The Sun.
London, England, 1860-06-28 00:00:00

TIIE INDIAN ARMY.

Major-General Haucock, lately Adjutant-Gene-
ral of the Bombay army, writes to a contemporary
as follows :—I have to request the favour of your
giving a place in your columns to the subjoined
plan for forming new local European regiments in
India, with reference to tha following extract from
Sir Charles Wood's speech in the House of Com-
mons on the 12th inst. :

. " That is an outline of the scheme for the regula-
tion of the Indian army. But I wish to place
before the house the alternative, which is a matter
for serious consideration. We are called upon to
maintain a local army of at least 40,000 men. The
number of local troops at this moment I will assume
to be 15,000. The question, therefore, is not one
of maintaining an existing establishment, but of
raising 25,000 men in addition, and of raising them
in this country for service in India. Now, how is
that to be done ? Lord Canning's last minute pro-
poses 24 additional regiments for Bengal alone.
It is admitted that new regiments cannot and
ought not to be formed in India. That experiment
has been tried and failed. We must form, drill,
and train in this country for the service of Ben-
gal alone 24 European regiments. What will the
advocates of economy say to this ? En the mean-
time we are to maintain the same number of Queen's
troops in India. And, then, when these new and
raw troops are trained and drilled,l suppose the old
experienced soldiers are to be disbanded. I ask the
house seriously to consider this question. we
adopt the views I have stated we shall be put to the
expenqe, trouble, and delay of raising these men,
and of training them in England for a certain num-
ber of years, paying out of the Indian revenue for
the double force of Queen's troops now forming
part of the garrison of India, and the force trained
in this country which is to form the future garri-
son. I do not think that anybody will entertain
such a project on the score either of economy or
efficiency!'

Having been one of " the minority" of the Royal
Commission and strongly advocated the maintenance
of a considerable loeal European army in India, I
map, without presumption I hope, endeavour to
show that We are not driven to any such alternative
for raising additional regiments as that represented
by Sir Charles Wood. Without laying too great
stress, thee, upon any portion of the subjoined
plan, it is submitted as containing the germ of one
easy and economical, by Which the number of new
regiments assumed by Sir Charles Wood to be re-
quisite, fully trained and disciplined, may be at once
formed in India, awl a corresonding
newly raised battalions of the Lin number of the
e in England may
be simultaneously reduced without discharging a
single soldier, or necessitating the placing upon half-
pay more than Er. small number of the commissioned
officers.

—I
do not suppCse,-of course, that this plan is al-
together free from objection, but I do believe
I have had much experience in these (and
matters of
military organisation and detail) that with the
cordial aid of thr Horse Guards and India house
authorities it mig'ht be rendered very nearly so, and
might be carried out in such manner as to obviate
even the small an count of hardship to individual
officers of the Liwe Army which it involves in its
present form.

" PLAN.
" The new regil ants to consist each of two bat-

talions ; each battalion to be of the same strength
as other local regiments.
" The non-commissioned officers and rank and file
for each battalion, to the extent of 3-sths of the
established strength, to be obtained by volunteering
from the regiments of the Line in India, to be con-
fined to approved men of from three to twelve years'
service. The remainder to be supplied partly by
volunteering from regiments of the Line in Eng-
land, and partly by recruiting.
" The commissioned officers for one-half the num-
ber of battalions to be supplied from the local army
by transfer, according to the established system on
occasions of augmentation ; and for the other half
by volunteering from the regiments of the Line in
India.

" The regimental promotion of commissioned
officers up to the rank of major to made in each
battalion, as in other local regiments, and to the
superior grades in the Line, agreeably to the esta-
blished system ; but the officers of each regiment to
be liable to serve with either its battalions, at the
discretion of the Commander-in-Chief, and to be so
posted by him for that purpose in the first instance
as to equalise in each the numbers of each grade
received frem the Line and from the local army.
" The commandant of each battalion to be ap-
pointed by selection from the whole of the infantry
lieutenant-colonels of the local arm of each presi-
dency; the adjutant and other commissioned staff
from the subalterns posted to serve with it.
" The volunteers (non-commissioned and rank and
file) to be enlisted into the local army for 10 years,
receiving the usual bounty ; to be held entitled to
count for pension all their previous service in and
out of India ; and to a full participation in all the
advantages and privileges guaranteed to the non-
commissioned officers and soldiers of the local army
by the Act of Victoria, 1858.
" The volunteers (commissioned officers) to be
held entitled to a full participation in all the ad-
vantages and privileges, of whatever kind guaran-
teed to the officers of the local army by the Act of
Victoria, 1858, and to count for pension all their
previous service in and out of India.
" The non-commissioned officers and soldiers of

the battalions of the Line to be reduced, to be
draughted into other regiments of their own selec-
tion, to fill vacancies occasioned by the volunteering
into the local army or that may subsequently oc-
cur; the recruiting for such regiments as may thus
obtain supernumeraries to be suspended until the
same shall be absorbed.

" The commissioned officers to be held entitled
to succeed without purchase to the vacancies occa-
sioned in other regiments by the volunteering into
the local army; those who may remain undisposed
of by that arrangement to be placed on half-pay,
agreeably to the established system in the Line
army:
" The infantry regiments of the Line which will
become supernumerary on the Indian establish-
ment, on the formation of the new local regiments,
to be withdrawn to England as early as practicable
after the completion of the arrangements ; all re-
cruits for those corps being retained in the mean
time with their respective depots."

PARLIAMENTARY COMMITTEES.

EMBANKMENT OF THE THAMES.

This committee met again on Tuesday—Sir J.
Paxton in the chair.

Mr. H. Bird, civil engineer, was examined, and
produced a scheme of his own for embanking the
river, which included a railway commencing at
Victoria station, passing down Victoria-street, join-
ing the embankment near Westminster-bridge, and
terminating at Queenhithe. He had submitted his
plan to the Metropolitan Board in 1856. He pro-
posed that the embankment should commence at
Westminster-bridge on the north side of the river
and terminate near to Southwark-bridge at Queen-
hithe-dock, and would leave the width of the river
about 700 feet. A portion of the embankment would
be solid and a portion would contain floating docks.
From Whitehall-place to Chatham-place,Blackfriars,
he proposed to carry on the embankment on a
carriage road 50 feet in width, supported on iron
columns, and this roadway would have direct com-
munication with Surrey-street, Norfolk-street, and
Arundel-street, Strand. The total length of rail-
way would be about 21 miles. To carry out his
plan for the embankment of the Thames, he did
not contemplate any application whatever to the
Government for pecuniary aid, as he believed ample
aid would arise from the sale and leasing of land
which would be reclaimed by the embankment and
by private capitalists, who had expressed their
readiness to subscribe if the plan were adopted by
the committee. The wharfingers on the banks of the
river had approved of his plan. The estimate for
the construction of the railway was £221,000, and
for the embankment, roads, and the works,
£512,000, making a total of £733,000.
Mr. Page was next examined—He said he had
been formerly resident engineer of the Thames
Tunnel, and was now the engineer and designer of
the new Westminster-bridge, and also of the Vic-
toria-bridge. He had considered the question of
the embankment of the Thames, and had prepared
plans for that purpose. His plan was to commence
with an embankment lying half way between
Southwark and Blackfriars-bridges on the Middle-
sex side of the river, and terminating opposite
Lambeth Palace, at the end of Millbank-street. On
the south side of the river he proposed to commence
an embankment opposite Queenhithe Dock, and to
terminate it between Lambeth Palace and Vaux-
hall-bridge. From Blackfriars-bride to Waterloo-
bridge there would be a carriage-way 50 feet wide,
but the rest of the embankment would be devoted
to a promenade for foot passengers only. On the
south side, the embankment in front of Lambeth
Palace would also be applied only to a promenade.
His object was to encroach as little as possible
upon the river, and to adopt an economical mode of
construction.

In answer to questions by Sir M. Peto, witness
said the amount of his estimate was £336,000; that
was for an embankment from Westminster-bridge
to Blackfriars-bridge, including a railway. His
plan was not self-supporting, but it could be made
so by appropriating a part of the embanked land
between the embankment and the present shore,
and also by having additional wharves next the
embankment itself.

After hearing some further evidence, the com•
mittee adjourned.

METROPOLIS LOCAL MANAGEMENT.

The committee re-assembled on Tuesday, Mr. F.
Peel in the chair. The other members present were
Sir J. Hanmer, Major Stuart, Mr. Hassard, and
Mr. Childers. The consideration of the first two
clauses, designated the apportionment clauses, was
proceeded with. The first provides that the debt
in respect of Countess Creek works, and part of the
debt in respect of Ravensbourne works, shall be re-
distributed and made payable out of the moneys
borrowed on security of the main drainage rate ; the
second provides for the application of money raised
on security of metropolis drainage to the repayment
of the sums expended on the Victoria-street sewer
since the Ist Jan., 1860. Evidence having been
taken in favour of and against the clauses, after a
short consultation the committee passed them and
then adjourned.
The committee met again yesterday; Mr. F.
Peel in the chair.

Mr. Phinn, Q.C., proceeded with the third clause,
by which, in connexion with the schedule to which
it refers, provision is made for the remainder of the
mortgage debt of the Metropolitan Commissioners
of Sewers for works executed, and the object of
the enactment is to put an end to the doubts which
have been raised as to the incidence of these debts,
and to ascertain and define those districts of
the metropolis which are to be held re-
sponsible for their payment. The re-appor-
tionment contemplated was intended to re-
lieve certain parishes of debts charged upon them for
the cost of works executed in other parishes,
the distribution of those charges having been ne-
cessary by reason of the determination of the Me-
tropolitan Sewers Commission. The schedule sets
out the names of the parishes and parts of parishes,
and the sums proposed to be charhed on the several
parishes and parts of parishes.
The parishes of Bermondsey, St. Saviour, St.
Olave,-St. Mary Newington, Lambeth, St. Paul's
(Deptford), and Limehouse, which objected to the
apportionment, so far as they were respectively
concerned, were all represented by counsel.
Mr. Bazalgette was examined at considerable
length as to the extent of the works executed in
particular districts, and the proportionate amount
of benefit derived by the adjoining districts, and
stated that the apportionment had been calculated
with a desire to do justice to all parties.
After some further evidence had been given in
support of the clause the committee adjourned.

FATAL ACCIDENT AT WOOLWICH ARSENAL.—A
fatal accident occurred yesterday afternoon in the roya' car-
riage department of Woolwich Arsenal. It appears that a
boy, nine years of age, the son of a workman named Allen
Mortar, accompanied his father to the Arsenal, and
climbed upon a large piece of teak, which was placed on a
barrow for removal. The timber fell over, crushing the
skull of the child, who was instantly conveyed to the sur-
gery, but life was then extinct.
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LAW INTELLIGENCE.—June 27.

COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH.

(Sittings at Nisi Prius, before Lord Chief Justice
Cockburn and a Special Jury.)

THE ATLANTIC CABLE-PATERSON V. HARRIS.

The Solicitor-General, Mr. Phipson, and Mr.
Murray appeared for the plaintiff; and Mr. Bovill,
Q.C., for the defendant.
The plaintiff in this action, W. Paterson, was a
merchant in Glasgow, and he sued the defendant,
F. W. Harris, an underwriter in London, upon a
policy of insurance for £l,lOO, underwritten by the
the defendant. The insurance was effected on the
Ist of July, 1857, and upon a share in the Electric
Telegraph Company, which cost £l,OOO, but which
was valued in the policy at £l,lOO. The insurance
was of a very peculiar nature, the policy in form
being such as is adopted in the insurance of a
ship. The premium was 35 guineas per cqpt.,
amounting to £406 95., and the policy insured
the ship and goods against every accident,
danger, and risk which might be incurred at sea or
on land, in any boats, ships, and craft whatsoever,
"until the final, complete, and successful laying
down of the Atlantic telegraph cable from shore to
shore." The ship and goods were by agreement
valued at one £l,OOO share in the Electric Tele-
graph Company, which share was valued at £1,100;
and, in case of loss, the part saved was to be sold
or appraised for the benefit of the underwriters. A
memorandum was attached to the policy in these
terms :
" It is understood and agreed that this insurance
shall cover and include the successful working of
the cable when laid down."
On the part of the plaintiff, Professor Thompson, of
Glasgow, and other witnesses, were called to prove
that the failure of the Electric Telegraph cable was
owing to the risks insured against in the policy ;
and that, although there had been a successful lay-
ing down of the cable from shore to shore, there
never had been " a successful working of the
cable when laid down," so as to put an
cad to the defendant's liability on the po-
licy. The professor gave an account of the esta-
blishment of the Electric Telegraph Company in
1856, with a capital of £360,000, in £l,OOO shares,
and detailed the various steps taken by the com-
pany in carrying out the undertaking. Two ves-
sels were lent for the purpose of laying down the
cable—the one, the Agamemnon, by the English
Government, and the other, the Niagara, by the
Government of the United States. After an experi-
mental trip to the Bay of Biscay the vessels re-
turned to Plymouth, and, on the 10th of June, 1858,
started for the mid ocean to lay down the cable.
Several accidents happened, and the ships returned
to their rendezvous. On the third start the cable
broke, bad weather ensued, many miles of the cable
were lost, and the cable got entangled into a con-
fused mass in the hold of the Agamemnon. The
effect of these causes might be to damage the cable,
and to cause the copper wire to come through the
gutta percha in which it was enclosed. Towards
the end of July the cable was fixed at Queenstown,
in Newfoundland, and at Valentia, in Ireland, and
about the 9th or 10th of August messages were re-
ceived. The first message received was, " Please
repeat slower," or "Please repeat." From the 10th
of August to the Ist of September messages were
had with great ease occasionally, but there were
times when the signals were confused, and there
were times when it was impossible to read them at
all. It was only with some delicate instruments
they could be read ; and no message was received
after the Ist of September, exeept four words on
the 20th of October. The witness attributed the
failure to the want of a perfect insulation of the
wire, which gradually became worse. This defect
was observed while they were paying it out, but
the witness said he thought it to be his duty to go
on paying out the cable so long as he received read-
able signals. The defect, he thought, was owing
to the water penetrating through the defective por-
tions of the gutta percha, and so drawing off the
electricity from the copper wire. On cross-exa-
mination the witness said he thought electricity
travelled at the rate of 2,000 miles in a second.
He understood that the cable had been exposed to
the heat of the sun at Greenwich, and that the
gutta percha had melted. The witness was cross-
examined, from certain statements made in news-
papers, as to the working of the telegraph. He
said that on the 26th of August, when it
was reported that the cable was " working splen-
didly," the signals were excessively weak ; and, so
far were they from being "strong and perfect," as
stated, that they were only the 50th part of what
they should have been, The cable had now been
tested in its entire length under water. The witness
described the construction of the cable, which con-
sisted of copper-wire covered with gutta percha,
which again was covered with tow, and enclosed
with iron-wire to strengthen and protect it. He
said the iron-wire would attract the electricity from
the copper-wire. Many hundred wordQ WPTY pa.c god
through the cable, but he could not say how many.
It was intended from the commencement to lay
down a very strong cable at the ends next the
shore, to resist the action of the rocks, but, as it
was considered a failure, this was abandoned. He
thought the defect in the cable was 200 miles from
the shore. The witness said the scheme had not
been abandoned, and he gave it as his opinion that
it would ultimately succeed. An expedition had
been sent out to Newfoundland, and it was intended
to proceed with it as soon as possible.
The witness was cross-examined as to the mes-
sages which had been sent between the Queen
and the President of the United States, and between
the Lord Mayor of London and the Mayor of New
York, and said that at times the cable was capable
of being worked with perfect accuracy, but it
varied, and sometimes totally failed. He thought
the failure might have been caused by the melting
of the gutta percha at Greenwich.
On re-examination, Professor Thompson said the
possibility of the connection had been established,
and that new capital had been raised to repair the
cable.
Mr. Russell, who had acted as assistant to Pro-
fessor Thompson on board the Agamemnon, gave
similar evidence.

Mr. De Sartey, who had acted as superintendent
electrician on board the Niagara, gave an account
of his operations. Finding that the cable did
not answer, he cut away 60 miles of it on the
2d of August, and it then worked correctly.
Half of the cable was taken on board at Birken-
head, and half at Greenwich. In some of that which
came from Greenwich the gutta percha had melted
and oozed out through the flax and between the
outer coating of iron-wire. 366 messages had been
transmitted through the cable ; 3,290 miles of
cable had been made, and 2,036 miles had been
submerged.
Three portions of the cable were produced in
court, and these showed the copper wire to be close
to the outer portion of the gutta percha coating,
instead of being in the centre.
Mr. G. Sayward, the secretary of the Electric
Telegraph Company, said as much as £387,000 had
been expended in laying down the cable, including
all expenses. 373 miles were lost in the June
attempt, and in July 2,100 miles were laid in the
final attempt. The cable laid had cost from £lOO
to £lO5 a mile. The £l,OOO shares was now worth
from £6O to £l5O. The whole of the £l,OOO was
paid up. The shares rose till they reached £9OO,
but they never rose to par. In the early part of
June they had been at about £5OO per share.
On cross-examination the witness stated that an
expedition had been sent to Newfoundland to take
up 40 miles of the cable, and fix it so much nearer
to England. Upwards of 20,000 words had passed
through the telegraph. The company was entitled
conditionally to £14,000 or £15,000 from the Go-
vernment, but had not received the money. The
most serious fault in the cable was about 180 miles
from Valentia. At Greenwich some of the gutta
percha melted and oozed out ; but that portion was
all cut out and laid aside, and not used. It was
melted by the heat of the place where it was. The
question was discussed whether the cable ought
not to be tested under water, but it was feared
that that might rust the outside wire, and other
reasons were given why it should not be done. It
was the duty of the makers to test all of it, and
some of it was tested.
Mr. Richards, an average adjuster, was examined
as to the plaintiff's loss, but his evidence proved
immaterial.

At the close of the plaintiff's case,
Mr. Bovill submitted there was no case for the
jury.
Lord Chief Justice Cockburn said he should leave
several questions of fact to the jury, and reserve
the questions of law for the opinion of the Court ;
and if the Court should decide the points of law in
favour of the plaintiff, the Court would lay down
the principle on which the damages should be as-
sessed, and the amount could afterwards be ascer-
tained.

The jury ultimately found that the cable had
been successfully laid down, but it had not been
successfully worked; that the cable was defective
from accidental causes before shipment, but not

from defective construction, and that the defective

working was owing to the above causes, aggravated
by the action of the water.
The verdict was then entered for the plaintiff,
leave being given to move to enter the verdict in
his favour on the points of law.

The Journal du Ilarre says :—" Among the pas-
sengers who two days ago arrived at Dieppe from England
were twenty-six Irishmen, who were on their way to Rome
to enlist in the Pope's army; but as their passports were
not in order, they were sent up to Paris to be placed at the
disposition of the prefect of police."

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—June 27.

CLERKENWELL.—IMPORTANT TO THE COM-
MERCIAL WORLD.—David Wells, sen., and Charles
Wells, coal and potato dealers, f 29, King-street,
Clerkenwell, Richard Lamb, of 13, Wingrove-place,
and Edward Wilson, of 9, Queen-street, Clerken-
well, were brought before Mr. Corrie, charged that
they did unlawfully, with divers other persons,
combine, confederate, and agree, by means of cer-
tain false and fraudulent pretences, to cheat and de-
fraud Mr. Paul Millaret, wholesale jeweller, of 19,
Mvddelton-square, Clerkenwell, of his goods and
moneys.
Mr. Cooper, barrister (instructed by Mr. Wontner
of Sriowhill), for the prosecution, and Mr. Lewis for
the defence.

Mr. Cooper. in opening the case, said he should
ask for the committal of the four prisoners for trial
on the charge of conspiracy. The case had been
taken up by the Great Northern Railway Company
for the protection of the public, which for a long
time has been defrauded by a gang of swindlers,
who, by using.the company's name, have been en-
abled to commit a series of fraud. It is well known
that the railway company has extensive coal de•
pots at King's-cross, to which the coalowners in the
North are in the habit of consigning their coals.
The agent who manages there is Mr. Herbert
Clarke, and the public are enabled to obtain coals
from th'.s depot at very reasonable rates, and are
induced to give them orders from their faith in the
company's name, feeling confident that the quality
supplied to them would be that for which they gave
their orders. A large trade has sprung up, to trench
on which these swindlers have pirated the com-
pany's name, and by sending out agents who assume
to come direct from the company get orders for coals,
which are supplied of an inferior quality, although
the best price is charged. Amongst the parties who
act in this manner is the defendant, David Wells,
who keeps a coal and potato shop in King-street,
Clerkenwell, where he writes up " Great Northern
Coal Company." He has a similar establishment in
Shaftesbury-street, New North-road, and lately had
a third in Mark-lane. The way in which the de-
fendant conducts the business is this—he has two
or three coal vans, on which he has a board with
the inscription written in large letters, " The Great
Northern Company's Coal Depot, King's-cross."
He also has printed bills with similar headings, and
to render the delusion more certain, there is
printed thereon the words "H. Clarke, agent."
The public is thus gulled into giving their orders
to the defendant's agents, and similar persons, by
the belief that they are dealing direct with the com-
pany's depot. Instead of having the best coals the
public are supplied with an inferior coal, only fit
for commercial purposes, thus bringing the railway
company into disrepute, and in other instances coal-
merchants whose names are similarly pirated. The
fraud does not always end in this manner, for in the
present instance, not content with supplying an in-
ferior coal, which they described as the best Wall-
send, the defendants actually robbed the customer
in the quantity by delivering 15 sacks instead of 20.
The plan adopted in this case was that a respect-
ably-attired man calling upon the complainant, re-
presentirg that he was an Agent of the Great
Northern Railway Company, and saying that he
could supply the best Wallsend coals at £1 2s. per
ton. Believing this to be true, an order for two tons
was given, but when the vendor's ticket was pre-
sented it had for its heading " Great Northern Rail-
way Coal Company," instead of only " Great
Northern Railway Company," and the coals were
described as " The best Wallsend." At the police
station, on one of the prisoners were found a receipt,
showing that the prisoner Wells had purchased of
the railway company two tons of the worst descrip-
tisn of coal—viz., Elsecar, and the price he had paid
for them was only 14s. per ton. At the bottom of.
the bill given by the prisoners to the prosecutor, it
is stated that, should any cause of complaint arise
through the misconduct or neglect of the servants
of the company, the same may be reported at the
office, thus inducing the public to believe that the
men were railway servants. The learned gentle-
man, in conclusion, stated that, having proved the
above facts, he should ask for the committal of the
prisoners on the charge of conspiracy. He then
called

Police-constable Greathurst, 209 G, who said
that on Tuesday, the 19th instant, he was on duty
in St. John-street-road, between seven and eight
in the morning. He saw a van laden with two
tons of coals stop at the corner of Rawstone-street.
Another van was following it, laden with coke,
and five empty sacks were taken from that, and
put on the coal van. Suspecting that some fraud
was about to be perpetrated, he followed the vans
as far as the complainant's, and saw them shoot
15 sacks of coals, putting the sacks upon the
empty sacks. They then called the servant
and counted 20 sacks. Having emptied the coke
they drove off, having five sacks of coal in the van.
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who delivered the coals were given into custody,
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who
to
the elder Wells said " Don't prosecute them ; I'll

make you a present of one or two tons of coals, or
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tor had paid for the
coals was returned to him by the elder Wells. On
searching Wilson he found upon him a ticket for
one ton of the best Wallsend, Lee and Sturge
sellers, Chief-office, 85, Shaftesbury-street, Wilson,
carman. On one of the vans which was given up
to the elder Wells was the name of " William Lee,
Mark-lane, City." Upon going there he found that
in August last there was an office taken in the name
of William Smith, and that they wrote uR " Great
Northern Coal Company, Lee and Co., managers,"
but left in February. At Wells' shop there is a
large painted board, with " Great Northern Rail-
way Coal Company" on it.

Other evidence having been given, showing that
all the prisoners had acted together,
Mr. Cooper asked for a remand until Wednesday
next.

Mr. Corrie remanded the prisoners until that day,
but consented to take bail for the whole of them.
Bail having been put in, the prisoners left the
court.

T HA MES.—IMPORTANT CONVICTION.--William
Tott, a beerseller, of the Black Horse ale and beer-
house, in Bow-common-lane, in the parish of Brom-
ley St. Leonard, Middlesex, appeared before Mr.
Selfe on a summons, taken out by Inspector Ker-
ressy, of the K division of police, which charged
him with unlawfully refusing a police sergeant and
constable to enter his house when required to do so
on Sunday, the lith inst.

Mr. Stoddart, solicitor, appeared for the defence.
Police-sergeant Pooll, 23 K, stated that a few
minutes past twelve on the afternoon of Sunday,
the 17th instant, he heard several persons talking
in front of the bar in the defendant's house, and he
could distinguish Mr. Tott's potman among them.
He knocked at the door repeatedly, and called out
that he was a police constable, and required ad-
mittance. He was kept at the door five minutes.
While he was waiting, he heard the people in the
house go to the back into an out-house used as a
beer cellar, on the ground floor, and he heard them
conversing there. A police constable, No. 474 K,
came up, and he stationed him at the side door,
and went to the front door and repeatedly knocked
at it. The pots were rattling inside, and after a
delay of five minutes the potman called out,
" Who's there ? " To which he replied, " The
police." lle was then admitted, and proceeded into
a back room, and found the door which opened into
the back yard bolted and locked. He opened the
door, went into the yard, and asked the potman to
open the door of the outhouse used as a cellar, and
told him he suspected people were concealed there.
The potman said, "There is no one there." He
said to the pot nan, " Then you refuse to open the
door for me ?" The potman used the most abomi-
nable language in reply. The sergeant having
given a sample of it, to the astonishment and disgust
of the whole court, continued :—I said, " I Nvll
stop here all night, until I can see who is in the
cellar." The answer made to him was a volley of
foul abuse. He Laid to the potman, " I shall stop
here all night until I see the interior of that." The
potman once more swore at him, threatened him,
and used the vilest language. He asked the pot-
man for his master, and he bawled out, " I have no
master." Witness said, "Are you in partnership
with him ?" The potman answered, " No, I have
an employer, but no master." He asked the
p rtman where his master was. The potman said,
"He is asleep." Witness said, "Go and fetch
him directly." The potman went to the house and
fetched Mr. Tott, to whom he said, " I believe
you have some persons in this cellar, and I want to
look into it." Mr. Tott took a hunch of keys from his
pocket, and said, " I will not let you in there. I de-
sire you to go out of my place.' Witness said, " I
shall not until I have seen into that place. Mr.
Tat said, I'll see you -- first," caught hold of
him by the arts and coat, and tore his coat. Mr. Tott
also used some foul language, but was not so bad in
that respect as the potman. Mr. Tott also said,
" You shall not stop in my place." He said he
would until he wassatisfied. The defendant and his
potman then left, went into the house, and locked
and bolted the door, leaving him a prisoner in the
oyard. There was no way of getting out, except by
climbing a ten-feet wall. Heard the potman say,
" Who is he? I'll chuck him on his back and break
it." They then came out again, and Tott caught him
violently by the arm a second time. He told him to
let him alone ; there was his number, and he gave
him his name also. Mr. Tott still persisted, and tried
to pull him out of the yard, at the same time direct-

ing his man to assist him. The potman pulled off his
coat and brought out the poker, and held it up me-
nacingly, exclaiming, " I'll knock your brains out
with it." Seeing the position he was in, and believ-
ing there was an intention to injure him, witness
pulled out his staff, threw Mr. Tott on his back, and
told the potinan if he touched him with a poker he
would knock him down with his staff. He then de-
manded of Tott whether he still refused to let him
into the out-house, and he said, " I do," and witness
then left the house. He went round to the side door
and heard Tott call out, " They are both outside,
now come out."

In cross-examination by Mr. Stoddart, the witness
said he saw uo one in the house except Mr. Tott and
his potman, but he was satisfied, in his own mind,
there were persons in the out-house.
Mr. Sclfe—l have no doubt about it, but the de-
fendant is not charged with entertaining customers
and supplying them with beer or ale.
_ _

Mr..SlOddart, in an ingenious address, contended
that the charge must fail. The police-sergeant was
admitted into the house.
Mr. Selfe—When and how ?

_ -
Mr. Stoddart—He was admitted at the front door
directly the potman knew who he was. The defen-
dant was asleep at the time.
Mr, Selfe said the police-sergeant was refused
admittance into the out-house or cellar.
Mr. Stoddart said the police-sergeant was ad-
mitted into the house, and that was a sufficient
compliance with the act of Parliament, and he had
no right to enter any room on the premises. It had
been so decided by Mr. Hammill, another magis-
trate, at the Worship-street, Police-court.
Inspector Griffn, of the K division, in answer to
a question, partially confirmed Mr. Stoddart's
statement as to the decision at the Worship-street
Police-court.
Mr. Selfe said he entertained a -great respect for
Mr. ,Hammilland his decisions, but he entirely dif-
fered with him. The police-sergeant and constable
had a right to go into any room, cellar, and cup-
board in the house, if they had reasonable suspi-
cion people were concealed there during the pro-
hibited hours.

Mr. Stoddart—Not in a beerseller's bed-room,
for instance.

Mr. Selfe—Yes, if the police had reasonable
grounds for supposing people were concealed there.
Police-sergeant Dillon, K 19, said the prisoner
had been convicted some time ago in the penalty of
ss. and costs, for refusing to admit the people into
his house, and upon another occasion he was fined
2s. for serving beer on a Sunday morning before
one o'clock.

Mr. Selfe said the defendant had used much bad
language, and had committed an assault upon the
police-sergeant, for which he would have fined him
severely if there had been a summons. The lan-
guage mid conduct of the potman was most atro-
cious.

Mr. Stoddart--The potman was intoxicated, and
the defendant is very sorry indeed he should have
acted as he had done.
Mr. Selfe, in a long address, descanted upon the
evils of disorderly beer-houses, but those houses
of public entertaintment, licensed under the beer
act which were well conducted, were a great
boon to the working classes and wayfaring men.
The defendant would be taught by the sentence
he was about to pass that the act of Parlia-
ment could not be violated by any beersellers
with impunity. He could send the defendant to
prison for a month without the option of paying a
fine, but as he was going to deprive him of his
licence, he would not do so. He sentenced the de-
fendant to pay a fine of £5, and he further adjudged
that upon this, the third conviction, the defendant
be prohibited from selling ale, beer, cider, and
perry, by retail, for the space of two years.
Mr. Stoddart immediately gave notice of appeal,
and tendered the required sureties. They were ac-
cepted by the magistrate, and the recoguisances of
the defendant in £lOO were entered into, to prose-
cute the appeal at the quarter sessions.

LAMBETH.—THE SHORT HOUR MOVEMENT.
—Mr. William Dray, a master baker, carrying on
business at No. 1, Hill-street, Walworth, appeared
before Mr. Elliott to answer to a summons taken
out under the 3d Geo. IV., cap. 16, and charging
him with delivering to a customer a meat pie on
Sunday last after the hour of half-past one, for
which offence he had rendered himself liable to a
penalty of 10s.
Mr. Herring, who avowed he attended on behalf
of the Journeymen Bakers' Protection Society to
support the summons, said the present were the
first proceedings taken before the magistrates of
this district, and he therefore begged to state that
the object of the society he represented was not to
enforce penalties, but to enforce the law, so that
they (the journeymen bakers) might at least spend
part of the Sabbath with their families. His wor-
ship would see by the clause in the act he had quoted,
that persons carrying nn tho totiainceso
liable to a penalty of 10s. for the delivery of a pie,
pudding, meat, or victuals, after the hour of half-
past one o'clock on Sunday ; that for the second
offence the penalty was 205., and the third and
every subsequent offence, 40s. ; but he would repeat,
that penalties were not the object so much as putting
an end to the practice.
William Henry Pigeon, a journeyman baker, of
4, Church-street, Kennington, was called, and de-
posed that on Sunday last he went to the shop of
Mr. Dray, 1, Hill-street, Walworth, and at eight
minutes past two o'clock in the afternoon saw a
little girl carry a Nay a meat pie from there.
Mr. Elliott—Who delivered the pie to the girl ?
Witness—l don't know, sir. I could not see.
Mr. Elliott—But you are sure it came out of the
shop ?

Witness--Yes, your worship, I am quite sure of
that.

The defendant, in reply to the charge, declared
he was totally ignorant of the existence of such a
law, and said that though the pie had been ready
at half-past one, it had not been taken away until
about the time mentioned.

Mr. Elliott observed that there could be no
doubt an offence under the act had been committed,
and that it was-highly proper that the journeymen
bakers should not be kept at work on the Sabbath-
day longer than was absolutely necessary. The
defendant must therefore pay a penalty of 10s. and
costs.

Mr. Samiiel Holmes, of No. 31, Royal-road,
Newington, was next called on his summons, and
pleaded guilty to the offence, saying that, like Mr.
Dray, he was totally ignorant of the existence of
such a law. For his own part, he said, he should
like to keep his shop closed the whole of Sunday,
and would willingly keep it closed if his fellow-
tradesmen did the same. He felt 'it a sort of de-
gradation to have been summoned before a magis-
trate and fined, and thought he should have
received some intimation of the intention to sum-
mon him, in which case there would have been no
occasion for it.

Mr. Herring hoped that as Mr. Holmes was
averse to opening his shop on Sunday, he would
sign a declaration to
.that effect, which bore the
signatures of 800 of his fellow-tradesmen,
Mr. Holmes replied that he should have no ob-
jection to do so, and having paid the ten shillings
penalty and costs, left the court.

SOUTHWARK.—ALLEGED MURDER OF A
FEMALE IN BERMONDSEY.— Thomas Buxton, a
drover, was brought before Mr. Combe for final
examination, charged with causing the death of an
old woman named Catherine Kenny, by striking
her on the head.

George Woodley, a leather-dresser, said that be-
tween nine and teu o'clock on Sunday night he was
passing John's-place, Grange-road, Bermondsey,
when he saw a number of children following a
female, and shouting after her. She picked up some-
thing from the ground and threw it at the children,
when the prisoner went up to her and asked her
why she threw it at them—did she want to kill
them. She replied, " What's that to you ?" and
struck him a violent blow on the face. The prisoner
then pushed her from him and struck her ou the
right side of the face, but not very violently. She
staggered towards the pavement and fell backwards
on the edge of the kerb. He assisted to lift her up,
and found she was dead.
Catherine Lane said she lived at 17, Wood's-
place, Grange-roid, Bermondsey, and she saw the
prisoner go up to the deceased and ask her why she
threw the stones at the children. She appeared
half drunk and struck the prisoner, who gave her a
blow with his left hand on the right side of her
face. In a minute or so she fell and was picked up
dead.

Thomas Moore, 213 M, said he was on duty in
the Grange-road on Sunday night, when he saw a
number of children following a female, whom they
hooted and threw stones at. The prisoner was
there, and he went up to the deceased and said to
her " Why do you throw stones at those children ?
You may kill some of them." The deceased struck
him on the head, and he gave her a blow with his
left hand, and she staggered a little and fell down.
Witness sent for a stretcher, but she was dead a
long time before it arrived. In fact, she never
spoke or moved after falling.
Mr. William Alexander Tuckey, surgeon,. 10,
Ilermondsey-street, said he was called to see the de-
ceased at the station house, and there found life had
been for some time extinct. He afterwards made
a post inortem examination, and was of opinion that
death was caused by either a blow or a fall. There
were no external injuries.
Mr. Combe committed the prisoner for trial.

GREENWICH.—THE METROPOLITAN BUILD •
INGS ACT.—WIIAT IS A BUILDING ?-Si Joseph
Paxton, Bart., appeared to a summons, charging