The Sun.
London, England, 1869-09-08 00:00:00

CONSERVATIVE DEMONSTRATION ITV

NOTTINGH.AM.

A grand Conservative demonstration has been held in
Colwick Park, near Nottingham. More than 30,000
persons (including Colonel Wright, M.P. for the borough,
and Mr. T. B. T. Hildyard, M.P. for South Notts) were
present. A procession was formed in the Great Market-
)lace, Nottingham, and marched to Colwick Park, two
miles distant. The committee had decided that there should
be no political speaking, but that the day should he devoted
to field sports and other amusements. The rule was,
however, broken when Mr. Patterson, the President of the
Constitutional Society, proposed " The Health of Colonel
Wright." Colonel Wright, M.P., then rose, and amid
much cheering, said that they were attached to the
State, and they wished to see the Queen on her Throne
and the House of Lords to continue to assist the House of
Commons in governing the country. During the past
session the measure which his friend (Mr. Hildyard)
and himself went to fight against had been carried.
They opposed it, however, tooth and nail, and he
believed both of them were in every division on that bill.
Of course, it was a forlorn hope, and they knew that
at every division they must be licked by a tremendous
majority. He thought now that the Liberals themselves
would begin to fear what had occurred when they saw the
steps which the Roman Catholic Bishops and Archbishops
were already taking in Ireland. It was stated the other
day at the Liberal demonstration that he (the gallant
colonel) was against education, and that he had given two
votes against the Endowed Schools Bill. A reference to
the division list would shew there was no division on the
Endowed Schools IBM at all on the second reading.
Therefore that was not an exactly correct statement,
though he had no doubt it was supposed to be right at
the time. If they had wished to go against education
they should not, as a great number of them did on the
Conservative side of the House, and himself among the
number, have voted for the exemption of the ragged
school from rating. The demonstration was considered a
great success

ANOTHER STORY OF POLICE JUSTICE.

A correspondent of the Telegrarh, signing himset
Victim," writes, telling a very strange, an almost im-
probable, story of the injustice of the police. The follow-
ing is its substance :—On the evening of the great boat-
race he was going along the Old-street-road to the
City-road, being about to take an omnibus to London
Bridge. Suddenly he was startled by a blow from a stick
on the top of his hat. A dozen roughs then set upon him.
He ran away, seeking a policeman ; was followed and
thrown down, but, being nimble, managed to
escape into a confectioner's shop. The crowd
outside began to grow, and the confectioner turned him
out. " Victim " again tried to escape from the mob,
sought in vain for a policeman, but again failed in both
attempts. "The mob," he gees on to say, "followed
me, forming a sort of half-circle round me, till I got
as far as liunhill-fields burying-ground, when I was
keavily thrown down, my pockets immediately rifled,
and my watch taken. I then walked on till I came
within the precincts of the City's boundary, followed
by part of the rabble, when I met a policeman, whom
I accompanied to the Moor-lane Police-station, and
it may be judged what a state of mind I was in. I was
waiting, as I thought, till the inspector was disengaged;
but unfortunately I happened to say, " What a shame it
was there was no police at band !" My face was all
bruises, and I was exhausted from the exertions made to
escape from the mob. Immediately I had complained that
there were no police, at a signal— a word from the inspec-
tor—an officer said, " Will you walk this way, sir?" open-
ing a door. I thought, of course, it was to go into another
room to state my case, but I found it was to be locked
up. Everything I bad was taken from me, and upon my
remonstrating against being locked up I was told I should
go presently. About an hour after three officers came
into the cell, where there was a drunken man lying on
the floor. They asked where I lived. I told them
they bad made a mistake in locking me up, when the
middle one gave me a violent push backwards, with You
are drunk." When they had got outside one of them
said, 'You will not go while there are any shops open ;
the more you say the longer you Fill stop there.' They
also told me I had got company.
_4 little after ten I
attracted the notice of a kind-hearted officer, to whom I
explained that my poor wife at home would be distracted,
and that I had a poor afflicted daughter to whom the
result might be serious. I heard him represent my ease
from the door, and I was soon liberated. After signing
for my property I had been divested of, and having said
I should take a cab home, an officer followed me, and
when I had got into the cab put his head in at the window,
and said. " You'll stand a glass of ale, won't you,
sir ? " Thus was a respectable City merchant, of seven-
teen years' standing, confined in a cell with a irnnken
toau for three hours and a half, without examination or
charge made. I beg to say I was perfectly sober, baying
been out all day from ten in the morning, and had only
during the day taken three glasses of claret wine. I have
received two letters—one from the Superintendent of
Moor-lane Station and one from the Commi,sioner—very
unsatisfactorily recommending me to apply to the nearest
metropolitan station, as the robbery was committed out
of the City. Of course, being detained for three hours
and a half, my properly was lost, and the thieves had a
tin;; opportunity to escape."