The Sun.
London, England, 1856-06-03 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EvENING, JUNE :3, 1856,

LINES AT FIXED Z.ENT.A.LE.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.—(This

IMPRISONMENTS AND EXECIJTIONS IN
BiDEN FOR POLITICAL OFFENCES.

COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH.

(Sittings at Westminster, before Mr. Justice Wighttnan

(From a Correspondent of the Morning Advertiser.)

and a Common Jun.)
ROBINSON V. FOWLER.

In 18tS there were in Baden 3,572 persons
under trial for high treason, and nearly 10,000 in
exile. In tho.same year, in consequence of another
popular rising, a similar number was arrested, and
several thousands more sought safety in exile. In
1849 the dungeons and public buildings through-
out the whole country were crowded with prisoners,
and it is no exaggeration to say that half the popu-
lation was either under trial, in exile, shot, or in
daily apprehension of arrest. In the same year
the following executions took place, within the
compass of a few weeks, under the auspices of
Prussian Princes, the Grand Duke of Baden, and
the present Prince Regent.
_

This was an a,Aion for the recovery of 25/. on a pro-
missory note, signed by the defendant. The plaintiff is
an attorney at Settle, in Yorkshire, and the defendant
is a Miss Hannah Fowler, who, after signing the bill,
handed it ton Mr.Thistlethwaite, an attorney of London,
and agent to the plaintiff. The defence was that do•
fondant's signature had been obtained by collusion and
fraud, and without consideration.

It appeared that the defendant had been living with
a person of the name of Clapp, who became embarrassed,
and whilst he was in custody for debt she was urged by
Clapp and Tkistlethwaite to sign the bill in question,
which, however, she refused to do. Subsequently Clapp
was relea!•ed, and she then consented to sign the note on
the express understanding that she was not to be called
upon to pay it, it being fur the accommodation of Clapp.
The note was delivered to Thistlethwaite, who indorsed
it to Robinson, who gave him a check for the amount,
after deducting the discount. The question for the con-
sideration of the jury was whether it was a bona fide
discounting of the cheek by Robinson.
After hearing evidence, the jury returned a verdict for
the defendant.

1. M. Dortu, officer of National Militia—shot.
2. N. Tiedetna,nr, General and Military Governor of
the fortress of Rastadt—shot.

a. W. A. von Tratzgehler, Member of the National
Parliament of Frankfort—shot.

4. E. Elsenhaus, Secretary of the Ministry of War

5. Von Biedenfeld, Colonel of the 31 Regiment of
Infantry—shot.
6. F. Neff, professor—shot.

7. Heilig, Major of Artillery—shot.
8. H. Boening, Colonel of the Deindcratic Legion
—shot.

9. Ph. Zenthoefer, non-commissioned officer—shot.
10. Mnicinsky, Major of the Polish Legion—shot.
11. I.,_.nzinger, officer—shot.
12. K. Jacobi, Major of Artillery, Commander of the
forts A and B of 11a,stadt—shot.
13. Schad°, Adjutant—shot.
14. iloefer, Professor at Altneudorf—shot.
15. G. Kromer, soldier—shot.
H. P. Lacher, soldier—shot.
17. Conis, carabinier—shot.

13 V. Streuber; Communal Councillor of Mannheim
and President of the Neo•Catholic community—shot.
19. J. Jansen, Adjutant—shot.
20. Giintard, soldier—shot.
21. Jaegar, soldier—shot.
22. Bauer, pioneer—shot.
23. A. Bernigau, Major of National Militia—shot.
24. SArader, soldier—shot.
35. Ktilmarx, non-commissioned officer—shot.
25. Kohlenbecker, soldier—shot.
27. Dietz—shot.

28. Count von rugger, Lieutenant in the service of
Bavaria—shot.

The prison system in Baden, the Royalist terror-
ism all over the country, the confiscations of pro-
perty, and other measures of repression, continuo
up to this time with a cruelty not surpassed, if
equalled, by the system prevailing in Naples.

TUE MUNICIPAL DIRECTORY FOR 185 G.

KELLY AND CO.

The great changes which have been effected in
the metropolitan municipal world by the recent
act have rendered a municipal directory an urgent
desideratum. Iu the present volume will be found
all the information sought for, compiled and ar-
ranged in the usual business-like manner of the
spirited publishers. The labour of getting the
work up must have been considerable ; and so
scrupulously has this been done that the various
parts have been subjected to revision by gentle-
men best qualified to test their accuracy. Thus
the public have not only a well filled volume for
their money, but also one on which they can
confidently rely. Among other things will be
found an analysis of the act which has occasioned
the necessity for the directory—which we are
happy to perceive is to be continued, the present
being the first of a series to appear annually.

FANCY BAZAAR AT WELLINGTON
BARRACK!.

The committee of ladies who during the last two
years have been occupied in the praiseworthy task of as-
sisting and providing employment for the wives and chil-
dren of Guardsmen on foreign service in the East having
ascertained that a nursery and infant school were much
needed, wherein the younger children of the Brigade of
Guards might be tended and instructed during their mo-
thers' daily absence at work, a subscription has been
opened with a view of carrying out that object, and a
sufficient sum has already been collected to justify the
trustees, Colonels Thornton, Keppel, Steele, Moncrieff,
Kingscote, and Carleton, in entering into a negotiation
for the purchase of a proper site for such an establish-
ment, close to the Victoria Lodging-house for married
Guardsmen. _ _

Her Majesty the Queen has graciously promised her
support to this charitable institution, and their Royal
Highnesses the Duke of Cambridge and the Duchesses of
Kent, Cambridge, and Glocester have already subscribed
liberally towards carrying it out.
On Thursday and Friday next, the sth and 6th of
June, it is intended that a bazaar and fancy fair shall be
held at the Wellington Barraeks, in order that further
funds may be collected for erecting the necessary build-
ings, and for the permanent maintenance of the proposed
nursery and school.
The condition of the wives and families of our private
soldiers in barracks has long been a scandal to our ser-
vice ; and we believe that to the Brigade of Guards be-
longs the credit of having been the first corps in which
practical and effectual measures were taken to ameliorate

it. We trust that the public will prove by their attend-
ance and liberality on this occasion their appre-
ciation of the exertions of the ladies who during the late
war so generously and constantly devoted their time and
money to the protection and assistance of the families of
those brave men whose absence on duty compelled them
to leave those nearest and dearest t 9 them dependent on
the kindness and charity of others.

THE COLLIERS' STRIKE.-SHAMEFUL

OUTRAGE.

(Prom the Glasgow Courier.)
The strike which has been maintained with such ob-
stinacy, the colliers would seem now determined to sup-
port by means more forcible than delegates and placards.
A meeting of those " out " in Rutherglen was held on
Tuesday evening, and no doubt the usual amount of
"moving and resolving," and "reporting and sympa-
thising," was expended, with all of which, when the
objects are peaceable, no fault can be found. Bat a
more striking resolution than usual is presumed to have
been carried ; for when the meeting dispersed it was
quickly bruited about among the gossips of the place
that certain nobs who had thought fit to continue at
their work were to be stopped next morning. The men
referred to—three under-ground labourers in Messrs.
Dunlop and Co.'s Rosebank pit, near Rutherglen—re-
ceived the intelligence, but, determined to judge for
themselves, and not through the " union," in the hire of
their labour, they set the threat at defiance, and pro-
ceeded towards their work as usual on Wodnesiay
morning, between 4 and 5 o'clock. They were suddenly
brought to a stand, however, on the public road by a
party of eight or ten ruffians armed with bludgeons,
who leaped out of ambuscade in the adjoining fields, and
falling on the defenceless men, smashed and wounded
them in the most savage and cowardly manner. Lie
poor fellows were glad to escape with their lives ; and
the savages, having driven them back, rapidly disap-
peared. The three men, one of whom is advanced in
years, have been badly cut and bruised. One of them
lost much blood, and all have suffered such injuries as
will unfit them for work for some days. That the attack
originated in the strike cannot be doubted, for the ruf-
fians who male it had the appearance of colliers, and
demanded of them as they fell on them why they were
working, and if they got Se. a day. As usual in such
attacks, however, the thrashers were strangers in the
neighbourhood, selected because unknown to the objects
of their vengeance. Their detection, accordir:Oy, will
be difficult. The colliers may assure themselves that
though they strike their work they will not strike inof-
fensive men with impunity.

THE NEW BISHOP OF CARLISLE AND THE LOCAL
Cn!ETZRY.—TII new Bishop of Carlisle, taking an op-
posite course i• his predecessor, has consented, says the
Carlisle Journal, to consecrate the cemetery without re-
quiring the erection of a stone fence or any other invidi•
ous barrier between the portion of the ground appropri-
ated to the members of the Church of England and that
devoted to persons who ate not members of that body.
A deputation of the burial board waited on the bishop,
by appointment, at the episcopal residence, Rose Castle,
on Friday last, when the whole subject wan fully die-
cuised. In the course of conversation, his lordship un-
reservedly gave expression to the most liberal sentiments
with reference to all denominations of Christians, and
showed that his sympathies were not confined to any
one sect, but extended to all. He at once frankly stat-
ed his opinion that the Canons Ecclesiastical did not
apply to cemeteries under the burial acts, and said that
he should be perfectly satisfied with boundary stones.
TERRIBLE RAILWAY ACClDENT.—Particulars of a
terrible accident which occurred on the Panama railroad
by which between 30 and 40 persons were killed and 70
and 80 wounded have been received. The accident oc-
curred about nine miles from Aspinwall. The train was
conveying the passengers by the George Law, who were
on their way to California. The second car from
the locomotive from some cause at present inexplicable
ran off the line and was followed by eight others, all of
which were precipitated into a ravine 30 feet deep.
There could not have been less than 500 persons in the
carriages, and it was feared that the above figures are a
very small estimate of the loss of life that has taken place.
The New York papers describe the scene as horrible.
As soon as the wounded could be cent back to Aspinwall
owing to the crowded state of the hospital, application
was made to the inhabitants to receive them at their
houses, but in nearly every instance the white inhabit. -
ants, who are hotelkeepers, refused and closed their
doers. The unfortunate sufferers were therefore cram-
med into the hospital where the scene was painful in the
extreme. Some of the unfortunate persons were dread-
fully mutilated. About two thirds of the wounded had
one or both legs fractured, besides being otherwise in-
iured, while out of the whole number but one had a
fractured arm. One or two had their skulls broken in.
One whole family, consisting of father, mother, and five
children, with the exception of one child, was killed, and
some had their heads completely severed from their
bodioe.