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London, England, 1860-04-11 00:00:00

IRE' 7- SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENINGII APRIL 11, 1860.

to tho duties for which this meeting has been

called.
Mr. WESTERTON-Thq7 sir, I understand you
as chairman will not alit:y.4llle, upon the occasion
of electing churchwardens, to put an)- question as
to the application of the offertory money. (Hear.)
The CHAIRMAN—You may understand what you
please. (" Oh, oh.") If you recognise my autho-
rity as chairman you will not proceed to put ques-
tions which I have decided to be irrelevant to the

business of the meeting ; and if you are not pre-
pared to abide by my decision, I will at once leave
the chair, for I assure you it is a position which I
have no ambition to fill. (Hear, hear, and a voice—
" That is what you always do.")
A PARISHIONER-4 submit that it is a question
for the meeting to decide whether the questions are
irrelevant or not. (" No, no, for the chair.")
Mr. WESTERTON—Put it to the meeting whether
the questions should be asked. (" No, no," and
" Yes.")
The CHAIRMAN—I have no question to put to the
meeting. If you will not abide by my decision—
if you will not abide by my authority—l will resign
the chair. (Cheers and laughter.)
A PARISIIONER—YOU always do.
The CHAIRMAN—Yes, because I have no ambi-
tion to take part in these unseemly contentions.

(" Oh, oh.")
A VOICE—We shall have a second St. George's-
in-the-East here soon.
Mr. WESTERTON—I hold that it is for the chair-
man to put it to the meeting whether my questions
are irrelevant or not. ("No, no," " Yes, yes," and
a gentleman in a -very excited tone, " I beg your
pardon, it is no such thing.")
The CHAIRMAN—If you will not abide by my
authority as chairman I will leave the chair—say
are you willing to abide by my authority or not ?
Mr. WESTERTON—Yes, if you will put it to the
meeting. (Cheers, and " Oh, oh.")
A PARLMIONER—If the chairman is honest he
will answer the question ; if not, we shall know
what to think.
Another PARISHIONER—HoId your tongue ; you
are a Dissenter.
Other PARTSTITONER—HoId your tongue.
are you
The interruption and noise was here repeated,
and the chairman failing to restore order, rose, put
on his hat, and was about to leave, when
Mr. ex-Churchwarden HALL rose and proceeded
to address the meeting. Having obtained a hearing,
he said that when churchwardens were elected that
was the proper time to discuss the receipts and ex-
penditure connected with the parish church, and
when all legitimate questions having reference
thereto should be freely put and as freely answered.
(Hear.) If Mr. Liddell would not answer the ques-
tions which had been put, the natural conclusion
which people would draw was that there was some-
thing wrong in the matter. (Loud cheers.) He
wished to make some remarks upon the occurrences
which had taken place since he undertook the office
of churchwarden.
The CHAIRMAN—I beg your pardon, but will you
allow me to ask whether you rise for the purpose of
nominating some person for the office of church-
warden or net ? (Oh !)
Mr. HALL—Yes, I do. (Hear.)
The CHAIRMAN—Then I must request you to
confine yourself to that motion and to speak to the
point. (Cries of " Oh," " Shame," " Hear," and
cheers.)
Mr. HALL would do so, if the chairman would not
interrupt him. (Hear.) Since he (Mr. Hall) had
been in office he had always endeavoured to act in
a conciliatory spirit, which the chairman had ad-
mitted. But the result had been the same in his
case as in that of Mr. Westerton—the more conci-
liation he had shown the more extravagant had
been the conduct of the clergy of the parish, and
the more determinedly had they gone on in the course
of Romanising the people. If he had not had a
strong mind and a strong nerve to resist them dur-
ing his year of office, he should himself have been
handed over body and soul to the Papal church.
(Laughter, and cries of " Hear, hear," and
Shame.") When he saw the whole of the clergy
of the parish fully prepared and determined to
carry out the principles and practices of the Jesuits
—when he saw things which made the blood
boil within the breasts of all who possessed any-
thing of the heart and the soul which ani-
mated our great Protestant reformers—it was high
time they should take steps to resist these aggres-
sions upon our Protestant religion—these advances
towards Popery which had of late been renewed
and extended, and were still being carried on.
(Interruption. A Voice—" Tell us what they are ;"
and cries of " Question," " Order," and " Chair.")
The CHAIRMAN—I must entreat you to reserve
these remarks to some appropriate occasion, and
confine yourselves to the proper business of the
meeting.
Several PARISHIONERS—Go on; now is the time.
Mr. HALL resumed—Many present would re-
member the conversion. to Popery of two young
clergymen of the parish ; young men who, he be-
lieved, were honestly inquiring after truth,'-hiit
who, having been imbued with Puseyite principles
at Oxford, unfortunately came to that parish as
curates, when, under the system of teaching they
received. They found the course towards the doc-
trines of Popery easy and natural; and ono after
the other had gone over. (Cries of " Shame,"
" Order," and cheers.)
The CHAIRMAN again interfered—This had no-
thing to do with the election of churchwarden.
(" Hear, hear," and " Oh, oh.") He might observe,
however, that one of the persons referred to by Mr.
Hall had never been at Oxford. (" Well, it was at
Cambridge.") If they would obey his authority
as chairman he would remain in the chair, if not
he would leave. (Hear, hear.)
Mr. HALL must persevere in making a statement
which he considered germane to the business upon
which they were assembled. (Cheers.) He had
in his hand a list of the perverts from the Church of
England, brought about by this teaching of which
he complained, numbering between 200 and 300,
including members of Parliament, peers of the
realm, and people of high station of both sexes.
The CHAIRMAN, rising suddenly—Then I shall
not remain to hear it.
The rev. gentleman here left the chair and the
room, accompanied by his friends, and saluted by
hootings, groanings, hisses, waving of hats, and
cries of " He has gone to St. George's-in-the-East."
Mr. WESTERTON then moved that Mr. Hall
take the chair, which was seconded and carried,
and Mr. Hall presided during the remainder of the
proceedings.
Mr. HALL then proceeded to address the meeting
at very great length, observing that his observa-
tions were not made out of any disrespect to Mr.
Liddell, for when he entered upon his duties he was
desirous of conciliating all parties, but he soon found
that was impossible. Referring, again to the seces-
sion of the two curates, Messrs. Fothergill and
Wormall, he said that he had felt it his duty to
communicate with the Bishop of London on the
subject, and stating his opinion that it was owing
to the system pursued in the churches of St. Paul
and St. Barnabas. The reply was an expression of
regret at the circumstances, and an intimation that
it had already been communicated to him (the
Bishop) by Mr. Liddell. He complained that the
judgment of the Privy Council, ordering the removal
of the crosses and other decorations of the altar in
the parish church of St. Paul's, had been evaded.
Though they had been removed for a time, the
crosses had been recently restored, and were set up
over the communion-table, not upon it—a distinc-
tion without a difference—the super-altar remained,
the embroidered altar cloths were still used, the
bowings and genuflexions still went on, the services
were choral, the candlesticks and candles were there,
and the latter were lighted ; the rood screen re-
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might be easy. The parish had subscribed
nearly £60,000 for church building, of which
about £20,000 had been expended upon the build-
ing over the way (St. Paul's), and nearly .£40,000
upon St. Barnabas, which would only hold about
600 people. (Shame.) He held that this was a
wasteful sacrifice of the funds subscribed by the
people, to the vanity of priests and priestcraft.
(Cheers.) He contended that those who were at
the head of the clergy in that parish were nothing
more nor less than Jesuits; and if they were not
in the pay, they certainly were in league with the
Romish Church. They would never be satisfied
until they had seduced the people from their glorious
Protestant liberty-. (Cheers.) He proceeded to
quote largely from the books used by the clergy of
St. Paul and St. Barnabas, with a view to show
that they taught Romish doctrine. He had no fear
of the middle and lower classes, but he regretted
that many of the higher classes were disposed to
give way to the Jesuitical conspirators who were
finding their way into so many of our parish
churches. (Cheers.) He referred to a list of per-
versions from that district, mentioning, amongst
other names, those of the Countess of Arundel,
Capt. Pakenham, the Duke of Leeds, Lord and'
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articles of clothing, but they did not give any evi-
dence that a crime had been committed. The shirts

were dirty and stained, but the stains had more
the appearance of iron rust than of blood, although
several persons were of the opinion that it *as the

atter.

The general appearance of the vessel, as far as
can be seen, shows that she is very old, and in se-
veral places forward, great seams have opened in
her decks ; still these may have been caused by the
violent collision that she encountered. Her bow-

sprit has been taken out, and lies upon the beach.
Her taffrail at intervals seems broken, and in some

places torn away.
During Sunday and Monday two United States
officers were diligently searching in Jersey City for
John Canoe, the Chinaman, who is supposed to
have murdered Captain Leete and his brother, of
the sloop Spray. The Chinaman went on shore at
Jersey City, about 8 o'clock on Saturday morning,
with Captain Webb, of the schooner Thomas E.
French, and as soon as the yawl-boat came up to
the dock, he sprang ashore, and since that time, up
to yesterday afternoon, no definite information had
been obtained of his movements.

The receding tide yesterday afternoon left the
Spray upon the sandy beach at the south end of the
Battery, a short distance above the Governor's
Island, Ferry dock, and within a stone's throw of
the South Ferry. At 3 o'clock the tide had fallen
sufficiently to admit of a partial examination being
made by the harbour police. A hole large enough
to admit a man's body was discovered on the lar-
board bow, and through this had flowed all the
water found in the vessel. This hole was caused
during the collision between the Spray and Lu-
cinda. By means of boat-hooks the officers hauled
out a sheet which bore unmistakeable marks of blood,
and upon the mattress in the same berth were also
crimson stains. Various articles of ship's stores
were fished up and hauled on deck, but the most
minute and careful search failed to produce a body.
One article after another was hauled upon deck
and carefully examined, with a view of discovering
evidence of crime, but with the exception of the
sheet and mattress above mentioned, nothing was
found with blood stains thereon. Owing to the
quantity of water that still remained in the hold,
it was impossible to get at the articles and freight
therein except by means of boat-hooks, and further
search will be impossible until the water is pumped
out, This, however, cannot be done until the breach
in the bow is closed, or until the Spray shall be
hoisted upon a dry dock.
That a bloody murder has been committed upon
this vessel, there can now bo little doubt, and the
sheets and bedding dabbled with gore serve to
strengthen the probability.
The vessel left here on the 15th inst., in company
with the schooner Gem, the captain of which says
that he parted with her in Norwalk Bay, whither
she headed, with a view, as he supposed, of seeking
a harbour there for the night, as the weather looked
squally. The supposition is that the Chinaman
drugged the tea, thus throwing the captain and his
brother into a deep sleep, and then barbarously mur-
dered them one after the other. On the morning of
the 16th, which was rather foggy, he weighed anchor
and sailed into the Sound, where it was thought he
threw the bodies overboard. It has subsequently
trszspired that John Canoe or Jackalow, as he is
called, piloted the Spray through Hell Gate towards
this city, as he was recognised at the wheel by a
number of pilots, and it was observed that he was
the only man on board.
How the Chinaman managed to get the vessel
outside of Sandy Hook, and away down to Barne-
gat, without assistance or without attracting at-
tention, remains a mystery.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS, April 10.

(Before Mr. Bodkin, Assistant Judge.)

On Monday afternoon an application was made
for the expenses of an attorney and counsel in a case
in which a brief had been delivered for the prosecu-
tion. In answer to the Assistant-Judge as to how
he came to instruct an attorney in the case, the pro-
secutor said he was introduced by some person in
the avenue of the court to another person who said
he was an attorney, and on being told by them that
the prisoner had a counsel to defend him, and that he
(prosecutor) ought to have one on his side, he told
the attorney he had better see to it. The Assistant-
Judge told the prosecutor he must pay the costs
himself, the county was not to be saddled with the
costs of prosecutions so goeup. A parcel of persons
had been in the habit of ranging about the court,
picking up prosecutors, and getting up their cases,
on the speculation of getting the costs allowed by
the court. A great deal of this system had been
done away with, and it was the full determination
of the court to put an end to it altogether. The
magistrates would make further orders upon the
subject if necessary, and they would be strictly er
forced.
John Herbert; 41, was indicted for stealing a
quantity of solder value 4s. Bd., the property of
James Mugford Macey, his master. He pleaded
guilty. Bryan Martin, 54, a marine store dealer,
was indicted for feloniously receiving the same.
He pleaded not guilty.
Mr. Way was counsel for the prosecution ; Mr.
bton defended Martin.

The prisoner Herbert was in the employment of
the prosecutor, Mr. Macey, of Milford-wharf, Strand,
and, from information given to the police, a watch
was kept upon him, and he was observed by Holmes,
F, to leave with something bulky under his clothes.
He was followed to a marine store shop in Ship-
yard, kept by the other prisoner. It being early in
the morning, the door was not opened, nor were
the shutters down, but the prisoner, after knocking,
was admitted, and soon after came out and went
into a publichouse, and was taken into custody, and
Martin, after repeatedly denying that he had bought
anything of the man, admitted that he had, and
produced two lumps of solder from a fireplace, and
on his shop being searched eight other pieces were
found, which were identified as Mr. Macey's pro-
perty.
Tie jury found him guilty.
The Court sentenced him to two years' hard la-
bour, and Herbert to one year.
John Connolly, 30, was indicted for having stolen
a watch, value £2O, the property of J. H. Stinson,
from his person.
Mr. Gent prosecuted; Mr. Ribton defended the
prisoner.
The prosecutor was a Canadian gentleman who
had been some time in London, and it appeared that
one night, some time after 12 o'clock, he and a
friend went to the King's Head publichouse, Crown-
street, St. Ann's, and while there the subject of
prize-fighting and sparring was brought up, and the
prosecutor, though he disclaimed all pretension to
practical knowledge of the matter, sparred with a
man who was there and who said he was a member
of the ring. Prisoner was there, and prosecutor hav-
ing missed his watch from his waistcoat pocket, he
looked and distinctly saw it in prisoner's hand, and
it was passed over the partition. He seized prisoner
who said he would get the watch back if he were not
given in charge, but rather than tell who had it he
would suffer 10 years' penal, or have his throat cut.
The watch had not been recovered. _

The prisoner was found guilty, and it was proved
that he had been convicted of felony, and in the
last six months had been twice in custody for rob-
beries with violence.

The policeman said the house where this occurred
had been very well conducted, and he had never
known it open so late as on this occasion, but it had
recently changed hands. Formerly it was always
closed at 12 or 1 o'clock.

The Assistant•judge said the prisoner was evi-
dently one of a class of dangerous persons from
whom it was the duty of the Court to protect the
public, and sentenced the prisoner to three years'
penal servitude.
William Hart, 31, sawyer, was indicted for hav-
ing stolen three " sticks" of timber, value £36, the
property of John Fletcher and another.
Sir. Metcalfe was counsel for the prosecution ;
Mr. Cooper appeared for the prisoner.
The prosecutors are shipbuilders at Union Dock,
Limehouse, and it appeared that a float of red pine
timber, used in the construction of spars and masts,
was moored off their premises, and on the evening
of the Ist of March they were lashed together, two
chains having been added to the ordinary fasten-
ings, as a greater security against their getting
adrift. On the following morning soon after six
o'clock, it was discovered that three had been re-
moved from the middle of the float, which consisted
of 16 pieces altogether. The three missing pieces
seemed to have been taken up the river with the
tide, and floated into a dock on the Regent's Canal,
where the prisoner was ultimately found dealing
with them. He paid the lock dyes, had the pro-
perty removed to opposite a timber yard, and sold
them for £l3 15s. to Mr. Heath, a builder in
Bishopsgate. There was nothing in the evidence
to connect the prisoner with the actual taking of
the wood from the prosecutors' premises, but it was
proved that he had been in their service, and was
perfectly well acquainted with all about the place,
and the only account he gave his possession of
it was, that he bought it of a 1. Gurney for £l2,
arid produced a stamped receipt to that effect, but
he could give no clue to where any such person
would be found, and in fact no such person was
known. The prisoner absented himself after the
sale of the timber to Mr. Heath,. until the 20th of
Mar eh, when he went to the police-station, and said
he wanted to know the " rights and the wrongs" of
it, as he had heard he was wanted for the weed
and he was detained. He gave up the receipt.
The defence set up and ably argued by Mr.
Cooper was that it was a bona jEcle sale by Gurney

to the prisoner, who had been his dupe, by dealing
with a stranger.
The jury Pound the prisoner guilty. He had re-
ceived a good character.

The Assistant-Judge said, had anything been
known against the prisoner the Court would have
felt it to be its duty to sentence him to penal servi-
tude. He sentenced him as it was to 12 months'
hard labour. The prosecution was a very im-
portant and proper one.

(Before Mr. Payne, Deputy.)
Henry Dance, 42, a half silly, half ferocious-look-
ing man, was indicted for unlawfully entering a
certain dwelling-house, viz., the Marylebone Work-
house, with intent to commit felony.
The case was pros( cuted by Mr. Tubbs, an officer
of the parish of Marylebone, on behalf of the autho-
rities, and it appeared from the evidence that the
prisoner had becn for a long time not only a danger-
ous pauper, but a perfect nuisance to the parish
officers, although he was allowed 3s. 6d. a-week and
bread as out-door relief. One pauper had been sen-
tenced to penal servitude for throwing vitriol over
one of the officers, and because Mr. Tubbs had caused
this prisoner to be punished for repeated acts of vio-
lent and disorderly conduct, he had made a threat
that the other one had but a cupful, he (Tubbs)
should be favoured with a pailful at the very first
opportunity. He had been convicted of secreting
a knife up his coat-sleeve with intent, and was
so skilful in making skeleton keys that when in
the workhouse he used to get all over the establish-
ment by night, by means of those he did make, and
it was principally in consequence of this that they
would not have him in the house. In reference to
the present charge, the evidence of IBuckland, an
inmate of the house, showed that on the night of
March 17th the prisoner was seen in one of the
yards, and as he had no business there he informed
the superintendent, and the prisoner, who had
dropped from the wall, was found secreted behind
a door armed with a poker, and an oid rug was
lying at his feet. When asked what he meant to
do with the poker, he said "that was his business,"
but on being cautioned previously not to loiter
about the lodge, he said he meant to do for some
one in the house yet.
The jury found him guilty, and
The learned Judge said it was evident he was a
person from whom the public should be protected,
and he should therefore sentence him to 18 months'
hard labour in the House of Correction.
The prisoner said he should like it to be four
years, as he did not care about Coldbath-fields or
the workhouse.
The Judge said the sentence was passed.
The prisoner was then removed, muttering threats.
Mr. Tubbs stated that the prisoner had got up a
subscription, or raised a sum, for the benefit of the
man sentenced to penal servitude for throwing
vitriol.
Henry Roberts, 41, was indicted for having stolen
96 yards of silk, of the value of £2B, the property
of Stephen Walters and others.
Mr. Cooper prosecuted, and Mr. Ribton was for
the prisoner.
Police-sergeant Evans, 22 G, stated that on the
evening of March 17 he was in Worship-street,
when he saw the prisoner and another man
walking very fast, the other having a large bundle
under bis coat. He followed them, and they then
crossed into Cumberland-street; on seeing him the
other man gave the prisoner the parcel and went on
at the top of his speed. The prisoner threw the
bundle into a garden, and went after his compa-
nion, but was soon overtaken and brought back to
the garden, when on being asked where the parcel
had come from he said he knew nothing about it,
had never seen it, had not been in the company of
any other man, and was on his way to the Eastern
Counties Railway to proceed home to Romford.
The roll of silk was one of a number which had
been sent out from Messrs. Walters and Sons, Wil-
son-street, Finsbury, silk manufacturers, and was
missed from the others when they came to be
examined at Mr. Garratt's, umbrella maker, Fins-
bury.
The jury found the prisoner guilty, and
The Court sentenced him to 18 months' hard
labour.
Peter Keating was indicted on three charges of
stealing clover, the property of Peter Wallace.
Mr. Ribton and Mr. Dickie were counsel for the
prosecution; Mr. F. H. Lewis was for the prisoner.
The jury returned a verdict of acquittal.
Frederick Keys, 27, was indicted for stealing a
watch from the person of George Heriot Wilson, at
the Sadler's Wells Theatre.
The case was proved by police-constable Taylor,
226 G, and the prosecutor.
The jury found him guilty, and it was then
proved that he had but recently returned from ten
years' transportation.
Mr, Payne sentenced him to six years' penal ser-
vitude, as a warning to swell mobsmen frequenting
theatres.
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