The Sun.
London, England, 1860-10-30 00:00:00

THE PRINCE OF WALES IN THE
UNITED STATES.

Americans must, we may add, ever feel a deeper
nterest in all that relates to or is connected with
England than they can feel concerning the affairs
and the people of any other European country.
Blood is thicker than water. When, therefore, the
very first of Englishmen visits the United States it
is, according to the workings of a fixed law of our
being, that we-become somewhat excited. The
arrival of no other European heir-apparent could
move the American heart and the American mind
as they have been moved by the visit of the Prince
of Wales. He is the heir of a house which our an-
cestors gladly saw established on the British throne,
and which ruled over them for almost two genera-
tions. The very names of not a few of our States,
counties, towns, streets, and so forth, were taken
from those borne by the Hanoverian Sovereigns
and Princes. He might have been our King. liis
coming to the United States is proof of the consi-
deration in which we are held by England, to some
extent, and therefore is pleasing to us. He is the
only man of similar rank who has ever visited
North America, the one individual who, while pre-
paring to become a King, has visited a people.
This we feel to be a compliment, and something
more than a compliment; and we should be some-
thing more or less than men if we were not moved
out of our everyday life by its occurrence. Why
should we be unwilling to admit we are affected
by an incident that has no parallel ? By the visit
of the future Sovereign of the country from which
we have derived all that makes us to differ from
other nations, which is now our sincere friend
in peace, and which may become our sincere
ally in war. We speak of our coining guest
as the Prince of Wales, the attempt to call him
Lord Renfrew, and so to regard him, having
failed utterly, as we always supposed it would.
The Scotch title has no meaning to Americans,
not one in a hundred of whom ever heard of
it until quite recently ; but there are, indeed, few
Americans who do not know what the title of the
Prince of Wales means. The time when a monarch
or an heir-apparent could travel &wog . has passed
away. If ever it existed, it went out when railways
and electric telegraphs came in. In these days you
can't disguise a Prince. Give us the Man inthe Iron
Mask, and we should unmask him in an hour. The
reporters would do it, though he were 20 times the
brother of the Great King. Napoleon I. said that
if he had been allowed to live in England he should
have dropped all titles, and even his family name,
and have called himself Colonel IVleuron, after one
of his early friends, who fell at Arcola, or Colonel
Duroc, from another friend who full at Bautzen.
• He might have done so in England, but he would
have broken down in the attempt in the United
States, for he would have been called the Emperor
Napoleon, and nothing else by every one who
should have spoken of him, and have been treated
with as much respect as he ever had received when
he was master of continental Europe, and all but
arbiter of the world.—Daily Evening Traveller
(Boston), U.S.
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POLICE INTEL LIGENCE—Oct. 29.

GUILDHALL.—Thomas Moran, 36, labourer ;
Anne Moran, 30, his wife; Patrick Baines, 25, la-
bourer; Sarah Conway, 24, his wife; Luke Lalley,
37, bricklayer—all of 9 and 11, Sun-court, Milton-
street ; ias. Neill, 25, tailor, and Bridget Knight,
36, Moran's sister, of 3, Honeysuckle-court, Moor-
lane, were charged before Alderman Salomons and
Col:Wilson under the following circumstances :
Police-constable Blake said—About ten minutes

past 12 o'clock last night T was on duty in Milton-
street, when I heard the screams of women and cries

of " Murder !" and " Police !" I immediately ran
into Sun-court, and there saw all the prisoners
fighting with sticks, pokers, and all sorts of weapons.
These are some of them. [Witness here produced a
poker very much bent ; a large heavy stick, shod
with iron ; an iron rasper, about a foot long ; a
mason's chisel, and a bedstead rail.] I took the iron-
shod stick from Baines. I had previously taken a
poker from him. That was about an hour before,
and I thought I had pacified them all, for I induced
them to go into their houses. Moran gave Baines
into custody, and the rest of the prisoners gave
each other into custody. (Laughter.)
Alderman Salomons—Did you learn the cause of
this row ?

Blake—l understood, sir, there had been a wed.
ding, and that that was the origin of the disturb-
ance, for they were all drunk. I had no trouble in
getting them to the station. I was not assaulted in
the least by any one. Baines appeared to be the
worst, for he had the iron-shod stick by the middle,
and was flourishing it over his head as Irishmen
manage a shillelah. (Laughter.)
Alderman Salomans—How did these women get
their broken heads ?
Blake—l did not see them struck, but they were
all bleeding, and Dr. Simpson was called in, and he
dressed their wounded heads at the station. The
male prisoners have all got broken heads. The
poker produced was, I believe, taken from one of
the women.
John Neill said—l was at Moran's house on
Sunday night at the time of the row. We had all
been to a wedding, and returned to Sun-court
about 10 o'clock at night. We sat there for some
time, when Lalley and Baines came to the door
and commenced the row. I merely put my hand
against Lalley's face and asked him what he meant;
upon which he pulled out from beneath his jacket
a weapon, with which ho struck me on the head,
and knocked me down. Several of his friends kicked
me, and I was glad to make my escape, and I ran
away to Milton-street. I did not see any of the
women struck, but I heard that Lalley broke Mrs.
Moran's head.
Lalley—l never had any weapon in my hand at
all. They are all brothers and sisters and cousins,
your honour, and will say anything against me.
Mrs. Moran said—l have been under the doctor's
hands for the last six weeks, but when I heard my
husband was being beaten I got out of bed and
threw myself upon him to protect him from their
violence, and immediately afterwards Lalley struck
me with an iron bar and cut my head open.
Neill's wife said—l was in my brother (Moran's)
house last night when Baines and Lalley came and
broke open the street door. I was at the window at
the time, and a hatchet and a hammer were thrown
through the open window at me, and had I not seen
them and got out of the way I must have been killed
upon the spot. Lalley afterwards struck me on the
eye and kicked me in the stomach, and I am not in
a fit state to be kicked. (Witness is enciente.) I
then saw Lalley take hold of Mrs. Knight by the
waist and hold her against the water-butt, while
he struck her with a weapon like the mason's chisel
produced. She is dangerously wounded. I saw
Lalley and his friends armed with all sorts of
weapons. One had a pickaxe, with which the door
was broken open, another a hammer, a third a
chopper, and others had pokers and sticks. Moran
came to the door and told them togo quietly away,
upon which Baines pulled him out by the hair of
his head. It was Lalley threw the hatchet at me
as I was looking out of the window.
Mrs. Baines, alias Conway (her maiden name),
said—l was waiting for my husband, and just as
he was coming into the court one of the men—l
think it was Neill—knocked me down, and my
husband interfered and took my part. I did not
see Moran strike any one.
Alderman Salomons—The origin of all this dis-
turbance, and the murderous assaults committed
upon these women, are, I think, very clearly traced
to two men, Lalley and Baines ; and I will there-
fore hear hat you have to say for yourselves.
Lalley—This row arose through Baines and the
Neills, and when I entered the court I found Moran
wielding the iron-shod stick. He was mad drunk,
and I got a blow front the stick on my head. I
then went direct to the police-station, and while
there Moraa threatened he would give me a blow
that I should never forget.
Baines—l saw Neill shove my wife down, and I
did not like it, and when I interfered Moran came
out with the stick to beat me, but I took it from
him, and while I was so engaged one of the women
came behind me and stabbed me in the head with a
knife.
Alderman Salomons said—For the honour of the
city of London, as well as for the honour of the
working classes, we feel it our duty to inflict the
utmost punishment allowed by law for this offance.
You evidently went there together for one com-
mon purpose—viz., that of creating a disturbance ;
but there is a difference in your positions. You,
Lalley, are proved to have assaulted these women
in the most brutal and cowardly manner, for which
you are now sentenced to six months' imprison-
ment, with hard labour. You, Baines, were there
for the purpose of aiding and abetting Lalley in
his unlawful proceedings; but as it has not been
proved that you actually struck the women your
self, you will have the benefit of that in the sen-
tence lam about to pass. You must go to prison
for two months, with hard labour.
The prisoners Lalley and Baines were then re-
moved ; the rest were discharged.

BOW-STREET.—John Glover, a supernumerary
at the Lyceum Theatre, was charged with stealing
a sword, a brace of pistols, and a double-barrelled
pistol, being part of the " properties" used in the
performances.
The articles in question were missed a few nights
back by the property man, James Fitzgerald, who
suspected that they had been stolen by one of the
" supers." He gave information to the police, and
Ackrill, an officer of the F division in private clothes,
was instructed to investigate the case. From infer.
mation he received Akrill called on Mr. Valentine,
a miscellaneous dealer in Drury-lane, who showed
him the double-barrelled pistol now produced—
describing the person from whom he had bought it
—together with a brace of pistols and a sword. The
brace of pistols had been sold to a gentleman, whose
name and address Mr. Valentine gave to the con-
stable, and who on being applied to by the latter at
once gave them up. The sword was also given up
by Valentine, and all the articles were identified
Fitzgerald as being those which he had missed.
He believed that Madame Celeste set particular
value on the brace of pistols, but the double-bar-
relled pistol and the sword were of a common de-
scription. From the description given by Mr. Valen-
tine of the person who sold the articles to him,
Fitzgerald suspected the prisoner, who was accord-
ingly charged with the robbery, and at once acknow*-
ledged it, saying that "it was the drink that done
it." Fitzgerald was accountable for the property,
and would have had to make good any loss.
Mr. Corrie said in that case he should treat it as
being his (Fitzgerald's) property.
The prisoner pleaded guilty, saying it was his
first offence, and beseeched the magistrate to take
into account his distressed circumstances. He had
suffered such disgrace and mental anguish as ho
should consider almost a sufficient punishment for
his offence.

Mr. Corrie—l cannot see that it is sufficient, for
this is a serious offence. You are almost entrusted
with this property. It is very like a robbery by a
servant, as you are employed by Madame Celeste,
and, strictly speaking, the goods belong to her.
Besides you might have brought suspicion on Fitz-
gerald, who at all events would be the loser if the
goods had not been found. What were the prisoner's
wages
Fitzgerald said the prisoner had 9s. a•week at the
theatre, but that only kept him employed in the
evening. Ire probably had other employment.
The officer said he believed him to be in great
distress.

The prisoner said very little. He stated himself
to be a clerk ; and

Mr. Corrie, taking that into account, said he
would only sentence him to one month's imprison-
ment.

MARLBOROUGH- STREIET.—Charles Stuart,
a picture dealer, residing in Ann-street, Waterloo-
road, was charged with obtaining by false statement
and fraudulent pretence seven oil paintings, value
£4l 15s , from Mr. Benjamin Bartington, of 58,
Wardour-street, also a picture dealer, in April,
1867.

Mr. Vaughan, solicitor, conducted the case, and
gave as a reason for the lapse of time in taking pro-
ceedings against him that the prisoner had oily
just left prison on completion of a nine months'
sentence at the Central Criminal Court for forgery.
Mr. Tyrwhitt— Why was he not indicted for this
offence when in custody for the other ?
Mr. Vaughan—Because the prosecutor was not
aware of the fact that he was in custody till he was
undergoing his sentence.
The prosecutor said it was part of his business to
deal in pictures, and in April, 1857, the. prisoner
Dame to his shop, and, pointing to one in his win.