The Sun.
London, England, 1848-10-27 00:00:00

RAIL WAY INTELLIGENCE.

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LONDON AND BLACKWALL RAILWAY.-Amount of
revenue for the week ending October 22 :-Passengers,
35,796; amount, 6321. 4s. 4d.; goods, 33/. 6d.; total,
6651. 10s. 4d.-Corresponding week of last year: Pas-
sengers, 51,564; amount, 839!. 6s. Id.
SOUTH DEVON RAILWAY.-Traffic for the week end-
ing Oct. 20 :-Passengers and parcels, 11,393; amount,
2,225/. 13s. sd. Great Western Railway, 837/. 135.11 d.
South Devon Railway, passengers, 1,387/. 19s. 6d.;
goods, 176/. Os. Id. Total, South Devon, 1,563/. 19s. 7d.
SHREWSBURY AND CHESTER RAILWAY.-Traffic for
week ending Oct. t 2 :-PassengL,rs, Ist class, 147/. 9s. 2d.;
2d class, 3574 Bs, Td.; 3d class, 771. 10s. 9d.-580/. Ss. 6d.;
parcels, horses, &c., 28/. 16s. Id.; merchandise, minerals,
and lire stock, 729. 6s. Id.; total, 1,340/. 10s. Bd. Cor-
responding week last year : Passengers, parcels, &c.,
284/. 6s. 5d.; merchandise, and live stock, 318!. Is. 2d.;
total, 6021. 7s. 7d. Increase, 7381. 3s, Id.
On Saturday evening last there was considerable ex-
citement in the neighbourhood of Laiva, owing to the
exercise of some disputed rights of property in a very
awkward manner for the railway company, by Mr. Al-
derman Johnson, the late Lord Mayor of London. The
company had commenced the formation of a double line
of railway from Crabtree towards Mitley,land as it has to
pass the Dartmoor Railway, of which Mr. Alderman
Johnson is mortgagee in possession, that gentleman
makes claim for a certain amount of compensation, which
either the railway company do not consider right or have
not found it convenient to meet. At all events Mr.
Johnson placed himself in a hostile position with the
company, and by his representative, Mr. Filmer, and
his solicitor, he caused some large blocks of granite to be
placed on the new line of railway that is in course of for-
mation. Mr. Carr, the secretary of the South Devon
Company, was on the spot, and most warmly
protested against the act of Mr. Johnson ; but the
opposing parties, in spite of every protestation, pro-
ceeded in their work of obstruction, which, for the
present, they have most effectually accomplished.
Nearer Plymouth the works are proceeding with the ut-
most industry. At Pennycomequick the builders having
prepared the material, have begun to throw the arch
across the Saltash-road. The excavations have now
reached the road running abreast of the Five Fields,
though there is still much work to be done in levelling
them. The masons are engaged in turning the arch
which runs across King-street, and the road is filled in
nearly through Rendle's nursery grounds to Union-road.
Here-the masons are actively engaged in erecting the
buttresses, &c., for the arch that is to be thrown across
Union-street. The works at the terminus in the field at
the back of the Union Baths, are also rapidly developing
themselves. Very much of the timber and masonry work
is erected, so that the buildings begin to assume some-
thing like a fixed character.
THE BRITANNIA TUBE, MENAI STRAITS.-We hear
that the works at the Britannia railway tube across the.
Menai Straits have been suspended for the present. Yes-
terday week upwards of a hundred men were discharged,
and we hear that on the following day the remainder
were turned adrift. Deficiency of funds is stated to be
the reason.-Liverpool Times.
MAIDEN NEWTON.-The works on the Wilts, Somer-
set, and Weymouth Railway are entirely suspended in
this neighbourhood, and are not likely to be resumed be-
fore the next year.-Sherborne Journal.
The Directors of the South Devon Railway, on Tues-
day week, passed a resolution, reducing the salaries of
all the employes on their line. The porters and police-
men will have 14s. instead of 15s. weekly, and those of a
higher grade will be reduced about twenty per cent. ;
besides which, a reduction in the number of porters,
policemen, and clerks is also contemplated.-Devonshire
Chronicle.

ABLRDEEN.—A meeting of the contractors on this
railway was held on Thursday, at Stonehaven, convened
in consequence of certain orders having been given to
them, by the Directors of the Aberdeen Railway Com-
pany, to suspend their works entirely, and in consequence,
also, of certain misunderstandings in regard to the com-
pany's engineers and the referee for the contractors.
The meeting was attended by almost all the contractors.
The chair was filled by Mr. Forbes. The meeting were
unanimous in their resolution to disregard the company's
order to suspend the works, and resolved to apply to the
court for authority to finish their respective contracts,
under the inspection of the original referee, Mr. Gibb.—
Scotsman.

TRAINING COLLEGE, CARMARTEEN.--.CARMARTHEN,
TUESDAY.—This institution was formally opened to-day.
After morning prayers a sermon was preached by the
Lord Bishop of St. David's, followed by a collection for
the general purposes of the college. A cold collation
was subsequently served in the college hall, at which the
Lord Bishop of St. David's presided, and which was
partaken of by a most respectable company. Altogether
the proceedings were conducted with so much zeal and
decorum as to augur well for the future success of the
institution.

His Excellency the Hon. William Temple, the Bri-
tish Minister at the Court of Naples, left town on Wednes-
day to resume his diplomatic functions in that capital.
His Excellency has been absent nearly eighteen months
en conga, and on Wednesday last had the honour of taking
leave of her Majesty at Windsor Castle, preparatory to
his departure for Italy. Lord Napier, who has acted as
chargé d'affaires during the absence of his Excellency,
will, it is understood, leave Naples for England shortly
after the Hon. W. Temples reaches that capital.
BUILDING ON Till ENCLOSURE, LEICESTER-SQUARE.
—Yesterday preparations commenced within the en-
closure, Leicester-square, to convert that hitherto useless
plot of ground into an exchange bazaar, to be called
the Royal Victoria Arcade Bazaar. There will be four
distinct entrances, one at each angle of the square, the
arcade being in the form of a cross, the statue of King
George the First forming its centre, around which will
be constructed a circular promenade open to the air;
within each angle an ornamental fountain will be con-
structed, to be supplied with water from the artesian
wells that furnish those in Trafalgar-square. This
ground was originally leased to Miss Linwood by the
Crown, together with the opposite building known as
Saville Palace, with an express covenant that it was not
to be built over ; but in consideration of the highly
ornamental character of the proposed construction, and
the improvement it will he to the neighbourhood, the
Commiasioners of Woods and Forests are understood to
have consented to the erection.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.
_ OLD COURT.

(Before Mr. Justice MAULE and Mr. Justice WIGHTMAN.)
TRIAL OF MULLINS, THE CHARTIST.
(Continued from our Afternoon Edition of yesterday.)
The witness (Powell) underwent, as on the previous
occasions, a very severe cross-examination. He said ho
went by the name of Johnson among the Chartist body.
He joined them for the purpose of communicating to the
police what was going on, and he did, from the begin-
ning of his connexion with the Chartists, communicate
to the police everything that was done. Besides the
name of Johnson, he said he might have been called by
the name of Robinson by some of the Chartists, and he
said he told them they might call him what name they
pleased. He was questioned as to his connexion with a
gambling booth at the races, and he admitted that he
had acted as a " decoy duck " upon one occasion to in-
duce other persons to gamble. He said that some money
was given to him, and he was nodded to when be was to
put money on the board, and he was aware that he was
not playing in reality, but merely to induce others to
play. He then went through the story he told on the
former occasions about his having walked matches as
the " Welsh Novice," for the purpose of drawing custom
to a public-house, but he denied haring betted upon any-
of them, and said that he received no other remuneration-
than refreshment. He said he went to America some
years ago for the benefit of his health, and did not in-
form either his wife or his father of his intention to do
so, but he denied most positively that he had committed
a forgery upon his father before he started. Ho denied •
having told a man named Watson that he had com-
mitted a forgery upon his father, or that he wanted
him to watch some people who were passing bad
money, and told him if he did so, and was a witness for
the police, he would get 3s. 6d. a day. He admitted
having told a man named Osborn that he could point
him out a man who would make him a pike. He denied
ever having said that ho should not go as a witness any
more for the police, for he only got 3s. 6d. a day, and he
could get more money from the thieves. He likewisedenied
that upon an occasion, when a man named Pennell told
him they should never get the Charter by violence, he
replied that the Government was a weak Government,
and that they would blow Lord John Russell and Sir G.
Grey to hell within a month. He said that he did not
believe he had stated to a man named Bennett that he
had arranged a plan to take the Artillery-ground, and
that he would carry it out if three or four more would
join with him, but he would not state positively that he
had not done so. He said that he was present at the
meeting in Bonner's-fields, and he would not deny that
he went about among the crowd and asked if they
were armed, or that he did not say to a man
named Green that he was not worth a - as a
Chartist if he had not got arms. He said he knew a
man named Westmoreland, but he did not remember
telling him that he had organized a plan for taking
London and carrying out physical-force operations.
He denied that a plan shown to him was one which he
had himself made, and which he had shown to West-
moreland when be made the statement to him. He ad-
mitted that he had carried pistols and a sword about
with him, and said that he did so to protect himself, and
he also said that he had made a great number of ball-
cartridges, but that he did so for Gurney, one of the
conspirators, and he also said that while this man was in
custody he went to the cell where he was confined, and
told him that if he would give evidence for the police in
this case, he would be paid a guinea a week for the rest
of his life, but he said he did so upon his own responsi-
bility, and without any authority from the police
authorities, and his object was to induce him to give
evidence. The witness, in conclusion, declared, that he
had come forward upon this occasion on his own respon-
sibility, and that he did not expect any reward for what
he had done.

Mr. Wilson, the landlord of the Black Jack, was then
called to prove that a room in his house was engaged by
Rose, on the 17th of July, for the purpose of a trade
committee meeting,
George Davis, the other approver, was next examined,
and he repeated the evidence giv„n by him on the former
trial. He stated that he joined the Wat Tyler brigade of
Chartists at Greenwich on the 24th of May, and he said he
was present at a meeting of Chartists at the George in the
Old Bailey on the 10th of July, the day on which Ernest
Jones was tried in this court for sedition. About 20
persons were present, and the prisoner was among them,
and after a short time he said it was a shame that the
prisoners should go to prison without some attempt
being made to rescue them; and he added that the van
would go through Cow-cross on its way to Coldbath -
fields, and that it would be a good place to attack it,
and he said he knew a friend, who he understood to be
a man named Daly, who would lead out the Irish living
in the neighbourhood for that purpose. The witness
went on to say that he was present at the meeting at
the Black Jack public-house on the 20th of July, and
said he saw Powell, whom he knew by the name of
Johnson, present, and he confirmed his evidence as to
what took place on the occasion, and particularly as to
the fact of the prisoner being appointed one of the ul-
terior or secret committee.

Inspector Mark, of the R division of police, was
here examined, and he stated that he was in communi-
cation with the last witness upon the subject of the
Chartist proceedings, and that he reduced to writing
the statements he made to him, which he signed after-
wards. He added, that he knew nothing of Powell at
the time he was in communication with the witness Da-
vis. He identified some documents put into his hand as
the same he so drew up.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL then proposed to put these
papers into the hands of the witness Davis, to refresh
his memory.
Mr. PARRY objected to this being done, but
The COURT ruled that the course suggested by the
Attorney-General could be adopted.
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The witness Davis was then recalled, and the papers
were put into his hand for the purpose stated by the
Attorney-General, and he continued his evidence, giv-
ing the details of the various meetings at which he was
present, when the prisoner and the other persons men-
tioned by the witness Powell took part in the proceed-
ings. He stated that the prisoner at one of the meet-
ings proposed that barricades should be erected from
Tottenham-court-road to the Seven Dials, and that the
whole of the Seven Dials should be barricaded ; and
Holborn should be barricaded to a brewhouse at the
corner of Liquorpond-street, which they were to make
themselves masters of • and then they were to barricade
St. Martin's• le-Grand, and to take possession of St.
Paul's Cathedral, and if they could not do so they were
to burn it. They were then to go to Doctor's commons,
and along the back streets to the Temple, pulling down
Temple-bar, and erecting a barricade thereon. Thence
they were to go to Somerset-house, and then to Covent-
garden, and so round to the Seven Dials again. The
prisoner also suggested that when the barricades were
erected the stones should be placed diamond fashion,
and that a portion of their body should be specially em-
ployed to break open the gunsmith's shops and fire the
houses and other premises. At the time of these pro-
ceedings, Brewster, who took an active part in them,
was a special constable in the service of the East India
Company. He likewise said at another meeting, when
a proposition was made to break open the prisons, it was
stated by Lacy that the men of Westminster did not
require any assistance in this respect, for that the re-
spectable inhabitants of Duck-lane and Pye-street had
friends within the prisons were Ernest Jones and their
other friends were confined, and they were as anxious to
get them out as they could be themselves.—(A laugh.)
After the witness had given some further evidenco,,
the Court adjourned, the jury being taken, as on the'
former occasion, to the London Coffee-house, in charge
of an officer.
Just before the Court adjourned, Mr. Harker, the
chief usher, stated that while the jury had retired to
take refreshment in the middle of the day, the coat of
one of them had been stolen from the jury box.

NE ff COURT.
William Parsons, aged 44, plasterer, was indicted for
stealing the sum of 301., the property of Sarah Adams.
The prosecutrix stated herself to be a servant out of
place, having last been in service in Paris, where she
had saved up the sum named in the indictment. O❑ the
3d of October she arrived in this country, and met the
prisoner in the New-cut, and asked him if he could re-
commend her a lodging; upon which he took her to a
lodging-house in Whitehorse-street. After she had been
in bed a short time, she saw him come into the room and
take her pocket, containing the money, with which he
went off before she could stop him. On the following
morning she informed the keeper of the lodging-house,
and gave such information as led to the prisoner's
apprehension.

The other evidence proved, that when the prisoner
introduced the woman to the lodging he did not make
any secret of who he wag, but, on the contrary, told the
daughter of the lodging-house keeper that he was a
member of the same club that her father belonged to,
which turned out to be true.

The police having proved that when the prisoner was
charged the prosecutor offered to compromise the matter
for a sum of money; and the other testimony not being
at all conclusive, the Common Sergeant directed the
jury to Acquit the prisoner.
James Hare, aged 37, mercer, and Charles Rehden, 20,
collector, were indicted, the former upon four charges of
larceny, and the latter with receiving the property,
knowing it to have been stolen, and also with harbour-
ing and assisting the first-named prisoner in the com-
mission of the offences. _ _ _

Mr. Ballantyne defended the prisoner, and Mr. Clark-
son prosecuted.
The prisoner Hare begged to retract his plea of " Not
Guilty," and plead " Guilty."
From the statement of Mr. Clarkson and the evi-
dence, it appeared that the prisoner Hare, who is res-
pectably connected, and uncle to Rehden, was formerly
in business as a draper, but for a length of time past had
been living by defrauding the wholesale and retail
drapers of the metropolis, and during his career he had
obtained property, consisting of satins and shawls,
amounting to some hundreds of pounds in value. His
mode of acquiring the property was by going to the va-
rious drapers to whom he had been known when in bu-
siness, or to whom he could obtain an introduction, and
obtaining goods upon sale or return, which he pawned
as soon as in his possession. Information of his depre-
dations having !been given to the police, Haydon and
Webb, two officers of the City, were instructed to ap-
prehend Hare. On the 3d of October Haydon re-
ceived a communication from Rehden, requesting
him to meet him at the Red Lion public-house in
St. John-street, where he would give him information
that would lead to the recovery of the greater portion of
the stolen property. Upon Haydon seeing him Rehden
told him, that, if he would give him three sovereigns,
he would give him information that would en-
able him to apprehend his uncle and lead to the re-
covery of the greater portion of the stolen property.
Haydon upon that gave him the money, which he had
no sooner got than he laughed at him, and told him he
would find his uncle at the station in Bow .lane; that he
(Rehden) had given information to an officer named
Cooke, Ivlao had that day Whoa him. Ilayd94 then told

him, that if he did not return him the money he had
given him he should take him into custody for obtaining
money under false pretences, when he said he might do
his best, and refused to return the money. Haydon
then took him to the Bow-lane station, where they found
Hare in custody. Rehden then gave his address, 10,
Powell-street West, King-square, Goswell•street, where
it was found out that he lived with his mother. Upon
the police searching the place they found a portmanteau,
in which was a list of the goods which had been ob-
tained, and 60 duplicates relating to the property which
had been pawned. It subsequently transpired that the
portmanteau belonged to Hare, and had been left there,
and that Rehden was unacquainted with its contents.
Evidence having been given that Rehden had always
borne a❑ excellent character, and had only pledged one
piece of satinet, and that under the direction of his
uncle, the jury acquitted him.
The COMMON SERGEANT then sentenced Hare to be
transported fur seven s ears upon two indictments, the
period of the second seven years to commence on the ter-
mination of the first.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
GUILDHALL.
Mr. Matthew Forster, the Member for Berwick-on-
Tweed, rcsidtng 'at Bel'aisle House, Hampstead, was
summoned before Mr. Alderman Gibbs for refusing to
pay his legal and proper fare, under the following cir-
cumstances :

Martin Walsh, the conductor of one of Mr. Sinnett's
omnibuses, stated that on returning from the City to the
Great Western Railway, on Saturday, the 21st of
October, Mr. Forster got into his omnibus in the City-
road, and rode as far as Broad-street in the City; but
that previous to getting out he asked witness for 2d.,
without tendering any money. He (Walsh) told him
that the proper fare was 6d., but the defendant on
alighting refused to pay, and went into the London Club
House, where Mr. Forster eventually gave his address.
A gentleman who attended for Mr. Forster, and said
that he was his nephew, contended that his uncle had no
obligation to pay more than 4d., as it was a well-known
fact that all the omnibuses on that road ran for that
sum. When 6d. was demanded, Mr. Forster, as well as
the other passengers, was surprised, and thinking he
was being imposed on he refused paying the fare, and
allowed himself to be summoned for the purpose of
placing the public on their guard.
Alderman GIBBS asked the conductor if ha had the
fare properly painted up ? Walsh replied that it was
painted on the door, and he called the defendant's at-
tention to it.

Alderman GIBBS wished to know if there was any
other fare than 6d? Walsh replied there was not, as the
railway company would not allow them to run for less
than 6d., being of opinion that if they did so there
would not be that proper accommodation for railway
travellers which was requisite. _ _

Mr. Forster's representative urged that the complain-
ant had evaded the Act of Parliament (6th and 7th Vic-
toria), by having the fare painted on the door below the
seats, instead of having it painted on a "conspicuous "
part of the omnibus. _ _ _

Alderman Ginns considered the case had been proved.
It was proved that the fare—and the only fare which the
proprietor could charge—was painted on the door inside,
according to the Act of Parliament, and therefore he
must order Mr. Forster to pay the sixpence demanded, as
well as 3s. costs, and 4/. to the conductor for two days'
loss of time.

The money was immediately paid, the gentleman
attending for the defendant expressing a hope that pub-
licity would be given to the case, so as to warn omnibus
travellers against an error they might fall into by getting
into a railway omnibus with the idea that they were
riding in a cheap one.
MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
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Charles Whitehouse, John Buchstone, William Barra:,
and James Thomas (the latter an assumed name), were
brought before Mr. Bingham, charged with having
created a disturbance in the public streets at one o'clock
in the morning, and with having assaulted Police•con-
stable Boyce, C 181.
The constable stated, that about one o'clock he beard
a great disturbance in the Regent-quadrant, and on going
to the place he found Whitehouse and another person
fighting together. He parted the combatants, and was
afterwards attacked by Whitehouse, who threw him
down on the pavement. He got up and seised White-
house, and he also managed to give his rattle to a person
near him in order to summon assistance. Barrett in-
terfered, and tried to rescue Whitehouse, and a sort of
general melie ensued. By this time several constables
had made their appearance, and, with their assis-
tance, the four defendants were lodged in the station-
house.

The defendants, who were young gentlemen appa-
rently rather fresh upon town, did not deny the charge,
with the exception of Barratt, who said he did not in-
terfere in an way.
Mr. BINGHAM, after lecturing the defendants, fined
Whitehouse 405., and discharged the others.