The Sun.
London, England, 1858-09-21 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 21, 1858.

readily obeyed the commands of the person who
had charge of them. They are great 'thieves, how-
ever, and appropriate whatever they can on every
occasion. There were 246 male and 60 female
Africans, who were kept separate on deck and in
the holds. The men and boys were kept on
the forward deck and in the forward hold, which
latter is 55 feet long, 19 feet wide in the broadest
part and narrow at the head, and 44 inches high,
the floor being formed of loose boards, moveable at
pleasure. The hold for the women and girls is be-
hind this. It is of the same height, 12 feet long,
and 19 wide. Under this temporary flooring are
stored the provisions, consisting of rice, peas, and
water to drink. Their food is boiled like hoppin-
john,' put in buckets twice a-day, at 10 and 4
o'clock, and placed in the midst of circles of eight
or ten each, and well guarded to prevent the strong
negroes, from taking more than their share, al-
though all are liberally allowed. A pint of
water is given to each morning and evening.
Most of them sleep on deck, being placed in close
order, spoon fashion, on their sides, and not permitted
to turn or move during the night. At daylight they
arc dashed with buckets of water to wash
them off. They sing songs, clapping their hands
and rocking their bodies in time, and these songs
have a great resemblance to some of our negro
spiritual. Several of the negro fellows exercise au-
thority very much after the manner of our drivers,
with airs of authority and ridiculous gesticulation
and grimaces. Others were cooking the ' big pot'
like good fellows, and with old breeches on, too,
obtained from the sailors. The captain of the hold
understands their lingo, and says they are very
averse to going back to Africa, as the United States
law requires. Our coast resembles that they come
from, and the group of pines opposite the city on
the south looks to them like the cocoanut trees of
their native Africa.

" Yesterday, under the direction of the United
States' civil officers, the negroes, 306 in number,
were taken by the steamer Gen. Clinch and con-
veyed to Castle Pinckney, in our harbour, where
they will be guarded by a detachment from the gar-
rison at Fort Moultrie. As they passed the plank to
gain the deck they presented a strange and affect-
ing sight, many of them being reduced to mere
skeletons by the suffering and privations of the
voyage. Several were in a dying condition, a few
dropsical, and a goodly number apparently in
health. They were visited on Saturday by Major
Macbeth and several aldermen." _ _

The Charleston papers are still discussing the
question of what shall be done with these poor
wronged creatures. There can be but one answer
to this question. The law makes it impeaative upon
the President to remove them beyond the limits of
the United States, and the News, quoting the law,
very justly says :
Under the latter clause the President must re-
move these Africans to some point in Africa, pro-
bably Liberia, where, under charge of an agent,
they will be taken care of at the expense of the
United States, until they can provide for them-
selves and determine on where they will go. In
the meantime their support will be at Government
cost, under the charge of its officials, and they will
unquestionably be sent, as promptly as possible, in
a vessel of war to Africa. _ _

" It is evident that the Government officials here
have no discretion, and have simply to perform their
duty under the above act. Proper respect should
be paid alike to their action and motives. Nor
should a Christian humanity be shocked by the
inevitable return of these Africans to their own
country, as every care will be taken of them. They
cannot be permitted to be enslaved, nor -would it
be either politic or proper that they should be
turned loose in the United States as freemen. They
are savages, whose condition on their return to
Africa will be materially ameliorated.
" If the Echo had first come into the hands of the
State authorities, the crew, ship, and negroes would
have been disposed of under the State Act of 1835,
which is very severe ; but now, although the vessel
and Africans are within the waters of the State,
they came here under federal capture and authority,
and must remain so, subject to federal disposal
under federal laws, and cannot be brought under
State jurisdiction. No conflict of jurisdiction can
properly occur."

IRELAND. •

DUBLIN, MONDAY MORNING.
RUMOURED PRESS PROSECUTION.

According to one of the provincial papers, the
recent outrageous sayings and doings of the lay
and clerical sympathisers with the martyred Tip-
perary assassins have attracted the attention of the
Government ; but, if the following statement be
correct, it would appear that the law officers are
about to aim the blow, not at the principal per-
formers in the Nenagh drama, but at a journal re-
cently established in Tipperary, and which has
distingnished itself as the persevering assertor of
the innocence of the Cormacks. The Carlow Sen-
tinel of Saturday says :
" The Government have adopted measures to try
the /question, how far it may be lawful for Mr.
Daniel O'Donoghue, M.P., and Father Kenyon, to
promulgate sentiments subversive of social order in
Tipperary, and to bring the administration of jus-
tice into disrepute. A prosecution has been com-
menced against a journal lately established in Tip-
perary as the organ of the malcontents, in which
appeared several articles and communications,
charging the law officers of the Crown, the Judge,
and Mr. Gore Jones, R.M., with the murder of the
brothers Cormack ; masked under the forms of law,
and thus exciting the minds of the peasantry and
endangering the public tranquillity. We fed for
the unfortunate journalist who has been made.
the tool of designing men, whose object
is to mar that prosperity which has dawned
on the country, and which they foresee is
calculated to destroy the prestige they en-
joyed as agitators, and to uproot that baneful in-
fluence which they exercised over an ignorant mul-
titude. The Government were left no alternative
but to submit to the fearful charges preferred
against them, or to bring the orators into court to
prove their allegations or to pay the penalty of the
offence committed against the administrators of the
law."

TIIE LANDED ESTATES COURT.
The arrangements for the establishment of the
new land tribunal arc progressing satisfactorily.
Petitions for sales are receivable at present, as the
recent Act empowers the judges, to receive them
during the long vocation ; but the fact does not
seem to-be generally known, as very few petitions
have been lodged since the month of last July.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.

The sittings of the court for the session which
commenced on the Gth inst. at Clerkenwell were
resumed yesterday morning at the Guildhall, West-
minster, before Mr. Pashley, Q.C., Assistant-Judge;
Mr. CreasT, Mr. Halswell, Dr. Bateman, and Mr.
Gould. there were twenty-eight additional cases
for trial, besides the bail list.
The Assistant-Judge delivered a short charge to
the grand jury.
SUMMONING JURORS.

On the names of the persons summoned on the
traverse jury being called over, several excuses
were offered, the ground urged being the frequency
with which some tradesmen were required to per-
form the duty of jurors, while many of their neigh-
bours, particularly persons of wealth and station
above a tradesman, were never summoned at all, or
very rarely. One gentleman said he had served
for
jury, and not long
esessions, which he
since s i x
was months
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thought a great hardship upon him, while others
whom he knew were never troubled. One juryman
asked to be excused on the ground that he was
sixty-five years of age.
The Assistant-Judge said that the method of
summoning rested not with the Court, but with the
bailiff and his officers, and they no doubt did as the
law as it at present existed required, or compelled
them to do. The Court could not alter the law, it
had merely to administer it, and the persons sum-
moned as jurors must serve, although it might be,
and no doubt it was in many instances, a hardship
upon them. With respect to the excuse frequently
put forward on the ground of age, that, in fact, was
no excuse at all. If the name remained on the jury
list, the person, whatever might be his age, was
liable to be summoned and be compelled to
serve. The fact of a person being over sixty
years of age entitled him to have his name re
moved from the list, and the petty sessions justices
held a sitting in the last week in September
every year for the purpose of hearing such ob-
jections, and persons entitled to exemption should
attend and see that their names are taken off.

The summoning officer to the high bailiff said
care was taken to distribute the duty fairly. They
could not avoid a few individual cases, but that
arose from the jurors having to be taken from
Westminster alone, instead of the whole county.
Charles Mahoney, 26, was indicted for having
stolen a trunk containing wearing apparel, value
£2O, the property of John Jarritt, from.the roof of
a cab, and for assaulting a police-constable,
Abraham Everest, to prevent his lawful apprehen-
sion. He pleaded guilty, and it was proved that
he had but recently served out a sentence of four
years' penal servitude. The court now sentenced
him to seven years.
Mr. Salter prosecuted ; Mr. Foot appeared for
theyrisoner,

William Davis, 24, was indicted for feloniously
embezzling a number of small sums of money,
amounting in all to about £l3, received by him on
account of Thomas Edwards, his master.
This charge was preferred against the prisoner
as far back as June, 1856, since which time he had
been an inmate of Hanwell Lunatic' Asylum.
Having recovered, he was brought up for trial at
the last sessions, but the case was adjourned. From
the evidence now given, it appeared that the prose-
cutor was a milkman, and the prisoner used to take
out milk. He received ready money from the cus-
tomers, and represented that oredit had been given.
The prosecutor said he had no wish to press the
charge, and that a better or more honest servant
no one could have than the prisoner; but he got
into bad company, upon whom he,spent the money
he stole, and when he was detected he went mad.
The jury found the prisoner guilty, and he was
sentenced to two months' imprisonment.
Patrick Conway, 18, and Patrick Welsh, 31, were
indicted for unlawfully assaulting Charles Sutton,
a metropolitan police constable, in the execution of
his duty. Conway pleaded guilty ; Welsh was
found guilty. They were each sentenced to four
months' hard labour.

Henry Chenu, 18, was indicted for stealinc, 53
yards of cloth, value £l5, the property of William
Dunn, in his dwelling-house. He pleaded guilty,
and was sentenced to four months' labour.

Robert Steward, 39, was indicted for stealing a
silver cream-jug and other articles, value £3O, the
property of James Stuart Ringer, in his dwelling-
house. He was convicted, and a previous convic-
tion was proved. Sentenced to, twelve months' hard
labour.

The grand jury ignored a bill preferred against
Charles Francis Wroc, a porter at St. Martin's
Workhouse, for an indecent assault upon a girl
named Barry.
(Before Mr. Creasy.)
Edward -Wilson, 2G, horscdcaler, was indicted,
charged with stealing a horse, value £1.3, the pro-
perty of William Bacon._

ifr. Doyle prosecuted; Mr. Langford defended
the prisoner.

It appeared from the evidence that the prosecutor,
who lived at Bagshot, in the month of May, 1857,
turned out a horse, his property, upon Staines Moor,
to graze, and on the sth of October it was missed.
On Sept. 30, 1857, between six and eight o'clock
in the evening, the prisoner was met about 100
yards from Staines Moor Gate, by police-ser-
geant Atter, 27 T, with a horse' and wished him
" Good night" as he passed on. On October 5, the
sergeant received information that a horse answer-
ing the description of that the prisoner had with
him on the night in question had been stolen from
the Moor, and having made inquiries he learnt that
a similar horse was at Newbury, in 'Berkshire, and
communicated with Mr. Bacon, the prosecutor.
On the Bth of October, 1857, Mr. Bacon, from in-
formation that he received, went to Newbury, and
having described his horse to Superintendent
Deane, went with him to a stable and there identi-
fied the one which had been stolen from him. On
Oct. 13, Superintendent Doane, who had previously
seen the prisoner with the horse in his possession
at the Black Bear Inn-yard, at Newbury, observed
an advertisement in the Police Gazette for a horse
answering the description of the one he had seen,
and accordingly he detained the horse. On Oct.
19 Mr. Bacon came, identified the horse, swore to
it before the Mayor of Reading, and took it away.
About Aug. 25, 1858, from information he received,
he (Mr. Deane) went to Brill, in Buckinghamshire,
and there found the prisoner in custody. When
told what he was charged with he said. he knew
nothing about it, and dnied having ever been at
Newbury.
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Mr. Langford, for the prisoner, said he purchased
the horse at Brockley, and also set up an alibi for
him.

The jury found the prisoner guilty of receiving
the horse.

Mr. Creasy sentenced him to imprisonment and
hard labour for one year.
Junior Severel, 33, cook, was indicted for steal-
ing three forks and other articles, value 305., the
property of Philip Delrose.
Mr. ])ickie prosecuted;, and Mr. F. H. Lewis
defended the prisoner.
The prosecutor is the keeper of a restaurant, 48,
Leicester-square, and the prisoner entered his em-
ploy as cook. He was discharged in August, and
after he was gone some knives, forks, spoons, and
linen were missed. The articles produced were his
property. These articles were found in the posses-
sion of a man named Leon, with whom they were
left by the prisoner for sale, he stating that they
belonged to him. He knew the articles by their
worn appearance, and they corresponded with those
'which he had now in use.

In cross-examination by Mr. H. F. Lewis the
prosecutor admitted that he had been convicted of
keeping a brothel in- this court, and for which he
was imprisoned for three months. He had kept
brothels in Morris-street and in Queen-street. The
prisoner was in his service for two months, but was
discharged becau.se his honesty was suspected. He
did not search the prisoner's boxes, although they
were left behind for some days after he was dis-
charged. He had never seen Leon, nor (lid he
know that the prisoner was about to enter into
partnership with him.
Mr. H. F. Louis having, addressed the jury,
Mr; Creasy summed up, and the jury returned a
verdict of not guilty.

had given the foreman of the grand jury the power
to administer. the, oath to each witness, and-any per-
son so sworn, but afterwards prevaricating in their
testimony, would render themselves liable to be in-
dicted for perjury. He had no further remarks to
make but to dismiss thenr to their room.