into the evidence adduced, and contended
that the prisoner was an innocent agent, entrusted with
a power which he did not understand, and that the real
guilt lay with those who had placed that power in his
ignorant hands. In that case double guilt lay with the
directors, btcause even the engine entrusted to the
prisoner's care was so imperfect that it would not act as
a perfect engine would, and to add to his difficulties the
usual precautions which were enforced on every other
ralway had been wilfully and wantonly neglected upon
this line.

The Learned Counsel having concluded,
Mr. Justice MAULE summed up, and finished at six
o'clock.

The jury briefly considered, and returned a verdict of
Not Guilty.
The prisoner, of course, was immediately discharged.
CAPTAIN RICHARDSON.—We understand tnat Captain
Richardson was this day discharged from custody.

transfer-book of the Bank, was in the prison( r's hand-
writing ; and the prisoner said it wou'd be all right, as
Mrs. Edwards was not married to the person of that
name legally.
Thomas Crompton, examined by Mr. Freshfield, soli-
citor to the Bank of England, who appeared for the
Bank of England, stated that he was a stockbroker, and
knew a Mr. Bingley, whom he assisted in business of
the kind. He had a recollection of having seen the
prisoner before on a sale of stock of 3L 10s. long annui-
ties. Witness identified the prisoner through the re-
presentation of Mr. Bingley's clerk, and signed the
transfer as a witness. Sold the stock to a Mr. C.
Smith.
Alderman Gvniss—Did yon tike the prisoner to the
Bank of England? Witness—l did. I always do so.
Alderman GIBBS—How could you identify him ?
Witness—l identified him merely from the:representa-
tion of a young man, whom I believe to be nephew of
Mr. Bingley.
Alderman GIBBS—It appears that you identify when
you wish to identify. Do you believe him to be the
man? Witness—There is a similarity in the appear-
ance of the pi ironer to the person I took to the Bank.
Mr. Humphreys (for the prisoner)—lt is upwards of
four years since the occurrence is said to have taken
place, and you are right in speaking cautiously.
Witness--I believe the prisoner is the man.
Remanded.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
EJECTMENT OF A DUN.—Mr. flay, house-agent, Con-
duit-street, was summoned before Mr. Long for an as-
sault on William Edwards.
The complainant said he was in the employ of Mr.
Barnard, oilman, Carnaby-street, and on the day when
the assault was committed he was sent by his master to
Mr. Hay's house, to ask for payment of a small bill, and
in case of refusal to wait in the house until he was paid.
He called according to order, and saw Mr. Hay. Mr.
Hay refused to pay the bill, and he then said his master
had directed him not to leave the house until he was
paid. Mr. Hay attempted to push him out of the house,
and as he was stooping down Ur. Hay gave him a vio-
lent kick, and afterwards forced him out. He returned
to his► master, told him the treatment he had received,
and was then advised to take the present proceedings
against the defendant for an assault.
Mr. Hay said the complainant called upon him for
payment of a small bill of three shillings. lie told the
complainant he was busy, and he must call again. The
complainant said he should not leave the house without
the money, and then began cracking walnuts and throw-
ing the shells about the office. He told the complainant
that if he did not leave the premises he would turn him
out. The complainant put himself into a fighting atti-
tude, and then he told the complainant if he persisted
in his insolent behaviour he would give him a sound
thrashing. Defendant went into his office, but came out
again on finding the complainant still in the place crack-
ing walnuts, and he put him with no more than proper
force into the street. The complainant after a short
time returned into the house, but he was again made to
leave the place. The complainant was neither kicked
nor struck, and this could be proved by a witness who
was in the neighbourhood.
The witness was sent for. He was a sullen-looking
Irishman, named Farrell. When the book was tendered
to him he refused to be sworn, unless he was first in-
formed who was to pay him for his evidence, and what
he was to receive.
Mr. LoNG desired him to take the book at once and be
sworn. He was there as a witness having evidence to
give, and he must give that evidence on oath.
The man refused to be sworn.
Mr. LONG said, that if he persisted in his refusal he
would commit him, as he was undoubtedly authorised by
law so to do.

Mr. Hay here said he would pay-the map: •
The witness then agreed to be sworn. He'said be saw
the complainant pushed out of the house, but not•kicked.
Mr. LONG said the complainant had sworn that he was
kicked. The defendant denied the kickine• and the only
witness who was present confirmed* the statement-of the
defendant. .He could not satisfy his mind that the
assault. had -been C.-committed,. turd' fir Would, therefore,
disrni.s the summons.
ADVENTURES OF A TIGER.—TWO men, named
Corcoran and Peacock, were charged on suspicion of
having stolen the watch of Uriah Gruff.
The complainant, a sprite in the Beaufort livery,
was just able by tiptoeing to peep at the magistrate
over the rail of the witness-box. The complainant
filled the post of tiger to the Duke of Beaufort.
His mannikin airs of manhood excited the risi-
bility of all present. Ho had met with Corcoran
a day or two ago; had been challenged to play at
bagatelle for beer; had accepted the challenge, and had
"',lopped" his man out of a pint. When the beer was dis-
posed of the defeated party had no money, and complainant
was obliged to " stump up." The next day Corcoran
demanded his revenge. They went into a public-house
and whetted thair ardour with several pints of beer, arid
then Corcoran asked him if he " warnt agoing to stand
no gin?" He stood a quartern " like a brick," and
Corcoran stood another. They walked into the street,
when having got into the chance of a " mill" with a
full-sized man, Peacock came to the rescue, and put his
antagonist to flight by a well-administered " muzzier."
Peacock asked him to stand more gin for this piece of
service. He complied with the request, and all three
adjourned to a public-house in Apple Tree-yard, when
they put the gin about so briskly that he lost all recol-
lection of events, until he was wakened up by a police-
man, who found him snoring on the altar of a shrine in
Apple Tree-yard. He went home, and somewhere about
the evening of the next day he missed his watch. His
only ground of suspicion against the prisoners was, that
they had been in his company while the gin and beer
festivities were celebrating.
Mr. LONG said, it was disgraceful for two men to
encourage a mere child in gin drinking; as far, however,
as the charge of felony was concerned, that was not
established by evidence, and he must therefore discharge
them. Ile feared that the boy (complainant) had but a
sorry prospect before him, if he continued in the prac-
tice of such conduct as he had himself avt.wed.
The tiger, who appeared to think the magistrate had
not a clue appreciation of manhood, cocked his hat fiercely
and strutted out of Court.
Frederick Williams, a reipectable-looking tradesman,
was put to the bar yesterd ty morning, charged by him-
self with theft.
Police constable 122 C said he was in Swallow-
street, Regent-street, about half-past two that morning,
when the man at the bar mei him with a pint pot in his
hand. He said he had stolen it, because he wanted a
night's lodging, and had no place to go to.
The defendant, in answer to the Magistrate, said he
was a printer, belonging to Gravesend, and had come to
London to get work, but being unsuccessful, he was des-
titute. He had applied at St. James's workhouse and
St. George's workhouse in vain.
Mr. IlAanwicxE advised him to return immediately
to his parish at Gravesend, where, if his case were de-
serving, he would be aided by the overseers. If he were
brought up again on a similar charge, the Magistrate
said he should be obliged to send him to the House of
Correction.—He was then discharged.
MARYLEBONE.
SERIOUS PRACTICAL JOKE.—Mr. henry Mares,
sculptor and stonemason, residing at Kensal-green, was
charged on a warrant with having been concerned in the
following shameful outrage upon Alfred Cottrell, 26,
Shaftesbury-terrace, Pimlico.
Complainant, a very respectable looking young man,
deposed that on Tuesday last he was cutting a stone is
the Kensal-green Cemetery, when one of defendant's
men told him that his master had bet him a sovereign
that he (complainant) could not pull a cat, affixed to a
rope, across the canal. Being much pressed to try the
experiment, he left off his work, and went to the water's
edge at the end of the cemetery, when a rope was
thrown across from the opposite side of the canal, and
he was then told to turn round. He did so, and in an
instant the rope was tied round his waist. He was then
dragged from one side of the water to the other, and 'in
consequence he had caught a very severe cold ; his
clothes were also completely spoiled. Complainant
further said that he was taken to defendant's house,
where he was compelled, notwithstanding what he had
suffered, to signs paper promising to expend sa. amongst
the men in drink. He was quite positive that defendant
was one of the party who pulled him through the canal
by the rope.
Mr. RAWLINSON (to defendant)—This seems to be
rather a serious practical joke ; what is your answer to
it ? Defendant—This young man, the complainant, is
very full of self-conceit, and the workmen determined
_ _

on serving him this trick. I was asked to go and see
the sport, and I did so, being of opinion that laughter
was likely to benefit my health. I did not drag him
across, and he don't know who did it. When be got to
the opposite side he said it was the cat.—(Laughter.)
Mr. IlAwurrsoN (to complainant)—Was there a cat
there ? Complainant—There was, sir.
Mr. RAWLINSON—You say that your clothes are
spoiled. At what do you estimate the amount of
damage? Complainant—l should think 31.
Detendant called John Neville, who said that the per-
sons by whom complainant was dragged through the
water were two men named Coles and Tomkins. De-
fendant certainly attempted to throw the rope across, but
as it fell short of the mark it was laid hold of and thrown
over by another person.
Mr. HAWLINSON said that it was quite clear that de-
fendant took a part in the shameful transaction, and that
as he had, according to his own account, enjoyed the
"sport," it was his duty to make the complainant amends.
lie seemed disinclined to do anything of the sort, and
the Magistrate ordered him to pay a penalty of 41., with
liberty, however, to speak to complainant.
The affair was ultimately arranged by defendant pay-
ing over 2/. to complainant, and the parties then left the
Court.

ROBBERY.—Bridget Stapleton was charged with having
stolen a silver cream ewer, the property of Mrs. Harden,
Allsop-terrace, New-road.
It appeared that the servant left the ewer outside of
the window at the bottom of the area, that the milk

might be put into it when the man called at the house.
It was missed, and it subsequently turned out that the
prisoner, who had been in the habit of soliciting alms at
the dwelling, had endeavoured to pawn the article at a
shop in Tottenham-court-road, where, from the unsatis-
factory account which she gave of herself, she was given
into custody.—Committed for trial.

CLER KEN E LL.
John Dens, a working smith, i❑ the employ of Mr.
R. Clarke, brazier and ironfounder, in Cow-cross-

street, was charged with robbing his employer of some
working materials and implements used in the trade.
It appeared that the prosecutor had missed a number
of such articles from his workshops, and the prisoner
being suspected he caused him to be taken into custody,
when the property was traced to a pawnbroker, who
identified the prisoner as the person who pledged it.
Mr. COMBE ordered him to be committed for trial at
the present sittings of the Central Criminal Court.
An elderly man, named James Rice, was charged by
Mr. Wright, the extensive railway carriage and mail-
coach maker, of Gough-street, with having obtained
several sums of money, on account of the sale of several

articles in the trade, and which he should have imme-
diately banded over to Mr. Martin, the cashier.
Several of the men employed in the factory proved
having known Rice to receive money for the sale of
various articles for cab fittings, and also with having
themselves been paid for them, and handed the amount
over to the prisoner in the usual way of business,
The prosecutor's clerk said these sums had not been
accounted for.—The prisoner was remanded.

SOUTHWARK.
Mary Smith, a servant, in the employ of the landlord
of the Wheatsheaf public-house, in Worcester-street,
Southwark, was charged with robbing her employer's till.
It appeared that the complainant having reason to
suspect the prisoner's honesty, marked a quantity of
silver, and placed it in the till, for the purpose of de-
tecting her. That morning the prisoner, while engaged
in sweeping out the bar, left it hastily, and some money
being missed out of the till, a policeman was called. She
was questioned on the subject, but denied having been
at the till. However, when she was searched, some of
the marked silver was found in her pockets.
She was committed.

MARK ET NE WS- (YESTERDA y,)
CORN EXCHANGE.
Although our returns show rather a large arrival of Eng-
Wheat, the number of samples of that article on sale,
owing to many of the cargoes having been disposed of pre-
vious to arrival, was small. All kinds commanded a very
ready sale, at an advance in the quotations obtained on
Monday of from is to 2s per quarter, at which a good
clearance was effected. Foreign Wheat was in good request,
and is to 2s per quarter higher. Bonded Grain was in-
quired for, yet the transactions were trifling. Although the
supply of Barley was small the demand ruled heavy, and
the inferior kinds sold at a trifle less money. Superfine Malt
moved off steadily, other kinds slowly, at late rates. Oats,
Beans, Peas, and Flour, were in fair request at full prices.
From America, 4,050 barrels of the latter have come to hand
this rieek.

ARRIVALS.
'Wheat. Barley.
9,330 qrs. 2,070 qrs.

English
Irish
Foreign

Oats 1 Flour.
3,650 qrs. 1 2,790 sks.

190
Malt, 1,440 qrs.
SMI'THF'IELD.
The supply of Beasts on offer being large, and the attend-
ance of buyers small, the Beef trade was very dull, at a de-
cline in the quotations of 2d per Blbs. There were in the
market 230 Oxen and Cows, 390 Sheep, and 22 Calves from
Holland, together with 75 Oxen from Spain, the latter of
which sold at from 121 to 18/ per head. A vessel' arrived in
the river this morning from Harlingen with 120 Beasts on
board, 75 of which were smothered on their passage. With
Sheep we were scantily supplied, yet the Mutton trade was
inactive at Monday's prices. In Lambs exceedingly little
was doing, and the currencies suffered an abatement of from
2d to 4d per Blbs. Calves and Pigs, the numbers of which
were good, moved off slowly at late rates. Mulch Cows pro-
duced Irons 161 to 19/ each, including their small calf.

4,540 I -

Per 81bs. to s
s.. d. s. d s. d, to s.
inferior Beasts •• 2 8 210 Second quality ditto 4 2 4 4
;econd quality dltto. 3 0 3 4 Coarse-woolled ditto 4 6 4 8
Vrime large Oxen.. 3 6 3 8 Southdown Wethers 410 5 I
Prime Scots
Large coarse Calves 3 8 4 6 Large Hogs ... •••3 10 4 6
Prime small ditto .. 4 8 410 Small Porkers .. . 4 8 5 0
Suckling Calves ..18 0 30 0 Quarter old Pigs ..16 0 20 0
Inferior Sheep
SUPPLY AT MARKET.
Beasts. Sheep. I Calves. I Pigs.
I
1,132 6,800 285 540
NETVGATE AND LEADENBALL.
The general demand was some% hat heavy, on the following
terms :

rk the offal.

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS.

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MANCHESTER, SEPTEMBER 24.
STOCK Excneriux..—The sales are—Birkenhead, Lancashire, and
Cheshire Junction, 1 p. —Boston, Newark, and Sheffield, X dig.—
Chester and Birkenhead, 201. Shares, 114 p.—Direct Northern, Ts
dis.—Eastern Counties, York Extension, 1 7-16 p. —East Lancashire
(late Blackburn and Preston), 814 p.—East Lincolnshire, % d s.—
Edinburgh and Glasgow, Halves, 814 p.—Huddersfield, Hallfast ;Ind
Bradford, 214 p.—Huddersfield and Manchester Railway and Canal,
7 p.—Leeds and Thirsk, dis.—Liverpool and Bury, New, 1% p.—
Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston, 414 p.—London, Manchester, and
Birmingham, Quarters (A), 7% p.—Ditto, ditto (13), 7% p.—London
and York, % dis.—Manchester and Southampton, 7 dis.--North
Staffordshire, 31,4 —North Union (A), 2236 —Oldham Districts, IA
p.—Preston and Wyre, Gabes (A), 3 p.— Sheffield and Manchester,
Quarters, No. 3, 4 dis.—Shrewsbury and Hereford, % dis. s.—
Shropshire Union Railway and Canal, 9-18 dis.—South-Eastern and
Dover, Halves, No. 4, 9-16 dis.— Trent Valley Midlands, &c., 6 p.
—West Riding Union, 2% p.7Whitehaven and Furness, 3 dis.

•
LEEDS, SEPTEMBER 24.
STOCK EXCBANGE.—The sales arc—Eastern Counties, York Ex-
tension, 30s. p.—East Lancashire, 81. 6s. 3d. p.—Huddersfield and
Manchester, IBs. 6d. p.—Leeds and Bradford, 44 % p. —Leeds and
Dewsbury, I % p.— Ditto, Extensions, 7 dis.—Leeds and Thirsk, 514
dis.—Newcastle and Berwick, 12% p.—North British, Carlisle
Branch, 535. Gd. p.— Direct Northern, 16s. dis. s.—Lancashire, York-
shire, and North-Eastern, 28s. dis. —Leeds, Wakefield, and Midland,
10s. dis.—Leicester and Bedford, as. 6d. dis.—Liverpool, Ormskirk,
and Preston, 4!-.i p.—Malton and Driffield Junction, 10s. p.— Man-
chester, Buxton, Matlock, arid :Midland, 1 p.—North Staffordshire,
31. 4s. p.—North-Western, Is. s. p.— Sheffield, Rotherham, and
Goole, 2s 6d p.—West Itiding Union. 41. 4s.

BULL, SEPTEMBER 24.
STocir Excastsoz.—The sales arc- Boston, Stamford, &c., 11..
6d.—Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston, 4% p. -Malton and Driffield
Junction, 13s. p.—North Western, 4s. p. —North Staffordshire, 3/. Bs.
--Grand Union, Its. 9d.—Leicester and Bedford, 13s. 9d.—Leicester
and Birmingham, 3s. 6d.
SHEFFIELD, SEPTEMBER 24.
=STOCK EXCIANGE.—The sales are Great Grimsby and Sheffield,
Quarter Shares, 13s. dis.—Ditto, Docks, 2% dis.—London and Croy-
don, 21% —Gram: Union, 13s. 6d. dis.—North Staffordshire, 3/. 6s.
6d. p.— Sheffield and Lincoln, 15s. dis.—Ditto, Extensions, 21s. dis.—
West Riding &Illicit, 2% p.

Name of Company.

East London.... •• •• •• 81.
Grand Junction •• •• • • 31. 10s.
Kent ----.• • • •• • • 21. 10s.
Vauxhall •• • • ••• • • • 5/. per cent.
West Middlesex .. • • AI. ss. pr cnt.

T Or SCOTTISH CO:

Name of Company.

I/I V
per

An-num.

Bank of Scotland
Royal Bank of Scotland
British Linen Company
Commercial Bank .. • •
National Bank
Union Bank of Scotland
Western Bank - • • • - • • •
North of Scotland Bank
Clydesdale Bank • • • • • •
Eastern Bank • • • • • - •
Caledonian Bank ••. • •
Edinb.& Glasgow Bank
City of Glasgow Bank .
Scottish Union Ins. Co.
Hercules Insurance Co.
Insur. Co. of Scetlnd
North British Insur
Caledonian Fire Insur
Edinloirgh Life Insur
Edin. & Glasg. Railway
Ditto, 1,4 shares
Edin., Leith, & Grantn
Glasgw & Ayrshir Rail.
Glasgw & Greenck Rail.
Glsgw & Gamkirk Rail.
Dundee & Arbroth Rail.
Standard Life Assarnce.

61. per cent.
6/. per cent.
81. per cent.
6/. per cent.
6/. per cent.
7%/. pr cent.
61. per cent.
61. per cent.
61. per cent.
W. per cent.
7%1. pr cent.
61. per cert.
5/. per cent.
51. per cent.
71. per cent.
Si. per cent.
5%1. pr cent.
110/. per cent.
61. per cent.
1/.los. pert.
7s. 6d. p. s.

71. per cent.
21. per cent.
Al. per cent.
61. per cent.
M. per cent.