The Sun.
London, England, 1856-09-22 00:00:00

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Colonel Crutchley. Shortly after his arrival Sir Colin
inspected the depots of the 21st Fusiliers, under the_
correrilan'd .of Major Steward, and the 57th Foot, under
the command of Major Hassard ; and on Saturday, the
63d, under Major Carey, and 76th, under Lieut.-Colonel
Gardiner weie also minutely inspected. After the in-
spection Sir Colin paid a visit to the Earl and Countess
of Rosse at the Castle, and left in the afternoon for
Athlone. It is said that the object of Sir Colin's
inspection and inquiries is to report on some pro-
posed changes in the battalion system, and on the pro
priety of establishing training schools for officers and
men. Col. Crutchley and the officers of the battalion
entertained the gaillant General and Col. Sterling at
dinner on Thursday evening.
A Carlow paper says—" In our last publication we
noticed that a troop of theßoyal Artillery passed through
this town. Since then we have been informed that a
number of those brave fellows, who are not long returned
from the Crimea, as soon as they were freed from their
duty, though saturated with wet and fatigued after a
long march, proceeded to the Mercy Convent to return
thanks to the nuns, who had been in the Crimea, for
their kind attention to the sick and wounded. What
adds more weight to this touching scene of gratitude is,
that of the whole party only one was Catholic."
The, following appointments were made on Saturday
at the Admiralty :
G. A. Waters, master, to the Shannon; W. H. Acllam,
master's assistant, to the Hig,bflyer ; J. M. N. Boyd,
Midshipman to the Shannon ; N. 13. Smith, Midship-
man, to the Fury ; T. C. Baber, Midshipman, to the
Retribution ; M. A. Daniel, Midshipman, to the Shan-
non ; J. D. V. Butler, Midshipman, to the Gorgon ;
W. A. Pritchard, Naval Cadet, to the Shannon.

been taken for founding the Bank of London, T had a
,claim from Mr. Lawson, who stated that he had founded
a bank of that name, but of the circumstances I know
nothing excepting from the assertion of Mr. Lawson.
Prisoner—Do you know now that the present chair.
man of your hank, Sir John Villiers Shelley, was can-
vassed to be chairman of my bank ?
Witness—No, I know nothing whatever of the fact.
The Lord Mayor—That is totally irrelevant to the
present inquiry. You can follow your own views with
regard to putting questions, and I will try as far as I can
to assist you, but the charge against you here is for
writing and sending a threatening letter to Mr. Scott.
Prisoner—l am quite aware of that, but I shall be
able to show your Lordship that I have acted in the
matter merely in a commercial point of view, and in a
way that any commercial person would act. (To the
witness).—Do you on your conscience believe that from
the first to the last of this correspondence I was ever
influenced by any personal feeling towards yourself ?
The Lord Mayor—l am bound to put the other side
of the case. It is necessary that I should put this ques-
tion to the witness, as I have brought you from Glasgow
upon my warrant. (To the witness).—Do you believe
that that letter is in the nature of a threat, for the pur-
pose of damaging the bank, and injuring it in the eyes
of the public ?

Witness—That was my opinion certainly when I read
the letter, and that was the opinion of the directors,
who instituted these proceedings upon public grounds to
prevent such things for the future.
The Lord Mayor—That is really the charge that you
will have to answer.

Prisoner —Was there not from first to last on my part
an earnest desire expressed for the prosperity of the
bank? Is there not expressed in every letter of mine an
earnest desire to secure the prosperity of the Bank of
London ?

The Lord Mayor—That is a defence. You might get
the rest of the correspondence, and then it would by-and-
by be left for the Court to infer how far this is or is not
a.damaging letter. The letter by itself evidently con-
veys a threat of certain consequences—such as blasting
the credit of an establishment, which of course depends
as much as any other upon the breath of public opinion.
We might have assertions made with regard to the notes
of the Bank of England, and such things have been done
in former times. After all the credit of a bank is en-
tirely the breath of public opinion, and if that credit be
undermined, it matters not how. We know that great
injury must be sustained either by the public or by in-
dividuals. The prosecutors allege that this letter is of
that effect ; and it is for a superior court to determine
whether it is so or not.
Prisoner—l would scorn such an act as a threat. I
did not wish in the slightest degree to make one.
G. Russell, the detective officer, was then sworn and
said—l apprehended the prisoner at Glasgow upon a
warrant which I produce, and took him before the ma-
gistrates there. I produce a copy or the proceedings
which there took place. The letter in question was pro-
duced before the magistrates, upon which the prisoner
said that he wrote it and enclosed it in a sealed envelope,
and sent it by post to Mr. Scott, at the Bank of London.
The letter was then formally put in evidence as read
by Mr. Bodkin in his opening speech.
Prisoner—Did not the justices say that they consi-
dered it all a mistake, which could easily be cleared up
afterwards ?

Officer—No, they said nothing of this kind.

The Lord Mayor—lt was not necessary that the for-
mality of taking you before the magistrates at Glasgow
should be gone through, but I thought it right to give
instructions to the officer who was entrusted with the
warrant for your apprehension to afford you the oppor-
tunity of being taken before the magistrates there, in
order that you might give an answer to the charge which
might be satisfactory to them. In executing a warrant
of this description upon a man who was supposed to be
above the ordinary criminal class, I thought that that
was a fair and proper mode of discharging my duty,
with a due, regard to the liberty of the subject. The
opinion of the magistrates at Glasgow, however, can
avail very little. We must put our own constructions
upon a letter of this kind.
Prisoner—l wish the deposition taken before the
justices to be read.
Mr. Goodman (chief clerk)—We have nothing to do
with that here. You may call for it in another court
if you wish it.
Prisoner—There is a statement in the deposition made
by me to them.
The Lord Mayor—You can make the same statement
here if you like. It is my intention to remand you, and
I shall probably send you for trial hereafter. Would
you like to be remanded instead of being sent for trial at
once, in order that you may get legal advice
Prisoner—l thank you, my lord ; I should.
The Lord Mayor--I will accept bail, yourself in 1001.
and two sureties in 50/. each.

Thq prisoner, who did not succeed in procuring bail,
was, at the rising of the court, removed in custody.

WORSHIP-STREET.— W. Smith, 45, described as
of Bowling-green-lane, Clerkenwell, journeyman cabi-
netmaker, was charged before Mr. liamroill with an at-
tempt at murder. _

Air. W. Ward, a master cabinetmaker in Great Chart-
street, Hoxton, the front of whose shirt was covered
with blood, and the greater part of his head shaved and
covered with adhesive plaster, stated—At 10 o'clock
yesterday morning I went into the Globe pubtichouse
(next door to my residence) for a glass of ale, and saw the
prisoner (who had been fellow apprentice with me) lean-
ing upon the counter. On seeing me he turned round
and abruptly said, " You don't know me, do you ?" I
replied, " I don't want to know you," and he imme-
diately turned his back towards me, andappeared to feel
in his breast for something.
Prisoner (impatiently).—No, it was up my sleeve.
Witness—He then turned round and said, "I'll make
you know me," and I then saw that he had a pistol in his
hand, with an iron barrel. He at that time was not a
foot from me, and he presented the pistolstraight at my
head. I thrust out my hand, kn6cked his pistol-arm on
one side, rushed out at the side-door, and ran up Park.
street, pursued by the prisoner, who exclaimed,
" You --, I can catch you, I know." I ran into the
back entrance of a neighbour named Walesby, and called
out for him to help me, I stopped in that house a quar-
ter of an hour, and sent out for a constable, but, as I
could see nothing more of the prisoner, I then went home,
and thence to Robert-street station, where I procured
two officers, with whom I went in quest of the prisoner,
but we could not find him. At 2 o'clock I went to the
Globe again, and with a jug for my dinner beer, and upon
entering I again found that the prisoner was there. I
retreated as fast as I could, but he hastily followed me
towards Park-street, where there was a brewer's dray
unloading, round one side of which I ran and the priso-
ner round the other. I turned round, and seeing him
present the pistol at me I flung the jug at the prisoner's
head, but it missed and went over his head, and I then
heard the percussion cap on the nipple of the pistol ex-
plode. I had no hat oft at the time, and he closed with
me, seized me by the arm, and beat me on the top of ray
head with the butt-end of the pistol. I bled profusely,
the blood pouring all down my neck, and he struck me
several times, inflicting four incised wounds, the first of
which was the worst. I felt weak and reeling, when the
prisoner was surrounded and secured, and I went to a
surgeon's.

Mr. Hammill.—Has there been any quarrel or griev-
ance between you 1
Witness—Yes ; two or three years ago.
Prisoner's attorney.—My client, I find, is labouring
under the delusion that the complainant has had a crimi-
nal intercourse with his wife.

Prisoner (painfully).—Oh dear, dear me ; no, no, 110
a delusion.
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Thomas Anderson, a draytnan—l was at the Globe
at the time in question, when I saw the prosecutor open
the door. The prisoner exclaimed "Oh, here you are,"
and the former immediate ran out, followed by the pri-
soner. I did not see anything in the prisoner's hand,
but I directly after heard the snap of a pistol, and I saw
smoke. The prisoner then closed with the prosecutor,
struck him two or three times severely on the head, and
was about to repeat the blows, when I seized him, wres-
ted the pistol from him, and walked with him till a
policeman came upl. The prosecutor bled very much.
Charles Goats, potman at the house, corroborated the
last witness's evidence.
Policeman Williams, 232 N—l was on duty in an
adjoining street when I met the prisoner in the custody
of two draymen. On seeing me the prisoner, who was
greatly excited, said, " Here I am ; I am the man you
want." He went with me without resistance, and at
the station he said several times, "I wish the pistol had
gone off ; I wish I had shot him ; and I will shoot him
yet." On searching him I discovered in his pocket seve-
ral shot and a percussion cap similar to that on the pis-
tol, which is split. The witness handed in a medical
certificate from Mr. Wrixon, surgeon, of Pitfield-street,
Hoxton, describing the prosecutor as suffering from four
incised wounds.
Sergeant Townsend, 23 N—l was at the station when
the prisoner was brought in, and received the pistol from
the potman Goats. I I,;und it was loaded up to the
muzzle with powder, enough to load two pistols, and that
there were 32 shots in it, rammed down with paper. The
cap, which had exploded, was like that found in the pri-
soner's pocket.
Prisoner—Yes, yes, they are all the same.
Witness—l read the charge to him, and he exclaimed
" There is no mistake about it ; I did mean to shoot
him, and I will do it yet ; it was only a providence which
saved him ; I could not get a fair hit at him, or else I
would have killed him."
Mr. Hammill—Did he assign any reason for the at-
tempt ?
Witness—Yes ; he said that the prosecutor had had
criminal intercourse with his wife, fro which disgust-
ing consequences had ensued, and that m she was low in
the workhouse mad through it.
The prisoner, who was very restless, wild, and ex-
cited, offered no observations, and he was committed till
that day week for the completion of the evidence.

rJohna,
ryEsq., brother to the Bishop of Kil-
m oecreupwards of thirty years Colonial
S
forlsland of St. Vincent, West Indies, died
Secretary
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was
ts hf oe r d,
at Southampton last week. His son, a youthful officer
in the 49th Regiment, was one of the heroes of the
Crimea. Mr. Beresford had only just returned from the
West Indies.
TEE VACANT INCUMBENCY OP ST. JAMES, CLEREEN.
WELL.—The Bishop of London having waived his objec-
tion to having probationary sermons preached in the
church of St. James, Clerkenwell, by the candidates for
the vacant incumbency of the parish, the churchwar-
dens elected five clergymen from the list of candidates
and invited each to officiate in turn at one service, and to
preach. The first, the Rev. T. H. Ball, of Greenock.
read service, and preached before the churchwardens and
parishoners yesterday morning. The text was Rev.,
chap. 22, v. 17. In the evening another candidate
preached, the Rev. Mr. Lester. On Sunday morning
next the Rev. Robert Maguire, M. 44 will preach.