The Sun.
London, England, 1860-11-26 00:00:00

ALLEGED INDECENT ASSAIILT.

A respectably-dreessed man named Lock, an engraver,
carrying on business in the Old- jewry, surrendered to an
indictment charging him with indecently assaulting Eliza-
beth Webb, aged 13 years. The prisoner pleaded not
guilty.
Mr. Sleigh appeared for the proscution, and Mr. Met-
calf defended the prisoner. _

The evidence in this case appeared at length in Th. Sun
while the prisoner was under examination before the ma-
gistrate at Guildhall. The prosecutrix, it will be remem-
bered, was the daughter of a working engraver, who was
occasionally employed by the prisoner, and she sometimes
took home work for her father. On one of these occasions
the prosecutrix alleged that the prisoner had indecently
assaulted her. The parents of the child gave the prisoner
into custody on the charge, which he entirely denied, and
said it was an attempt to extort money from him.
Witnesses fur the defence were being examined when we
went to press.

POLICE INTELLIGERCE--(THIS DAY.)

MARLBOROUGH STREET.

Ax EXPENSIVE DRIVE.—Two respectable-looking men,
named Thomas Acklam and James Powell, were charged
with being drunk and furiously driving and smashing a
cab, and injuring the driver of the same.
Mr. Edward Lewis, of Great Marlborough-street, ap-
peared for the defendants.
From the evidence of Coomber, a cab driver, badge 3,2513,
it appeared that while going up the hill of Piccadilly the
defendants, who were in a light gig, coming down the hill
at the rate of 12 miles an hour, their horse galloping, came
into collision with his cab, knocking him (Coomber) off the
box into the road, rendering him insensible and smashing
the cab almost to rieces, besides injuring the gig; the de-
fendants being at the time on the wrong side of the way,
and not sober.

Evidence being given in support of the case by a witness
named Bolton, and also by Herring, a constable, who
proved the defendants drunk,
The owner of the cab said the damage done was quite to
the amount of £2O, the cab being all to pieces, and the cab
having only recently cost £25.
Acklam said he had only borrowed the gig of a friend
for a drive, and it was much injured.
Fined £2 each, for the wilful damage ; the owner being
left to seek his remedy in the County Court.

THAMES. •
STEALING SUGAR, FROM THE LONDON DOCK.—Mat-
thew Bunnly, a well-dressed boy, aged 13 years, whose
parents reside at 7, St. Peter's-road, Mile-end, was brought
before Mr. Yardley, charged with stealing 7lbs. of sugary
the property of the London Dock Company.
Edward Ellis, a gatekeeper in the employ of the dock
company, said the prisoner was leaving the dock on Satur-
day afternoon soon after five o'clock, and he stopped him
and searched him, and found a canvas bag in his trou-
sers which contained 7lbs. of sugar, OA value of which
was 2s. The sugar was Veit ingeniously concealed in
front of the'prisoner's body, and covered over with his coat.
The prisoner, in defence, said that he was told by some
one that if he took some sugar out of any of the hogsheads
in the dock he should net be touched. He found a
hogshead of sugar open in a 'warehouse, and filled a bag

with some.
Mr. Yardley—
Who told
.ytou? that you could steal sugar
out of the dock with impum y
boy named Healey, who has gone out
in Hotspur. It is the first time,
s
sir, I ever did it.
Tthhee prhii;oner-L—A.
tfr. Yardley-1 hope it is. Are the parents of the boy
here °
The :nether of the lad stepped forward, and said she gave
her coent to her son going into the dock to look for a
ship. ns A
Ontleman had promised to engage him and send
him to sea.
Mr. Yardley—This is a very bad beginning, indeed.
The merchant service will not have pilferers. I know
that captains of ships will net engage thieves. Honest
boys of good character only are admitted into the merchant
service.

Mr. Yardley—The prisoner ought to know better. lam
sorry he has not been taught better. I am afraid he has
not been well taught, or he would not have gone into the
dock. His father has been an officer appointed to detect
offenders, and here is his son pilfering. I shall fine him
10s. on this occasion for the unlawful possession of the
sugar. If he is brought here again, and convicted oil;f a
similar offence, he will go to sea in a way the will not;
k
—in the reformatory ship, Cornwall.

SIR PETER FAIRBAIRN,—We are Oar' to ar,
says the Leeds Intelligeneer of Saturday, that this ge tle-
man's health has improved during the week. Sir etor
continuos in a very weak mayfle state, but there
le more ground for hoping that eventually recover.

•

THE G.IRIB.ILDIAN VOLUNTEERS.

Colonel Peard has addressed the following letter
to the editor of the Daily News :
Sir,—Nothing is more annoying to me than to be dragged
'before the public, particularly in a newspaper controversy.
Bat as your correapendent, Mr. Lando'. Praed, has made.
a persoual attack upon me in connexion with the affairs of,
tho British volunteers, in your paper of the 6th instant, I
feel obliged to reply to it.
•Let me premise what I have to say by declaring that I had
nothing whatever to do with the appointment of the officer
who was sent to England to recruit, and that he was no
agent of mine, as your correspondent asserts. I think, in
company with some other English in the service of the
Italian army. that I signed an address inviting our coun-
trymen to join us in the great cause in which we were em-
barked; if I did so, your correspondent is welcome to make
the most of it he can; bat Capt. Styles was not appointed
by me. All I knew of him was that I was introduced to
Mini at Genoa as an English officer late of tha Fusilier
Guards, for so 1 was informed he represented himself. I
never saw him again until he cattle with Colonel Dunne's
regiment to the position we were then holding before Me-
lazzo, fur during the intermediate time he had been in the
American clipper which was detained by the Neapolitan
Government at Gaeta. Nor did I ever hear anything
more of him until after my arrival at Naples, and being
appointed by the Dictator to take the command of the
brigade on its arrival, when the two letters I received from
members of the committee in London spoke of his "in-
competence," "extravagance," and "dishonesty," "which
would doubtless form the subject of inquiry on his arrival
at head-quarters." Nor was he the only person whose
honesty was called in question in the letters I received
Your correspondent asserts that " the expenses in-
curred on the part of the legion, not by the com-
mittee, but by agents sent by Colonel Peard and his
colleagues, were £15,000, &c." I again repeat that
neither Captain Styles, nor any other person, was an agent
of mine. Some members of the committee wrote that Cap-
tain do Rohan had, in consequence of the incompetence of
Captain Styles, taken the management of affairs. Captain
de Rohan was not my agent, nor did I know he was in
England until I received the intimation from those letters.
One word more as to agents. I had sent none, for one
simple reason, that until I received from General Garibaldi
himself, about Sept. 20, the intelligence that he had ap.
pointed me to command the brigade, I had no more idea
that I was to command it than your correspondent himself.
It was given by the general without any solicitation on my
part, and was totally unexpected by me.
As to stopping the payment of Messrs. Isaacs' claims, it
was solely done that the accounts might be verified. I
told Mr. Isaacs so ; that there was no doubt expressed as
to the honesty of his account, but that until the arrival of
the brigade, and that his claim had been examined and com-
pared with the vouchers and quartermaster's accounts of
articles received, he as a tradesman must know that he
ought not to require payment from the Government. I had
never previously seen Mr. Isaacs, but from what I can
judge he is a straightforward man, and had he been left to
himself I believe a great deal of unnecessary trouble would
have been saved.

Captain de Rohan telegraphed to me, " Pay nothing ; do
nothing till I come." He did not arrive here till some
week or ten days after the brigade. I heard of his arrival
from Mr. Arrowsmith, the owner of the Melazzo, when at
the advanced posts before Capua, and sent him a note by
that gentleman to say I would call on him when I could
manage to get to Caserta. A morning or two after I had
occasion to go to see the Dictator, on duty. 'Whilst wait
ing in the ante-rows SOlllO one remarked that ho was in the
room. I turned round and saw him about three paces from
me. I addressed him, when he immediately turned round
and walked off. HeVterwards told everyone that I refused
to speak to him. The chairman of the committee wrote me
that Captain de Rohan had all accounts and vouchers with
him. He has never shown noroffered to show me anything.
Aud I further beg to state that Major Vecehi, who was an-
th,:rised as well as myself to examine the accounts, com-
plains that Captain de Rohan would keep no appointment
made with him, or produce any documents for his inspec-
tion, or account for sums paid to him by Mr. Ashurst.
I am not going to take shelter under the acts of my
mili-
tary secretary. Any responsibility rests solely with me. I
believe Lieut. Seymour has acted in everything as a man of
honour. It has suited parties whose honesty is questionable
to malign him, but he must fight his own battle. One
assertion alone I will allude to, viz , that he has reported
that ....20,000 had been subscribed in Glasgow. The first
intimation I have bad of such a subscription is contained
in your correspondent's letter. I certainly have heard from
many quarters that £2,700 was sent by the liberality of the
people of Glasgow.
As to my advertisement to the treasurers I cannot see
how it can excite any feelings of indignation in their minds
or that of any honest men. It was the only means I had of
communicating with gentlemen with whose names and re-
sidences I was unacquainted.

With regard to Mr. Isaacs' account, I forgot to mention,
w 1 at will prove that inquiry was not unnecessary, that. his
claim was for the equipment of 1,000 men, whereas'ouly
660 arrived iu Naples.—l am, &c.,
J. W. PEARD, Colonel-Brigadier.
Naples, Nov. 16.

The following letter from an eye-witness,
condemnatory of Colonel Peard's conduct, we
extrsct from the 'Manchester Guardian :
Sir,—ln your leading article upon the British Legion in
your to-day's impression you make a statement which is
slightly calculated to mislead your readers. You state
that when the men were ordered out by Colonel Peard to
attack Capua you were informed by an eye-witness that
Captain Styles, the officers, and men very sensibly refused
to obey his commands. Now, by the word " men " being
used it will naturally be inferred that the whole of the men
were ordered out upon this madcap expedition ; but as one
who has just returned from among the brave fellows out
there, I beg to inform you that such was not the case. I
did not keep a diary out there, and I am consequently un-
able to give the date of this affair, but upon the night is
question the whole of the left wing of the battalion, and,
with the exception of Captain Styles's company (to which I
had the honour to belong), the 6th and, I think, the ith
companies, the right wing also, were on picket duty and
could not leave their posts, so that when we were roused
from our straw beds at 10 30 p.m. (I remember the hour
distinctly for I looked at my watch) we found we numbered
92 men. We all of course thought that additional sentinels
were wanted on the picket, but were soon informed to the
contrary, for we were ordered to fall in without blankets,
simply arm and accoutrements. Being ordered to observe
a strict silence we were then marched the whole length of
the camp, past all the outposts, and when we had pro-
ceeded some distance, were halted, and immediately the
colonel commenced to address us, aid it was very evident
to every man present that ho was not in a fit state to have
the:command of men, and especially in such a perilous posi-
tion as we were in ; in fact, it was the unanimous opinion
of all present that he was in a state of intoxication, and I
can most certainly say for myself that I never heard any
one talk more like a drunken man in my life. What he
wanted us down there for, at least so few of us,
not exactly understand from what he said.
e felt proud
Friday, and
by informing us that the General was much pleased commencedased by our
gallant conduct on the preceding
that he commanded us (more than
any of us could say of
him), and was glad that we had done so much honour to
Old England, and then he commencedt to tell us what ho
one as, any w
I was not, nor do I think any
wanted done ; but I must confess het when he
w had finish
iser
ed
the very walls of the town
the bank of the Volturno,
hadthanh
wrhenenghhte,b2ecen;
übuntdewre had some faint idea that he
almostanthde
wished
surpriaeication with our camp that way. lle
go
also very candidly informed us that he had forgotten his
t o
sentries, and pull a bridgedoWn too
across the river and
so stop any communication
apparatus for so doing, but had sent back for it. Now, this
was all very well if the whole of the battalion had been
present, but the men reasoned among themselves in this
strain ; they said—" Suppose we go and do this thing or
attempt to do so, and an alarm is raised and they rush down
upon us from the town, with what success can we, hand-
ful of men, repel the attack ?" With none at all. We
should not be able to make a stand, and should be sacri-
ficed to a man ; and consequently, when they had been
marched a little further and halted they, as you observe,
very sensibly refused to move on again, and I don't think
we should have moved on after the first halt had not the
officers addressed their men, telling them to have confi-
dence in them. Captain Styles came to us and said—
" Now, boys, confide in me and I will see that you are not
led on too far;" thus showing the great confidence he
had had in the officer in command. At the second halt
we stood still for about half an hour, and were then ordered
two
back to our quarters, where we arrived shortly after
a.m. Such, sir, is the truthful account of the affair,
ai and
is, in my opinion, the most scandalous
in Colonel
that the British
you might not be led away with the ifdoear
I can assure you
Peard's command. I have written you passage
lgeettr so that
Legion had refused to obey ordersi,,
and it is lament-
ableowed
to break up on
account of bad treatment and negthat a braver set of fellows never (nistedsi,
to think that they have beenl
ec
t
but I am sure no
one will blame a few of that Legirefusing to rush on
to certain death.—l am, sir, yours,
jos. DUNNE, Ex. Corporal B.L.
November 23, 1860.
Novera
33, Princess •street,
evonbediently,

:servelvic
rietrshe
os
fpmcoocurr-e.
mADAmE m 4 ist
121-c.runtTg. -'The Neapolitan
Madame
hae eveaapli:olialabirtilaoe
hospital of San Sebastian, says—" In
what category shall p
than the spirit of a man, she has manifested all the endu-
rance and self-sacrifice of a woman. On the night of the
tdaeinnt persona Tinntehse
Ist Oct., I have it from officers, she made 14 trips to St.
Angel°, exposed to great danger, to bang off the wounded.
For upwards of 38 hours she never took off her clothes. Her
only fault has been that she has attempted too much, er-
haps. All the small birds are pecking at her, mainlyper-
haps,
cause she is a Republican; but to say nothing of the
incon-
sistency of this in persons who talk loudly about libet of
opinion, what connection there is between her political
principles and her humanity and energy I
I am strongly opposed to her in her political
erwost,
and d divine'
i shene
knows it, but truth and justice require me to say that she
has deserved well of Italy, and has th‘va tumour to her own
country."

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