The Sun.
London, England, 1860-06-15 00:00:00

TILE INSURREC7ION IN SICILY.

(From the Times.)
The Washington of Italy is consolidating his
conquest. He is showing a promptitude in organi-
zation equal to that which marked his military
achievements. He descended among a people whose
spirit was broken • by long oppression, and whose
trust was worn by frequent treacheries. Tyranny
too horrible for human endurance had forced into
action the animal instinct of resistance, but the
Sicilians were resisting as wild beasts might resist.
They were desperate, but without purpose; they
were fierce, but they were timorous ; they were
unanimous, but they were not co-operative ; they
could shout, end shoot, and harass, but they had no
idea of expelling an intrenched enemy or canquer-
ing their country. The presence of one man has
changed the whole scene. That powerful and well-
provided army has been broken in the field, driven
from the capital, forced to capitulate, and is leaving
the shores of Sicily defeated and disgraced. The
capital is placed in a state of defence, the island
has been divided into 24 districts, each having its
governor and its communes, and their municipal
bodies ; the established taxes are gathered into the
Treasury of the new Government, and the public
lands are appropriated to the maintenance and re-
ward of the soldiers who shall aid in achieving the
independence of the island. Already everything
has assumed the aspect of regular war. Garibaldi, ,
the Filibuster, Garibaldi whose head was promised
to the King of Naples, has now, even in the mouths
of Royal Generals, become " his Excellency
General Garibaldi," and royal ambassadors sue to
him for leave to quit the spot where they have done
all the iniquity and butchery they could, and had
nothing left to expect but a bloody retaliation.
How grand has been the contrast, during this short
conflict, between the conduct of the soldier of liberty
and the behaviour of the tyrant against whom he
uprose ! Garibaldi has made war like a Christian
gentleman. He has spoken and he has fought in
the old spirit of chivalry ; and, although the mate-
rial odds were so vastly against him, he seems to
have thought that his good cause enabled him to
give his enemy any advantage he might ask. Did
the King's mercenaries, when hard pressed, wish
for time to remove their wounded, Garibaldi granted
the truce as soon as it was asked, and would not
even see that they were themselves breaking it.
When his men were fired upon he returned not a
shot, and only in the last extremity did he interfere
to prevent the success of too dangerous a perfidy.
Such was the conduct of the man whom the King of
Naples did treat, and still would willingly treat, as
an outlaw and a robber. Let us view it in contrast
with that of the King, who was pouring shot and
shell from all his ships and all his forts upon a
densely-peopled city, not with any hope of conquest,
but in the mere wanton love of havoc ; satisfied to
slaughter crowds of men, women, and children if he
might chance in the melee to kill one armed insur-
gent. This scandalous carnage is for the moment
ended, but let us not fail to take advantage of the
pause to mark the fact that in this desperate con-
flict it is the insurgent people who have shown
themselves, under the conduct of their illustrious
leader, moderate and merciful as well as brave ; and
that it is the crowned tyrant who has been sangui-
nary, relentless, and treacherous.
If Garibaldi lives we may feel secure that, so far
as Naples is concerned, the emancipation of Sicily
is achieved. But now that all this has been done,
and has been so nobly done—what next ? Of course,
this King of torture-chambers and prisons is as
mean under chastisement as he was insolent when
his victims lay helpless before him. Of course, he
is now a beggar to every European Court for the
loan of a little armed force. He would like a few
French Zouaves, some Tyrolese riflemen, perhaps
some English marines, to go and destroy for him
that insolent Sicilian army, and to set up again for
him that pleasant chamber of horrors where human
bodies, in writhing attitudes, hung crucified upon
the walls, and where rusty spikes and rotting rags
showed' the spots from which others had dropped
—an undesired manifestation of the paternal sys-
tem which this King, degenerate even as a Bour-
bon, has so faithfully followed. M. de Martino is
aeing from Court to Court to petition for this little
rilvour ; and while he is doing his office men's
minds are troubled lest diplomacy should undo all I
that courage has done. Of course, there is now no
economy of soft phrases and vehement protesta-
tions. The son will in this moment of prostra-
tion swear as glibly as the father swore twelve
years ago. Give him once more the power of the
sword, the power of the police, his chains, his
nails, and his walls, and he will promise Plato's
Republic or More's Utopia. Relics shall attest the
solemnity of his obligations, the blood of St.
Januarius shall flow to ratify the compact, and yet
there is no one man in all Europe who could have
a moment's doubt as to what would be the result.
If any Sovereign or statesman should listen to this
King's promises and should aid him, it would be
universally recognised that the intention of that
Sovereign or statesman could only be to deliver
and a wide proscrip-
wStheicaitalrihae told, has peremptorily and accomplice,posi-
ge
and not a dupe.
he
sw taos a pillage i la
overtien, tahned
tAiall-esltyriar'efused to interfere. It is wise. She has
enough at home to answer for, although, happily
for humanity, nothing quite of this character. Lord
Palmerston states his belief that the determination
of ef Austria. Let us
hope France
similar to to thasn.t
Whatever may be the
object of the French Emperor in allowing this
thati
this s
ground to he cleared, it must be a gain to humanity
that it be cleared. The declaration, however, which
strikes most in harmony with the feelings of every
human minded man throughout the world is that
made by Lord Palmerston last Tuesday night, that
the first most effectual and only necessary step to
remove the authors and instigators of revolution is
to remove the Sovereigns of such Governments as
those of Rome and Naples, who are themselves the
original authors and instigators of all revolutionary
movements.
This is the only solution of the difficulty.
Garibaldi has not yet done all his work. There
is nothing yet ripe for diplomacy. While an
unteachable and unforgetting Bourbon is on the
throne of Naples there is nothing with which
diplomacy can deal. Let him alone and he will
complete his work. " Expeditions to the Abruzzi
and Calabria are," says our correspondent, " every-
' where being planned." If we should stay Geri-
; baldi's hand at this stage, we should render useless
all he has already done. Sicily by herself is only

Admiral Edward Hawker, who died on the Bth
inst., was born on the 7th of November, 1782, and
on the 28th of May, 1786, was entered by his Royal
Highness Prince William Henry on board his ship
the Pegasus, 28. Mr. Hawker's name was' subse-
quently upon the books of the Powerful, 74; com-
manded by his cousin, Captain O'Brien, and of the
Impregnable, 98, Captain Sir T. Byard, and in
1793. at the early age of ten years, he was a mid-
shipman aboard the Pegasus, 28, and then of the
Swiftsure, 74, each commanded by his brother-in-
law, Captain (afterwards Admiral) Boyles. In
May, 1794, the Swiftsure chased two French fri-
gates, who separated, when she closed with them,
but after thirty-six hours' chase and a running
fight, she captured the largest of them, the Atlante,
38, commanded by M. (afterwards Admiral) Linois.
The Atlante had ten men killed and about thirty
wounded; the Swiftsure had one man killed, and
two or three wounded. In Ja1y,1796,Mr. Hawker
was made Lieutenant when only thirteen years old,
and, with Captain Boyles, exchanged into the Rai-
sonable, 64, and was employed on the Jamaica sta-
tion for a year and a half, and then at the Cape of
Good Hope for two years and a half, cruising and
making some captures off the Isle of France. In
1799 Mr. Hawker was appointed Lieutenant of the
Spitfire, 18 guns, commanded by his brother-in-law,
Captain Michael Seymour (afterwards Rear-Admi-
ral Sir M, Seymour, Bart., K.C.8.), and cruising
off the coast of France, captured two large French
privateers. In 1800 he was First-Lieutenant of
the Garland, Captain Honyman, ALP., cruising
off the coast of France, and in Juae, 1801, he be-
came First Lieutenant of the Thames, 32, cruising
off Cadiz ; and on the 21st of September commanded
her boats at the very spirited capture of a Spanish
privateer, carrying two four-pounders, two brass
swivels, and 31 men. Then cruised in the Medi-
terranean, and took the news of the peace to Alex-
andria, and was paid off with the Thames. At the
renewal of the war in 1803, Mr. Hawker was ap-
pointed to the command of the Swift cutter, of 79
tons, 8 four-pounders, and 24 men, and was sent out
with despatches to Rear-Admiral Sir Samuel Hood,
off Martinique, and was afterwards sent to keep a
look out off the Diamond Rock, Observing two
schooners in a narrow harbour to the eastward, he
attempted, with the help of a small English priva-
teer, to cut them out, having observed that a fort at
the entrance of the harbour was not manned.
Mr. Hawker succeeded in carrying off one schooner,
but the other was aground, and whileendeavourinz
to get her afloat the French came down in force,
and Mr. Hawker was compelled to retreat through
a very heavy fire, which, disabling one boat, three
men of the Swift, and four belonging to the priva-
teer were taken prisoners. Sir Samuel Hood in a
private letter, spoke with high approbation of this
dashing affair, of which Mr. Hawker had made no
official report. On reaching. Jamaica with his prize
Mr. Hawker was appointed First Lieutenant of the
Bellerophon, 74, Captain Loring, and on the 29th
of August, 1803, he was promoted to the com-
mand first of the Port Mahon brig, and then
of the Mignonne, of 18 guns on the
Jamaica station. While under his command
the Mignonne had one of her topmasts shivered
and three men killed by lightning. In June,
1804, Captain Hawker was made Post Captain into
the Theseus, 74, bearing the flag of Admiral
Dacres, and in company with the Hercule, 74, ex-
perienced a terrific hurricane, which lasted for
three days, and in which the Theseus was totally
dismasted, and kept afloat only by the most ex-
traordinary exertions of officers and crew, and by
throwing many of her guns overboard. From the
Theseus Captain Hawker was given the command
of the Tartar, 32, and cruised for two years off
the West Indies and the coast of America, captur-
ing l'Observateur, of 18 guns and 104 men, and
many neutrals carrying enemy's property. In
1806, the Tarter being ordered home in consequence
of damage sustained in a hurricane, Captain Haw-
ker exchanged into the Melampus, 36 ; in her he
convoyed a fleet of transports from Halifax to Bar-
badoes, captured Le Colibri, of 16 guns, and 92
men, Le Bearnais, of 16 guns, and 109 men, and
also cut out a felucca from Aguadilla. He then
assisted at the reduction of Guadaloupe, and, after
capturing La Fantome letter of mark, of 20 guns,
he returned to the Halifax station till 1812, when,
the Melampus being paid off, Captain Hawker
was appointed in March, 1813. to the command of
the Bellerophon, 74, and in 1815, to the Salisbury,
flag ships of Vice-Admiral Sir Richard G. Keats,
on the Newfoundland station, and in the former
captured Le Genie, of 16 guns. In 1827 Captain
Hawker was appointed flag-captain to Admiral
the Earl of Northesk, Commander-in-Chief at Ply-
mouth, first in the Britannia, 120, and then in the
St. Vincent, 120. In 1830 he went on half-pay,
and attained the flag rank in 1837. In 1858 Ad-
miral Hawker accepted the " Good Service Pen-
sion" vacant by the death of Admiral Lord Aylmer.

HEALTH OF LONDON DURING THE
WEEK.

(From the Registrar-General's Report.)
The returns of London for the week that ended
last Saturday show a total number of 909 deaths,
and a decrease on that of the previous week, which
was 1,004. In the ten years, 1850-59, the average
number of deaths in the weeks corresponding with
last week will be found, after correction for increase
of population, to be 1,079. The present state of the
public health appears to be comparatively good ; for
the deaths were less by 110 than they would have
been if the average rate of mortality for the first
week of June had prevailed.
The births in last week were at the rate of 242
a-day; the deaths at the rate, of 138. Therefore
the former exceeded the latter by 104 daily.
The mortality from smallpox continues to show
a tendency to decrease ; 15 deaths from this disease
were returned last week, being rather less titan the
weekly average of May, and decidedly less than
that of the earlier months of the year. It was fatal
last week in three cases in the St. Paul sub-district
of St. George-in-the-East. Scarlatina also declines ;
it was fatal in 22 cases, and diphtheria in 9. At
the present time measles is considerably more fatal
than any other zymotic disease, 51 children having
died from it. Of these cases 3 occurred in Chelsea
South sub-district, 3in Mile-end Old-town West, 3
in the London-road sub-district, and oin Kenning-
ton, second part. _ _

A labourer, aged 30 years, died from his clothes
taking fire in the workhouse at Bermondsey. A
boy, aged four years, was fatally scalded by upset-
ting a saucepan ; and a girl, aged one year, died
from burns received in a manner not described. An
infant was suffocated in bed ; another, aged five
months, was suffocated by the string of her hat
getting into her mouth and throat; and an old Chel-
sea pensioner was choked by food. An infant was
murdered, and an adult died by manslaughter. A
man died at the age of 97 years. A young woman
sank under exhaustion of the nervoas system, pro-
duced by a too frequent indulg3nce in the use of
tobacco, which she had both smoked and chewed.
And a woman died from traumatic tetanus, which
was the consequence of wounds inflicted on her
head by the spurs of a gamecock.
Last week the births of 842 boys and 849 girls,
in all 1,691 children, were registered in London.
In the ten corresponding weeks of the years 180-59
the average number was 1,560.
.At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean
height of the barometer in the week was 29-618 in.
The barometrical readings fell to 29 04 in. en Sun-
day, and rose to 29.74 in. on Tuesday. The mean
temperature of the air in the week was 51'9 deg,,
which is 5.3 deg. below the average of the same
week in 43 years (as determined by Mr, Glaisber).

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inun',e•ated with .ilo, AI on the subjeet— The
diryetor.-: erni 'r personal lily:rest in making
i Ines.
The ;,I,ICITi_III having read an abstract of the
hills .10:ore l'otliam(-nt,
CHAIRMAN proposed that the meeting ap-
prove the first bill under consideration, providing
tor the Kingston branch across the river Thames.
3lr. I-EitAPATII said he had heard that a I cry
great difierclico had prevailed among the directors
ore' the sobject. He himself was opposed to the
plan. Believing that it would never pay its ex-
penses, he begged to move a negative to the chair-
man's motion.
Captain GIFFARD, as one of those who had signed
the letter alluded to by the chairman, and also
as an inderendent shareholder, begged to second
the amendment. He stigmatised the Kingston
scheme as a most profligate and wicked waste of
the shareholders' money.
Mr. 'FITE said he would state, as fairly and briefly
as he could, the history of the proposed line. It
'happend that some persons in the Great West-
ern Company proposed a line invading an im-
portant part of their territory. It was an ab-
solute necessity to oppose their scheme. King-
stdn, not deriving much, if any, benefit from the
existing line, manifested an intention of giving
the scheme their support. But on its being pro-
posed, on the part of the South Western
Company, to afford the accommodation of-
fered by the Great Western, the inhabitants of
Kingston said they would transfer their influence
and patronage from the second to the first. The
directors of the South-Western, in fact, pledged
.themselves to recommend- a' new line to the share-
holders; air* he 'believed that the feeling in Podia-
nAti was that a promise had been -giTen and that
the honour of the company was at Stake, so that if
they attempted to withdraw from this part of their
act the whole legislation of their projects would he
endangered. This was the Teeling of Mr. Schole-
field, the chairman of the committee. :;)
Sergeant GAZELEE, who sat at thedirectors' table
rose and said he was glad that the threat held forth'
by' Mr. Schoelfield had oeen brought before the
meeting. He was proud to say that he was in a
minority'of dne in the board of directors on this
question. He was opposed to forcing a bill down
the throats of the shareholders. If they were
bouna to follow the course indicated by Mr. Tite,
it was a useless step for them to come there at all.
He (Mr. Serjeant Gazelee) would not exert his in-
fluence, small as it might be, in the coercion of the
company.
The amendment being put to the meeting was
lost; and thh Original carried.
The other bills were also approved by the meet-
ting, after a discussion which lasted nearly three
hours.

A Report on the Defences , could scarcely con-
tain.anything else than projects and estimates for
the improvement of the existing defences, such as
they are, wherever they are, and whatever their
purpose, But it so happens that our existing de-
fences are peculiar in all these respects. This ap-
pears in a remark of the Commissioners, that the
Castle and Citadel of Dover are the, only instances
of a regular fortified position in these isles. The
truth is that all our defences are just such as
would he chosen by a naval Power that had not
till lately anticipated invasion, that knew-nothing
of the march of armies over its own soil, that had
its mind full of attacks-by sea, and only imagined a
landing for the purpose of taking a maritime for-
tress in the rear. Mre have none of those chains
of fortresses which mark, for example, the whole
frontier of Franee.from the German Ocean to the
Mediterranean.. „With the exception of Weedon,
a thing of the other day, we have no arsenal except
nefr dockyards. A battle on English soil is as
obsolete an idea as a tournament ; and there never
has been such an event as the siege of an English
fortress constructed on modern principles, though
those principles have been the same for near two
centuries. We cannot imagine England being
conquered or overran ; and, though invasion
panics, we are told, are periodical, and
there have been several in this century, yet
they have entirely failed to make us realise
the idea of an inland campaign, or the capture of
our metropolis. Thus far the facts of the case have
amply justified our security. Ten millions spent on
the fortifications of London sixty years ago. would
have been that much money thrown away, and it
would have represented that much labour in earth-
works and constructions which it would long ago
have been necessary to fill up or raze to the ground.
A century ago we should certainly have had tetes
de
_pont at the Surrey ends of the bridges, arrange-
ments for submerging the Borough and Lambeth,
detached fortresses at Lewisham and Camberwell-
grove, and a dozen other places. These would long
ago have been surrounded by property too valuable
to be left to a foe, or to be levelled for the play of
our guns. So far it is fortunate we have kept to our
insular notions, and have not blindly imitated con-
timental fortifications. But, of course, it must
always be a question how long we may continue to
rely on the salt ditch that surrounds us. May we
trust a constant tradition that has hitherto proved
right ? Or is it possible that a time may arrive
when the very character of the island shall be
changed, when, in truth, it will cease to be an island
to all practical purposes, and when we shall have
to consult our safety and independence by the same
means as are found necessary in continental
States ?

These are questions that must be answered be-
fore we make up our minds either to fortify the
metropolis or to leave it open as now. The
Royal Commission, faithful to their instructions,
do not make the metropolis prominent in their
Report. Their instructions only allude to the me-
tropolis, and their Report does little more. But
it is worth while to consider what the Commis-
sioners take for granted, or suppose, in their report.
They suppose an invasion in considerable force;
they suppose the possibility of a landing on any
part of 300 miles out of 750, between the Humber
and the Land's-end ; they suppose this near enough
to threaten Portsmouth or Dover from the land
side. They take for granted that if a sufficient force
were landed in Sussex or in Kent, it would push
on, not toward fortresses bristling with guns, and
containing nothing but men and ships and munitions
of war, but for the metropolis, and that it would
advance thither with all possible speed. They take
for granted that the enemy would take possession
of it, if possible, and hold it as a hostage for the
acquirement of any terms they might fled it con-
venient to advance ; and that we should have no
choice but to accede to their terms, however costly.
Justifying themselves on certain alleged outrages
of our own armies and fleets against foreign capitals
and ports, and against the public buildings, the
monuments, and national property, the enemy
might either do fearful damage or extort an im•
mense ransom, or demand the destruction of our
navy and arsenals, in the very terms, perhaps,
of the Treaty of Paris, when Russia was the
criminal. The possession of London, without a
siege, will produce the same disasters as the
siege and capture of Portsmouth or Plymouth.
We are only taking the supposition of the Com-
missioners. They reason as most people would
do on their premises. They show a decided
leaning to the fortification of the metropolis,
though not, qualified by their instructions to re-
commend more than the defence of Woolwich. But
even this 'appears to have been abandoned by Go-
vernment. The defence of the metropolis is too vast
an affair for consideration just now, and, as 'the
whole is too much to be handled at once, even
Woolwich is to be abandoned.
This omission of London from the works to be
recommended to Parliament is not only a disappoint-
ment, if we may use so strong a word, to the public ;
I it is not only a mutilation of the report ; it is in
the very face of the suppositions and arguments on
which the report is based. It will then devolve upon
those who bring the report before the notice of Par-
liament, and recommend the works to carry it out,
to explain at the same time why the metropolis is
omitted. No doubt they will have much to say.
They ought indeed when every military man " pooh-
poohs" the idea of fortifying the metropolis, as nei-
ther possible nor necessary. The reason for this
opinion should, at all events, be stated. Should it
be convincing or overpowering; should it appear
that forts and an enciente round the metropolis, of
any kind, at any distance, would be a mere waste
of money and an idle pomp of defiance, then arises
the question, whether the immense circuit of de-
fences proposed for the great harbours, dockyards,
and arsenals, be not also a waste of money. The
argument that the defence of the metropolis is too
great an affair to be taken in hand just now cuts
both ways. It is 'great because the stake is
great ; and to omit it for this reason would be
much as if a man would not insure his mansion
because he could not afford it, or could not sup-
pose so great a calamity as that he should
ever be burnt out, at the very time that he was in-
suring his farm-buildings, his stacks, his cattle, and
his ships out at sea. The loss of the dockyards will
not necessarily involve the loss of the metropolis,
but the loss of the latter will involve the loss of
everything else; so, at least, the Commissioners
seem to take for granted, and the experience of all
modern wars leads to the same conclusion. The
loss of the capital disarms and paralyzes the whole
empire. Why need we go further than the recent
events in Sicily ? Garibaldi lands a handful of men
in a mercantile port ; establishes himself in the in-
terior ; marches upon Palermo, descends upon it by
mountain roads, and, after a few hours' fighting, is
master not only of the Sicilian capital, but, in effect,
of the whole island. He is able to compel the capi-
tulationrr
o time. It
other ports and cities is only an
soldiers.
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doubtsre men t
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t2ho,ea fosoauCt Neapolitan
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edero ft e
' is true that there are circumstances that
render the successful invasion of this isle immensely
t
difficult. But we are supposing
an invasion
from a k Portsmouth or Chatham
nsely
morewould
side,to attack
even holding the heights
ron
between London and Rochester. The works to be
gt the n Caungdh
then,
recommended to Parliament will embrace the latter
supposition and proceed upon it. Can we,en,
overlook altogether the case of the metropolis . If
we can, let us know why. If, on the other hand,
there is no substantial difference between the case
of London and Portsmouth, or London and Chatham,
then why spend so many millions upon works which
will leave the chief thing undone I)—Times.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—June 14.

THAMES —A respectable-looking mechanic,
named William Downman, aged 40, of 1, Thomas-
street, Devonport-street, Ratcliff, applied to the
magistrate for a recommendation for a passport to
France.

Mr. Selfe—What is your object in going there ?
Downman replied that he was going to Cher-
boUrg to seek work there as a shipwright.
Mr. Selfe said he had been informed by persons
of high degree, and who were entitled to credit, that
no work could be obtained for English workmen in
the French arsenals and dockyards, in fact that no
Englishracn were permitted to work in them.
Downnian said he knew that several men who
had gene to Cherbourg bad obtained work there.
Mr. Selfe—How did you learn that ?
Downman—l have seen a letter from an Eng-
lish shipwright I knew well in London, giving a
goOd account of Cherbourg, and of his having ob-
tained employment in the dockyard there.
Mr. Selfe—The letter may be a forgery.
Downman—No, sir, I know the handwriting.
The man says he has Bs. per day and the working
hours are less than they were here.
Mr. Selfe said he had signed other recommenda-
tions for passports for working men about to pro-
ceed to France, and he had asked them to write to
him, and hoped they would do so, and dispel the
doubts which existed.

Downnian, in answer to further questions, said
he had been chief carpenter's mate on board the
man-of-war Cossack, and had obtained no work
since he was discharged from ber.
. Mr. Selfe—Where are your papers ?
Downman—Here they are, sir (producing a
bundle).

Mr. Selfe, having examined the papers, said they
were very satisfactory, and granted a recommenda-
tion for a passport in the usual form.

GREENWICH.—MichaeI Quinn, a cooper, re-
siding at Rotherhithe, appeared to a summons, be-
fore Mr. Traill, charged with assaulting John.
Davidson, a mechanic, in the employ of Mr. Camp-
bell, cooper, of Queen-street, Rotherhithe.
Mr. Sadgrove, who appeared for the prosecution,
said that although the defendant was merely sum-
moned for an assault, the case was one of some public
importance, arising out of a strike which had taken
place among the workmen in the employ of Mr.
Campbell, the defendant being one of the principals
in the strike, although earning as much as from £5
to £6 per week. In consequence of the strike, Mr.
Campbell had been obliged to proceed to Scotland
and engage other men, since whieh time he had not
only been subjected to great annoyance and intimi-
dation, but also the men who had been newly en-
gaged. He then called
Mr. T. J. Campbell, who said he was a cooper,
carrying on business in Queen-street, Rotherhithe.
He had about 200 men in his employ, among .whom
were 120 Irishmen, the whole of whom, a short
time since, struck in a body, their earnings, at that
time, ranging from £2 to between £5 and £6 per
week on piece-work. In consequence of this strike
he proceeded to Scotland, engaged other workmen,
and paid their passage to this country. Since that
time there had been great excitement in the neigh-
bourhood, and witness had to obtain the attendance
of
,the police outside his works to prevent violence
towards himself and men.
John Davidson said he was in the employ of Mr.
Campbell, having come from Scotland in search of
employment, hearing that others had been engaged.
About 10 o'clock on Saturday night he (complainant)
was in the Watermen's Arms beer-shop, Trinity-
street, Rotherhithe, and while conversing about
Scotland the defendant's wife came in and said

" Go home to Scotland, you lousy ;;gacOnds."
She then went out, and about a minute afterwards
defendant came in and said something about his
wife being interfered with, and instantly struck
him a violent blow with his fist between the eyes.
Robert Left, landlord of the Watermen's Arms,
corroborated this statement partially, saying he
had no doubt the last witness was struck by de-
fendant, but he did not see the blow struck.

CRYSTAL PALACE.—The annual grand festival of
the Metropolitan School Choral Society, numbering 5,000
voices, will take place on Saturday, in the great orchestra,
under the direction of Mr. G. W. Martin, prize glee com-
poser. The programme will contain several part songs for
three and four trebles, each part being supported by 1,000
•
treble voices.

. _
William Collier, foreman in the employ of Mr.
Campbell, said he was present at the time the
assault was committed by defendant, who remarked,
after striking the blow, " Why don't you go back
to Scotland, and not come here to rob honest men of
their bread ?"
The defendant said that he had no witnesses
to call, but alleged that his wife was being abused
by men in the house when he interfered.
Mr. Traill expressed regret at seeing a body of
men, among whom was the defendant, who were
capable and had the opportunity of earning
such a
high rate of wages as that spoken to out on strike.
The defendant had, in a cunning manner, attempted
to make it appear that it was in consequence of his
efrcetenbde
ye;
as-
sault ; but for this there was, in fact, no foundation
whatever ; and here he (Mr. Traill) might remark
wife being abused that he had committed the
that the law concerning intimidation would apply
equally to ,women as to men. Until some of the
hwweao
srhkamd afraideon of
wbneeorgeggsarereniantt
beggaring
to g prisonhooimd
swelofuf olardntahb eeseeffo
however great a right the defendant might think
conduct, he had no right whatever family
to seek to deter
others from following th • airoffences, he
such
employment. In the
present case he should impose fine of
._a 4os., or one
month's imprisonment for the assault committed,
and in addition should
find bail to be require him (defendant) to
of good behaviour for the next six
months.
The prisoner was then removed in custody..

Tilv.
EXTRAORDINARY CASE OF PROSELYTL SM.-
The interest excited in Norfolk by the extraordinary at-
tempt at pi•oselytism developed before the Norwich linagis-
trates on Monday is very great. On the close of the Rnvesti-
gation on Monday, Master Vansittart was re-comm itted to
the guardianship of the Rev. Mr. Hodgson, at Rac sheath,
and a warrant for the apprehension, if possible, of the
"Italian priest," was placed in the hands of the si aperin-
tendent of the Norwich police. On Wednesday e• retying,
Master Vansittart was directed, by telegram, to Ip'coceed
with all expedition to town, for the purpose of id,air tifying
a person supposed to be Giugini. The young ger Aleman
accordingly left Norwich by the first available trod n. The
result of his journey to the metropolis ,liad not; taruisinr
up to a late biour yesterday.

THE SUN.
LONDON, FRIDAY, JUNE 15, 1860.

Let no one say that the days of romance and
mystery are over in Old England. Still there wan-
der about our isle beings whose form may not be
seen ; whose voice may issue forth only from the
secrecy of shady coverts ; who can shift their pre-
sence, no one knows how or when, from the shores
to the centre of our land ; who can present them-
selves, incognito, to the youth of our aristocracy,
now amid the fashionable loungers and laughers of
Brighton, and now almost two hundred miles away
in the sylvan retirement of a country clergyman's
parsonage garden, a few miles from the ancient
capital of Norfolk ; who can touch the sensibilities
of lads of sixteen, when the bat and ball, and birds'
nests are the usual attractions, with tender longings
for the bosom of the Catholic Church ; who can
make them truants for the seven Sacraments and
the POPE'S supremacy and the mystic powers of
the Apostolic priesthood, when others would be
truants for sport alone ; who can induce them to
take solemn oaths of secrecy upon relics ; and who
can make them believe that to run away from the
charge of the parent's representative is all " for
the glory of GOD."
These half-romantic, half-poetic facts came forth
under the most prosaic process, some account of
which we gave yesterday, in a legal preliminary
examination before the Norwich magistrates. It
was the old story of fact stranger than fiction. On
Saturday last the clergyman, Mr. HODGSON, of the
village of Rackheath, about four miles from Nor-
wich, is met in the city by a (Roman Catholic)
Canon DALTON, and informed by him, before he
asked any questions, that the lad of whom he was in
search was at a Mr. BEHA'S, a watchmaker ! But
how came the Rev. Jesuit Canon to know this ?
It appears that last Saturday, early in the morn.
ing, between 5 and 6 o'clock, the boy had quitted
Mr. HODGSON'S abode, and had made for the chapel
Where Canon DALTON officiated. The latter saw
him, tapped at the window, beckoned him in, gave
him a glass of wine, and after.wards some breakfast,
and heard his story.
And the story must have been one which deeply
touched the Canon's heart, and stirred him to do
something "
for the glory of God." He saw in him
a youth• persecuted in his tender age for love of the
Apostolic Church, and longing to escape from
the custody of a low church Protestant father,
and of the tutor and governor appointed by
his father. So deeply touched at the time was the
Canon's heart that the lad having no money, and
p
the Canon being in nearly as deep Apostolic
verty, for he said " money was scarce," he actuallo-
y
took the lad to BEHA'S, a good Catholic watch-
maker, who would not, like an English one, bethink
himself of the police, and through him got 15s. for
him, for a watch worth 455., and half-a•erown
and generously, out
Afterwards for A pencil-case,