The Sun.
London, England, 1860-10-19 00:00:00

LAN LATTE.

Is done

TRIS DAY.)

SHERIFFS' COURT.
(Before Mr. Joyce.)

IMPORTANT TO RAILWAY AND OTHER PUBLIC COMPA-
NIES.-THE GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY COMPANY

V. HITCHCOCK.
Upon this case being called a gentleman at once got into
the witness-box on behalf of the plaintiffs, defendant also
putting in an appearance.
Mr. Joyce (to plaintiff's witness)—Are you in the service
of the company ?
Witness—Yes, for more than ten sears. I now appear as
agent for the company.
Doe Mr. Joyce—Have you any appointment under the seal of
vai the company ?

Witness--No ; but surely I can appear as agent.
Mr. Joyce—Not unless you appear under the seal of the
company. I must nonsuit the company. They are not
poor, and ought to appear by their attorney. The attor-
nies to the railway aro most respectable people.
Witness—l have often attended as agent before.
Mr. Joyce—l should not have allowed it had I presided.
Plaintiffs nonsuited.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE-(T.HIB DAT

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

DISORDERLY GENTLEMEN.—Mr. George Nicholson, 23,
Alexander-square, merchant, and Mr. Frederick Perkins,
Barnard's-inn, Holborn, were charged as follows :
Sergeant Joy, 9 C, said that about four this morning,
hearing a cry of " Police" near Newport-market, he went
to see the cause, when he found the two defendants
quarrelling with a female. He sent the female away one
road and the defendants the other. After a few minutes
the defendants began shouting, and on his telling them to
desist, Perkins said they (the police) were "a lot of
dressed up fellows;" that they (the defendants) were gen-
tlemen; that Nicholson belonged to the Royal Exchange,
and that they would do as they liked ; and also that one of
them was an officer, and would send to the Tower for a dozen.
soldiers. They continued to create a disturbance, and he
was compelled to take them into custody. On the way to
Vine-street station Nicholson knocked off a constable's hat,
and tried to make his escape, and it required three consta-
Wes to take them into custody. Perkins further said he
would give £2, £3, or even £5 if he would let him go, as.he
had nay,. up Delete at a poli~~ peon.
Nicholson said the officer made a little mistake in the
names.

Perkins said he had taken a glass of wine too much, and
was very sorry if he had interfered with the police.
Mr. Tyrwhitt fined the defendants—Perkins 10s., and
Nicholson ss.

SINGULAR CHARGE OP ROBBERY.—WM. Leslie, a
tailor, living in Church-court, Doctors'-commons, was
charged with stealing a table of the value of 265, from the
shop of Mr. Henry Bridges, furniture manufacturer, 406,
Oxford-street.

A constable said, from information he received, he fol-
lowed the prisoner to Crown-street, Soho, and there stopped
him with the table on his shoulder. He asked him where
he got it, and he said he purchased it upon the pavement.
He then took him back to 406, Oxford-street.
Mrs. Hannah Mary Bridges, wife of Mr. Bridges, fur-
niture dealer, of 406, Oxford-street, identified the table as
her husband's property. On being spoken to by the con-
stable she missed the table, which she had seen safe twenty
minutes before.

The prisoner said he did not steal it, it was given to him
to carry by his master Mr. Haberfield, a tailor in Sutton-
street.

Haberfield on being sent for said, he bought the table of a
man in Oxford-street, for 45., it was between Dean-street
and Charles-street, near a shop where the the name of
Bridges or Burgess was painted up. He gave it to the
prisoner to carry home, and thought it very cheap.
Mr. Tyrwhitt asked the witness whether he usually
bought tables in the street ?

Haberfield said he only bought it to oblige the man.
A witness was called, who said he was with Haberfield
when he bought it, and the gentleman (the prisoner) was
with them.

Mr. Tyrwhitt ordered the table to be given up to Mr.
Bridges, and the prisoner to be discharged.

SIR .1011 N BOW.RING ON CHINA.

At the meeting held at Liverpool on Wednesday
evening, in connection with the inauguration of
Brown Library and Museum, Sir John Bowring
said,—ln China there are 400,000,000 of men who
make no progress. They don't learn what concerns
the business and duties of daily life. They are wholly
occupied with the past, which was the age of ignor-
ance. They look not forward. They have not learned
that great maxim of Bacon, that the present genera-
tion is the oldest of generations, and that the earliest
generation is the youngest. A maxim of more prac-
tical wisdom never fell from the lips of philosophy.
What I should desire to see in this countrris
what I have seen in China—a universal passion,
a universal desire for instruction. Certainly that
does pervade the community, but the instructors
and the instruction of a valuable character are
wanting. A half dozen Lord Broughams—what
wonders would they not work—(hear, hear, and
applause)—with a language which 500,000,000 of
men can read ! On that subject perhaps you will
allow me a word or two, booattee if there be any-
_ thing which keeps society together in the present
fearful disorganisation of that country—when
internecine warm aro tearing, I may say, the
foundations of society up by the very roots—
when village is quarrelling with village, and man
with man—when civil war is ravaging the
whole country, destroying cities, breaking up
wealth into pieces, and leaving everywhere
around it ruin and devastation—the one single,
solitary element of security and tranquility is the
great competitive organisation. (Hear.) Schools
are accessible to every kind of boy, and the children
of the meanest parents often rise to the mightiest
influence and occupy the highest positions. The
man at this moment who stands at the head of litera-
ture—who bears the strange name of Chwang Tuen,
the first man in the empire of China—is the son of
a petty shopkeeper, a stationer who lives in an
obscure street in that very city of Ningpo. There
- is scarcely a viceroy in China who has not risen
from the very lowest grades, for office is only
attainable according to the laws of China, by
that competitive struggle through which they
press towards distinction. (Hear, hear, and
applause.) I have seen youths, not youths only,
because there are men of 70, or 80, or 90 years of
age—(laughter)—I have seen 40,000 or 50,000 per-
sons enter the great cities of China in order to enter
upon that struggle : conceive what the struggle is.
A province of China ordinarily consists of
20,000,000 of human beings; and the village
schools are universally spread for the promotion
of education. There is not a father, however mean,
who does not struggle, if a lad of his family show
any evidence of superior talent, every effort is
made, every sacrifice undergone, in order to give
that youth the means of education ; for should he
succeed, such a blase of light is thrown over his
family, over the village to which he belongs, that
the whole district is delivered over to rejoicing.
When this Tuen was nominated, no other person
from the district had reached the distinction for 200
years; there was no man, however, elevated, who
did not go to pay homage to the family aid pro-
genitors of the young man. They make their no-
bility run upwards, and never downvards—
(laughter)—they ennoble the father and mother, the
grandfathers and grandmothers, and ancestors, of
the men who distinguish themselves, and when I
discuss the matter with them, they say they have
better reason for what they do, for the descendants
of a very wise man might be a great fool, end the
son of a good man might be a great rogue—
(Laughter.) And it is a strange fact connected
with Chinese history, that there is not a man, how-
ever poor, who does not know his forefathers for
many generations; and this teaching is given to
their children from the earliest period at which
their intellect can develope themselves. What I
want is this—that I may see in this country the
same passion for education and the same passion
for distinction which existed in China ; and in
China I would desire to see the valuable elemen-
tary books of this country, and the advanced in-
struction which we are enabled to give them.
(Hear, hear.) Perhaps that will be the result
in both cases. In this country we are beginning
to recognise the very important truth that some-
thing is to be learnt even from very remote coun-
tries; and sorry I am that even in China, un-
doubtedly the proudest of nations, and the nation
least willing to receive instruction, the only
improvement of European origin is the fire
engine. (A laugh.) It was not long ago that
the Emperor of China heard something of
the English firelock, and he ordered some per-
cussion locks to be sent to Pekin ; but to this hour
they have not reached the use of the flint, much
less have they got the firelock. A very curious
communication was received from the French Am-
bassador at St. Petersburg, tbat the Emperor of
Russia had proposed to send the Emperor of China
some 30 or 40 firelocks ; but he would not have
them, " because the English barbarians will use
them and have then the benefit of them upon his
own subjects."

SUDDEN DEATH FROM EXCITEMENT.—An alter-
cation took place in Warren's Hotel, at Kilkee, betveen
Don Seluco Gutieraz, a native of Lima, South America,
and others in the hotel, after dinner on Friday evening last.
In the affray the Don received a kick, and in a few minutes,
when in the act of paying his bill, he fell down and expired.
An inquest was held. The medical man, who made a post
mortem examination, said death resulted from excitement.
A Mr. Lawler, who was one of the persons present during
the quarrel, and who is a lieutenant in the Clare Militia,,ja
in custody.--. Dublin Eventing
_Nail.

'lir.

After the disposal of the night charges at the Thames
Police Court to-day, Mr. Wm. Brookholding Webb, the
chief mate of the ship Brierly Hill, from Australia, was
brought up on remand before Mr. Selfe, charged with the
wilful murder of Wm. Brown, otherwise Lancaster, on the
high seas, near the Island of Ascension, on the 6th day of
August last.
The ship arrived in the port of London on Sunday last,
but no steps were taken to arrest the prisoner until Thurs-
day morning, whenlilaw was set in motion by the Home
Office, owing to a communication having been received by
the Board of Trade from the Shipping-office in Poplar,
where the official log-book of the Brierly Hill was depo-
sited.

Mr. Charles Young, solicitor, again appeared for the
defence.

Inspector Cox, of the Thames Police, who arrested the
prisoner, handed the official log-book of the Briefly Hill
to the magistrate. The witnesses Farrow and Kcarnan,
who gave their evidence on Thursday with remarkable
clearness, said the entry made in the log-book after the
deceased was shot was not acorrect one, and that after seven
of the crew had gone aft to request the captain to put in
to the Island of Ascension for fresh water, he refused to
do so. Brown then said if the captain did not he would
have to be tied down till he did, but this was not accom-
panied by any violence or any attempt to seise the
captain or do him any harm. The prisener,
however, immediately went below, returned with a
loaded pistol, which he cocked on deck, and after
saying, " I'll blow the first man's brains out tkat lays a
hand upon the captain," deliberately presented the pistol
at the deceased and shot him dead. The prisoner then ob-
tained a second pistol from the hands of the carpenter, who
was standing by, and said, "If you don't go forward, I'll
shoot every one of you;" and the men did go forward.
About three-quarters of an hour afterwards, the men were
again mustered in the after-part of the ship. The prisOner
said, " This is what comes of your mutiny;" and declared
the pistol went off by accident. The two witnesses swore
Prstol_did not go off by. acridDnf *-I—' "."—•
upon half-cock when it was brought on deck, and that it
was deliberately presented and fired at the deceased.
John Taylor, able seaman on board the BriGrly Hill,
was called in confirmation of the evidence of Farrow and
Kearnan. He said—l went aft with Brown and five other
men to complain of the water. I heard and saw every-
thing. There was no agreement as to what we should do
before we went aft. We certainly went 'to complain of the
water. It was not good. Kearnan had some tea in a
pannikin, and asked Captain Vincent, the master, to taste
it. The captain said it was good. Then Brown came
forward and said, " Will you go into the Island of Ascen-
sion to get fresh water." The captain said, " No." Brown
said, "We will have you tied down," or words to that
effect. I cannot exactly say. Brown was then five or six
feet off. He did not advance towards the captain
or attempt to touch him. With that the chief
mate went down to his cabin and brought up a
lafge horse pistol in his left hand, and cocked it with his
right. The captain did not order him to go below for the
pistol. The mate said, " The first man that lays his hands
on the captain I will blow his brains out." The mato was
then very close to Brown, and had the pistol presented
towards him. Brown said, " Will you," but he did nothing
at all, or attempt to do anything. The mate immediately
shot the man, who fell dead at his feet. The pistol was
such a one as that on the magistrates' desk. I cannot say
if it cocked easily. After the deceased was shot the pri-
ironer handed the pistol down the companion to the car-
penter, took another, and said, "If you don't go forward I
will shoot every man of you."
The following official entry in the log-book, which the
three witnesses already examined said was false, was read.
It was in the handwriting of the captain :
"I hereby declare that the seamen came aft in a body.
Christopher Kearnan asked me if I was going to the Isle of
Ascension. I told him no. Wm. Brown then spoke up and
said, if I would not they would come aft to make me fast
and take the ship there themselves, and that they would do
it. The mate jumped below to fetch up a pistol, and after
William Brown had made an attempt to lay hold of me, he
(the mate) presented the pistol, which had been loaded
over night, and said he would fire at the first man that at,-
tempted to lay hold of the captain. While the mate made
use of these words Brown cried out " Will you, will you ?"
and put his hand behind him to draw his knife, but
the words were not out of the mate's mouth
before the pistol, which was at full cock,
went off in the mate's hand and shot William Brown. The
knife fell from his hand as he fell, when the rest of the
crew dispersed forward. The bullet had entered the Luau's
body, and he died M a few minutes. I was at the cabin
door when the pistol went off, receiving pistols from the
carpenter, whom I had previonar---‘mt sown Into the cabin
for them, and the "'ate got between me and the man, so I
aia not see the pistol go off. The mate declares that ha
did not intend to fire, but that in raising his hand towards
the man he might have unconsciously touched the trigger,
and I fully believe and declare upon oath that he did not
intend to shoot the man. I declare the above entry to
have been duly read over to the crew, and signed—William
Vincent, master ; William Brookholding Webb, first officer;
John Home, 2d officer, Isaac Wilson, carpenter.
The witnesses, Farrow, Kearnan, and Taylor, all swore
in the most positive manner, and with great distinctness,
that the deceased did not take his knife out of the sheath,
or attempt to do so; that his knife was not in his hand
when he fell, and that he did not attempt to lay hold of the
captain or the pistol, and that it was deliberately fired by
the mate. The vessel afterwards put into Ascension Island,
where fresh water was obtained.

Mr. Pyer, the chief clerk, having completed the deposi_
tions, they were read over, and the prisoner, who said he
would reserve his defence, was fully committed for trial for

wilful murder.

TBIS DAY'S SHIP.PING.

LONDON, Oct. 19.—Wind this day at noon—South-
Westerly; moderate breeze, and fine weather, but rather
cloudy.

DEAL, Oct. 18.----Wind W.S.W.—Arrived—Martin,
from Rio Grande. Oct 19.—Wind W.—Arrived—Ethel-
vd, from Colombo.

KINGRTOWN, Oct. 17..—Wind S.W.—Arriied—Attilia,
from Quebec.

Coux, Oct. 17.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—William and
Joseph, from Quebec; White Eagle, from St. Übes.
WATERFORD, Oct. 17.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Benja-
min, from Quebec.

BELFAST, Oct. 17.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Garibaldi,
from Quebec.

QuitENsrowx, Oct. 18.—Wind W.S.W.—Arrived—
Agnes, from Baltimore; Welford, from New York.
Oct.LEITIr l7.—The two steamers seen in the North
Sea, disabled, were about 80 miles off the coast of Jutland.
The Vanguard, arrived at Dundee, reports having seen a
steamer, on the 10th inst., steering for Mandal; she was
three masted, had a black and white funnel, and black
sides.

WARRINPOINT, Oct. 19.—The ship David Houston,
from New York to Glasgow, is on shore near St. John's
Point.

(By ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
SOUTHAMPTON, Friday Morning.
Wind S.W.
Arrived, Oct. 18.—Argyll, steamer, from Carentan ;
Havre, steamer, from Havre ; Atalanta and Dispatch,
steamers, from Jersey ; Temora, steamer, from London.
Sailed.—Southampton and Atalanta, steamers for Jersey ;
Temora, steamer, for Dublin.

(BY SUBMARINE AND MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.)
GRAVESEND, Friday Morning.
Wind W. ; tide last hour's ebb ; weather cloudy.
Sailed, Oct. 19.—Sir R. Peel, steamer for Dunkirk ;
Schwalbe, steamer, for Bremen ; Panther, steamer, for
Boulogne.

DEAL, Friday Morning.

Wind W., moderate.
Passed—Lycurgus, from Patras, for Hamburg; Ethel -
dred, from Colombo, for London; Vesta, sorow steamer,
from London, for Malta ; Albertina, from Quebec ;
from Trois Pistoles ; Myhra, from Moulmein---for London.
Anchored—Perle, from Stettin, for London.
The Lord Hungerford, from London, for Cardiff, loot
anchor and chain on the 18th.

GREAT SOUTHERN OF INDIA RAlLWAY.—Detailed
accounts have been received of the state of the works up to
the end of August. It appears that though the long dry
weather and intense heat had rendered the execution of the
earthwork difficult, the more important department of ma-
sonry has been proceeded with vigorously, and advantage
had been taken of the unusually dry season to get in the
foundation of the bridges and culverts, the more important
of which were far advanced. There were 44 miles of per-
manent way materials in the country, all of which were
expected to be laid by February next, and the whole line to
Trichinopoly is estimated to be ready for opening in June,
1861. Four locomotive engines had arrived, and were to be
immediately set to work at ballasting. The prices at which
the work has been done are favourable, considering the
greatly-increased rates paid for labour in India generally.
The earthwork has cost about 10. per cubic yard (about
one-sixth of the price in this country), and brickwork, 12s,
On the completion of the line one •half of the net earnings
over 5 per cent. will immediately become available in sup-
plement . of the dividend to the shareholders, and when
the interest paid during construction has been repaid to the
Secretary of State for India, the proprietors will receive the
whole surplus. From the rapidity with which the works
have been prosecuted, the amount of interest so to be paid
off is comparatively trifling.