The Sun.
London, England, 1848-04-10 00:00:00

NE ll' CO:} R 1:

Before the COMMON SERGEANT, Al.lernlan Sir CHAP.
MAN MARSHALL. Mr. Sheriff HILL, &e.)
THE RIOTS IN KENNINGTON IN MARCH
LAST.

Thomas Horz•sey, (who was acquitted on Saturday
la-t, of the robbery at Mr. Grey's,) William Barrett,
David Anthony Daffy, (convicted on Saturday,
and sentenced to seven years transportation,)
Win. Bailey (convicted on Saturday and sentenced to
seven years' transportation), John Williams and George
Smith, were indicted with feloniously breaking and
entering the dwelling-house of Robert Creasy, in South-
ampton street, Camberwell, on the 13th of March last,
and stealing therefrom a large quantity of boots and other
articles, his property.
The evidence given in this case was similar to that
given in the case of the robbery of Mr. Grey, on Satur-
day.
The prisoners all of them denied any knowledge of
the robbery.
The jury found them all Guilty.
Henry Bates, 19; William Barrett, 16; John Den-
more, 23; Thomas Howlett, convicted on Saturday and
transported fur seven years; Samuel Morgan, George
Payne, convicted on Saturday and sentenced to seven
years transportation; James Taylor, also convicted on
Saturday and transported for seven years; and Richard
Webster, were indicted with feloniously breaking and
entering the dwelling-house of David Jameson, in
Southampton-street, Camberwell, and stealing therefrom
100 pair of shoes and other articles, his property.
Mr. BODKIN, on the part of the prosecution, declined
offering any evidence against the prisoner Webster, who
was acquitted on Saturday of being a party to the rob-
bery at Mr. Grey's, and he was ordered to be discharged.
The evidence against the other prisoners was precisely
similar to that brought forward in the last case.
The jury found all the prisoners Guilty, with the ex-
ception of John Denmore and Thomas Howlett, both of
whom they acquitted.
Benjamin Prophett, Thomas Howlet4. Robert-Archer,
acquitted on Saturday, William Barrett, George Lovers,
convicted on Saturday and sentenced to 7. years' tran-
sportation, Henry Davis, and William Bugden were
indicted with feloniously breaking, an 1 entering the
dwelling-house of Alfred Thomas on the Oth of March
last, and stealing one pound_ weight of cigars, and other
articles, his property.
The evidence in this case was very similar, to the last,
and the robbery, like the previous one, arose out of the
meeting and riot that took place at Kennington Coninion
on the 13th of last month.

TO THE SECRETARY OF THE
BRADFORD REFORM
Sir,—On Wednesday, the sth, as
S)the motion for
the second reading of the Outgoing
of all the
previous arguments.g Tenants (Ireland)
Bill. It was supported
B by the r
ut the times are unfavourable
to interference between the owners of capital and the
users ; Louis Blanc has for the present put a stop to
the march of experiment in that direction. The feel-
ing was made apparent by a majority against the Bill,
of 145 to 22.
On Thursday Mr. Feargus O'Connor presented a
petition from 49 delegates (50 being stated to be un-
lawful), professing to represent five millions of per-
sons, praying for the liberation of Frost, Williams,
and Jones. The Attorney-General demurred to its
reception till he could look into precedents; which
was agreed to.
After a little intervening business, SirJ. Walsh rose
and asked the Government a series of questions on
the subject of the intended meeting of Chartists on
Kennington Common, in the style so well understood
by political tacticians when a fire is not to be allowed
the chance of going out for want of stirring. The
Government replied in a tone of moderation, that
they had been advised the meeting and procession
were illegal, and a declaration to that effect would be
out in half an hour. Mr. O'Connor appealed to pre-
cedents, where similar demonstrations had not been
opposed ; and Mr. Hume intimated that unnecessary
evil might be the result of interference. With which
the subject for the time was dropped.
After a question had been asked on another subject
(Mortality in Ireland) and answered by Sir W.
Somerville, the Secretary of State for the Home De-
partment rose and gave notice, that on the following
day (Friday), before the other orders of the day, he
should move for leave to bring in a Bill fJr the better
security of the Crown and Government of the United
Kingdom. Of course there were expressions of ap-
probation from some quarters, but nothing like what
is understood by " prolonged cheering," as given out
in some of the public prints. Cool-headed men were
probably engaged in ominous reflections, on the velo
city with which mischief makes head when all par.
ties combine to send the ball aloft.

Contrary to the expectation of the mover, Mr.
Feargus O'Connor's motion for an address to the
Queen for the liberation of the individuals named, came
on in the course of the evening. It is impossible to
deny that their counsel exerted himself ably and well.
With the exception of the points unfavourable to his
success, for which it is probable he was not respon-
sible, there was nothing which could irritate any
party, or which would not have been approved by an
experienced practitioner bent on doing his best for
the cause in his hands. The Government answered
with mildness and self-possession ; though an effort
was made by an ex-Solicitor-General to give the
House a taste of what such officers had been, and
might be again. An admission was virtually discern•
ible, that the case must at some time be looked into ;
and on the whole a fair stand was made on the side
of conciliation and clemency, though the numerical
stren4th of its supporters was on division only 23
against 91.
On Friday, the Secretary of State fur the Home
Department moved to bring in his Bill for the better
security of the Crown and Government. There are
tokens of genius in it ; and with the omission of half
a dozen words, it might have been good.
It begins with cutting the Act of 36 Geo. 111. into
two parts.
The first which relates to offences against the per-
son of the Sovereign, it loaves unaltered, and extends
by name to Ireland ; on which last point it appears
there were some technical doubts.
The other part, which relates to such as shall
" compass, imagine, invent, devise or intend to de-
prive or depose &c.," or "to levy war within this
realm, in order by force or constraint to compel &c.,"
or " in order to put any force or constraint upor, or
to intinlidate or to overawe both Houses or either
House of Parliament, or to move or stir any foreigner
or stranger with force to invade this realm or any
other of his Majesty's dominions &c.," and " such
compassings, irlaginations, inventions, devices or in
tentions, or any of them, shall express, utter or
declare, by publishing any printing or writine, or
by any overt act or deed," it first repeals, and then
reenacts in the san.e words with trivial variations to
suit the• time, but changing the punishment from
"suffering pains of death, and also losing and forfeit-
ing as in cases of high treason," to " being deemed
guilty of felony, and every person so offending, being
convicted thereof, shall be liable, at the discretion of
the court, to he transported beyond the seas for the
term of his or her natural life, or for any term not less
than seven years."

This might be well, if this were all. There appears
no reason why Ireland should have any monopoly of
treason; and there was genius in repealing the capital
punishment of a number of not very distinct offences,
and thereby multiplying the chances of their practical
sup:,r4ssion. .

But there are precisely six words which mar the
general effect. After the words "by any printing or
writing" in the old Act, are introduced in the new
one the words "or by open and advised speaking."
Here then are all men triaf!e transportable for words,
at the discretion of their neighbours who may hold a
contrary opinion. For what is "open and advised
speaking ?" Who are the men that say an) thing
which is not open and advised ? Every man there-
fore, is to be transportable for saying anything for
which a jury, in all times and seasons, can be got to
ccnvict. It is a sad reversion to the time, when a
passionate man was executed for wishing a deer's
horns in the king's belly ; for it is presumable that
in that instance, too, a jury was found to convict.
The case is made woree by a succeeding paragraph
on the punishment of necessaries ; which, though
possibly nothing but what is common to all cases of
necessaries, throws light on the dangers from the
whole. Is every chairman of a public meeting, and
every man who may have put his name to a requisi-
tion to call it, to be an accessary before the
fact, to all that may be said amiss by any of the two
or three thousand who may be present ? There will
he a wonderful harvest of accessaries before the fact,
if this should be discovered to be the law.
The motion fur bringing in the Bill was carried
by 283 against 24. It was an error in the leaders of
the opposition, to divide against bringing in the Bill ;
because n any of their friends disliked voting against
leave to bring in a Bill of which the contents were
imperfectly known, and it was consequently display-
ing their party in a needlessly small minority. The
Government also were imprudent in their declaration
afterwards, that if the Bill was read a second time on
Monday it should he committed the same evening.
It was reviving the recollection of the Tory times,
when " breathless haste" was the order of the day
the; whe
severities never anyth
ofinthge law was increasing
I be done towards
I am, Sir, your obedient servant
T. PERRONET THOMYSON.
Blackheath, London, April 10, 1848.

COURT CIRCULAR,
The Queen and Prince Albert, accompanied by the
Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal, left Bucking.
ham Palace in a carriage and four, at twenty
past ten o'clock on Saturday morning for herMZnesfitt;'ss
marine residence, Oaboine, Isle of Wight.
Her Majesty and his Royal Highness were conducted
to their carriage by the Hon. Miss Kerr, the Lord
Chamberlain, the Master of the Horse, the Groom of
the Stole to his Royal Highness, Lord Waterpark,
Admiral Sir Edward Codrington, Colonel Wylde, and
the lion. and Rev. C. Leslie Courtenay.
Four royal carriages and tour followed, conveying
their Royal Highnesses Prince Alfred, the Princess
Alice, the Princess Helena, and the Infant Princess, the
Dowager Lady Lyttelton, the Viscountess Cannieg
(Lady in Waiting). Hon. Eleanor Stanley (Maid of
Honour in Waiting), Lord George Lennox (Lord in
Waiting to the Prince), the Master of the Household,
Lord Alfred Paget (Clerk Marshal). Equerry in Wait-
ing, and Colonel Seymour, Equerry in Waiting to Prince
Albert.
The august party was escorted from the Palace by a
party of Light Dragoons to the terminus of the Loudon
and South-Western Railway, at Nine elms, and left by
a special train for Gosport.
tier R
ma.3esty opal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited her
and Prince Albert, at Buckingham Palace, pre-
vious to their departure on Saturday morning-
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Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester
the Duke and Duchess of Carnbrioge yesterday, lier,
Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited their Royal
Highnesses on Saturday, at Cambridge House.
Their Royal Highnensos the Duchess of Cambridge
end the Princess Mary, attend, d Divine serviceester-
day morning, in St. Mirthael'a Church.y
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, attended
Lady Augusta Bruce, Sir fleurge Cooper, and Lordy
jeJames Murray, honoured the
performance at her M.
sty'i Theatre, on Saturday evening, with he er Inesence.
Russ
A Cabinet Cincil Was held on Saturday, at
the po-
reign
a, •otlica.
the Lord M
C The ihancello rnisters present were—Lord John
, the Marquis ul Earls
downy, Sir George Grey, Viscount Palmerston, Earl
Grey, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Earl uf
Auckland, Sir John Hobhouse, Lord Campbell, the Right
Hon. IL Lab,:uchere, the Marquis of Cl %nricarde Viscount
.M
ore stl,
anti the
tun Right
Hun. 'l'. B. Macaulay. The
Df Wellig , Comtnand,-r in. Chief, and his
secretary, Lord Fitzroy Somerset, after-
view military
wards arrived at the Foreign. office, and had an inter-
view with the Ministers. Tire Council sat three loairs
Thc Cabinet Ministers again met in deliberation yes-
terdaT.

Tne L,•rd Uaynr had an interview with Sir George
Grey, at the Home-office, on Saturday, and also vi,ited
the Earl of Auckland at the Admiralty. Yesterday the
Lord Mayor attended at the office of the Secretary of
State for the Home Department.
The Marquis of Salisbury had an interview on Satur-
day with Sir George Grey.
The Attorney-General attend( d at the Home Office
yesterday, and on Saturday. The Principal civil and
military authorities of the metropolis also attended on
Saturday and yesterday at the Home Office.
Captain Mangles Denham, RN., F.R.S., had inter
views on Saturday with Lord Auckland, at ►h•

Adtnirtlty. and the Right Hon. H. Labonehere, at the
Board of Trade, to explain his plan for steering a ship
when on fire abaft, or i❑ the event of twisting th.:t
rudder hca 1, or breaking the tiller short off in a gale of
wind.

The Duke of Wellington and Sir Frederick Trench
attended the early service yesterday in the Chapel
Royal, St. James's. The Rev. Dr. Wesley officiated
and preached the sermon. At the daily service the
prayers were read by the Rev. Dr. Knapp, the Lessons
by the Rev. T. Helmore, and the Communion Service
by the Bishop of London. The sermon was preached
by the Archbishop of York. The anthem was " 0 sing
unto God" (Greene). Sir George Smart presided at
;he organ. The Dukes of Beaufort and Leeds, the
Duchess of Beaufort, the Marquis of Anglesey, Ladies
Jersey, St. Germaine, and Palmerston, were among the
nobility present.