The Sun.
London, England, 1867-01-10 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, JANUARY 10, 1867

SHARE MARKETS.— This day.

ORDINARY SHARES AND STOCKS.

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CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT—This Day.

OLD COURT.
(Before Mr. Baron Pigott.)

THE CHARGE AGAINST THE MANAGER OF TILE JOINT STOCK

DISCOUNT COMPANY.

The trial of Mr. James Freeling Wilkinson, late the
managing director of the Joint-Stock Discount Company,
was resumed this morning, the charge against him being
that ho appropriated two cheques for the respective sums
of £l,OOO and £B7O to his own use, they being the pro-
perty of the company.. . .

. . - .
Some formal evidence to prove the paying of the cheques
to the bank being given,

• Mr. Giffard summed up the case on behalf of the prosecu-
tion, and contended that he had fully made out the charge
against the defendant.
Mr. Coleridge, Q.C., for the defendant, then addressed
the jury, and insisted that in whatever the defendant did
with respect to the cheques and the purchase of the shares
of the company he did for the best interests of the con-
cern of which he had the management, and that there was
an entire absence of all intention to defraud. The pro-
ceeding Lad not resulted in a success, and that being the
case the present charge was brought against the defen-
dant. He contended that the evidence had not proved the
theory of the prosecution, and therefore he felt the jury
would return a verdict of not guilty against Mr. Wilkinson.
The jury, after deliberating half an hour, returned into
court with a verdict of guilty, with a strong recommenda-
tion to mercy.

The prissner, on being called upon to say why lodgment
should not be passed upon him, said—My lord, I deem
it right to say here, as I said at the
Mansion House, that I am innocent before
God of the charge that has been brought against me, and
had Cleman and Saltmarsh been brought here all would
have been cleared up and put right. I again
declare before God that I am as innocent as a
babe of the shameful charge brought against me,
and I hay() only now to submit to the sentence of your
lordship. _ _

The Learned Judge said that the jury had, after the
'greatest care, come to the conclusion that, on the evidence
adduced before them, he (the prisoner) was guilty of the
crime of misappropriating the money of ,his employers.
Tho moneys of the unfortunate shareholders had been
placed under his entire control, bedause it appeared that
the directors simply met to sign blank cheques,
which then passed to him, as managing direc-
tor, for disposal. He did not see how the
attendance of Saltmarsh could have altered the
matter, and with respect to Cleman he thought the aspect
of his account, jumping in a very short time from about
£30,000 to beyond £lOO,OOO, was very suspicious. The
legislature had fixed the term of punishment for the of-
fence of which he had been found guilty at penal servitude
for seven years where the amount of the fraud was large ;
but taking into consideration the recommendation of the
jury, it became his painful duty to sentence him to penal
servitude for the term of five years.

The prisoner seemed overwhelmed by the sentence.

NEW COURT.
(Before Mr. Justice Shee.)
CHARGE or CHILD MURDER.

Charlotte King, a young woman, said to be married, was
indicted for the wilful murder of her infant child, Charles
William.

It appeared from the evidence that the prisoner hadbeen
deserted by her husband, and on the 16th of November
she and her two children were inmates of Clerkenwell
'Workhouse. She discharged herself and her children on
the afternoon of the day, and upon the same evening the
two children were found in Charterhouse-square and again
taken to tha workhouse. On the following day the pri-
soner had become au inmate of St. Saviour's Workhouse,
where she was confined of a male child. She left there on
the 10th of Dec., and on the following day she with her infant
wore seen in the neighbourhood of Southwark-bridge. On
the following day the body of the child was found in the
river, and the defence was, that the prisoner, through
over-pressure of the child beneath her shawl, produced
asphyxia, and that then becoming afraid of the conse-
quences she was induced to throw the dead body of the
child into the river.

After a very feeling address from Mr. Sleigh, who de-
fended the prisoner, the jury returned a verdict of not
guilty.

THIRD COURT.
(Before the Recorder.)
TILE ACCIDENT ON THE METROPOLITAN RAILWAY.

Mr. Metcalf on the part of the two persons, Wilmot and
Chaney, who stood charged upon the coroner's inquisition
for the manslaughter of three persons on the Metropolitan
Railway, their deaths being caused by the alleged negli-
gence of the defendants is their precautions in raising
one of the largo iron girders, for the support of a portion
of the dead meat market over the said railway, applied for
a postponement of their trial till next session.
Mr. Sleigh, the counsel engaged to conduct the prosecu-
tion, made no objection, and the application was granted.

POLICE IN TELLIGEKCE. —This Day.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

A CAPTAIN CHARGED WITH DISORDERLY CONDUCT.—
Edward Denny, staying at Lindsay's Hotel, Air-stroct,
Piccadilly, and described as a captain in the Royal navy,
was charged before Mr. Knox with being drunk and
behaving in a disorderly manner in the Haymarket.
Police-constable John Fraser, 322 A, said that about one
that morning he saw the defendant in the Haymarket
surrounded by a crowd of persons, and offering to fight
any one. He went up to the defendant, who was drunk
and requested him to go away, when he seized him by the
stock. Two gentlemen, who said they were friendr of
the defendant, offered to see him home, and took the
defendant up to the cab-stand, but none of the cabmen
would have anything to do with him. The de-
fendant then set to running up and down the
Haymarket, and knocked several persons down, and
he then took him into custody, requiring the assistance
of two other constables to get him to the station.
The defendant said he was very sorry fer what had oc-
curred. It was the first time he had been placed in such a
position. He was himself cowardly struck in the face,
and had his hat knocked off and taken away, and having
been drinking did not know what occurred. _ _

Mr. Knox said he regretted to see a person described on
the charge-sheet as the defendant was placed in such a
position. Had it been only an ordinary case he should
have thought littlo of it, but when ho found a person
moving up and down the Haymarket and knocking per-
sons down, he could not overlook it. He should inflict a
penalty of 40s. ar a month.
SCANDALOUS ANNOYANCE.— John Hill, a boy, was charged
with knocking at a door in Greek-street last night without
lawful excuse.

Lazarus Howes, 95 0, said that at 10 o'clock last night
he was on duty in plain clothes in Greek-street, when he
saw the prisoner with some other boys and girls running
up the street, knocking and ringing as they went along at
different houses. The prisoner slackened his pace, and he
went up to the door of No. 20 and knocked, and he then
took him into custody.
Inspector Harrison said that on account of the com-
plaints of boys and girls knocking at the doors in Greek-
street, he had been compelled to place constables in plain
clothes on duty in the street. He resided in the street,
and could himself speak of the nuisance.

Mr. Purvis, oilman, Greek-street, spoke of the annoy-
ance he received, it frequently continued the whole even-
ing till a late hour. Owing to the nature of his business
he had a large quantity of combustibles in his house, and
his housekeeper had become so frightened by the sudden
and violent ringing of the bell at night tbat she refused to
stay any longer with him. The boys did not content
themselves with ringing one bell but often two at a time.
Mr. Knox said it was the first case of the kind from that
particular place that had been brought before him, and he
should therefore only impose a penalty of 205., but in every
other case it would be 40s.

Evicted Tenants' Aid Association.

Yesterday afternoon a large and important depu-
tation waited upon the Premier at his official resi-
dence in Downing-street, to urgeupon the attention
of the Government the evils of Metropolitan evic-
tions and overcrowding consequent upon improve-
ments and Railway extensions in London. The de-
putation represented the Evicted Tenants' Associa-
tion, and among those present were the Marquis of
Townshend, the Right lion. Mr. J. G. Goschen,
M.P., Hon. A. Kinnaird, M.P., Mr. Torrens, M P.,
Mr. I'. Hughes, M.P., Mr. A. Ayrton, M.P., Gen.
J. E. M. Mason, Rev. Dr. Worthington, Rev. J.
Jackson, Dr. Ilardwicke, Dr. Stallard, Mr. George
Cruikshank, Mr. J. A. Heraud, Mr. S. C. Hall, Mr
J. F. Robertson, Mr. J. Figgius, Mr. G. S. Drew,
Major Rivers, Captain Balker, Mr. G. Linnaeus
Banks, &c.
Lord DERBY, who was accompanied by Mr. Hunt,
of the Treasury, said, on first entering the apart-
ment, that this was a question of very great import-
ance, and he had asked Mr. Hunt to attend in order
that he might hear what was said. It was a ques-
tion which had engaged his own serious attention
for several years, and had also engaged the attention
of his colleagues, and he should be very glad if the
Government could have the co-operation and advice
of gentlemen in drawing up any practical measure
to meet the very serious and growing evil proposed
to be dealt with by this association.
The Marquis TOWNSHEND briefly introduced the
deputation, and thanked his lordship for the oppor-
tunity he had afforded them of explaining their pro-
posals.
Mr. L. BANKS, the hon. secretary, read a memo-
rial from the association, signed by the Earl of
Shaftesbury, the president, and others. This drew the
attention of the Government to the condition of the
artisan and labouring classes in London as regarded
the sanitary state of their dwellings, and the fright-
ful consequences entailed by the increase of the po-
pulation and the decrease of dwellings, in causing the
crowding of large numbers of persons without dis-
tinction of age, or sex, into single rooms. This evil
produced moral and physical deterioration, the me-
morial said, "to a degrading and alarming extent,
threw numbers on the poor-rates, consigned many
to hospitals and infirmaries, and more to lives of
sin and shame and ruin." There were at present
living in London about 500,000 workmen, poor per-
sons, and their families, and 50,000 of these classes
had been dispossessed of their homes within the last
four years, and " forced into districts already teem-
ing with life and disease." Within the same period
philanthropic and enterprising persons and associa-
tions had succeeded in providing improved dwellings
for about 10,000 persons; but this number, con-
trasted with the vast masses languishing for homes,
proved the insurmountable difficulties in the way of
dealing with the evil by private enterprise alone.
These difficulties, the memorial went on to say,
must be increased by the action of the Sanitary Act
of last year, and the memorialists urged several
suggestions in the names of humanity and religion,
as well as in the economic interests of the inhabit-
ants at large in the metropolis. These were that no
more railway extensions or public works should be
sanctioned in the metropolis without provision being
made for the people displaced or compensation being
given to them ; that the question of overcrowding
should be left for the present to the operation of the
Sanitary Act of last Session, and that the duty of
dealing with the property occupied by the lower
classes, so as to improve or rebuild such dwellings,
should be charged upon some public body. The
memorial concluded by urging the immediate ac-
ceptance by the Government of Mr. Torrens's Bill
of last session, as reported by the select committee,
or some measure founded on similar principles.

Mr. TORRENS, M.P., in reply to Earl Derby, pro-
ceeded to give his lordship an outline of the bill in-
troduced into the House of Commons in the last
Session. The measure, he said, was favourably re-
ceived by many gentlemen who were now members
of his Lordship's Government, and before the
change of Ministry they promised to support
the bill. The measure proposed to make the
Metropolitan Board of Works the local authority
of the Act, except for the City of London, where the
city authorities would have power ; and the powers
proposed to be given were that authority should be
given to take such properties as were judicially con-
demned as not suitable dwellings and rebuild them.
Of the Select Committee, 14 members came to the
conclusion that the Treasury should advance the
money for the purchase and rebuilding of such pro-
perty as was indicated, and that the metropolitan
rates should be the security that the Treasury should
be at no loss, those rates being also liable to bear
any deficit which might accrue. The object he had
in introducing the bill was to urge upon Parliament
the duty of legislating in this matter, and nothing
would better meet his views and the views of the
gentlemen who acted with him than that the Go-
vernment of the day should take up the measure.
He would answer that every assistance would be
given to the Government, and though he had given
notice of his intention to reintroduce the bill in the
ensuing session, he was quite willing to leave the
matter to be dealt with by the Government. (Hear.)
Lord DERBY said, if he understood the proposal,
it was that power should be given for some autho-
rity to take at a valuation house property condemned
for human habitation, and rebuild houses of a supe-
rior character—that was, to give superior accommo-
dation in the same space now occupied by inferior
property. He should like to know how this met the
case of evictions. Then he should like to know, as-
suming that Parliament had declared certain pro-
perty to be a nuisance and should be pulled down,
how the association proposed to deal with it.
Mr. AYRTON, M.P., interposing, said that the
class of houses which would be condemned under
such a measure were houses built originally for the
residences of single families, and which had been
misappropriated, as he might say, to the residences
of many families, for which they were unsuitable.
If rebuilt the same space would give good accom-
modation to several families.

Lord DERBY hoped the deputation would not
think he was raising unnecessary objections ; but
he thought drawbacks similar to those found in such
property as had been mentioned might be created
in building high houses on a small space.

Mr. TORRENS said in some of the older parts of
St. Giles's houses were built two and three stories
high, and two and three families occupied the same
room. The same cubic space occupied by the houses
would admit of much better dwellings being erected.
In other parts of London wretched two-storied
houses were built, without necessary accommoda-
tion, and these were so overcrowded as to be abso-
lutely pestilential.
Lord DERBY said these were great evils, but it
seemed to him that the Evicted Aid Society had
lost sight of the eviction question altogether.
Mr. TORRENS submitted that this was the ques-
tion, as the places he mentioned became over-
crowded through the evictions.
Lord DERBY asked if it was thought that if the
money were lent by the Treasury good accommo-
dation could be afforded the poorer classes at the
same rent they were now paying, and also if the
scheme would pay.
Mr. TORRENS replied that he thought so.
Lord DERBY said he should like to be sure. The
platter had to be looked at from the point as to
whether it would pay. There could be no question
of a philanthropic character introduced in such a
measure.
Mr. G. CRUIKSHANK said he had had much expe-
rience upon these questions, and be was satisfied
better and more commodious dwellings could be
erected upen the spaces now occupied by inferior
houses. He advocated the building of streets of
houses, and not " blocks," and he proceeded to say
that if superior dwellings were built for those who
could pay a good rent, as superior artisans, they
would gladly occupy those dwellings, and leave
their rooms to be occupied by the classes below them.
Mr. F. ROBERTSON drew his lordship's attention
to the fact that certain gentlemen in the city had '
built dwellings for the working classes which had
brought in a profit of 5 per cent.
Lord DERBY replied that 5 per cent. was not a
fair building percentage, and then the philanthropy
of the action of building such places came in.
Besides, these dwellings were for those who could

pay at least ss. or 6s. a week rent. What was to
be done with those below this class ?

Dr. STALLARD said the question, after all, was one
of political economy. In London 23,000 people died
who ought not to die, and so pauperism was in-
creased. Nearly all able-bodied men could get
work in London ; but they were reduced from being
able-bodied by the homes they dwelt in, and they
came upon the rates. Now, if the scheme did not
pay a building percentage it would pay the metro-
polis to have these dwellings erected.
Lord DERBY replied that it might be so; but the
Government could not be looked to to find lodgings
for the poor.

Mr. AYRTON drew his Lordship's attention to the
fact that it was proposed to sell the improved pro-
perties after seven years, just as when new streets
were made the properties were sold by the Metro-
politan Board of Works. Any loss by these new
streets fell upon the rates, and as these improve-
ments had been made for the rich, who were thus
enabled to ride from one end of the town to the
other by less circuitous routes—
Lord DERur suggested that the improvements
were made for the purposes of commerce.
Mr. AYRTON would not dispute with his lordship,
but, as such losses fell upon the rates, he thought
the deficit between the cost of improving house pro-
perty for working classes and the selling price of the
improved property might also fall upon the rates.
Mr. S. C. HALL brought to his lordship's attention
cases of several families dwelling in one room.
Mr. L. BANKS said that one of the chief objects
of the deputation was to press upon the attention
of the Government the terrible evils occasioned by
evictions. At least 50,000 persons had been ejected
from their dwellings within the last three or four
years, and driven into courts and alleys already
teeming with tenants and fever. In the neighbour-
hood of Farringdon-road, where the Metropolitan
Railway Company had pulled down the dwellings
of a large number of families, chiefly of the working
classes, the evils of evictions had been painfully felt.
In one alley in that neighbourhood, about sft. wide,
and containing something like 16 houses, all in a
tumble-down and most wretched condition, there
were in every room of every one of the houses more
than one family living and paying an enormous
rental for the privilege of shelter under such circum-
stances. The evictions in that district had been in-
strumental to a great extent in producing that state
of things, and therefore it was most desirable that
the Government, in any measure that might be
brought forward, should accept the principles of
Mr. Torrens's bill,—that, in giving power to public
bodies to pull down condemned dwellings, they
should compel those bodies to provide first of all
for the tenants who were turned out. (Hear.)

The Rev. Dr. WORTHINGTON Said it WAS publicly stated
by the surveyor, when a wretched house in Ely-place,
Holborn, fell down, that an enormous number of houses
were in a similar condition. He also pressed upon his
lordship's attention that these evictions brought a large
number of persons upon the very unequal rates—rates
which were doubly unequal, inasmuch as the parishes
which could best afford to pay most paid least.
A conversation followed upon several points.
The Hon. ARTHUR KINNAIRD, M.P., then drew his lord-
ship's attention to the fact that railway companies con-
stantly took more land than required, as was to be seen
between Charing-cross and Cannon-street, and he expressed
his conviction that if the Parliamentary Committees re-
fused to look at any railway plans until they embodied
schemos for erecting houses for those who were displaced,
some part of the difficulty would be overcome. (Hear.)
Mr. TORRRNS instanced the case of the lands lying idle
for 25 years in the Farringdon-road as a case in which
evictions bad been made, and which overburdened all the
surrounding districts with poor. The place had been
allowed to_remain in such a state that it was a disgrace to
London.
After some further conversation,

The Right Hon. Mr. GOSCHES addressed his lordship.
He said it must be apparent that in dealing with this ques-
tion of improving the dwellings of the lower classes, the
idea must be faced that there would be a lose upon the
operation, however carried out. (Hear.) When property
was bought by compulsory powers more was paid for it
than would be paid for it in open dealing, and this was
where model lodging-houses paid upon their expenditure.
The majority of the select committees had the opinion that
there would be a loss, and they thought this loss should
fall upon the rates of the metropolis as a whole and not
upon parishes or districts, and it was considered that it
would be worth the while of the metropolis to pay for those
improved dwellings. (Hear.)
Lord DERBY-It is scarcely fair, perhaps, to ask if the
late Government came to any conclusion with respect to
this matter ? (A laugh.)
Mr. GOSCIIEN replied that he could say the late Govern-
ment came to the conclusion to support Mr. Torrens's Bill.
(Hear.)
Dr. OGG and Mr. CUIILL gave some details as to the over-
crowding in St. Giles's, and Dr. Ogg said that in these
places, as well as in places near Russell-square, fever was
rarely ever absent, owing to three or four families occupy-
ing one room.

Lord DERBY said that no one felt greater interest in this
subject than he, and it was a most painful subject. He
assured the deputation that if the Government could see
their way to any practical measure they would be happy to
introduoe it and carry it through the Legislatu re, and they
would be very glad to receive the support and co-opera-
tion of those who had interested themselves in the subject.
It was no question of party in any sense ; it was a question
of humanity, but such a question of humanity which could
not be brought forward as one of charity or philanthropy.
The deputation then thanked his lordship and withdrew.

M ARKE TS. —This day.

METROPOLITAN CATTLE.

The supply of beasts on offer in our market to-day was
only moderate, nevertheless all breeds moved off slowly at
Monday's decline in the quotations. The extreme figura
was ss. 6d. per 81bs. The show of sheep was limited.
Prime Downs and half-breds were in fair request at full
prices—viz., from ss. 10d. to 6s. 2d. ; but long-woolled
sheep worn heavy at previous rates. The few calves in
the market met a slow sale at from 48. 6d. to ss. 6d. per
81bs. There was so little doing in pigs that the quotations
ruled almost nominal.
Per 81b to sink the offal.

adsd s de d
Crse. Ai inf. beasts... 3 8 3 10 Pme ors-wool sheep 6 0 5 8
Second quality do ..4 0 4 8 Prime. S•thdown do 5 10 6 2
Prime large oxen ..4 10 5 2 Large coarse calTes 4 6 5 0
Prime Scots. &0....5 4 5 6 Prime small do.. 5 2 5 6
Crse. and inf. sheep. 3 8 4 0 Large hogs .3 6 4 0
Second quality do ..4 2 4 10 Small porkers 4 2 4 6
Lamb.... 08 Od to 0, Od.

Suckling calves, 20a t0122s ; and quarter-old store pigs, 25
to 28s each.

-
Head of stock on sale.
Total supply. Foreign supply.
Beasts 960 Beasts 212
Cows. — C0w5..... —
Sheep and lambs 3,200 Sheep and lambs
Calves llO Calves .. PO
Pigs 3lO ,Pigs 2B