The Sun.
London, England, 1858-11-06 00:00:00

IHE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 6, 1858.-

THE METROPOLITAN RAIL WA E

The special committee appointed by the C6urt of
Quarter Sessions for Middlesex in May last, to con-
sider the application of the directors of the Metropo-
litan Railway Company to be allowed to tunnel under
the House of Correction, Coldbath-fields, have made
their report :—" By the terms of the reference from
the court, your committee were empowered to con-
sider upon what terms, if at all, the applications of
the directors should be agreed to, with power to con-
sult (at the expense of the directors) competent
persons both as to the value of the concession sought
from the county, and also as to the practicability of
executing the proposed tunnel, and the stipulations
necessary for the security of the present and any
future erections connected with the prison; and to
advise generally on the merits of the proposal.
Your committee, on the 4th of June, were attended
by a deputation of the directors (accompanied by
their engineer and solicitor), and it was then inti-
mated to them that, before incurring the expense of
consulting competent persons as to the value of the
concession sought from the county, and the practic-
ability of executing the proposed tunnel, and the
stipulations necessary for the security of the pre-
sent and any future erections connected with the
prison, they had thought it desirable to take the
opinion of counsel whether, under the existing
state of the law, the proposed tunnel could be made
without further legislative powers, which opinion
being that further powers were necessary the
directors suggested that, assuming the opinion to be
correct, the magistrates might, with propriety, if
they thought proper, make an arrangement
such as was proposed by the company,
provided such arrangement were made pro-
visional on its ratification by Parliament
next year, with the consent of both parties; and
repeating the readiness of the company to incur the
expense of obtaining the opinion of an eminent en-
gineer, for the purpose of ascertaining whether any
other objection existed to the plan proposed. Under
these circumstances, the committee at once sought
the advice of Mr. G. P. Bidder, and, on the Bth of
July they received from him an elaborate report,
from which, although he expressed an opinion that
the proposal to carry the railway under the prison
is practicable, still, as it would have to be carried
out in the first instance, by an open cutting, pro-
tected during the progress of the work by.a move-
able iron shield—the roof of the tunnel being only
seven feet at one point below the surface of the
prison ground—and would involve the reconstruc-
tion and re-adjustment of a considerable portion of
the drains, it appeared to them to be in every re-
spect objectionable, and likely to create so much
difficulty in the management and discipline of the
prison, that in transmitting a copy of Mr. Bidder's
report to the directors, they repeated what they had
expressed at their first interview with the directors
—that the county would greatly prefer the directors
adopting the alternative alluded to in one of their
former communications, so to deviate the line of
the proposed railway as to avoid the prison alto-
gether. On the 24th Sept. the committee received
a reply, stating that the directors had finally deter-
mined to apply in the next session of Parliament
for powers to deviate the line so as to avoid the
House of Correction ; and that the directors hoped,
in their application to Parliament for this purpose
they might reckon on the countenance and support
of the justices. By the original Act (17th and 18th
Vic., c. 221) the company were empowered to take
the prison for the purposes of their railway, within
three years after the 7th Aug., 1854, and by the
19th and 20th Vic., c. 119, the time was extended
one year, so that their powers lapsed on the 7th of
August last."

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

TRAFFIC RETURNS FOR THE WEEK.

Miles Opened. Receipts.
Railways. ,---",-, ,----"----•
1858. 1857. 1858. 1857.
£ X
Ballymena and Portrush 35 35 - -
Bedale and Leyburn lO 10 111 96
Belfast and Ballymena 65 65 1,232 1,284
Belfast and County Down l7 17 - -
Birkd., Lane., & Ches. June 32 .32 2,774 3,086
Blyth and Tyne 2O 13 1,329 1,436
Bristol and Exeter llB 117 6,474 6,080
Caledonian l9Bl 198% 13,591 14,640
Ches.&llolyhead(withMold) 94 94 5,894 6,886
Cockermouth & Workington - -
Cork and Bandon 2O 20 379 339
Cork, Blackrock, &:, Passage 6% 64 225 206
Deeside l7 17 249 256
Dublin & Belfast Junction 56 56 1,538 1,466
Dublin and Drogheda 63 63 '1,780 1,510
Dub. & Wicklow (in. Kings t ) 404 40% 1,917 1,972
Dundalk and Enniskillen - -
Dundee and Arbroath 17% 17% 571 635
Dundee, Perth, & Aber. Jun 3l 31 677 1,065
East Anglian 674 674 933 976
E.Counties,Nrik.,&E.l.Tnion 489 489 26,470 26,143
East Kent 194 - - -
E.l.ancashire(in.Blackburn) 111 105 6,186 5,784
Edinburgh and Glasgow ... 142 142 6,016 6,082
' Edinburgh, I'erth,& Dundee 78 78 3,133 3,128
Forth dr, Clyde Junction ... - - - - -
Furness -
Glasgow & South-Western 183% 183% 6,860 7,318
Great Northern 283 283 26,061 28,236
Great North of Scotland
Gt.Southn. & Westn.(lrind ) 229 203% 6,917 6,680
Great Western 466 466 28,956 28,332
Hull and Holderness - -
Inverness & Aberdeen Jtmc 52 15 • - -
Irish South-Eastern 251 251 - -
Killarney Junction - -
Lancaster and Carlisle (in
Kendal and Windermere) 100 100 6,825 7,074 •
Lane. & Yrks.(in.Blackburn) 299 299 (.3,174 21,781
Limerick and Foynes 2 - -
Llanelly 4 15 443 445
London & North-Western
London and Blackwall 5 1,338 1,418
London & South-Western
Loud. Brighton, &S. Coast 192 18. 16,070 13,543
L'derry and Enniskillen
31
Loud., Tilbury, & Southend. 42 40 1,149 • 1,085
Man.,Slieffield,&Lincolnali. 17 173/ 10,101 11,636
Manch. S.Jun.& Altrincham 9 91 772 862
Ma port and Carlisle
Midland
Midland Gt.Westn. of Irlud. 177 177 4,267 3,868
Monklind 52 . 52 _ _.
Monmouthsh. Bail. & Canal 44 44 - _
Newcastle and Carlisle 7B 78 - -
Newport,Aberg.,& Hereford 50 43 1,389 1,167
North British (in. Dalkeith) 149 149 7,003 5,482
North Devon -
North-Eastern 7254 720 36,C18 37,C86
North London ' 9 9 2,378 2,450
North Staffordshire 233 233 7,003 7,442
North-Western 46% 164 941 1,002
N. Yorkshire and Cleveland 101
Oxford, Wore., & Wolver 94 94 4,598 4,619
Peebles lB 18 185 166
St. llelen's Canal & Railway 30 30 - -
Scottish Central
Scottish North-Eastern ll5 115 3,958 3,896
Shrewsbury- & Birmingham 29% 294 1,301 1,550
• Shrewsbury and Chester -48 48 2,910 3,017
Shrewsbury & Hereford
Shropshire Union .29 291 875 855
South Devon
South-Eastern 3ol' 301 20,120 19,146
South Wales l7l 171 6,540 7,169
S. Yorkshire and River Dun 108 108 2,811 2,815
Stockton and Darlington
Taff Vale.,
Ulster
Ulverstone cud Lancaster - -
Vale of Neath 251 251 1,563 1,561
• Warrington and Stockport. 12 12 - -
Waterford and Kilkenny 3l 31 330 319
Waterford and Limerick 77 77 1,730 1,210
L West Cornwall 274 274 6.31 737
W. Hartlepool Ilarbr.&Rail. 39 39 3,055. 3,098
Whitehaven Junction -12 - 12 487 521
•• Whit ehaven & Furness Jun. 35 35 445 434
W'haven,Cleatorot Egrmnt. 7 7 l- .---
FOREIGN AND COLONIAL.
Antwerp and Rotterdam 52 52 -- • --
Austrian B2B 673 -- -
Belgian Eastern Junction 264 26% - -
• Buffalo and Lake Huron
, Detroit and Milwaukie 1571 100 - -
Dutch Rhenish - .• --
Grand Trunk of Canada 879 849 10,212 10,501
Great Indian Peninsula l3O 884
Great Luxembourg ,78 38 • 1,492 1,042
f Great Western of Canada - 294 283 10,083 10,967
, Lombardo-Venetian 283 249 - -
Lyons and Geneva 142; 107 - -
Madrid, Saragossa &Alicant .284 176 - -
Maria Antonia- 2l 21 - -
Northern of France ' 574 .. .574 - -
Norwegian Trunk 44 44 751 782
l'aris, Lyons, & Mediterrn B4l 781 - -
Paris and Orleans 922 771 -- -
, Paris and Strasburg 979 791 • - -
Royal. Danish 69 69 -
Sambre and Meuse 6B ' 68 . 1,379 1,255
Southern of France 777 577 -.-..
West Flanders
W. and N.W. of France.-

1,255

COURSE OF EXCHANGE.--YESTERDAY,
Amsterdam
3 Months. 11 161 .11 16':
11 16, ' 11 16;
R oDt ti
ct
Antwerp Ditto an 1 •
25 22 25 30
Brussels — 25 22 25 30
Hamburgh
Paris
Ditto
Marseilles
25 271 2.5 22
Frankfort on Maine — 118 11f
10 5/ 4 10 57
Vienna —
10 55 10 69
Trieste
Petersburgh
49
Madrid
49/
49
Cadiz —
_ 29 821 29 7
Leghern
2.5 421 25 47
Genoa 4l 41,
Naples
1221 123
Palermo
Messina 123 123
Lisbon
Oporto
Rio Janeiro ......
New York

E.I. Co's Ns. House bls. 60d
Calcutta, Co.'s rupee ' 26 23r-
Bombay ditto
Madras ditto % 26 2:4
East India Company's, Bills drawn from the 21th ult. to

Bengal
Madras
Bombay

the Bth inst.
£1,201 5 0
0 0 0
0 0 0

£1,201 5 0

Foreign Gold in Bari (Standard) per oz. £3 17 9
Mexican Dollars
Silver in Bars (Standard) ,2 0 5 1:

. BRICKMAKING BY ELEPHANTS.—The Ceylon
Obso:ver contains an account of some brickmaking works
recently visited by Sir Henry Ward. The works, which
turn out about 20,000 bricks a-day, are only six miles from
trodden murtP-rintl4
Colombo. The clay for brickmaking is prepared by ele-
Pbants. ThO wild and tame work together, and both
7et teet,
instead of in the soft, tenacious, un-
-7 toVi shirk their work by endeavouring to put their

POLICE INIt'LLIGENCE.—(Nov. 5.)

GUILDHALL.—Mr. Walter Sheppard, a con-
fectioner
of Fleet-street, was summoned before Mr.
Alderman Cubitt to answer to a complaint for not
supporting his wife.
Mr. Gresham appeared for the defendant.
Mrs. Sheppard said she had been married 14
years to the defendant, and on the 14th of July last
he turned her into the street, and all he had allowed
her since was 15s. in three separate payments. The
last she received on Sept. 13, and she had since been
obliged to apply to the union for relief. Previous to
that Mr. Bayford, a proctor, had assisted her with
various small sums to the amount of £3. She re-
ceived a letter from the relieving officer of the West
London Union, which she took to the defendant,
but he only gave her into custody. On the follow-
ing day she went to the union, and Mr. Palmer
gave her relief.
Cross-examined—The defendant turned her out
of doors because he was keeping another woman,
and he had since been endeavouring to obtain a
judicial separation. Sbe had never passed the night
with a man named Frowd at a coffee-shop in
Bishopsgate-street-without.
Mr. Gresham said the defendant was a respect-
able tradesmen in the city of London until he un-
happily became acquainted with this unfortunate
woman. He resisted the application, on the ground
that she was not legally chargeable to the parish,
and also that she had committed adultery. He was
prepared to prove both points, but he was anxious
to avoid the exposure of family matters, if possible,
and if, therefore, the parish officer would state what
sum would be sufficient to put an end to these ap-
plications he would advise his client to accede to
anything in reason.
Mr. Bayford, the proctor for Mrs. Sheppard, said
the defendant had commenced a suit, but it was not
on the ground of adultery. He had advanced her
money from time to time as long as it was neces-
sary to see her concerning the suit, but, as soon as
it was not requisite to see her, he advised her to
apply to the union.
After some further negotiations between all par-
ties, it was arranged that the defendant would
allow his wife 6s. per week, on condition that she
did not annoy him in his business.
The summons was therefore allowed to stand
over.

BOW-STREET.—Mr. Tomlinson, 454, Strand

pawnbroker, waited on Mr. Jardine, and stated that
he had that day stopped a watch offered in pledge by
a woman who said it belonged to her husband. He
suspected it to be stolen, from the manner in which
the swivel had been broken. He was obliged to
let the woman go, as there was no policeman in
sight, but he detained the watch, which he now
produced. It was a lady's gold watch, and the
name of " Swan" was engraved on it. He wished
the matter to be noticed in the papers, which would
probably lead to the discovery of the owner, to
whom ho would restore the watch.

WESTMINSTER—AIfred Lowe, alias Smith,
alias Kruse, and various other names, who stands
charged with conspiring with others to obtain pos-
session of a great number of houses, was brought up
for re-examination, when the court was, as before,
densely crowded with the prisoner's victims and
others. _ _

Mr. Marshall, barrister, again attended to pro-
secute, and, after completing the cases which have
already been detailed, said that there were number-
less other complaints of a like character which
might be established against the accused, but it was
useless to multiply cases of that description, and he
would proceed to one of a much more serious cha-
racter. He now charged the prisoner with felony,
under the following circumstances :—ln March last
the accused, under the name of Kruse, applied to a
Miss M'Lean, of 27, Bryanston-street, Portman-
square, for the lease of a furnished house belonging
to that lady. He represented himself as a surveyor
and land agent, of 7, Maddox-street, Regent-
street, and said he was acting for Dr. Davies, a
gentleman of fortune and member of Parliament,
who had left his own mansion in Oxfordshire and
wanted a furnished house in a fashionable part of
the metropolis. The person represented as Dr.
Davies subsequently made his appearance, and ex-
pressed his approval of the house, but said he had
left matters of this sort entirely to his agent, Mr.
Kruse. The latter, attended by a person who
passed as his clerk, went through the
house, and, having taken an inventory of the fur-
niture, it was arranged that Dr. Davies should take
possession on the 30th of March, at £250 per
annum, Miss M'Lean retaining possession of one
room, in which valuable property was deposited.
The keys of this house, and possession of it,
were7ormally given to the prisoner by Miss M'Lean
on the night of the 30th March, he alone being left
in the house. On the followinir day Miss M-Lean
wanted to take away some trunks from her store-
room, and went to the house, but was unable to ob-
tain admittance. She paid a second visit on the
second day, and, having on the third evening taken
the opinion of the police, entered the dwelling with
her latch key, and found that it was deserted. Her
store-room had been broken into, all her boxes
forced open, and plate, linen, and other property to
the value of £l5O carried off. She never heard of
nor saw anything more of Dr. Davies or the prisoner
until now. In addition to the plundering of the
store-room as described a valuable vase had been
purloined from the drawing-room.
Miss M'Lean having been examined in support
of this statement the prisoner was committed upon
the three charges before alluded to, of conspiracy,
but further remanded upon the charge of felony
till Wednesday.

CLERKENWELL.—George Lawrence, of St.
Martin's Chapel, Pratt-street, Camden-town, ap-
peared before Mr. Tyrwhitt to answer the follow-
ing summons :—" For removing the bodies and re-
mains of bodies from the burial ground known as
Saint
inM theart parish of S
Martin's
Cemetery,t. 1 Pratt-street, Camden-
town,ancras, without a faculty
granted by the ordinary for that purpose, and with-
out licence under the hand of one of her Majesty's
principal Secretaries of State, contrary to the
statute."
The case excited a great deal of interest, and the
court and its avenues were crowded to excess to hear
the proceedings. The neighbourhood of the grave-
yard was besieged by large mobs of-people of every
description, and the whole of the high boarding
which had been placed by the graveyard authori-
ties to prevent the public from seeing what was
going on was pulled down and set fire to. So vio-
lent did the mob become that it was found neces-
sary to send for additional police from the sur-
rounding stations.
Mr. Cameron, one of the churchwardens of
the parish of St. Pancras, attended to prose-
cute on behalf of that parish ; and Mr. Danger-
field, the vestry clerk of St. Martin's, repre-
sented the defendant. Mr. Loxton, the superin-
tendent of the S division, was also in attendance,
as were several of the local clergy, Mr. H. Farrer,
late churchwarden, Mr. J. Collins, Mr. H. 0. Nodes,
and other members of the vestry ; Dr. Hillier, medi-
cal officer of health ; Dr. Jegray, district medical
officer ; Mr. C. Greene, clerk to the burial board, &c.

Mr. Cameron said it would be in the recollection
of the Court that two summonses, taken out against
the present defendant and Mr. Latchford, the church-
warden of St. Martin'''s•in-the-Fields, stood ad-
journed to this day. These summonses were heard
on the 28th of August, and were taken out under
tho provisions of the common law ; but the present
was taken under the 25th section of the Burial Act,
which provides a penalty not exceeding £lO for
any offence committed against -its provisions.
When the first summonses were heard it was ar-
ranged that no further excavations should be made
until those summonses were settled. _ _ _

Mr. Dangerfield said, at the time he would give
no promise. Great endeavours had been made in
Camden-town and its neighbourhood to make pre•
judice ; for what was done in August had been
done now. After the last case was heard a meet-
ing of the trustees of the parish of St. Martin was
held, and they, in deference to the excitement that
then prevailed, agreed to suspend the works until.
the season was more advanced. The present sum-
mons had been taken taken out under the Burial
Act, and he was prepared to meet it.
Mr. Tyrwhitt said the safe way would be to fix
a day to hear all that occurred before the 25th of
August.
Mr. Cameron—l hope all further excavations
will be stayed in the meantime.
Mr. Dangerfield said he would agree to that if
any early day were fixed.
Mr. Tyrwhitt said this day week, which was
agreed to by all parties ; excavations to be stayed
in the meantime.

Mr. Cameron said the summons that now stood
for hearing was taken out under the Burial Act.
The parish of St. Martin had obtained a local Act
of Parliament, the 17th and 18th of Victoria, chap.
154, which enables them to build on certain portions
of the Camden-town Cemetery not heretofore used
for interments. Part of the preamble set forth that
part of the land had not been in use, and abutted
on the fronts of the streets, and the first clause re-
cited that from and after the passing of the Act
these portions should not be buried in. In the
schedule to the Act one part of the land is set forth
as that abutting on Camden-street, and that was
the portion where the disturbances were now
taking place. He regretted that the parish of St.
Martin had designedly defrauded the Legislature,
for instead 'of one or two burials having taken
place there,. hundreds of coffins had been found.
When the parish first began excavating, and

coffins were found and-complaints were made, they
did what he (Mr. Cameron) wished they would
now do—viz., discontinue the excavations. He
should be able to show that frightful desecrations
within the past few days had taken place. The
authorities of St. Pancras had great difficulty in
getting in, and it was not until he had seen one
of the churchwardens of St. Martin's that admission
could be gained.
Mr. Dangerfield said as soon as the churchwar-
dens were applied to they at once granted permis-
sion. He would admit the removal of the human
remains, not bodies, and call upon the other side, in
the terms of the faculty, to prove that there was no
faculty. . •
Mr. Tyrwhitt remarked that this was one of that
sort of cases in which the defendant had a right to
begin.
Mr. Cameron said he was prepared to prove that
coffins in a perfectly sound condition had been
taken up and ruthlessly broken to pieces, the re-
mains wheeled in barrows and pitched into a hole,
and the wood piled up against one of the houses.
_ Mr. Dangerfield said when he was called upon he
should be able to prove that the remains spoken of
were removed from the parish of, St. Martin at the
time of the Charing-cross improvements.
Mr. Cameron was prepared to prove that certain
burials had taken place in that part of the ground
in which the excavations were now going on.
Within the last five years the parish authorities of
St. Pancras had received orders from the Secretary
of State to close the vaults under the churches,
which they . had done at great . expense' and yet
another parish could remove coffins and bodies to
the injury of the health of the parishioners without
beinginterfered with.
Mr. Tyrwhitt—They have got a faculty to remove
from all parts of the ground in dispute to that in
which no dispute has arisen, and which is not to be
covered.
Mr. Cameron—That faculty is a perfect mockery,
and the grounds upon which it was obtained are
on presumption and belief.
Mr. Tyrwhitt—They allow that burials had taken
place, and they obtained the faculty to remove to
other parts.
Mr. Cameron—They say in it that it was only
burials of paupers, and they were removed from
other parts. Now, he should like to know why
the bodies of paupers were not to be respected as
well as those of other persons.
Mr. Tyrwhitt—All that the faculty, requires is
that the removal shall be done decently. It had
been stated in the preamble to the local Act that no
bodies had been buried there, and when they found
to the contrary they obtained the faculty. If there
was wantonness or impropriety in the way in which
the bodies were removed, thenthe parties offending
could be indicted.
Mr. Cameron—The faculty refers to " such
bodies," which means the bodies which were re-
moved from Charing-cross, not those which were
buried there so late as 1854.
Mr. Dangerfield said the burials which had been
made so much fuss about took place, in another part
of the ground, and if it was wished the ground
should be dug up and the coffins shown.
Mr. Tyrwhitt said the faculty applied to those
coffins which were removed from Charing-cross and
all bodies found there must be removed with
decency.
Mr. Cameron—The faculty would not have been
granted by the bishop if it had. een known that
burials had taken place there within these five
years.
Mr. Tyrwhitt said that decency or public'morals
must not be shocked. The present summons would
be dismissed.
Mr. Dangerfield said that until Friday next the
excavations would cease, and he did hope that the
disturbance would be discontinued, for he might
mention that he knew the names of several parties,
and that they would be indicted if it was continued.
Mr. Tyrwhitt said it was impossible- to do any
good by violence. If the parties who removed the
bodies did not do so properly, they would be
punished.
The parties then left the court.
Various cases of violent assaults upon the police
arising out of the same affair were heard in the
course of the day.

LAMBETH.---Mr. Wm. Bennett, the husband of
the late Madame Coton, who lost her life by the
late explosion in Melina-place, Westminster-road,
and who had been tried at the Old Bailey on a
charge of manslaughter, attended before the Hon.
G. C. Norton to answer a summons-charging kim
with the sale of fireworks, by which he had in-
curred a penalty of £5. Mr. Tritton, the vestry-
clerk of St.- George-the-Martyr, attended to sup-
port the complaint, and Mr. C. Lewis, of Ely-place
• appeared on behalf of the defendant.
Mr. Wellman, the inspector of nuisances for the
parish of St. George-the-Martyr, said that he had
received directions from the vestry to put down the
nuisance of the sale of fireworks in the parish, and
had in consequence employed two witnesses, who
would be called, to purchase fireworks at a shop
recently opened by the defendant. He (Mr. Well-
man) did not witness the sale himself, and there-
fore could say nothing about it.
Two witnesses .were then called, namely,
Frederick Collett, who appeared to be a cripple,
and about 22, and George Knighton, a sharp lad of
13, and .from their testimony it appeared that on
Monday about 4 o'clock they went to a shop, 2,
Melina-place, Westminster-road, which had re-
cently belonged to a tobacconist, but been converted
into one for the sale of fireworks. At the time
they entered there was, a little girl behind the
counter serving a gentleman with fireworks, and
the defendant, Mr. Bennett, was also in the shop
standing outside the counter. Collett asked for six
pennyworth of crackers and three 'pennyworth of
squibs, and these were served by the girl. The
defendant then asked if he should make it a shil-
ling's worth, and, Collett 'having consented to his
doing so, the defendant took some additional fire-,
works out of the window, and folded all into a
parcel. Collett then placed- a shilling on the
counter, which the defendant pushed towards the
girl, and the latter put it into a drawer or till.
This was the case in support of the complaint.
The witnesses were subjected to a searching
cross-examination by Mr. Lewis, and from Collett
it was elicited that he had been discharged from a
situation through his loss of £2. He denied, how-
ever that he had been given into custody, or that the
police had been called in the matter. The younger
witness stood the test of cross-examination admir-

ably.
Mr. Lewis addressed the bench at some length,
hoping it would not convict on a highly penal
statute which required the testimony of two
credible witnesses.
Mr. Norton imposed the full penalty of £5.