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London, England, 1860-02-09 00:00:00

THE SI-TN, LONDON, THUG SPAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 9, 1860.

LAW _rX2R.LLIGENCE.—Feb. 8.

he went and collected the bundles of linen enume-
rated, and had kept out of the wdy until recently,
when he was apprehended. The principal point
was as to his identity.
The witnesses spoke positively to him, and the
jury found him Guilty.
It was then proved that the prisoner was sen-
tenced to seven years' transportation by this court
in Jan., 1853, and was discharged on a ticket-of-
leave in October, 1855. His certificate of discharge
was produced in Court, and it was found to be
dated 1859. This was explained to be an error,
but

The Assistant-J udge said it was one of so serious
a nature in an official document, that he should
cause some inquiry to be made respecting it.
The Court sentenced the prisoner to five years'
penal servitude.
Mr. Metcalfe prosecuted, and Mr. Ribton de-
sended the prisoner.
Patrick Collins, a hodman, who had been con-
victed on many occasions of assaults, principally
upon the police, was found guilty of assaulting
Charles Dickinson, a navvie.

Mr. Cumming, ex-inspeetor of the B division,
stated that it had been suggested that this assault
arose about the strike, but that really was not so.
He was now employed by Messrs. Kelk to protect
their men from these attacks, and he now had a
warrant out against the prisoner's brother for as-
saulting on• of them, and the ill-feeling in this case
was thus caused. The Irish hodmen had been to a
great extent displaced by barrowmen, for which
navvies were preferred, to the exclusion of the
" hods," as they were much more proficient in
wheeling a barrow, more work was done, and at
much less expense. That was really the cause of
this assault.

The Assistant-Judge said, had it appeared that
this assault had been committed under any animus
arising from the strike, and that the assault had
been committed upon a man who chose to go to
work by one who would not, a most exemplary
punishment would have been inflicted. The len-
tance upon the defendant was four months'
imprisonment.
Mr. Platt prosecuted. Mr. Metcalfe was counsel
for the prisoner.
Thomas Brown, 23, was convicted of a robbery,
with violence, upon William Bennet, and stealing
from his person a watch and guard, value £6. It
was not known tbat he had been in custody, but
he was the associate of thieves.
The Court sentenced him to 18 months' hard
labour.

Mr. Holdsworth was for the prosecution. Mr.
Metcalfe defended.

James Henry Johnson, 25, was found guilty of
stealing a watch from the person of Henry Noakes,
as he was leaving a chapel in Pentonville-road. The
prisoner was not known to have been convicted be-
fore, but, like the preceding one, was the associate
of very bad characters.
The Assistant-Judge sentenced him to 18 months'
hard labour.

Mr. Dickie was for the peosecution, Mr. Ribton
for the prisoner.

Robert Collins, 37, was indicted for stealing a
looking•glass, value ls. 6d., the property of Fredk.
Close, from a van, in Backchurch-lane.
Mr. Metcalfe was for the prosecution, Mr. Ribton
cross-examined the witnesses for the prisoner, and
Mr. Dickie addressed the jury upon the facts.
The jury found the prisoner not guilty.
Mr. Ribton, in a case in which he was engaged,
challenged 20 jurors, and 12 were empanneled to
try, but, in consequence of the absence of a witness,
the case had to be postponed. After the verdict in
the case of Collins, which was tried by the 12 not
challenged, they were directed to go out for refresh-
ments, and a fresh jury put into the box.
Mr. Ribton said he believed this had been done
by.instructions, and, if that were so, it was a most
unjust and unconstitutional proceeding, against
which he protested.
The learned judge said the jury had gone into the
box in the usual way, after the first had gone out
for refreshment, and there was not the least pos-
sible ground for the suggestion that any jury or
juryman had been kept out purposely.
Henry Harding, 18, Ellen Harding, 19, and
Joseph Richards, 23, were indicted on three charges
of stealing linen from laundress's carts. There were
seven other charges against them, so that they had
been doing business wholesale.
They belonged to a gang about the Seven•dials,
and were apprehended by Holmes, F, and Ackrel],
48 F.

The evidence failed as to Richards. The Hardings
were found guilty.
Henry, though but 18, was a well-known thief, and
had been convicted before. His father and mother
were very respectable, and had done all they could
to reclaim him, bat without success ; they could
not get him from his companions. He had lived
with the female, who bad been a prostitute, and
disposed of the plunder. Her parents, too, were
stated by Cole, C, to bo very respectable, but she
preferred this course of life.

The Court sentenced Henry Harding (the name
was an assumed one) to four years' penal servitude,
and Ellen Harding to 12 months' hard labour.
Richards was discharged with a severe caution.
Mr. Abram prosecuted ; Mr. Tayler defended the
Hardings.
John Sipless, 31, and Sarah, his wife, were in-
dicted for feloniously receiving a brass weight,
knowing the same to have been stolen.
Mr. Cooper was for the prosecution.
Mr. Ribton defended, and submitted that the in-
dictment disclosed no offence.

The Court ruled in favour of the objection, and
directed an acquittal.

A number of ordinary cases of lareeny and steal.
ing from the person were disposed of.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE—Feb. 8.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.-BURGLARY AND
ATTEMPT TO MURDER.—Williant John Sanderson,
aged 23, a porter, was charged before Mr. Beadon
with murderously assaulting police-constable Bash-
forth, E 147, after with others burglariously enter-
ing the York Minster public-house, 17, Foley-street,
and stealing therein silver and copper money and
tobacco, the property of the landlord, Mr. John
Frost.

Bashforth, the constable, whose head was bound
over with surgical plaister, deposed as follows :—I
was on duty last night in and about Ogle-street, and
at a little before two o'clock a.m., observed two mon
standing close to the houses in Foley-street, and
the prisoner approaching them with something in
his hand. Suspecting something wrong I got
into a doorway to watch their proceedings. The
prisoner having reached them, they all three
turned into Ogle-street, and I followed. They
caught sight of me, ran away, and I pur-
sued them, and laid hold of the prisoner. The
prisoner had his shoes in his hand, and seeing
something bulky under his coat, I asked him what
he had there • upon which ho dropped the parcel
produced, which, bursting open as it fell, I found to
be tobacco—the same now produced. I told him I
should take him to the station, upon which he set
up a whistle, after saying, be if you shall
take rue by yourself." After the whistle he said,
" Give me time to put on my shoes, and I'll go
quietly." I replied I should not ; and he then said
to me, " Loose my collar, and I'll walk quietly." I
did not think it prudent to do this, and took him
on into York-street, when he slipped out from his
pocket under his coat the large " jemmy" produced,
and before I could prevent it struck me a violent
blow on the crown of my hat, which penetrated
deep through the leather but did not touch my
head. My hat was knocked off by the force of the
blow, and he struck me a second blow with the
same iron instrument, inflicting one of the wounds
I have, and the blood poured down profusely. Di-
rectly ho did this he threw the jemmy from him
into the road. At this moment two men, one of
whom I remembered to have seen in the doorway in
the first instance, and perhaps the other, though I
cannot speak so positively as to him, came up, and
one of these, picking up the jemmy or crowbar,
struck me (the prisoner crying out " let's murder
the —, for I'll not be took") a violent blow on
the head, and I was deluged in blood. I seized hold
of the instrument, and wrenching it out of his grasp
pitched it away. As I did so all the three laid hold
of me, one by the collar and the others by the arms.
The prisoner said, " It's no use being a fool, you
may let me go, and before you leave me I'll square
it with you" (give money). I asked the other two
men to release me, and they said they would if I
would let the other go. I managed to get my right
arm and arm at liberty and sprang my rattle, when
the other two men ran off, but I kept hold of the
prisoner. Three constables came up on the alarm
and assisted me and conveyed the prisoner to the
station-house. I was very weak from the loss of
blood, but pointed out the jemmy on the road. I
was taken to the surgeon as quickly as possible, and
had my wounds dressed.
The following certificate, as to the state of the
injured constable, who was accommodated with a
seat, was handed in :
‘. I hereby certify that constable 147, Bashforth,
has received two severe incised wounds on the head.
"JOHN WORKET.
" No. 4, High-street, Bloomsbury."
Mr. Beadon remarked that the way in which he
(witness) had given his evidence was very creditable
to him. He remembered him, and knew this was
not the first time he had shown great courage in
affairs of this sort....
E 92 (Tack) heard the cry of " Police," and the
springing of a rattle, and proceeding to the spot
found the prisoner beating the last witness and

struggling violently, and, assisted by others, got
him away and took him to the station.
Sergeant Honey was on duty at the St. Giles's
_Police-station, Clarke's-buildings, when the charge
was brought in. The constable, Bashforth, was in
a frightful state, and covered with blood. He was
.
greatly exhausted, and he sent him to the divis:onai
surgeon. The charge, at that time sto°l3ainst
the prisoner on suspicion of stealir—
.l. against
tobacco, and the assault and »4: .g a quantity of
tempt to murder the
constable. While
so tir-Le constable was gone he
searched the priner, and found is. BA. in copper,
some screws of tobacco, an end of candle, and some
Lucifer matches. On asking how he accounted for
the money and things, he replied, " That you must
find out." There was besides a raffle-card of a
silver brooch, to be raffled for at a public-house at
6d. per member, with an intimation that there
would be a concert at the same time. Shortly after
a gentleman came to the station with a constable,
and gave information that his house had been
entered.

E 91 (Strickland) deposed to finding the shutter
down and window open of the York Minster public-
house, Foley-street, between two and three o'clock,
upon which ho rang the bell and alarmed the house.
The house is about a dozen yards from the spot
where prisoner was described as being first seen.
Mr. John Frost, the landlord, said he knew the
prisoner as an occasional customer. He left the
house, as he thought, secure on retiring to bed,
and found the window (four feet from the ground)
and shutter open, as stated, on being alarmed by
the constable. On the floor of the bar he found his
two tills, cleared of their contents, about Bs. in
copper, and some silver. He missed about 111 b. of
tobacco, and some screws of the same. He identified
the property produced as that he had missed, both
by marks on the paper and otherwise. It was 20
minutes past two when the last witness rang the
bell.

Mr. Beadon said at the conclusion of the evidence
—I have never had a case before me wherein a con-
stable has shown such unflinching pluck and ready
courage as Bashforth has in the present, or one in
which an officer has given clearer or more intelli-
gible evidence. I hope this will be mentioned; and
I do strongly recommend him to the Commissioners
of Police both for promotinn and reward. His con-
duct aas been praiseworthy throughout.

GREENWICH.—A VIOLENT CHARACTER.—T.
Osborne, 38, a bricklayer's labourer, well known to
the police as one of the most desperate characters
in Deptford, was charged before Mr. Seeker with
being drunk, assaulting Mr. Hay, landlord of the
Lord Duncan Tavern, Deptford, and aloo police-
constable 171.1 t.

Mr. Hay stated that about seven o'clock on the
previous (Tuesday) evening the prisoner came into
his house and commenced a disturbance by using
the most disgusting language, and on being desired
to leave the house he put himself in a fighting atti-
tude. He (complainant) then insisted upon his
leaving, and a scuffle ensuing, he was seized by the
prisoner and struck, and subsequently the police
took him into custody.
Police•constable 171 R said he took the prisoner
into custody, and on getting outside into the street
he asked witness to let him go. Witness said he
could not do so, upon which the prisoner remarked,
"No - policeman shall take me," and endea-
voured to throw him. Witness, however, prevented
this, and threw the prisoner, who then tried to seize
him by the private part of his person, which corn-
pelled him to resort to the use of his staff.

Mr. Hay said that after the charge was taken at
the station the prisoner said be knew he should
only have a month's imprisonment ; but that after
he came from gaol he threatened he wonld do some-
thing towards him (Mr. Hay), for which he would
suffer six months' imprisonment.
Mr. Seeker told the prisoner he had acted in an
outrageous manner, and for the assault on the con-
stable he would be imprisoned and kept to hard
labour for one month, and, at the end of that time
he should require him to find two householders
willing to become bail, each in the sum of £lO for
his good conduct for four months, and, in default
he would be further imprisoned for that period.

MURDER OF TWO AFRICAN
IMMIG.R.ANTS.

The following letter has been received from
Cayenne :

" GEORGETOWN, DEC. 9.
" In confirmation of what I have already written
with respect to the position of French Guiana, I
hasten to apprise you of a fact of serious import-
ance, and which reached me at the moment of the
departure of the mail. It relates to the murder of
two African immigrants. You are aware what-
ever may be said to the contrary, that these
immigrants do not quit Africa of their own free will
to labour in the French colonies. There are some
who persist in refusing, at all risks, to accept the
slavery attempted to be imposed on thorn, and who
will not work. They escape to the woods, and re-
move as far as possible from their oppressors.
Under the system which prevailed previous to the
decree of emancipation in 1848 there were many in
this position. They were known by the name of Mar-
rens,' and the same epithet is applied to the African
immigrants who will not accept the pretended ad-
vantages offered them by their importers into the
French colonies. Two of the immigrants, lately
arrived in Guiano, and who had not obtained work,
lived by the plunder of the small planters. The
latter, annoyed at finding their plantations con-
tinually ravaged, organised a battue with the
assistance of their neighbours. The battue took
place, and the planters soon came upon the traces of
the Marrons. The latter, finding they were dis-
covered, endeavoured to escape, but they were both
shot dead by the proprietor of the plantation which
had been plundered. It is worthy of remark that
this man is himself a negro, and it may be asked
why he acted in so cruel a manner towards these
Marrows,' natives like himself of Africa ? The ex-
planation is easy. He has imbibed the fatal doc-
trines which prevail in the French colonies—namely,
that civil liberty among the negroes is merely tran-
sitory, and the engagement of immigrants a step
towards slavery. Under the regime of the lash the
planters were authorised to put the Marrone to
death, and the assassin of the two immigrants,
being aware of that fact, believed that he was
justified in shooting these men,fwhose only crime
was their having stolen some bananas or
other roots in his fields. I may also tell you
that the authorities here celebrate the 2d of
December as a national holiday. They do not,
however, avow the real cause of the fete, and it is
said that- the rejoicings are to celebrate the anni-
versary of the Emperor of Brazil, who was born
on Dec. 2, 1825 ; but nobody is deceived as to the
intentions of the local authorities. Nobody thinks
of celebrating the 2d of December of Paris. The
Government itself merely justified the coup d'etat as
a necessity forced upon it by an inextricable posi-
tion."

TILE MYSTERIOUS OCCURRENCE AT
CARLISLE.

Since the publication of some of the details
connected with the discovery of a coffin and the dead
body of u child, in a box, at the Bush Hotel, on.
Thursday, public curiosity and excitement have be-
come very peat. The police are working diligently
in the solution of the mystery. On Saturday we
were present at a re-examination of the coffin, box,
and the tattered apparel which had covered the
child. The coffin measured 43 inches in length, 131
inches in breadth, and 1O inches in depth at the
head ; but at the foot it is only 7 inches. It is con-
siderably deeper at the head than ordinary coffins.
The white cotton cords attached to the handles at
the sides and ends were for letting the coffin into
the grave. It is ornamented at the sides and lid
by: a tin beading. At the head is the figure of an
angel, and at the foot the representation of a flower
vase, of the same material. In the centre is a plate,
shaped like a heart; and above is a crown and the
words " Glory to God," whioh is no doubt a common
inscription on coffin plates. The box in which it was
inclosed was unplaned, and the lid screwed on. The
inside of the lid was clean and new, and was marked
in pencil with the calculations of the joiner. The
nightcap, chemise, and night dress in which the
body was wrapped, as were also the kerchief which
had been tied partly round the neck and head, were
carefully examined with a view to detect any pecu-
liar marks. There were some black patches, like
drops of ink, which had probably fallen from the
staining of the coffin, under the night dress, but
there were no other particular marks. The cambric
handkerchief was holed at two of the corners, but
whether it had been cut or had decayed under the
influence of the moisture could not be determined.
The child had yellowish hair, and one of its golden
locks was preserved for the purpose of identifica-
tion, if necessary. In the afternoon the body was
interred in the cemetery. The Paisley police were
communicated with on Thursday, and it is satisfac-
tory to know tkat they nave found some traces
which, together with what is known at Carlisle,
will in all probability lead to the detection of the
parties implicated in the horrible business. It has
been ascertained that the box was sent from Pais-
Icy on the evening (not during the day) on the 18th
March last. It was, sent by a " Mr. Loudon" to
" Mrs. Loudon, Bush Hotel, Carlisle ;" it came in a
luggage train on the Glasgow and South-Western
Railway ; and Mr. Galbraith, undertaker, made a
coffin and box resembling the description of those
found at the Bush about the time they were sent
to Carlisle ,• but as be was from home When the
polio() called, and as he had not the articles them,
selves to identify the point will not be settled till
his return. The registers
the various churches

have been searched, ' u up ay no trace of
b t t M d
the child had I''"e,enfound. At this stage of the in-
vestigation it would be imprudent to pubii.'ill all
the infe;rmation which we possess, but it -is of such
a P!daracter that, unless it surpass some of the most
remarkable cases of circumstantial evidence on
record, the parties concerned are probably nearer
detection than they suspect.—Carlisle Examiner.

FIFE VESSELS NEARLY WRECKED
AT LONDO2IrIIRIDGE.

An accident of a very alarminc, character, and
which nearly involved the wreck of three steamers
and two schooners, took place yesterday afternoon
on the river, off Fresh Wharf, adjoining London-
bridge. The cause of it is thus explained by those
in charge of the wharf. Shortly before two o'clock
the Excelsior, of Salcorube, from St. Michael's, ar-
rived off the wharf, when the Portuguese schooner
Terceieuse, which had discharged at the lower
wharf, was in the course of being towed out of her
berth, so as to let the Excelsior take her place. The
tug which had hold of the Portuguese schooner
brought her out into the stream, athwart the flood
tide, and being one of the full spring, was running
up with great force. Such was the strength of the
tide upon the broadside of the schooner, that the
tug had little or no power upon her, and as the
strain increased the tow-rope broke, and the vessel
was carried against the Excelsior. Between them
and the bridge, moored to the steamboat quay of
the wharf, were three steam-ships belonging to the
General Steam Navigation Company, viz., the
Giraffe, which was to start that afternoon for Yar-
mouth, and the Albion and Triton, Boulogne
steamers. Almost immediately the two schooners
came athwart thelhawser of these steamers, at the
same moment their mooring-warps snapped, and,
with the wharf lighter, the whole swung outwards
into the current, and were drifting with great vio-
lence against London-bridge, and such was the peril-
ous situation of the vessels that several of the crews,
apprehending their ships would capsize ran up the
rigging and jumped upon the coping of the bridge.
For nearly two hours it was difficult to say what the
consequences would be. The Giraffe partly went
under the first arch, and would have carried away
everything on deck, but for the strength of her
stern moorings. As it was, the succeeding two
hours' flood lifted her stern to the stone-work of the
spring of the arch, and her stern, with wheel, eze.,
was cut down and smashed, besides sustaining other
damage forward. The. Triton was almost in a similar
fix in the second arch. Her bow swung round and
came in contact with the abutment of the second
arch, where she was brought up, the stern of the
Giraffe, which cut down the Triton's starboard-
quarter bulwarks, preventing her going under the
arch. The Albion was the outside vessel, and was
carried against the larboard side of the Triton; The
two schooners were driven a-head as the steamers
swung round, and were brought up by the abutment
of the second arch, thus entirely stopping the navi-
gation on the City side of the bridge. Several
steam-tugs came up with a view of getting the
vessels clear, but owing to the strength of the tide
their operations were entirely fruitless. It was
blowing a gale from the S.W. at the time ; had it
been from the eastward with that force of tide, the
vessels would have been driven under the arches,
and in all probability wrecked. In the situation
described they lay against London-bridge until
nearly four o'clock, vast crowds being collected on
the bridge viewing the critical position of the ves-
sels. As soon as the tide ebbed the tugs came up and
assisted in extricating the vessels, and from the
shattered appearance of some of them, their repairs
will involve a considerable outlay. They therefore
will be detained some time before they can proceed
on their voyages.

COUNTRY MARKETS.

LYNN-FEE. 7.

- - - • -
At to-day's market there was only a moderato supply of
wheat, and the best samples meeting with a good demand,
readily realised prices which were fully is over last week.
Barley advanced is per qr on Ists.rates. Beans also 1.
over previous quotations.

NEWARK—FEB. 8.
At the market this morning the attendance was fair
and there was a moderate show of wheat. Buyers operated
readily, and is advance was obtained on former pries,.
Malting barley was active, but obtained no advance upon
the late extreme prices. Grinding qualities dull. Oats a
moderate show, and steady sale, at late rates. Beans wen*
scarce, at former quotations.
White wheat, now, 473 t0.51s Barley, grinding 23s to 28.
Red do. 43s to 488 Oats, old .. —s to --.4
Old white 47s to 51s New do 23s to 274
Red do 43s to 483 Beans. 44s to 498
Barley, malting 38s to 455, Beans, now --6 to --.11

MELTON MOWBRAY—FEB. 7.
There was a middling show of wheat to-day, with a quiet
business at the annexed prices :—White wheat, new, 44+1
Od to 46s Od ; red, 40s Od to 43s per 36 stone ; barley is
fair supply, at 383 to 44s for malting, and 28. to 32s per
qr. for grinding; oats, 241 to 32s Od per 24 stone; bee',
428 to 524 for old ; new, 52s per 38 at.

HULL--Fin. 6.
Wheat.... Old white.... per qr
Old red
11
New white .. „
Now red .... „ . . 40s Od to 44s Od
Dantzic, Konb , &c. old white 50s Od to 52s Od
Dutch, Belgian, and French.. 458 Od to 47s Od
Baltic and Hamburg, red.... 44s Od to 48. (id
St. Petersburg and itiga, old. 39s Od to 44s 04
Barley.... English malting 33. Od to 42s 011
Grinding 3os Od to 32, 04
Seal and Oderbruck l7s Od to 40s 04
Holstein and Danish 345,0d to 38s Oi
Grinding
26s Od to 2,90
Oats English, old 24. Od to 26s OS
Archangel and Riga, per rt.. Os 101(1 to lii
Friesland and Dutch oBlld to Gallia
Swedish and Danish Oslld to 01110
Beans ....English, old, per qr
New pigeon 4os Od to 42s ag
New tick 39s Od to 40s 04
Egyptian
Peas Foreign breakers
Grinding
Tares ....Winter —a Od to ---5 la
Inch in Corn
Linseed, feeding sos Od to 52. 04
crushing
Linseed cakes (Hull) .. £9 17 6 to £lO 6 0
Foreign 715 oto 8 6 0
Rapo cakes 415 oto 6 fil I
Bones

MARKET HARBOROUGII—FEB. 7.
Thero was a middling supply of wheat, which met
fair demand, at about former rates. White wheat, 42s to
45s ; red, 383 to 42s per 36 stone. Barley, old, 34s to 40s ;
new, —8 to —s. Oats were a steady sale, from 225 to 30$
per 24 stone. Beans (old), at 34s to 48s ; new, 34s to
per 38 stone.