The Sun.
London, England, 1851-08-25 00:00:00

EVENING, AUGUST 25, 1851.

nesses wAs evidently a tissue of tal-ehoo I, so much so
on the part of Pickering that Mr. Clarkson declined
exitnining them.

Several witnesses were called who gave Long an
excPllent previous character for honesty.
The jury immediately found them Guilty, strongly
recommending Long to mercy.
Upun the prisoners being asked the usual question
before passing sentence,
Pickering said he thanked all parties for the fair
trial he had hod.

The RECORDSR, in passing sentence, said that he
thanked Mr. Clarkson tor discontinuing to examine
witnesses who it was evident were not speaking the
truth. It would have been degrading to call them
when the defence was clearly a falsehood, and Mr.
Clarkson had vindicated the honour of the bar by the
course he had adopted. With regard to Long, he
should attend to the recommendation of the jury.
The prosecutor had also stated that he had up to this
transaction borne a good character. and he thought it
likely he had been drawn into this matter by Picke-
ing ; still, in a port like the city of London, where
so much trust was reposed in lightermen, his
offence could not be passed lightly over, and
he should therefore order him to be imprisoned for
twelve mouhts. As to Pickering the case was dif-
ferent: be believed him to be the principal, and as a
man in his position—a wharfinger—he should make a
signal example of him to deter others and prevent si-
milar practioes upon the river, our great course of
commerce. He had also tried to prevent the coarse
of justice by getting false evidence for the defence,
and was therefore a man not safe to be at large in this
couirry, and be should transport him for ten years.
Oae of the witnesses for the defence, named Par-
sons, swore that the officer Thomas, through whose
zeal and ability the evidence bad been obtained, had
offered him 51. to swear against the prisoners, and at
the close of the proceedings the R-corder ordered him
and another of the witnesses for the defence into cus-
tody for perjury.

GU. itr.
(Before Mr RUS,ELL GURNEY)
James Lavrikkre Milker, a fashionably-attired
young man, was indicttd lor obtaining goods by false
pre,,ncPs.
M,. Parry and Mr. Woollett prosecuted ; and Mr.
Ballantine and O'Brien were for the defence.
Mr. Francis D,idd, of Cornhil,, jeweller, stated
that in the early part of last month the prisoner came
into their shop, and stating that he and his brother
hail been customers at their shop for some tune, re
quested to he shown go,ne bracelets. which w.s done,
and he selected two, which he said he would take
round to his offices, Wore Lion-court, Cornhill.
Having been satisfied that he had some place there,
the bracelets were sent, and he kept one valued at 101.
which be said he would call and pay fur, or return if
nut approved. After he had got the bracelet the
prosecutor called several times at the office, but only
once saw him, and be then told him that if he did nut
return him the bracelet he had obtained by fraud
be should give him into custody.
Mr. Joseph Sarl, of Cornhill, silversmith, said
that prisoner came to their shop on the sth of July,
and asked to look at some bracelets, which were
shown to him. He stated he was of the firm of
Walker and Co.—(Laughter.) Two were sent upon
approbation, and the prisoner came back and said that
he would keep the one that was valued at 161., and
that in a short time he Auld call again and give
them a cheque on Smith, Payne, and Stnirh for the
amount. He did not come back, and witness meet-
ing him some short time after in Curnhill gave him
into custody.
When you went to White Lion-court what did you
find there ? 'Witness—There was a chair or two and
a desk.—(Laughter.)
It was proved that prisoner was not even known at
Smith, Payne, and Smith's
Inspector Mitchell proved prisoner being given into
his custody on the 24th of July, by Mr. Sarl, at the
station-house. Prisoner then said that if Mr. Sarl
would withdraw the charge he would give up the
bracelet, and subsequently they were both given up
to witness.

The jury found the prisoner Guiltp.
Inspector Mitchell said he had obtained a bracelet
from another jeweller, and had got 401. worth of goods
from Mr. Alderman Hunter, and also swindled a poor
woman at Homerton out of some money, and had
further obtained three valuable looking-glasses from
another tradesman.

Mr. GURNEY said, it would not be satisfying jus-
tice if he did not give the prisoner a severe term of
imprisonment, and ordered him to be kept to hard
labour for twelve months.
The prisoner, it would appear, had, fortunately for
the trading community, been stopped in good time,
for he had just obtained possession of a handsome
residence at Abbey Wood, Kent, which was evi-
dently intended as is place of reference.
Just as the above case had concluded, Inspector
Park begged his Lordship would tell him how to dis-
pose of a gentleman who had just been given into the
custody of one of the V division on a bench warrant,
he being' in attendance as a witness?
Mr. PARRY slid, the person alluded to war a client
of his, ant they hail been behind his back and ob-
tained a bill, and, without giving him any notice,
now, by getting a bench warrant on a Saturday,
sought to lock him up until Monday. The charge had
been dismissed by the magistrate.
Mr. GURNEY said, if the bail would present them-
selves he would examine then] himself without notice,
as he wibhed to stop the practice, which was often re-
tort,d t,. for extortion or spite.
Mr PARRY" said that scarcely a session passed that
parties were not taken into custody in this way on a
Sa'urday ; and he would suggest that no warrant
should be issued on that day without notice being
previously given, or unless they had been before a
magistrate.

Mr. GURNEY said, he could not well make the
order. It was a great injustice to parties. In this
case he would con,ent to take we bail.

EASTERN UNION RAILWAY.—Thpt 'Frown) branch
of this company is now completes, and the .i9vern men t
in 4391 cirit it t;adlin

! Clarkson and Mr. Biikin w9re for the prisoner
P ckerin,t, and Mr. Parry and Mr. Sl igh were tor
Long.
Tne case, which lasted nearly the whole day, was
of great public importance, and the court was crowded,
the hitherto respectable position held by the accused
parties making the trial one of extreme interest to
those by whom they were known, and also to a large
class of the agricultural body, who have for some
time past been sufferers by the nefarious practices of
which the prisoners were convicted.
The evidence of the numerous witnesses who were
ezauiioed proved the following case :—The real pro-
secutors are Messrs. Gihbs, of St. Helen's-place,
agents to the Peruvian Government fur the sale of
the guano, and it was stated by the Learned Counsel
in his address to the jury that the Government of
Peru had suffered most materially by the present
system of fraud, the pure guano sent over by them
being most scandalously adulterated by the practices,
and thereby obtaining a bad repute, whereas in the
pure state in which it is imported into this country
its fertilizing property as manure is valuable in the
extreme. In the early part of May Messrs. Gibbs
received from M. Schofield, a large agriculturist at
Howden, in Yorkshire, an order for 220 bags of
guano, to be sent down by a coasting vessel. At
that time the Invermore, laden with guano, was
lying in either the East or West India Docks. The
guano, it appears, is brought to this country in hulk,
and when sold is sent away in bags, which are filled
in the vessel from the bulk, the bags being sown up
and marked by some of the dock officers before they
leave their charge. The officers also take a sample
from each vessel of guano when she is half unloaded,
which they carefully keep, with the name of the vessel
attached to it, for the sake of reference should any dis-
pute arise as to its respective property and value. The
prisoner Long is a lighterman and bargemaster, and was
employed to remove the guano from the Invermore,
and should have gone to the Docks on the 16:h of
May for it, and on that day let Captain Drury, of the
Albion coasting vessel, have it on board. Long, how-
ever, did not go to the dock until Saturday, the 17th,
and the guano, weighing in all 14 tons, was delivered
to him in the usual way into a barge under his com-
mand named the Old Soul. Long did not deliver the
guano to Captain Drury until Monday, the 19th,
and said he could not get out of the dock before.
When the guano arrived in Yorkshire the bailiff to
Mr. Schofield had his suspicious raised that all was
not right, there being a bag too many, and that being
in appearance shorter than what they had been accus-
tomed to have. Upon inspecting their contents he
round the substance to be of a very inferior quality.
A bag was therefore sent up to London by Captain
Drury, and he having obtained a sample of the origi-
nal bulk, it was analysed by Mr. Waly, analytical
chy mist to the Roy al Agricultural Society, and he
found that that which had been delivered to Mr.
Schofield had been adulterated above half with
marl. sand, and some other compound. lofor-
mation was then given to Messrs. Gibbs, and they
paving consulted Forrester, the Mansion • house officer,
the police were set to work to sift the mater to the
bottom, and the evidence they obtained proved the
guilt of both parties beyond all doubt. It appeared
that Long left the dock on the same day he received
the guano, and then proceeded with his barge, the 0d
Soul, as far as the Union wharf, Lierehouse, belong-
ing to Pickering, and Ice° wn ae Pickering's wharf.
rne o.d Soui was there unloaded, and the guano
taken into Prekering's premises, where the bags were
opened, emptied of their contents, and fillet with a
mixture celled pho.phate and some portion of the
original guano. Tney were then sewed up and
inarked 'Telt] by the two prisoners, and reloaded on
to the Old Soul, and thence shipped into the Albion.
Fur the defence, it was attempted to be shown that
the barge that was being unloaded and reloaded was
not the one in quesion, but the evidence of th- wit-